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: Waterfalls!
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. by Sophie Rothman, Postdoctoral fellow, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse. Email: Sophie.rothman@get.omp.eu My PhD research at the University of Nevada, Reno, focused on how waterfalls alter erosion processes and rates. It was a great PhD project because it allowed me to travel to beautiful places and spend my field work …
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Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland
In the morning of May 28, 2025, the picturesque Swiss alpine village of Blatten sat quiet and serene in the Lötschen Valley. Exceptionally quiet, in fact, as the village was evacuated on May 19th after a local Natural Hazards expert spotted a worrisome change in a local mountain looming about the village, the Kleines Nesthorn: it was collapsing faster. The Kleines Nesthorn is a 3,341-meter peak with a known instability between rock layers that has caused the mountain to shift …
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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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- 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 September Issue we look back at 65 years of the OPEC nations and how the legacy of petroleum can be used to move us to a sustainable future, learn more about activities you can do for this years' Earth Science Week in October, watch our new video on managing vulnerabilities whilst on fieldwork, apply for the EGU26 Artists in Residence programme by 27 October and if you know a work-student in Germany, why not suggest they apply for our new vacancy as a Community Development Assistant!
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!
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