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Highlighting Shakespeare’s Geomorphology

emilybamber 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]

LANDSCAPE LIVE Seminar Upcoming Talks

EGU Guest blogger March 22, 2023

Spring and the new Landscape Live weekly online seminar series are just starting. It is freely accessible to the international scientific community covering a wide range of geomorphological topics. The weekly meeting is on Thursday at 4 pm (CET/CEST). Over the last few years, Landscape Live became a key pillar for the virtual activist of teh Geomorphology (GM) division of the EGU. Now, Landscape L ...[Read More]

The new glacial geomorphological map from New Zealand

Jan Blöthe March 30, 2021

Glacial geomorphological mapping comparison in 3D. a – Moraine ridge in the middle section of the Ahuriri River valley with surrounding area. b – Key landscape elements are shown in the accompanying sketch. (Credit: Tielidze et al., 2021). Geomorphological maps are a fundamental tool to represent landforms and understand how different morphological elements and agents shaped a natural ...[Read More]

Diving under the scientific iceberg

EGU Guest blogger April 25, 2018

written by: Anne Voigtländer, Anna Schoch, Elisa Giaccone, Harry Sanders, Richard Mason, Johannes Buckel At the EGU General Assembly international researchers from all earth science communities gather and share their most recent endeavors. This year, we, a group of European young geomorphologists, tried a new session format to address challenges we all face in our research, ranging from inaccessib ...[Read More]

ECS Events @EGU2018

Jan Blöthe April 8, 2018

Finally, the EGU general assembly is starting today. In order to give you some guidance what important events you should definitely not be missing out on, the ECS representatives (Micha Dietze and Annegret Larsen) put together this very nice timetable:

Theoretical Geomorphology: Selling a seemingly boring topic

EGU Guest blogger December 10, 2017

Anne's comic strip-style Poster at the EGU (credits: Kerry Leith)

Anne Voigtländer (TUM Munich) presented her poster at the EGU 2017 and attracted quite some attention. She drew everything per hand and besides chocolate bars and smiling mountains she touched some very interesting topics. Have a look and get inspired! – written by Anne Voigtländer (TUM Munich) – Have you ever tried to sell a text on theoretical geomorphology to students? Or even to your fellow sc ...[Read More]

Time to travel – the ERASMUS program turns 30 this year

Jan Blöthe October 27, 2017

The mobility program of the European Union, named after Erasmus of Rotterdam who studied in different places all over Europe, turns 30 this year. I wanted to take this opportunity to promote this great possibility for gathering international experience and getting insights into the teaching and research skills of our European colleagues. The ERASMUS program, named ERASMUS+ since 2014, is most famo ...[Read More]

European Critical Physical Geography – or how power relations can be considered during research set ups

Sabine Kraushaar April 10, 2017

– written by Christian Schneider (University of Leipzig) and Sabine Kraushaar (University of Vienna) – In March this year the first European Critical Physical Geography (CPG) Workshop took place in Berlin bringing together 19 scholars from different European and American research institutions and backgrounds under the lead of Rebecca Lave and Stuart Lane and the financial support by their ...[Read More]

Report from the Spring School on “Statistical analysis of hyperspectral and high-dimensional remote-sensing data using R”, Jena, Germany, March 13-17, 2017

EGU Guest blogger March 29, 2017

The Spring School on “Statistical analysis of hyperspectral and high-dimensional remote-sensing data using R” was organized by the GIScience group lead by Prof. Alexander Brenning and two researchers from his GIScience research group, Patrick Schratz and Dr. Jannes Münchow. The school brought together a diverse group of 28 researchers (e.g. geoscientists, forestry, environmental studies) at differ ...[Read More]

7th Young Geomorphologists’ Day in Naples/ Italy

Sabine Kraushaar March 14, 2017

The Italian Young Geomorphologists represented by Irene Bollati (front row, green jacket) and Francesca Vergari invite you to join their event in June 2017. Group shot taken during the fieldtrip in Sardinia at the 6th Young Geomorphologists’ Day in 2015 IMPORTANT NOTICE! All those who tried to subscribe to the VII Young Geomorphologists Day 2017, should re-send all the documentation to the mail ad ...[Read More]