EGU is coming close and Lucy Clarke arranged some information on upcoming event and sessions interesting for Geomorphologists. Award lectures: There are a number of Award lectures not to be missed out on at EGU2015: The Arthur Holmes Medal lecture will be given by Carlo Laj on “Our Magnetic Planet”, Heather Viles is giving the Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal Lecture on “Boulders, biology and buildings: ...[Read More]
Reflections on the BSG Windsor Workshop, December 2014
PhDs from around Europe attend once a year the Windsor workshop in the reverend halls of the grand Cumbeland Lodge in the Windsor Park. This years attendees Owen King and Fran Falcini from the York University and Lauren Knight from the Portsmouth University describe and advertize in this guest blog the workshop. The Windsor Workshop is an annual, 4 day event organised by the British Society for Ge ...[Read More]
Our EGU session died, what went wrong?
Have you ever had this experience? You develop a session which you think could be such a great platform or a subject that definitely interests a lot of people and then only a few people register…this happened to Jan, me, and several others this year and our proposed sessions (GM1.2 Emerging research fields in geomorphology and GM 1.4 Data wealth versus data poverty – new strategies for geomo ...[Read More]
9th international Young Geomorphologists’ Workshop
We’re happy to announce the 9th international young geomorphologists’ workshop, organized by the “Junge Geomorphologen” from Germany. The workshop will take place on 08.-10. May 2015 in Heimbach-Hergarten, near Aachen, Germany (see flyer). The meeting will provide an ideal opportunity to present your current work, to discuss problems and receive constructive feedback! We wa ...[Read More]
Christmas Post
Shortly before leaving our offices for Christmas holidays, we’d like to whish you all a merry Christmas and a perfect start into the new year! But before saying goodbye to you for 2014 we want to announce 3 important geomorphology events in 2015: EGU 2015 abtract submission on January 7th. In 2015 the EGU General Assembly will be from 12-17 April. The “2nd International Young Geomorphl ...[Read More]
Active groups in Geomorphology around Europe
When setting up the first ideas for this blog Jan, Lucy and I started to research different national groups of geomorphologists from around Europe. Lucy came up with 13 contacts to groups in Europe and some were happy to write some short notes about their great work national and partly international. To give you a small impression, some contacts and visions please see the following posts by the It ...[Read More]
Welcome to the new Geomorphology Blog
From upper left: (a) Wadi Al-Arab, N Jordan; (b) Zanskar river, region Ladakh & Zanskar, NW Indien; (c) Dunes in the Shyok valley, region Ladakh & Zanskar, NW Indien; (d) Kaunertal valley, Austria. (Credit: Jan Blöthe, Thomas Schumann and Sabine Kraushaar)
…we’re happy you made it to our first post! We felt that the growing Geomorphology community is lacking a unifying platform where posts and documents related to upcoming events, workshops, conferences and other newsworthy information reach many scientists at a time. Thus, with the help of Andreas Lang and Lucy Clarke, we launched this Geomorphology blog and hope that you find it useful and w ...[Read More]