Geomorphology

Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

Christophe Lambiel June 11, 2025

View on the Blatten landslide from downstream, with the Lonza river finding its way through the landslide; (03 June 2025), credit: Christophe Lambiel

In the morning of May 28, 2025, the picturesque Swiss alpine village of Blatten sat quiet and serene in the Lötschen Valley. Exceptionally quiet, in fact, as the village was evacuated on May 19th after a local Natural Hazards expert spotted a worrisome change in a local mountain looming about the village, the Kleines Nesthorn: it was collapsing faster. The Kleines Nesthorn is a 3,341-meter peak w ...[Read More]

20 Years of GM [Part 2]: A conversation on change and progress with Geomorphology’s first and current presidents

Emma Lodes and emilybamber April 9, 2025

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the EGU Geomorphology Division (GM). Many of us have found community, experienced our first conference presentation, and furthered our careers through GM. GM has grown to be mid-sized for EGU standards with ~700 abstracts submitted in 2024 – but we had to start somewhere. I spoke with GM’s creator and first president, Colin Stark (National Taiwan University) ...[Read More]

20 Years of GM [Part 1]: Looking Back with Geomorphology Division Presidents!

emilybamber and Emma Lodes April 9, 2025

This year the EGU Geomorphology (GM) division celebrates its 20th year (and it’s been a little over 10 years since our first GM blog post too!), so keep an eye out for exciting celebrations during the General Assembly in April. Ahead of this momentous celebration, we found time to sit down with four of the GM’s past presidents to discuss how EGU, the GM Division and the geomorphology community has ...[Read More]

The community development of TopoToolbox starts now

EGU Guest blogger March 28, 2025

Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on the blog! by Wolfgang Schwanghart (Researcher, University of Potsdam, Germany), Dirk Scherler (Professor, Freie Universität Berlin and GFZ-Potsdam, Germany) and William Kearney (Research Software Engineer, University of Potsdam, Germany) Email: schwangh@uni-potsdam.de We al ...[Read More]

Highlighting Jana Eichel, GM Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee 2025

emilybamber and EGU Guest blogger March 15, 2025

Figure 3: Exciting fieldwork at the other end of the world: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) survey of vegetation and landforms in Mueller glacier foreland, Southern Alps, New Zealand. (PC: Daniel Draebing)

Recently, EGU announced the 2025 medals and awards to be presented at the General Assembly in April, and the winner of the Geomorphology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is Dr. Jana Eichel, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University. Dr. Eichel is a biogeomorphologist working at the forefront of geomorphology, using multidisciplinary methods to study the feedbacks between plants an ...[Read More]

Highlighting Chris D. Clark, the GM Division Ralph Alger Bagnold Awardee 2025

EGU Guest blogger February 28, 2025

A portrait of Professor Chris D. Clark, in Greenland.

Chris D. Clark, in Greenland. (PC: Christiaan Diemont)

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Recently, EGU announced the 2025 medals and awards to be presented at the General Assembly in April, and the winner of the Geomorphology Division Ralph Alger Bag ...[Read More]

A Day in the Life of a Geomorphologist: Bastian Grimm

EGU Guest blogger February 15, 2025

Me smiling at a field trip. PC: Matthias Wiedmann.

This blog post is a throwback to last year’s theme, “A Day in the Life of a Geomorphologist!” Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. by Bastian Grimm, Doctoral Student, Giessen University, Germany Email: bastian.grimm@geogr.uni-giessen.de Hi, I’m Basti! I’m currently pursu ...[Read More]

Announcement: VAO Symposium 2025 in Kaprun, Austria

EGU Guest blogger February 10, 2025

Castle Kaprun in Winter @ Zell am See-Kaprun Toursim/ Mairitsch

Every two years, the VAO Symposium facilitates the exchange of the latest research findings and future collaborative research pursuits in the Alps among members and interested individuals. The symposium emphasizes productive interdisciplinary collaboration among those working in the Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Relief, and Lithosphere fields. For this the symposium focuses more ...[Read More]

Práctica de la geomorfología centrada en las relaciones

EGU Guest blogger January 30, 2025

Fig. 2: Fotografías de la excursión de campo y discusión grupal durante el taller.

Esta entrada de blog forma parte de nuestra serie «Destacados», para la que aceptamos colaboraciones. Póngase en contacto con uno de los editores del blog de GM, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) o Emma (elodes@asu.edu), si desea contribuir sobre este tema u otros. Por: Rebekah Harries, investigadora postdoctoral, Universidad de Durham, Reino Unido Correo electrónico: rebekah.m.harries@durham.ac.uk Con con ...[Read More]

Highlighting EGU 2025 General Assembly Geomorphology Sessions

emilybamber January 8, 2025

The entrance to the EGU General Assembly from a previous year. A banner over the entrance doorways reads

Get ready to be welcomed to EGU 2025!

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Here at the EGU Geomorphology Division Blog, we’re starting up the New Year with a look forward to the highlight of our annual calendar: the EGU General Assembl ...[Read More]