Geomorphology

Highlighting: Strike-Slip Faults! (Interview with Tamara Aránguiz-Rago)

Tamara Aránguiz-Rago January 16, 2026

Photo 1: The Atacama Desert in September 2022. The flat strip of land in the middle is where the Salar Grande Fault slowly slides two blocks apart horizontally.

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 Tamara Aránguiz-Rago, PhD student, University of Washington. Email: tarangui@uw.edu. Website: https://taranguiz.github.io Can you describe in simple terms how strike-slip faults w ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Puerto Rico, Part 2! (Interview with Kate Drobnich)

Kate Drobnich 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! (Interview with Angus Moore)

Angus Moore 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)

Kim Huppert 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)

Richard Ott 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)

Adrien Folch 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)

Audrey Margirier 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]

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

Emma Lodes and Emily Bamber 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]