Geomorphology

Anthropogenic changes of the landscape and natural hazards

Jonathan Rizzi March 6, 2019

Agricultural terraces for rice cultivation (Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, Cultural Landacape Heritage, Yuanyang County, Yunnan, PR China; photo by P. Tarolli)

In this post, I had the pleasure to interview Paolo Tarolli, a very active member of the EGU community and a brilliant scientist. He is Professor in Water Resources Management and Integrated Watershed Management, and head of Earth Surface Processes and Society research group at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy). He has a PhD in Environmental Watershed Management and Geomatics and has wo ...[Read More]

Combining geomorphology, geomorphometry and natural hazards research: the way forward

Giulia Roder December 4, 2018

Minimum downslope vertical distance, following the flow path(s), to the riverbed. Knowing the water depth, this map can provide an idea of the potentially flooded area, northeaster US. © Giulia Sofia.

Today I have the honour to introduce a friend and a brilliant scientist that recently won the 2019 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists of the EGU, Dr Giulia Sofia. Dr Sofia is currently Assistant Research Professor at the University of Connecticut (USA) in the Hydrometeorology and Hydrologic Remote Sensing group. She received a B.S. and M.S. in Forestry Science, and PhD (201 ...[Read More]

The fantastic world of OBIA!

Gabriele Amato February 19, 2018

For today blog, we have interviewed Clemens Eisank about OBIA and its application in Natural Hazard. Dr. Clemens Eisank is Remote Sensing Specialist & Project Manager at GRID-IT Company in Innsbruck (Austria). He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS at Salzburg University in 2013. In his Ph.D. research, he proposed a workflow for automated geomorphological mapping w ...[Read More]