2025 Europlanet GMAP Winter School

The GMAP Winter School is focused on the production of planetary geological maps of a range of Solar System bodies: building upon earlier editions.

The 2025 edition will cover introductory knowledge about planetary data, coordinate reference systems and software tools, the geology and specific key features on the surface of Venus, Mercury, the Moon and Mars.

The school will run synchronously in the week 10-14 February 2025, and asynchronously on the Streavent platform for the following month (February/March 2025). 

• The school is free of charge;
• The registration is open from December 23^rd until the end of February;
• Upon registration participants will be able to access materials either in real-time or at their pace;
• Registered participants will have Q&A access via the dedicated Streavent platform until February 28th;
• Registered participants wll have the right, provided they complete and deliver their mapping tasks, to receive a certificate.

Seminars will take place, and there will be time for asynchronous interaction and individual/project mapping work.

As customary, materials will be freely available after the school, for interested parties, to perform self-learning at their pace (without certificates).

Each body of interest will be introduced, hands-on activities will be described, and participants will be guided through the task, i.e. individual completion of a small mapping area. At the end of each day, specific time slots are dedicated to seminars, which will provide insights, perspectives and additional knowledge on related topics.

After the synchronous and asynchronous phases of the School, no dedicated support will be provided, but any interested party is welcome to join the GMAP Discord server for discussion and support (if interested, please reach out to info@planetarymapping.eu).

The registration is available.

Please note that in order to receive a certificate, mapping tasks should be performed as instructed through school videos and materials.

Exemplary mapping outputs from participants to the 2024 edition are visible at: https://www.europlanet-gmap.eu/gallery-2024
 

During the entire school phases, both synchronous and asynchronous, no offensive, racist, or sexist language will be tolerated, and will result in banning.

If any participant feels uncomfortable with the interaction with any of the channels or users, it will be possible to reach out to the admins at info@planetarymapping.eu, or dedicated contacts communicated at the beginning of the school.

Please refer to the Europlanet Code of Conduct.

The winter school is co-funded by the Europlanet Society, and the University of Padova.

Participating institutions are: