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Kristen Cook
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Geomorphologist with IRD, ISTerre, Université Grenoble Alpes. EGU Geomorphology Division president. Interested in extreme floods, landslides, and how mountain rivers work, mostly in the Himalaya.
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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!
This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, [email protected]), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or oth...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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EGU Awards and Medals are out! Huge congratulations to our GM Ralph Alger Bagnold winner Maarten G. Kleinhans! And to our GM Outstanding Early Career Scientist Dongfeng Li!
www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...
EGU announces the 2026 awards and medals!
<p>The European Geosciences Union is honouring 52 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.</p>
www.egu.eu
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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We will keep underestimating the scale and complexity of cascading #geohazards in high mountains without a fundamental shift in perspective, policies, and their implementation.☝️Developing scenarios to facilitate impact based forecasting schemes is a way forward
doi.org/10.1038/s41561
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November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Most fieldwork posts show smiling people, beautiful landscapes, and/or interesting things. For a view of the other side, I give you fieldwork in Nepal with endless rain (thanks cyclone Montha), mud everywhere, and leeches. One of my more difficult trips in recent years...
Blue tarp draped over mast and solar panel on a steep terraced hillside. Our solution for electronic work in the rain. Four people pushing a jeep up a very muddy road. This attempt was unsuccessful. It took quite some more time and some road engineering to get unstuck. Five people in plastic rain gear in an unfinished building. Outside is all white mist. Feet with bloody socks. The result of working in leech country. I ended up with at least ten bites this day, despite anti-leech vigilance (pulled off probably 50+ from my boots) and slathering anti-leech "medicine" (pesticide for vegetable fields) all over my boots and ankles.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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🚨#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
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October 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Are you a #ScienceArtist? We're looking for you to join us at #EGU26!

Applications are now open for EGU’s #Artist in #Residence programme!

📅 Apply by 27 October 2025.
👉 Learn more about the application details & requirements: egu.eu/63Y1BV
📝 Submit your application here: egu.eu/813683
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October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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📣 @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop PhD Training 2025: Expressions of Interest Open!
Join other new geomorphology PhDs from European HE institutions for training & networking at Windsor, UK (1–4 Dec 2025).
£175 for BSG members (incl. meals & stay).
👉 www.geomorphology.org.uk/windsor-work...
Exterior building photograph of Cumberland Lodge, a historic red-brick country house surrounded by trees in Windsor Great Park with a driveway leading up to the front of the building PhD students and researchers gathered at the BSG Windsor Workshop outside Cumberland Lodge in Great Windsor Park Exterior building photograph of Cumberland Lodge, a historic red-brick country house in Windsor Great Park, there is a lawned area with picnic tables in the front of the photograph Students working on round tables in one of the spacious training rooms inside Cumberland Lodge
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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 DB ICE train in Paris Gare de l'Est
October 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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🚨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.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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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

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October 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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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
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October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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🚨#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'
October 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
kristencook.bsky.social
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.
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Last day for EGU26 session proposals!
kristencook.bsky.social 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
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September 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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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
September 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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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 A fox sitting on a rocky road
September 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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.
September 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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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...
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Just one more week to go! Don't forget to get your sessions in!
kristencook.bsky.social 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
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September 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
kristencook.bsky.social
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
September 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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
August 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The call for #session #proposals for the #EGU26 General Assembly is now open!
Submit short course ideas and/or proposals for Union Symposia and Great Debates by 16 September 2025.

👉 Submit your proposals here: egu.eu/60GYS7
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August 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM