Geodesy Section Webinars

Geodesy Lecture Series

These invited online talks are a part of the new early career geodesy lecture series promoted by the Geodesy Section and supported by AGU.  

Date/Time Speaker Title Zoom Link
2025

April 18, 2025, 2:00 pm EDT

Srinivas Bettadpur, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin Interesting geodesy problems for the future, and some new skill sets geodesists need for the next generation
Recording of the talk on YouTube:
Moderator: Matt Pritchard

 

March 24, 2025, 1:00 pm EDT

Yao Yu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Abyssal Marine Tectonics from the SWOT Mission

Recording of the talk on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ki90Fr50xM

Moderator: Matt Pritchard

January 28, 2025, 7:00 am EST

Tim Wright, Professor of Satellite Geodesy and Director of NERC COMET, and co-founder of SatSense;  Christian Siemes, Assistant Professor at TU Delft with previous experience at ESA and RHEA Group; Manon Dalaison, Maître de Conférences in Geophysics at IPGP. Joint AGU/EGU talk: The World Needs More Geodesists – Europe Perspective

Recording of the talk on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ki90Fr50xM

Moderator: Stacy Larochelle

2024

Thursday May 30, 2024, 9:30 am EST, 6:30 am PST

Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma, Center for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science How Geodesy Has Been Helping Hydrologists to Measure the Unmeasurable Otherwise

Recording of the talk on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blIUs2DU9to

Moderator: Matt Pritchard

March 6, 2024

4pm EST, 1pm PST

Anna Riddell, Geoscience Australia The World Needs More Geodesists – An Australian Perspective

Recording of the talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntfgM9Ec-Ss

Moderator: Matt Pritchard

January 23, 2024
3 pm PST /6 pm EST
Brendan Crowell, University of Washington GNSS Velocities for Seismic Network Applications

Recording of the talk on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Ulzctn77Y

Moderator: Bill Hammond

2023
January 24, 2023
3 pm EST /12 pm PST
Lei Wang,The Ohio State University Spatiotemporal modeling of Earth system changes using satellite gravimetry and altimetry: I) ice sheet mass changes; II) great earthquake deformations Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ8UPALJaxI
Moderator: Matt Pritchard
March 7, 2023
9 am Singapore time (GMT +8): (5pm PST/8pm EST March 6, 2023)
Lujia Feng, Earth Observatory of Singapore The Sumatran GPS Array: A hero network in tectonic and climate studies

Recording of talk on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1VubIUjExY

Moderator: Laura Wallace
March 30, 2023
7 pm AST (Arabia Time) /12 pm EDT/9 am PDT
Shaozhuo Liu, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Hunting for tectonic and climatic signals in GPS position time series
Recording of talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqJ9TMRE0c
Moderator: Matt Pritchard
April 21, 2023
11 am EDT/8 am PDT
Stacy Larochelle, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Geodetic insights into water-driven aquifer and ice sheet dynamics
Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f7GGRgDNK0
Moderator: Matt Pritchard
May 11, 2023
4 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)/10 am EDT/7 am PDT
Rebekka Steffen, Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority) Models of glacial isostatic adjustment and their use in geodesy and tectonics
Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/svLLQ6GS8y0
Moderator: Matt Pritchard
September 29, Noon EDT

Nikki Markiel, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

John Galetzka and Rick Bennett, National Geodetic Survey

Jeremy Maurer, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Donna Charlevoix and Michael Hubenthal, Earthscope Consortium


The world needs more geodesists: Growing and broadening the geodesy workforce

Link to recording of talks on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-coFUO0_4

Moderator: Matt Pritchard

Oct. 27 Noon EDT

Kathryn Materna, USGS

Along-strike propagation of shallow creep events from high-resolution space geodetic observations  

Link to recording of talk on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR9DV_fOIio

Moderator: Matt Pritchard

2022
Jan. 28, 2022
8 am PST/11 am EST
Julia Pfeffer, Department of Earth Observation, Magellium, Toulouse, France Climate Fingerprints from Space Geodesy Moderator: Matt Pritchard
(Sorry, this lecture was not recorded)
Feb. 22, 2022
5 pm CET/11 am EST
KristelChanard, Université de Paris - IPGP, Géodésie, IGN, France Geodetic signature of continental hydrology Recording of talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Kc1M5B4fA
Moderator: Lei Wang
March 23, 2022
10 am MT/12 pm EST
Dara Goldberg, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, USA Geodetic observations in routine USGS earthquake response Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/YBwsKMwDm18
Moderator: Bill Hammond
April 21,2022 9:00 am AEST/April 20, 7:00 pm EDT
Anna Riddell, Geoscience Australia Vertical Land Motion of Australia from GNSS and geophysical models Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/9UcFAQZjWBo
Moderator: Mayra Oyola
May 31, 2022
2pm BST/9am EDT
Grace Nield, Durham University, UK Solid Earth Deformation in the Antarctic Peninsula Recording of talk on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IxZsePTOIUA
Moderator: Matt Pritchard
June 28, 2022
2 pm EDT/11 am PDT
Mike Croteau, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Optimizing GRACE/GRACE-FO time variable gravity products through advanced estimation strategies Recording of talk on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cep9ZDWRLTE
Moderator: Matt Pritchard
October 20, 2022
1 pm PDT/4 pm EDT
Diego Melgar, University of Oregon The future of high-rate GNSS in earthquake observing systems Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjGJFWLSvY
Moderator: Bill Hammond
November 4, 2022
3 pm GMT/8 am PDT
Susanna Ebmeier, University of Leeds, UK  SAR measurements of dynamic volcanism:
from magma supply to lava extrusion
Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6kRnScACs
Moderator: Matt Pritchard
2021
Oct. 28, 2021
10 am EDT
Lin Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Geodetic Studies of (Not-so) Frozen Ground Moderator: Matt Pritchard
(Sorry, this lecture was not recorded)
Nov. 16, 2021
1 pm EST
Surendra Adhikari, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA Ice-Earth Interaction in Greenland Across Timescales Recording of talk on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8BC8sTyp4
Moderator: Matt Pritchard