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In the News: A Geomorphologists’ perspective on the Strait of Hormuz

August 17, 2026
In the News: A Geomorphologists’ perspective on the Strait of Hormuz
Image of the Strait of Hormuz from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite (December 2, 2020).

Welcome to In the News: A Geomorphologist’s Perspective! The intent of this series is to explore the geology and geomorphology of places that are currently in the news. For this first installment, we’ll do a quick tour of how geological processes have laid the groundwork for current fighting over control of the Strait of Hormuz. The Iran war, and the Strait of Hurmuz, have dominated the news ...[Read More]

Great Names in Geomorphology A–Z: Frank Ahnert

August 1, 2026
Great Names in Geomorphology A–Z: Frank Ahnert
Glencoe, Scotland – a classic glacial valley in the Scottish Highlands, featured on the cover of Frank Ahnert’s Introduction to Geomorphology (1998) (photo credit: David Tanner; modified under the terms of the CC BY-NC 3.0 licence)

Introducing our new mini-series by GM Blog co-editor Wioleta Porębna: Great Names in Geomorphology A–Z! Our readers will choose the next name in alphabetical order – leave your suggestions in the comments!  Frank Ahnert (12 December 1927 – 10 September 2017) was a German geomorphologist whose work played a pivotal role in establishing quantitative and process-based approaches to the study of ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Volcanic Islands! (Interview with Kim Huppert)

December 1, 2025
Na Pali Coast, Kauai (PC: Kim Huppert)
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: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

June 11, 2025
Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland
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]

The community development of TopoToolbox starts now

March 28, 2025
The community development of TopoToolbox starts now

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 the blog!  by Wolfgang Schwanghart (Researcher, University of Potsdam, Germany), Dirk Scherler (Professor, Freie Universität Berlin and GFZ-Potsdam, Germany) and William Kearney (Research Software Engineer, University of Potsdam, Germany) Email: schwangh@uni-potsdam.de We al ...[Read More]

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

and April 8, 2024
A conversation with Christian France-Lanord, GM Division Ralph Alger Bagnold Awardee

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

January 15, 2024
A conversation with Fiona Clubb, GM Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee

  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 Day in the Life – Bartosz Kurjanski

November 30, 2023
A Day in the Life – Bartosz Kurjanski
Figure 2: Mobile bedforms in water depth~100m passing over iceberg plough marks. Bathymetric data (0.5m resolution) from Marine Data Exchange.

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 Bartosz Kurjanski, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, UK Twitter: @iceice_bartek    |    Email: bkurjanski@abdn.ac.uk Shifting sands… but underwater. Hi, my name is ...[Read More]

A Day in the Life – Riccardo Reitano

October 30, 2023
A Day in the Life – Riccardo Reitano

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 Riccardo Reitano, PostDoc Researcher, University of Rome “Roma Tre”    Email: riccardo.reitano@uniroma3.it So, this is how I live now. Well, luckily, this is just h ...[Read More]