The Young Author Award 2012 of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) was presented to DGFI scientist Dr. Manuela Seitz during the IAG Scientific Assembly 2013 in Potsdam for her paper “The 2008 DGFI Realization of the ITRS: DTRF2008” (DOI:10.1007/s00190-012-0567-2) that she published together with her colleagues from DGFI D. Angermann, M. Bloßfeld, H. Drewes and M. Gerstl.

With the Young Author Award IAG honors important publications of young authors in the Journal of Geodesy. The prize is granted at each IAG General or Scientific Assembly.

The award-winning paper deals with the realization of the International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) in the frame of DGFI's ITRS Combination Centre of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS). It explains in detail the computation strategy applied at DGFI and provides a comprehensive discussion of the results.