This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! 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 this topic or others. by Caro Krug, Doctoral Student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Email: cakrug@eaps.ethz.ch The Formosan landlocked salmon (Oncorhynchus masou formosanus) can only be fo ...[Read More]
Highlighting Laura Krone: Connecting the Earth’s surface to the deep subsurface
The drill rig used to extract a core in Santa Gracia, Chile
This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! 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 this topic or others. by Laura Krone, PostDoc in the Sedimentary Systems group at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Email: l.krone@fu-berlin.de How is the deep subsurface conne ...[Read More]
Highlights from Hawaii: Threshold dependent canyon incision?
A typical stream on Kauai. Photo credit: Kelin Whipple
This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (emily.bamber@utexas.edu) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. by Emma Lodes, Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University, USA Email: elodes@asu.edu I stood knee-deep in the middle of the stream, sopping wet fr ...[Read More]
Highlighting Shakespeare’s Geomorphology
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]
Highlighting Grace Guryan: How do rocks shape rivers?
This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (emily.bamber@utexas.edu) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. by Grace Guryan, Doctoral Researcher, University of Texas at Austin, USA Email: gguryan@utexas.edu About Me My name is Grace Guryan, and I’m a fifth year ...[Read More]
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 Day in the Life – Andreas Ruby
Figure 1. Me in Patagona (PC Fergus McNab)
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 Andreas Ruby, Doctoral Researcher, GFZ Potsdam, Germany Email: andreas.ruby@gfz-potsdam.de Hi, I’m Andi, and it still feels quite fresh, but as of now I’ve already ...[Read More]
AGU Report
Figure 2: R. Lanari and I at poster session, discussing the tectonic evolution of the Calabria Arc and Southern Apennines
by Romano Clementucci, PostDoc, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Twitter: @RomanoClementu1 | email: rclementucci@erdw.ethz.ch As postdoctoral researchers, advancing our careers often involves attending an international congress. In December 2023, I achieved this goal by participating in AGU23, marking my first attendance after several consecutive years at EGU. It was exhilarating to share my research ...[Read More]
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 – Gerald Raab
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 Gerald Raab, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada Twitter: @gr_science | Email: gr.science@gmx.at Chasing landscape chronometers Someh ...[Read More]