Interview

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]

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

emilybamber and EGU Guest blogger April 8, 2024

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

EGU Guest blogger January 15, 2024

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 Message to Young Geomorphologists – Matteo Spagnolo

EGU Guest blogger November 20, 2023

In the video below, Professor Matteo Spagnolo at the University of Aberdeen shares some of his advice for young geomorphologists. Enjoyed this post? Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily or Emma, if you’d like to contribute on this topic, or others.

In conversation with the new GM Division President Kristen Cook

EGU Guest blogger April 20, 2023

Kristen Cook, Research Officer for the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), based at ISTerre, University of Grenoble, is the new elected president of the EGU’s Geomorphology Division. As she prepares to assume her new role during the 2023 General Assembly, the outgoing Early Career Scientist (ECS) representative, Aayush Srivastava, postdoctoral researcher at the University of S ...[Read More]

Interview with the Steepest Descent Organizers

Sabine Kraushaar September 22, 2020

Logo and invitation to the Steepest Descent Conference in Mai 2020 (credits: Luca Malatesta)

The Steepest Descent is a yearly one-day meeting taking place in Vienna, Austria, close to the EGU general assembly. Participants have the opportunity to see a few keynote talks by outstanding geomorphologists and to discuss their posters in a more informal and geomorphology-focused community than at the EGU. Despite its youth, the Steepest Descent Meeting seems to have lost its aura of a niche-ev ...[Read More]

EGU – realm and maze?

EGU Guest blogger April 1, 2018

– written by Micha Dietze, Annegret Larsen (both GM Early Career Representatives), and Anouk Beniest (EGU TS Early Career Representative) – An interview with the Susanne Buiter, the current chair of the EGU Programme Committee Susanne Buiter is senior scientist and team leader at the Solid Earth Geology Team at the Geological Survey of Norway. She is also the chair of the EGU Programme ...[Read More]