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

and April 9, 2025
20 Years of GM [Part 2]: A conversation on change and progress with Geomorphology’s first and current presidents 

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!

and April 9, 2025
20 Years of GM [Part 1]: Looking Back with Geomorphology Division Presidents!

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]

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

and March 15, 2025
Highlighting Jana Eichel, GM Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee 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 EGU 2025 General Assembly Geomorphology Sessions

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]

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]

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 – Emily Bamber

September 15, 2023
A Day in the Life – Emily Bamber
The “mothership” tsunami-transported huge boulder of submarine basalt on the clifftop plateau (Featuring Ricardo, Gaia and Emily for scale). Credit: Shasta 

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 Emily Bamber, PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin Twitter: @Bambi_in_Space    |    email: emily.bamber@utexas.edu A Day in the Life of Geomorphologists in Par ...[Read More]