🚨 4 days left to enter 🚨 submit your photos and drawings of geomorphological features by midnight on Friday tagging us and the tag #BSGAC25 to win up to £100 🥇 last years winners and runners up for inspiration ⬇️

Make sure to enter by 9th Jan! ⬇️

🎨 BSG ART COMPETITION 2025 🖼️ Submit your fieldwork & holiday snaps, pretty sketches, drawings of geomorphic features! Make sure you tag #BSGAC25. Winners will win…🥇 £100 🥈 🥉 £50 deadline 9th Jan 2026!

🎨 BSG ART COMPETITION 2025 🖼️ Submit your fieldwork & holiday snaps, pretty sketches, drawings of geomorphic features! Make sure you tag #BSGAC25. Winners will win…🥇 £100 🥈 🥉 £50 deadline 9th Jan 2026!

BSG Postgrad Form invites you to its December webinar initiative "Geomorph Talks: Methods, Models & More". Join us on 18 Dec from 3 pm (UK Time) to learn about microplastic sedimentology from Dr @seddyrocks.bsky.social (@lborouniversity.bsky.social). Register by 15 Dec. Link is provided below 👇

The second newsletter of the year is now out! This issue includes research highlights from Dr Jana Eichel and Prof. Jo Nield, a reflection from the AGM in Leeds and our next art competition #BSGAC25. We also include an obituary to the late Prof Joanna Bullard, who will be greatly missed. Link below👇

@drlucyclarke.bsky.social kicking off the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop for first year PGRs with the importance of having an online presence #PhDchat #AcademicSky #BSGWindsor2025 #BSGTNG

🌟Awards Deadline - One Month Left 🌟 Send in your nominations for the David Linton, Gordon Warwick, Lynne Frostick (New!), and Dick Chorley awards by 31st December. Please help the Society recognise deserving individuals. Find out how to nominate here: www.geomorphology.org.uk/funding-and-...

Heartiest thanks to Dr @aflatley.bsky.social from UNSW Canberra for a wonderful afternoon webinar on applications of TL Scanners in Geomorphology for the Postgraduate Forum initiative GT-M3. Here's the YouTube link - youtu.be/H22LS7XnXmg?...

Expressions of Interest close on Friday! Make sure you get your applications in to join our PhD training course. A great way to meet other new PhD students in the field of geomorphology 🌍❄️💧🌊🌴

BSG Postgrad Form invites you to its November webinar initiative "Geomorph Talks: Methods, Models & More". Join us on 28 Nov from 12 pm (UK Time) to learn about terrestrial laser scanners from Dr aflatley.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia). Register by 23 Nov. Link is provided below 👇

📣 @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...

🚨 Expressions of Interest Now Open! 🚨 Are you a new #PhD student in #geomorphology who started in 2025? Or are you supervising a new PhD student in geomorphology? Don’t miss the chance to join the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor PhD Training Workshop. 1/

🔔 Final Call: BSG Grant Applications! The deadline for the next round of BSG grants is 30 September 2025 – just days away! 🌍 BSG offers a wide range of grants to support geomorphological research and outreach. Open to all BSG members worldwide to secure funding for impactful work.

Had a fantastic few days at #BSG25 in my old stomping ground of Leeds. Always fun meeting new people and catching up with friends! I am grateful to have had the opportunity to share some of my PhD work and receive valuable feedback and advice for the final sprint of my PhD.

A great few days at #BSG25 where I got the chance to showcase my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded work on oxbow lakes - hopefully out in publication form soon.

That’s a wrap for #BSG25 @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Thanks to Jonathan, Mark and the wider organising team for a fantastic week covering a wide range of geomorphic processes. Thanks also to Wiley and ESPL, it was a pleasure to celebrate 50 years. See you all next year in Lincoln!

The final session of #BSG25 focused on rivers 🌧️ including beaver restoration, oxbow lake geomorphology, the impacts of rewilding and controls on river flow sensitivity!

Thanks to all who joined the AGM this afternoon and to those who provided committee updates. Big thanks go to the outgoing members of the exec @aockelford.bsky.social, @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social, Mattie Biddulph and Lizzie Dingle for their generous contributions. Find out how you can get involved ⬇️

For our final morning in Leeds, we had two sessions covering a wide range of geomorphology from dryland channels to glacial landforms and the interestingly named murdlins to coseismic landslide prediction and mapping and the potential to use sonic geomorphology for ecosystems ☀️❄️🌧️🏔️ #BSG25

Celebrating the Gordon Warwick award by Prof @lisamol.bsky.social this morning. Very inspiring to see Lisa’s research on heritage geomorphology in conflict zones, highlighting her outreach initiatives and the importance of partner organisations #BSG25

🌟 BSG Highlights Thursday 🌟 - Warwick award lecture - More great talks! - AGM - members check your emails to join online

Another excellent Cuchlaine King Symposium! We enjoyed talks from Andres Payo Garcia, Lizzie Dingle and Irina Overeem covering a range of geomorphology from coastal processes and the new CoastME to glacial legacy in tectonically quiescent environments & icy landscapes in response to climate change

Starting this afternoon with Linton Award winner, Prof Dave Thomas (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), a fantastic summary of the evolution of dryland aeolian research over the last 50 years from hand mapping to AI. A talk filled with dunes, dating and fieldwork. Thanks Dave. #BSG25

Two excellent talks from Marjorie Sweeting award winner, Sophie Snowball (Newcastle), and runner up Adam Wright (Sussex) on the role of geomorphology in historic landfill waste and coastal pollution in the north east and glaciofluvial geomorphology on Mars. #BSG25

A session filled with models! Great range of talks on landscape evolution, from uncertainty and new statistics to measure model performance, estimates of future sediment transport in Scotland, asymmetric glaciation as a control on drainage divides to divide asymmetry on Mars and its link to process.

