Geomorphology

A Day in the Life – Emily Bamber

emilybamber September 15, 2023

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]

Flat but Fascinating: A New Perspective on Berlin at the 17th Annual International Young Geomorphologists’ Meeting

emmalodes August 30, 2023

Emma Lodes, PhD student, GFZ-Potsdam (Germany) Twitter: @LodesEmma | email: lodes@gfz-potsdam.de When I consider places with exciting geomorphology, Germany’s capital does not spring to mind. Berlin is an isolated urban hub encircled by the flat, agriculturally dominated state of Brandenburg. Northeastern Germany was leveled by ice sheets during the last several glaciations, and its highest ...[Read More]

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]

Running a live stream of proglacial processes

EGU Guest blogger November 4, 2020

This is a joint post, published together with the hydrological sciences division blog, the cryospheric sciences division blog, the geomorphology division blog, given the interdisciplinarity of the topic. – Floreana Miesen and Prof. Dr. Stuart Lane, University of Lausanne – In Switzerland, nothing is really remote, but some places are more so than others. Dense infrastructure networks t ...[Read More]

New remote geomorphology seminar series “Landscapes Live” beginning 28 May 2020

EGU Guest blogger May 3, 2020

Homeoffice view (but only via desktop background): Sierra Nevada (USA; credits: Charlie Shobe).

The current pandemic has highlighted the difficulties of keeping up-to-date with new developments in our field when travel is not possible. However, as we work to transition to a greener future and make our community better serve the needs of all scientists regardless of international mobility, it is important to find ways to share current research remotely. Landscapes Live is a new remote seminar ...[Read More]

GSA Penrose Conference: CLAST2019, 4-10 August 2019, Juneau, Alaska

Jan Blöthe February 11, 2019

We are happy to announce the GSA Penrose Conference on Climatic controls on continental erosion and sediment transport (CLAST2019), 4-10 August 2019, Juneau, Alaska (USA). Key challenges remain in recognizing and reconciling how climatic and earth surface process mediate erosion independently of solid earth forcing. The relationship amongst climatic, erosional, and transport processes are exceedin ...[Read More]

Young Geomorphologists’ Workshop 2018

Sabine Kraushaar February 28, 2018

11th International Young Geomorphologists Meeting 2017 near Munich (credit to YG Germany)

Since 2007, the German Young Geomorphologists organize annual workshops in order to support networking amongst early career geomorphology enthusiasts. The meetings provide a platform for open discussions on a wide range of problems that might have emerged within a particular research project. This year, we invite all interested young researchers / students in geomorphology and related fields to jo ...[Read More]

Stormy Geomorphology

EGU Guest blogger May 24, 2017

Storm on a rising tide, Essex, U.K. (credit: James Tempest)

– written by James Tempest (University of Cambridge), Larissa A. Naylor (University of Glasgow), Tom Spencer and Iris Möller (University of Cambridge) – Extreme storm and flood events are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity across the globe causing significant geomorphic change throughout many landscapes often with detrimental impacts on local populations. In 2014 an int ...[Read More]

Soil is not dirt cheap: Soils, Sustainable Development Goals, and Geomorphologists.

EGU Guest blogger June 8, 2016

– written by Solmaz Mohadjer – Does contaminated soil make your bones go soft? What if you are told to stop growing vegetables in your garden because the soil is too toxic? What if farmers refuse to produce nutritionally valuable crops because of risk of massive floods? What would you do if you are forced to leave your farm due to fear of floods? Surprisingly, these are the kinds of q ...[Read More]