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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 3d

Kaffee und kuchen as I cross the German border on my train to #EGU committee meetings. Feels like I'm back in Germany already 😁

Apple streusel cake and cappuccino on Deutsche Bahn ICE tray table

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 5d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 6d

Thinking about joining EGU's #Mentoring Scheme for #EGU26, but want to consolidate your skills first? This #workshop is for you!

📅: Thursday 16 October 2025, at 10:00 CEST.
🔗: egu.eu/6Q7OB9
⚠️Places are limited! Apply by 14 October 2025!
👉 Learn more: egu.eu/0NTDAW

📸: Mike Smith on imaggeo.egu.eu

Image description: A coastal landscape. Text reads: 'EGU mentoring workshop is here! Register now? YES!
Where?
Online
When?
Thursday 16 October 2025, at 10:00 CEST.
Deadline?
Monday 14 October 2025
Cost?
0€'.

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 7d

Are you an #ECS looking for creative and engaging ways to #communicate your message? This #workshop is for you!

🎨Graphic Design for Geoscience on Digital Platforms: An Introduction
📆14 Oct 2025 14:00 CEST
🖱️Register here: egu.eu/86A3SQ
Learn more here: egu.eu/3ZJMQ2

📸: Hans Volkert on #imaggeo

Image description: A blue and gray mountainous backdrop .With text reading: ' Workshop Graphic Design for Geoscience on Digital Platforms: An Introduction Register NOW.'

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 7d

🚨#JobAlert
Are you currently a #student living in Germany and looking for a part-time & remote job?
This opportunity is waiting for you!
#EGU are looking for a Community Development Assistant work-student to join their communications team!
📅Apply by 24 October 2025.
Learn more here: egu.eu/9Y1PZ8

Image description: A mountain silhouette at sunset with text reading:' we’re
hiring!
Community Development Assistant
Apply by 24 October 2025
Currently Pursuing a graduate degree in the Earth, planetary or space sciences, or a relevant
Be living in Germany for full-time education
Good organisational skills and attention to detail
Ability to interact with individuals online with sensitivity and professionalism
Expert command of English
Send your application to vacancy@egu.eu
Interested? Here is your next step Apply by 24 October 2025
Send your application to vacancy@egu.eu'

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 9d

For some impression of the river, here's the section just upstream of the bridge, from back in 2015. It's not a small channel down here - imagine all of this filled with a raging flood...

looking upstream at very wide riverbed full of gravel and a little flowing water

looking downstream at very wide riverbed full of gravel and a little flowing water. A bridge is in the distance crossing the channel

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 16d

The Matai’an landslide dam in eastern Taiwan has failed this afternoon (eos.org/thelandslide...), flooding Guangfu, about 15 km downstream focustaiwan.tw/society/2025.... Even in the middle of a typhoon, the resulting flood produced a detectable seismic signal at stations ~40 km away.

Seismic waveforms and power spectral density plots showing the signal of a landslide lake outburst flood.

Planet satellite image from August 2025 of a large landslide blocking a river and creating a lake.

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 15d

Come learn more about extreme flows and flood seismology at a webinar on Thursday! 18:45 Kathmandu time, 15:00 CEST, 9:00 EDT.
www.stimson.org/event/seismi...

Seismic Monitoring for Extreme Flow Events: From Forensic Analysis to Early Warning Systems • Stimson Center

How can seismic sensor networks be used to help analyze and detect extreme flow events in the planet's high mountain regions?

www.stimson.org

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 15d

Come learn more about extreme flows and flood seismology at a webinar on Thursday! 18:45 Kathmandu time, 15:00 CEST, 9:00 EDT.
www.stimson.org/event/seismi...

Seismic Monitoring for Extreme Flow Events: From Forensic Analysis to Early Warning Systems • Stimson Center

How can seismic sensor networks be used to help analyze and detect extreme flow events in the planet's high mountain regions?

www.stimson.org

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 16d

Just with a quick glance, the flood can be seen 10-15 minutes before it arrived at Guangfu. The power of fluvial seismology!

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 16d

The Matai’an landslide dam in eastern Taiwan has failed this afternoon (eos.org/thelandslide...), flooding Guangfu, about 15 km downstream focustaiwan.tw/society/2025.... Even in the middle of a typhoon, the resulting flood produced a detectable seismic signal at stations ~40 km away.

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 23d

Last day for EGU26 session proposals!

Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 20

Calling for EGU 2026 session proposals! If you have an idea for a geomorphology session, head to meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/provis... and enter it in. Sessions on new topics and themes are extremely welcome! Help to build a great programme for EGU26!

Call for session proposals

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 24d

Day two of the 4th IAG-EGU intensive course for young geomorphogists! Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery, a giant landslide, TLS, ERT, and CRN sampling - it was a great day!

Grassy and rocky mountain landscape, in the center is a big white instrument sitting on a yellow tripod

Mountain landscape with large boulders in the foreground

Group gathered in semicircle in a grassy and rocky area, all looking at a small computer

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 25d

First day of the 4th IAG-EGU intensive course for young geomorphogists! Slightly wet, and a little cloudy, but everyone was excited to learn about soil erosion processes and human impacts, and dendrogeomorphology and avalanches! #IAG #EGU

Group of people with backpacks on rocky ground, with only white fog in the background

Circle of people with backpacks and raincoats on a flat area with trees to the right and a steep slope to the left

Three people on a steep slope in the forest, learning about tree coring

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29d

NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu.

Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices.

A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Sep 9

The situation in Nepal has escalated today, it's really worrying. Hoping that all my Nepali friends and colleagues can stay safe. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just one more week to go! Don't forget to get your sessions in!

Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 20

Calling for EGU 2026 session proposals! If you have an idea for a geomorphology session, head to meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/provis... and enter it in. Sessions on new topics and themes are extremely welcome! Help to build a great programme for EGU26!

Call for session proposals

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Sep 8

Really disturbing to see this news out of Nepal today 😢

kathmandupost.com/national/202...

19 dead in Gen Z protests across Nepal

Hundreds injured as police open fire; curfews imposed in multiple cities.

kathmandupost.com

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 20

Calling for EGU 2026 session proposals! If you have an idea for a geomorphology session, head to meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/provis... and enter it in. Sessions on new topics and themes are extremely welcome! Help to build a great programme for EGU26!

Call for session proposals

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's 12:00 somewhere...

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's always really frustrating though.
If there's any chance of coming to EGU next year, you are more than welcome to give it a try over here 😀

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 27

GSA had a massive increase in session proposals this year - I don't remember the numbers, but I remember being surprised by them. I'd be even more surprised if the abstracts increased proportionally, so I'd guess that a lot of sessions didn't make it this year...

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is often the case, calling people downstream is an extremely effective EWS! I've wondered about the costs of hiring someone to sit up by the lake with their phone vs. the cost of an automated warning system...

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 24

The valley below this transition from U-shaped low gradient to V-shaped steep is absolutely full of sediment. Perfect conditions for generating a debris flow. Upstream, it looks like pre-GLOF it was a lot of underground flow and not established channels, which will affect the flow propagation.

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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · Aug 24

If you look at the topography it makes sense. The larger lakes are in the flat glacial part of the valley. You now see some erosion and channelization in the upper part on the steeper steps in the topography, but the debris flow really gets going right where the valley steepens and narrows.

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