Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2024

Organized by the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel and the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), the meeting brought together researchers from diverse fields to explore the latest advancements in geosciences. This year’s program included a plenary session on “The Anthropocene – Past, Present, and Future” featuring several inspiring talks by renowned experts, as well as 25 symposia covering a wide range of topics across geosciences.

Our team participated in the Geodesy session, convened by Prof. Adrian Jäggi, Prof. Benedikt Soja, and Dr. Daniel Willi, presenting our work:

• Blanca Crazzolara, who is currently working as a research assistant in the group, presented her work on the nuAncestor mission. The future mission shall serve as a calibrator for spectrographs around the world. Together with other Swiss institutions, the Space Geodesy group is defining the mission and its requirements. Blanca’s work focuses on the orbit analysis, and she presented her work on the mission design and the challenges of her tasks. external page https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000706407
• Andreas Dombos, also currently working as a research assistant in the group, talked about his work on transferring the high spatial resolution from monthly Total Water Storage Anomalies, as observed by the GRACE mission, to daily solutions thereof. His work employs machine learning techniques to achieve spatially highly resolved daily solutions with the aim of improving the usability in monitoring rapidly changing events such as floods. external page https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000705721
• Prof. Benedikt Soja presented the work on the Geodetic Prediction Center (GPC) at ETH Zurich, a platform that relies on machine learning techniques to provide real-time predictions of geodetic parameters, including atmospheric and Earth orientation parameters, essential for applications like climate monitoring and navigation. external page https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000704448