Each year, the geodesy institutes at TU Graz host the geoday, an outreach event targeted at students about to graduate high school. This year over 200 students from schools all over Styria took the opportunity to get to know the courses of study, the geodesy institutes at TUG, and their current research topics. Besides regional and lunar gravity field recovery, GRACE and the monitoring of the time variable gravity field were hot topics at our booth. We engaged the students with interactive displays of satellite models and gravity products which sparked many interesting discussions.
During the presentation session, EGSIEM made a prominent entry, showing how satellite geodesy can contribute to disaster management, therefore affecting the everyday lives of the general public.
The images below show my coworker Matthias, presenting the path from satellite observations to gravity maps and the lively discussions at the individual booths (photos kindly provided by Klaus Lafer).
