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Division on Geomorphology

President: Kristen Cook (Emailgm@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Matteo Spagnolo (Email)
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 the Sediment Cascades workshop in 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 Rebekah Harries, Postdoctoral researcher, Durham University, UK Email: rebekah.m.harries@durham.ac.uk With contributions from Paulina Vergara Torrejón, Elizabeth Orr, Tania Villaseñor Jorquera, Mariajosé Herrera Ossandón, Jonathan Czuba and José Araos. Relationship-centred practice for Geomorphologists Uncertainties about climate change’s impact on the interconnected physical, biological …


Highlights from Taiwan: Sampling environmental DNA (eDNA)

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 found in a single stream deep within the mountains of the subtropical island of Taiwan. This species is not only one of the …


Highlighting Laura Krone: Connecting the Earth’s surface to the deep subsurface

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 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 connected with Earth’s surface? In March of 2019, in the Coastal Cordillera in Chile, a diverse group of scientists dug a …


Highlights from Hawaii: Threshold dependent canyon incision?

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 from head to toe. Thick vegetation drooped under the impact of the rain around me, obscuring the route we had taken …

Recent awardees

Christian France-Lanord

Christian France-Lanord

  • 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.


Fiona J. Clubb

Fiona J. Clubb

  • 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.


Ana Nap

Ana Nap

  • 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


Magdalena Lauermann

Magdalena Lauermann

  • 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


Márton Pál

Márton Pál

  • 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?


Dimitri Lague

Dimitri Lague

  • 2023
  • Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal

The 2023 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Dimitri Lague for impactful research in quantifying landscapes and their dynamics through a suite of innovative approaches, including new technologies and techniques, alongside outstanding leadership in open science.


Amalie Skålevåg

Amalie Skålevåg

  • 2023
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Amalie Skålevåg Hydro-sediment event types and associated conditions and processes in an alpine catchment


Dominique Townsend

Dominique Townsend

  • 2023
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Dominique Townsend Linking nearshore morphological change to long term observed sand loss from a mixed sediment beach


Gerardo Zegers

Gerardo Zegers

  • 2023
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Gerardo Zegers Large-scale estimation of surficial sediment size in alpine landforms using UAV photogrammetry and machine learning.


Tjalling de Haas

Tjalling de Haas

  • 2023
  • Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Tjalling de Haas in recognition of their fundamental contributions to advancing the understanding of landslide-tsunami interactions and of mass flows more broadly on Earth and Mars, using a suite of innovative approaches.

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