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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Only 3 days to go for the crowdfunding campaign! ⏳

Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍

I need your help! 🤍

I still have many gorgeous slices of glacier subfossil wood to offer!

wemakeit.com/projects/gla...

🙏🙏 Please spread the word 🙏🙏

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Jul 11

.. and especially wonderful to meet @dralastaircurry.bsky.social and colleagues from U. Hertfordshire, and colleagues from U. Lausanne in field at #Turtmann #glacier to talk about #moraines, #rockglaciers and thermal #UAV flights!

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Jul 11

#GoOrGrow fieldwork successfully completed! Captured high resolution #UAV images, read out #TOMST loggers, found a miniature #solifluction #lobe and camped in beautiful Pipjitälli for early morning flights. Thanks @leonduurkoop.bsky.social for great help! #biogeomorphology

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Jul 9

Traffic jam on the way to work today.. #fieldwork #GoOrGrow

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · May 28

#ICG2026 abstract submission deadline has been postponed to 13th June 2025, so more than two weeks left to prepare your #biogeomorphology abstracts for our session on interactions between life and landscapes!🏔️🏞️🌊🌱🪴🦫🍄‍🟫🪸🦞

Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · May 15

Working on interactions between life and #landscapes? Join us for our #biogeomorphology session at the 11th IAG International Conference on #Geomorphology in beautiful New Zealand! Abstract submission deadline is already soon on 31st May! More info: www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/other/ #ICG2026 #IAG2026

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · May 15

Working on interactions between life and #landscapes? Join us for our #biogeomorphology session at the 11th IAG International Conference on #Geomorphology in beautiful New Zealand! Abstract submission deadline is already soon on 31st May! More info: www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/other/ #ICG2026 #IAG2026

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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · May 13

New open access paper on headwall erosion of a deglaciating cirque in the Swiss Alps. In our study we found that headwall erosion is driven by frost weathering and permafrost rather than glacier induced rockfall.

@uugeo.bsky.social #glacier #rockfall

doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Redirecting

doi.org

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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · May 7

🌿 Got vegetation science research to share?
Submit your work to one of the IAVS vegetation journals!
📝 @jvegsci.bsky.social | @applvegsci.bsky.social | @vcsjournal.bsky.social | Palaearctic Grasslands

Everything from theory to application to classification.

👉 www.iavs.org/page/publica...

Publications - International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)

The IAVS Bulletin is the newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science. It contains items of potential interest to the membership and serves as the official record of IAVS meetings and activities. It is currently published in digital format with four issues per year.

www.iavs.org

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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · Apr 8

Please help save our department, sign the petition! 💪
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Sign the Petition

Red Aardwetenschappen aan de VU!

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Mar 18

Nice to see my interview as EGU Outstanding Early Career Scientist awardee out in the @egu.eu Geomorphology Division blog!

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

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Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our current paper on topography and the terrestrial water cycle is featured in an Editor’s Vox in @eos.org eos.org/editors-vox/... @unipotsdamwater.bsky.social

Topography and the Terrestrial Water Cycle - Eos

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is still much to learn about Earth’s complex dynamics – both above, at, and be...

eos.org

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Dec 18

Happy to announce we will organize a special issue on #proglacial #landscape and #ecosystem development in Catena (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/catena) as a follow up of our interdisciplinary session at #EGU25 next year. Looking forward to receive your abstracts until 15th January 2025!

Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Nov 5

Do you want to discuss the future of #deglaciated areas and how we can influence it? We are organising an interdisciplinary session at #EGU25 on "Postglacial development of #soil, #vegetation, and #landscapes"! Read more here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #biogeomorphology

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Dec 11

At #BES2024 and interested in plant #traits and #mountains? Come to our poster A5.12 this evening (6-7.30 pm) to learn more about how moving mountain slopes shape #alpine plant traits - and vice versa! #biogeomorphology #GoOrGrow

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · Dec 10

On the final leg of my train journey from Utrecht to Liverpool for #BES2024! After some quick sightseeing in London I am excited to delve into #ecology for the next few days. #GoOrGrow