Great day at #BSG25 in Leeds, with award of 2 @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Fellowships (Carling & Newson) and lifetime awards for Mike Kirkby, Fiona Kirkby & Stuart Lane in ESPL’s 50th anniversary year. And of course outstanding science from NZ to Swaledale via some poetic potholes. More today!

Excellent Michael Kirkby award talk given by Wren Raming to kick off the second day of #BSG25. Wren showed how rock strength, drainage area and flood size control waterfall stability on the Hawaiian Islands. You can read Wren’s paper here: doi.org/10.1002/esp....

🌟 Wednesday highlights #BSG25 🌟 - Three award lectures! - Poster session and lightening talks - Cuchlaine King Symposium - Conference dinner

Thrilled to announce that Mike Kirkby, Fiona Kirkby and Stuart Lane have all been awarded Honorary Life Membership of the BSG during yesterday’s Frost Reception. We also welcomed Paul Carling and Malcolm Newson as new Fellows of the BSG. Congratulations all! #BSG25

A series of fascinating talks on fluvial geomorphology in the UK to wrap up today’s presentations! From potholes and outreach, reconstructing palaeofloods in York to future possibilities for fluvial research with advances in technology. Lots of exciting research being done and left to do! #BSG25

Thanks to all our speakers for an excellent first session featuring fluvial systems from the lab scale and North Pennines all the way to New Zealand and large scale remote sensing. A great showcase of river networks incl. erosive bedrock systems and widespread aggradation from cyclones. 🌊💦 #BSG25

Kicking off the first session is Dick Chorley Award Winner, Sophie Horton. Sophie presented her 2022 paper on shore platform wetting and drying cycles following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake (link ⬇️) as well as more recent work on rock characteristics and the role of small, frequent storms. #BSG25

After a morning filled with fantastic workshops, Jonathan Carrivick has welcomed everyone to Leeds and #BSG25. Also great to hear from Stuart Lane on the 50th anniversary of ESPL and how you can get involved (to be posted soon!) Great to see many issues of ESPL around the conference venue 🌎

It's that time of year again, time for the annual @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social conference. A nice easy travel across from Hull this morning, but still an early start #BSG25

We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of ESPL as a society at the AGM next week @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Our final #ESPLMemoriesAt50 is from Prof. Mike Kirkby on the birth of ESP(L)

My 1st publication in ESPL was in 2002, on geological controls on the formation of alluvial meanders and floodplain wetlands of Klip River, South Africa. Most of the fieldwork for this article was done in late 1998 through 1999 while I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in South Africa. #ESPLMemoriesAt50

During a career, most of us harbour the hope that we’re recognised for contributing to several areas of Earth & environ science. For me, river science, in particular, has been an interest area for helping unravel the enigma of bedload sediment transport. #ESPLMemoriesAt50

For me, as an early-career researcher half a century ago, what was inspirational wasn't any specific paper in the first volumes of ESP; rather, it was the confidence & initiative that the BGRG displayed in establishing a new international journal specifically for geomorphologists. #ESPLMemoriesAt50

BSG Postgrad Form invites you to its first ever webinar initiative named "Geomorph Talks: Methods, Models & More". Join us on 12 Sept from 12 pm (BST) to learn about luminescence dating from Dr Ashok Singhvi (PRL 🇮🇳). Register by 7 Sept. Link is provided below 👇

A PhD student applied the ecological concept of alternate states to river corridors in the Colorado Rocky Mountains that have old-growth vs managed floodplain forest. She found substantial differences in geomorphic & ecological characteristics and we were excited about the study. #ESPLMemoriesAt50

Job alert 🚨 Geomorphology Technical Leader at Environment Agency. Suitable for postgrads with a few years of experience environmentagencyjobs.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Recruiting: Senior Geomorphologist post to work on the rivers in stunning North & Mid Wales on offer from @NatResWales Please share naturalresources.wales/about-us/job... @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social @theriverstrust.bsky.social @ciwem.bsky.social @afonyddcymru.bsky.social @scottishepa.bsky.social

It gave a young PhD student the greatest pleasure to be able to publish in the first volume of Earth Surface Processes. Our paper showed how hydraulic conductivity in frozen soils declines below 0 °C. The paper still gets cited regularly! #ESPLMemoriesAt50 - Prof. Tim Burt, Durham University

Today we share our first edition of #ESPLMemoriesAt50. To celebrate the 50th year of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, we have been in touch with our fellows to find out how ESPL has influenced their scientific journey. Please join in and share your own experiences with us!

⏰ We are still looking to fill the positions of Junior Deputy Chair and Outreach Vice Chair on our Executive Committee starting in September. Please get in touch if you are interested in applying! Brief descriptions for the roles can be found below ⬇️

Six days left to make the most of early registration fees! 📆 Join us in September for a packed schedule covering a breadth of geomorphology 🌎

Make sure you register for our upcoming webinar (Monday 14th July 17:30 BST) in connection with Fi Wi Road, it is set to be filled with interesting and thought-provoking discussion!

Contours of inequality Join us on 14 July, 17:30–19:00 for a free online event exploring how landscapes and lives are shaped by the North/South divide. 🌍 From sand mining to climate change, discover how geography, science, and society intersect across Africa, Asia, and beyond. 🌦️ Registration link ⬇️