Landscapes Live
EGU-GM Online Seminars in Geomorphology
Landscapes Live is a weekly online seminar series freely accessible to the international scientific community interested in various aspects of geomorphology. Our talks take place on Zoom every Thursday, starting at 4pm time of Paris/Berlin/Amsterdam. Check your local time here.
Landscapes Live is affiliated to the Geomorphology (GM) division of EGU and contribute to develop its virtual activities. Indeed, EGU is pioneering a new CampFire concept to bring together the geoscience community in between General Assemblies. We hope that this will meet the needs of the current pandemic but also help us in our transition to a greener future and ensure that our community better serve the needs of all scientists regardless of international mobility.
Upcoming talks.....
Program (Fall 2024):
Thursday, 14 November 2024 and 21 November 2024
Break
Thursday, 28 November 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Lindsay Schoenbohm (University of Toronto, Canada)
Link: Coming soon....
Title: Rocks Matter: why it is important to consider lithologic resistance to erosion in landscape evolution
Abstract: Much of the focus in landscape evolution and erosion studies is on the relative influences of climate and tectonics. Afterall, if a landscape is in steady state, erosion rates should be lithologically agnostic. However, there is increasing recognition that rocks do matter, which I’ll highlight with a few examples from our research in the Andes and Himalaya. After much frustration, it has become apparent that the most important barrier to understanding the role of lithologic resistance to erosion in landscape evolution is the lack of a reliable practice for constraining rock strength. We have therefore developed a database of Schmidt hammer-based rock strength measurements within our group. We have found that using this database, supplemented with local measurements for more complicated lithologies, allows us to improve correlation between measured and predicted erosion rates and better understand how landscapes evolve. Next steps involve controlling for non-primary lithologic characteristics such as bedding and joint spacing and orientation with respect to hillslope angle. Given our better understanding of the importance of lithologic resistance to erosion, and a framework for constraining it, we look forward to a new generation of studies that explicitly take rocks into account.
Thursday, 5 December 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Edward Rhodes (University of Sheffield, UK)
Title TBD
Past speakers.....
Thursday, 7 November 2024 at 16:00 CET
Victoria Milanez Fernandes (GFZ, Germany)
Pleistocene landscape evolution above the Patagonian Slab window
Talk is now on LL's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCzNCwaOdrI
Thursday, 31 October 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Tancrède Leger (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
A data-consistent model of the last glaciation in the Alps achieved with physics-driven AI
Talk is now on LL's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZpbp5doAIk
Thursday, 24 October 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Aurélie Davranche (University of Helsinki, Finland; University of Angers, France)
From field to space: multisource data to show how a nature based management can help to cope for sea level rise in the Mediterranean area
Talk is now on LL's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Weju45g0w
Thursday, 17 October 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Gareth Roberts (Imperial College London, UK)
Embracing scale and erosional randomness to understand landscape evolution
Talk is now on LL's Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/duqckTHGtI4
Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Jérôme Lavé (CNRS, CRPG Nancy, France)
Giant collapses of high Himalayan peaks and their implications on the Himalayan landscapes
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/1pE68ZXTJ1A
Thursday, 3 October 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Eric Barefoot (University of California Riverside, USA)
Experimental Constraints on the Morphology of Canyons Formed by Crater Overtopping
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/WPZamy_EyS8?feature=shared
Thursday, 6 June 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Nakul Deshpande (NC State University, USA)
The Perpetual Fragility of Creeping Hillslopes
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/JuRl9coHMIo
Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 16:00 CET
Katy Burrows (ESA)
Resolving the impacts of earthquakes, storms, and prolonged rainfall on shallow landsliding
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72yxOMXzfNs
Thursday, 4 April 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Albert Cabré (GET, Geoscience Environment Toulouse, France)
Geomorphic work of recent episodic rainstorm events in arid landscapes: examples from the Atacama Desert
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKF473Pv1No
Thursday, 11 April 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Scott Jess (Washington State University, USA)
The ups and downs of extensional tectonics
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQQFXh5aYIw
Thursday, 2 May 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Danica Roth (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Unveiling nonlocal landscape dynamics: exploring hillslope processes beyond the diffusive paradigm
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/VJcZBe6thqQ
Thursday, 9 May 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Sam Woor (University of British Columbia & University of the Fraser Valley, Canada)
Illuminating landscape responses to Quaternary climate change with luminescence
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmnPb-FiLA
Thursday, 16 May 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva (University of Lausanne & University of Bern, Switzerland)
Quantifying and monitoring instream large wood supply and transfer in rivers
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38oT5MwHgX4
Thursday, 23 May 2024 at 16:00 CEST
Claire Masteller (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Wiggles in width: Insights into alluvial channel dynamics from variability in high-resolution downstream hydraulic geometry
Talk is now on LL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMizP1choAE