President: Kristen Cook
(Emailgm@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Matteo Spagnolo
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ECS Representative: Rachel Oien
(Emailecs-gm@egu.eu)
Geomorphology is the scientific study of land-surface features and the dynamic processes that shape them. Besides focusing on the diverse physical landscapes of the Earth, geomorphologists also study surfaces of other planets. Understanding landform history and dynamics, and predicting future changes through a combination of field observations, physical experiments, and numerical modelling is at the heart of geomorphology. The division brings together research on processes that build topography trough e.g. the effects of tectonic forces as well as processes that modify the terrain such as weathering, erosion through running water, waves, glacial ice, wind and gravitational forces. Division members also study the impact of humans on geomorphological processes and investigate how geomorphological knowledge can be applied to solve problems of relevance to societies.
Latest posts from the GM blog
Highlighting: Volcanic Islands! (Interview with Kim Huppert)
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.com/view/huppert-ccny-esd Questions by Emma Lodes. What is most interesting or exciting to you about the geomorphology of volcanic islands? Where to start! I think volcanic …
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Highlighting: Crete! (Interview with Richard Ott)
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 Richard Ott, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam. Email: r.f.ott@uva.nl, personal website: https://richardott.weebly.com/ Questions by Emma Lodes. We’re continuing our mini series on islands with an interview with Richard Ott on his work on Crete! This gorgeous holiday destination is far more tectonically active than most realize, …
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Highlighting: Réunion Island! (Interview with Adrien Folch)
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 Adrien Folch, Doctoral Researcher, GFZ-Potsdam. Email: adrien.folch@gfz.de Questions by Emma Lodes. This week, we are kickstarting a mini-series on island geomorphology! We will start with a few examples of volcanic islands. Our first is Réunion Island, part of the Réunion hotspot in the Indian Ocean. This …
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Highlighting: Electron Spin Resonance! (Interview with Audrey Margirier)
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 Audrey Margirier, Postdoctoral fellow, University Grenoble Alpes & University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Email: audrey.margirier@unil.ch Questions by Emma Lodes. This week, we dive into an exciting new method in geomorphology and thermochronology: Electron Spin Resonance, or ESR. ESR promises to fill a gap in time: methods currently …
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Recent awardees
- 2025
- Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
The 2025 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to
Christopher D. Clark for fundamentally advancing the understanding of glacial landscapes, landforms, and geomorphological processes.
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- 2025
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Jana Eichel for outstanding and innovative work on the feedbacks between plants and geomorphic processes in high mountains.
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- 2025
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Jil van Etten Periglacial puzzles: Unravelling environmental controls on solifluction lobe morphometry
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- 2025
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Jonah McLeod Planform as a Dominant Control on Sediment Intermittency: Global Analysis of River Transport Patterns
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- 2025
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Leona Repnik Historical photogrammetry for DoDs in deglaciating environments: challenges and opportunities
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- 2024
- Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
The 2024 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to
Christian France-Lanord for impactful work on the understanding of the influence of orogenesis and tectonics on geochemical cycles, and of the coupling between erosion and weathering processes.
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- 2024
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Fiona J. Clubb for contributions to the understanding of channel head formation and landscape evolution modelling, and the development of open-source code for the analysis of topographic data.
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Ana Nap Intermediate-depth & Basal icequakes at Greenland's fastest outlet glacier
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Magdalena Lauermann Channel-floodplain connectivity drives vegetation dynamics in semiarid floodplains: a remote sensing analysis of the Naryn river corridor in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Márton Pál Citizen science in geoheritage: who participates in community geosite assessments?
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Current issue of the EGU newsletter
In our November Issue we explore the interconnectedness of science and community as Bob Bateman talks about how online search patterns when earthquakes happen can improve disaster risk communication, Anjana Khatwa talks about our connections to the rocks around us in her new book, Lisa Gourdon-Grünewaldt discusses the importance of recognising and celebrating the International Day of LGBTQIA+ in STEM, Asmae Ourkiya shares the value of the new UNESCO World Soil Health Index as it connects data across countries and Eduardo Queiroz Alves gives his top 3 reasons why you should preprint your paper. Also catch up on all the upcoming dates for webinars and funding, including €10,000 to host a Geoscience Day event in your European country, and discover who the next President of EGU will be and other roles, with the results of the EGU elections.
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!
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