Do You Call Yourself A Geodesist?

By definition, a geodesist is a person who studies the Earth’s shape, gravity field, and rotation. Many scientists and engineers use geodesy for their research, but do not necessarily consider themselves geodesists. UNAVCO asked 11 geoscientists at the March 2014 UNAVCO Science Workshop, simply, “Do you call yourself a geodesist?”

Special Thanks to our interviewees:

Duncan Agnew - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Rebecca Bendick - University of Montana, Missoula
Geoff Blewitt - University of Nevada, Reno
Roland Bürgmann - University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Donnellan - NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
Kathleen Hodgkinson - UNAVCO
Pete LaFemina - Pennsylvania State University
Glen Mattioli - UNAVCO & University of Texas, Arlington
Mark Simons - Seismological Lab, California Institute of Technology
Tonie Van Dam - University of Luxembourg
Shimon Wdowinski - University of Miami, Florida

Video produced by Linda Rowan, UNAVCO External Affairs Director, and edited by Sarah Kittross, UNAVCO External Affairs 2015 summer intern.