Editorial note for the Geodesy and Geodynamics journal special issue: Contemporary Research in Geodynamics and Earth Tides: An account of the 18th Geodynamics and Earth Tides Symposium 2016, Trieste, Italy

This volume aims at conveying the rich and interdisciplinary topics discussed at the 18th Geodynamics and Earth Tides Sympo- sium, Trieste, 2016 (Fig. 1). For seventeen times the gathering was named the Earth Tides Symposium, when giving tribute to the evo- lution of the observed signals, the term geodynamics was added to the title. In Table 1 the full list of the symposia is shown. The Symposium was very successful, with over 110 attendants from all over the world. The big hall in the University of Trieste and the city of Trieste were a excellent venue location, appreciated by the participants and documented through the words of the sci- entific board