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Seven doctoral students from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering are being honoured this year for their outstanding achievements: six of them received an ETH medal, and one received the Culmann Prize. Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Junyang Gou has been awarded the 2025 Swiss NC IUGG Early Career Prize of interdisciplinary research because of his achievements across geodesy (IAG), hydrology (IAHS), oceanography (IAPSO) and cryosphere (IACS).

Together with Inverto Earth AG and supported by Fondation Valery, we're starting a new project to estimate above-ground biomass in the intertidal region using machine learning algorithms with careful uncertainty quantification. 

“Uncertainty Quantification of Satellite-Based Essential Climate Variables Derived from Deep Learning” by Gou et al. (2026)

"Ionospheric Data Fusion With GNSS, GNSS-RO and Satellite Altimetry Based on Machine Learning" by Iten et al. (2026)

Ten members of the Space Geodesy group attended the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna (3–9 May 2026), where they presented their research at one of the world’s largest geoscience conferences, bringing together more than 20,000 researchers from across the globe.

"Fusion of GNSS and VLBI Data for Global Ionospheric Mapping" by Ruegg at el. (2026)

Gaps in data and difficult‑to‑compare datasets limit what climate and weather AI models can reliably predict. Researchers from the ETH Domain have now introduced an AI model that helps close these gaps, reconstructs satellite images, and sheds light on how weather, land and water interact. 

Renovation is required for the HIL building on the Hönggerberg campus. Prior to this, ETH students and researchers are exploring new approaches to sustainable and circular construction within the Living Lab HIL. A new website provides insight into this initiative.