💡Can mud flow like a glacier? New research from Azerbaijan's mud volcanoes 🌋 reveals that some mud flows can behave surprisingly like warm-based glaciers, offering new insights into landscape evolution🏔️. Read more here 👇 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm... #MudVolcanoes #Geomorphology

When Mud Flows Behave Like Glaciers: Discovering the Secrets of Azerbaijan’s Mud Volcanoes

Introduction When people hear the word „volcano“, they usually think of a magmatic volcano with impressive pyroclastic eruptions or lava flows. However, mud volcanoes are different. Mud volcanoes erup...

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Save the dates for our upcoming 2-part webinar series on #TopoToolbox June 2-3, 16-18:00 CEST, on Zoom! Convened by @topotoolbox.bsky.social & team. Introducing #MATLAB & #Python interfaces, & examples of topo analysis. Part 1: www.egu.eu/webinars/813... Part 2: www.egu.eu/webinars/781...

For our first post of the year, Tamara Aránguiz-Rago (PhD student @ the University of Washington) describes her research on strike-slip faults & how they disrupt river systems & sculpt landscapes in the Atacama desert & rainy New Zealand! ☀️⛰️ Check out the interview here: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

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

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Happy holidays! To finish our mini-series on islands, we have a double post -- Angus Moore (@czechacademy.bsky.social) & Kate Drobnich (Colorado State University) tell us two stories of erosion & landscape evolution on Puerto Rico! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm... & blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Highlighting: Puerto Rico, Part 1!

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Next up in our 🏝️ islands 🏝️ mini series: An interview with Prof. Kim Huppert (Assistant Professor @cuny.edu & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) on volcanic islands! Kim tells us what's special about volcanic islands & how much they can teach us about landscape evolution 🌋🌊🌈 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Highlighting: Volcanic Islands! (Interview with Kim Huppert)

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The GM blog is continuing our "islands" mini-series with an interview with Prof. Richard Ott @georichard.bsky.social on his work on Crete and carbonate landscapes! 🏝️🌟⛰️🐚Check it out: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Highlighting: Crete!

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GM blog highlights continue with a mini series on island geomorphology! First: Reunion Island, a spectacular tropical hotspot volcanic island w/ extreme rainfall, erosion & weathering! Adrien Folch (@gfz.bsky.social) answers some questions about his work on the island. blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Highlighting: Réunion Island!

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Today the GM blog delves into an exciting new method: Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)! Audrey Margirier, Postdoc @ @unil.bsky.social & @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social, tells us about using ESR to unravel the history of canyon incision in the Western US & the #GrandCanyon! ⚛️🏔️ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Highlighting: Electron Spin Resonance!

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Summer is over & the GM blog is kickstarting a year of highlighting places, methods & processes that geomorphologists are researching! Today, Sophie Rothman (Postdoc @ Géosciences Environnement Toulouse) highlights waterfalls! 💦https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm/2025/09/29/highlighting-waterfalls/

Highlighting: Waterfalls!

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Here's our guideline document for writing a blog post. Email Emma Lodes (elodes@asu.edu) or (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) if you are interested in contributing! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

GM Blog Guidelines 2025 – Highlights Series

GM Blog Guidelines 2025 – Highlights Series The purpose of this blog is to describe experiences, present pictures, localities, and stories that relate to the science of Geomorphology. Field activities...

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Attention potential blog authors! This year, EGU GM will continue with the blog theme 🌟Highlights🌟 & highlight people, places & experiences. Have a field/lab story to share? Want to share the geomorphology of a place you love? Nurture your science communication skills! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm/

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What happens when a mountain falls on a glacier and buries it in 9 mio tonnes of debris?! The EGU GM, Hydro and Nat Hazard blog editors highlight the recent Swiss Blatten landslide & interview Christophe Lambiel: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm/2025/06/11/highlighting-the-blatten-landslide-in-switzerland/

Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

An interview with Christophe Lambiel , a senior lecturer at University of Lausanne at the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics. His research focuses on high mountain geomorphology, with a special focus...

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This is super important!

