Highlights

Highlighting: Puerto Rico, Part 2!

Emma Lodes December 23, 2025

An annotated photo showing the topographic asymmetry of the escarpment. PC: Kate Drobnich.

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Kate Drobnich, PhD student, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University. Email: kate.drobnich@colostate.edu. Questions by Emma Lodes. Can you briefly describe the main ob ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Puerto Rico, Part 1!

Emma Lodes December 23, 2025

A landscape view of the Sierra Luquillo, where many of the volcanic arc rock study watersheds are located. PC: Angus Moore.

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Angus Moore, Researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia. Email: angus.moore@uclouvain.be Questions by Emma Lodes. Can you briefly describe the main objective of ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Volcanic Islands! (Interview with Kim Huppert)

Emma Lodes December 1, 2025

Na Pali Coast, Kauai (PC: Matt Rosener)

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Kim Huppert, Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York and Graduate Center CUNY. Email: khuppert@ccny.cuny.edu, website: https://sites.google ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Crete! (Interview with Richard Ott)

Emma Lodes November 17, 2025

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Richard Ott, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam. Email: r.f.ott@uva.nl, personal website: https://richardott.weebly.com/ Questions by Emma Lodes. We’re continuing ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Réunion Island! (Interview with Adrien Folch)

Emma Lodes October 29, 2025

PC: Stephane Avirl

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Adrien Folch, Doctoral Researcher, GFZ-Potsdam. Email: adrien.folch@gfz.de Questions by Emma Lodes. This week, we are kickstarting a mini-series on island geomorphology! We will s ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Electron Spin Resonance! (Interview with Audrey Margirier)

Emma Lodes October 13, 2025

Me happy to see the Great Unconformity while hiking down under some rain in the Grand Canyon. PC: Gilby Jepson.

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Audrey Margirier, Postdoctoral fellow, University Grenoble Alpes & University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Email: audrey.margirier@unil.ch Questions by Emma Lodes. This week, we ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Waterfalls!

Sophie Rothman September 29, 2025

Bedrock waterfall, PC: Joel Scheingross

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. by Sophie Rothman, Postdoctoral fellow, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse. Email: Sophie.rothman@get.omp.eu My PhD research at the University of Nevada, Reno, focused on how waterfalls alter er ...[Read More]

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]

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]