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Highlights from Hawaii: Threshold dependent canyon incision?

October 15, 2024
Highlights from Hawaii: Threshold dependent canyon incision?
A typical stream on Kauai. Photo credit: Kelin Whipple

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (emily.bamber@utexas.edu) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  by Emma Lodes, Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University, USA Email: elodes@asu.edu I stood knee-deep in the middle of the stream, sopping wet fr ...[Read More]

Highlighting Shakespeare’s Geomorphology

September 27, 2024
An oblique aerial photograph of the river Trent at dusk/dawn (a dark blue sky with orange along the horizon).
The River Trent in Staffordshire (https://www.trentriverstrust.org/your-rivers/staffordshire-trent-valley/)

Recently, I was reading about the River Trent in the UK and came across a surprising Shakespeare quote that I thought I would highlight to the geomorphology community . The quote below is from Henry IV (Part 1, act 3, scene 1) where the character ‘Hotspur’ references the meandering River Trent:  “Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours: See how this river co ...[Read More]

Highlighting Grace Guryan: How do rocks shape rivers?

September 13, 2024
Highlighting Grace Guryan: How do rocks shape rivers?

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (emily.bamber@utexas.edu) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  by Grace Guryan, Doctoral Researcher, University of Texas at Austin, USA Email: gguryan@utexas.edu About Me My name is Grace Guryan, and I’m a fifth year ...[Read More]

A conversation with Christian France-Lanord, GM Division Ralph Alger Bagnold Awardee

and April 8, 2024
A conversation with Christian France-Lanord, GM Division Ralph Alger Bagnold Awardee

Recently, EGU announced the 2024 medals and awards to be presented at the General Assembly in April, and the winner of the Geomorphology Division Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal Award is Christian France-Lanord, at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), University of Lorraine-CNRS, France. Christian has made many contributions to the field of geomorphology, primarily in his res ...[Read More]

A Day in the Life – Andreas Ruby

February 28, 2024
A Day in the Life – Andreas Ruby
Figure 1. Me in Patagona (PC Fergus McNab)

This blog post is part of our series: “A day in the life of a geomorphologist” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily or Emma, if you’d like to contribute on this topic, or others.  by Andreas Ruby, Doctoral Researcher, GFZ Potsdam, Germany Email: andreas.ruby@gfz-potsdam.de Hi, I’m Andi, and it still feels quite fresh, but as of now I’ve already ...[Read More]

AGU Report

February 15, 2024
AGU Report
Figure 2: R. Lanari and I at poster session, discussing the tectonic evolution of the Calabria Arc and Southern Apennines

by Romano Clementucci, PostDoc, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Twitter: @RomanoClementu1   |    email: rclementucci@erdw.ethz.ch As postdoctoral researchers, advancing our careers often involves attending an international congress. In December 2023, I achieved this goal by participating in AGU23, marking my first attendance after several consecutive years at EGU. It was exhilarating to share my research ...[Read More]

A conversation with Fiona Clubb, GM Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee

January 15, 2024
A conversation with Fiona Clubb, GM Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee

  Recently, EGU announced the 2024 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 Fiona Clubb, Assistant Professor in Earth Surface Processes at Durham University. Fiona is geomorphologist interested in interactions between tectonics, climate, and surface process shape Earth’s t ...[Read More]

A Day in the Life – Gerald Raab

December 15, 2023
A Day in the Life – Gerald Raab

This blog post is part of our series: “A day in the life of a geomorphologist” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily or Emma, if you’d like to contribute on this topic, or others.  by Gerald Raab, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada Twitter: @gr_science    |    Email: gr.science@gmx.at Chasing landscape chronometers Someh ...[Read More]

A Day in the Life – Bartosz Kurjanski

November 30, 2023
A Day in the Life – Bartosz Kurjanski
Figure 2: Mobile bedforms in water depth~100m passing over iceberg plough marks. Bathymetric data (0.5m resolution) from Marine Data Exchange.

This blog post is part of our series: “A day in the life of a geomorphologist” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily or Emma, if you’d like to contribute on this topic, or others.  by Bartosz Kurjanski, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, UK Twitter: @iceice_bartek    |    Email: bkurjanski@abdn.ac.uk Shifting sands… but underwater. Hi, my name is ...[Read More]