Paul Bierman@paul-bierman.bsky.social · last yr.

Agree...we all should care that American science support, which made this country great, is being ripped apart in mere months. People across the political spectrum need to speak out and there will be an uproar.🧪 theconversation.com/unprecedente...

This year EGU’s Geomorphology Division turns 20! Our blog editors Emma Lodes & Emily Bamber chatted with previous & current presidents about change and progress in GM & future goals. Check out their 2-part blog series on 20 Years of GM! 🥳🎉 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm... blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

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

This year marks the 20 th 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 h...

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🌍 The EGU GM is officially here! Expect: – Division news – Highlights for #EGU25 General Assembly – Research spotlights & fieldwork photos If it shapes a surface — fluvial, glacial, volcanic, planetary — we’re into it. Come say hi 👋 #geomorphology #EGUGM #EGU25 #EGU

Heard of TopoToolbox? Now is your chance to contribute to the development of this useful toolset, now w/ python & R implementations! Check out the @egu.eu GM blog post blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm... by @topotoolbox.bsky.social on a recent hackathon and new #github organization github.com/TopoToolbox/

@egu.eu celebrates the diversity of people needed to create truly outstanding science! www.egu.eu/news/1259/eg...

EGU celebrates the diversity of people needed to create truly outstanding science

The Union restates our support for a geoscience community that is diverse as an essential feature of conducting cutting edge, innovative science research. In order to support this, we share a list of ...

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New posts out highlighting EGU GM medal awardees! Jana Eichel, GM division outstanding early career scientist, blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm... and Chris D. Clark, Bagnold awardee! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Highlighting Chris D. Clark, the GM Division Ralph Alger Bagnold Awardee 2025

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Watch this space, our #website and other social media pages for their talk titles and abstracts.📣 Head to steepestdescentmeeting.org/tickets to purchase your #ticket and register - there are still spots left!🎟 See you in #Vienna!✨(2/2) #SteepestDescent #Geomorphology #EGU25

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Ticket prices for the 2025 Steepest Descent Meeting Regular: €56, Students: €31

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Exciting news!!!🎉 We are thrilled to announce the Keynote Speakers and the Schedule for the 2025 #SteepestDescentMeeting !!!🌍🏞 We are going to have exciting talks from @aaronbufe.bsky.social, from LMU Munich, and Kimberly Huppert, from City College of New York (CCNY)!🤩 (1/2)

Ever heard of the Fluvial Anthroposphere?! Ever wondered at what point rivers in Central Europe became controlled by humans? New post in @eurogeosciences.bsky.social Geomorphology blog by Basti Grimm: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

A Day in the Life of a Geomorphologist: Bastian Grimm

This blog post is a throwback to last year’s theme, “A Day in the Life of a Geomorphologist!” Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d lik...

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Hey @agu.org - did you take down your "Ethical, Diverse & Just Science" page? When I click, the page is down. AGU has long been a leader in ethical and equitable science, and I wasn't expecting AGU to give into anticipatory obedience (www.aaup.org/news/against...). What's going on?

Some very cool research on how lithology and vegetation impact landscape morphology was highlighted in Eos! 🥹I worked on this with colleagues at the GFZ-Potsdam, Uni Marburg, and University of Chile as part of the Earthshape network 🌎🫶 eos.org/editor-highl...

How Rock Type Shapes River Networks and Influences Landscape Evolution - Eos

A new study in Chile shows how small differences in rock type can drive large differences in erosion, vegetation, and river networks, illuminating the role of mineralogy in shaping landscapes.

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Who’s going to EGU this year? Into tectonics and climate? Submit an abstract to our GM session Interactions between tectonics, climate and surface processes by Jan 15! Invited speakers: Loraine Gourbet & Jingtao Lai meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... @eurogeosciences.bsky.social

Geomorphologists often study climate change impacts without involving local communities in the research. The Sediment Cascades workshop in Chile aimed to combat this through meaningful engagement with community members. New post in @eurogeosciences.bsky.social GM blog! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Highlighting the Sediment Cascades workshop in Chile

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