Richard Ott

Thank you @egu-gm.bsky.social for highlighting how cool carbonate landscapes are!

An entire Nature article from 1934, I came across while reviewing literature. Times have changed...

Image description: warning sign reading "Area Closed with hills in the background. Text reading: "EGU blogs A leap of faith: Should we trust AI with a million-year problem? Read Now."

Solving million-year problems requires more than just #AI- it needs transparency and solid #science.
Could this be the future of trustworthy technology?

🔗Explore more in our latest #GeoLog post: egu.eu/3VEHLX

Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities Abstract. Accurate, long-term measurements of river flow are imperative for understanding and predicting a broad range of fluvial processes. Modern technological advances are enabling the development ...

I’m delighted to share that our latest research has just been published in HESS.

We developed an unsupervised workflow to estimate river surface velocities from videos. Testing on 11,000+ videos against 274 gauging measurements showed excellent agreement.

hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Great read!

Since the Tōhoku quake and tsunami struck in 2011, Japan has built three offshore monitoring networks comprising more than 200 instrument stations, connected to the mainland by optical fiber. The networks provide real-time warnings and insights into subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives under another at a seafloor trench.

In the next few months, Japan will finish work on an instrumented network of seafloor cables and wire it directly into a national early warning system.

Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI

Last Wednesday the Birchgletscher in the Swiss Alps collapsed, devastating large parts of the village #Blatten and blocking the Lonza river which created a small lake.

Thanks to aerial images shared by #swisstopo, I was able to create a 3D model of the area.
You can explore it here 👉 skfb.ly/pxHLC

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Investing in basic science more than pays for itself! Cutting NSF and NIH would hurt the US economy. (Now might be a good time to remind your congressional reps about this)
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Post a link, please!

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to study nearshore active faults with bathymetric surveys from an autonomous kayak!

The main site will be the Kefalonia Transform Fault Zone 🇬🇷
All the info in the 🔗 below.

www.gfz.de/en/career/jo...

Photo of the landscape

A landscape shaped by active tectonics: the Taygetos range with the Sparta fault at its base and our @ipgp.bsky.social master and PhD students in front.
The Sparta fault made the 464BCE #earthquake of magnitude 7+, an event that has likely triggered the 3rd Messenian war.
⚒️🧪

A good reality check as hydrogen creeps up in the geo-energy discourse. Whether storage or natural hydrogen production.

Landsat could use your support. The mission's 50+ year data continuity is at risk. If you believe contacting elected representatives does anything, now would be a good time to apply pressure. 🛰️📡

It's hard to believe that nearly a decade has passed since @geojane.bsky.social went to B.U.'s administration and detailed her shocking experiences as a grad student under my then-adviser, Dave Marchant.

In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)

This is a really cool postdoc opportunity in a great research group on a beautiful campus!

Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)

This image cannot be shared enough. This is what our country would look like if we stop pumping water out of our polders. And in the meantime, we have closed all but one earth science departments, because it’s a little but more expensive than the average study. What could possibly go wrong.

Come to my poster and let's chat about rates of natural and human-induced erosion and sediment connectivity of the Northern Andes! @egu.eu @egu-gm.bsky.social

Geomorphology session overview, 28 April - 02 May, 2025. Below are tables for each day showing the GM sessions, times, and rooms for EGU25.

For geomorphologists going to EGU, here is your one-page overview of all of the GM sessions and activities next week! Looking forward to a week of free and open science, EDI discussions and activities, and plenty of talk about climate change...

Cool!
Kleiner Tipp: alle meinen Studenten lernen niemals ein rot-grünes Farbschema zu benutzen, da 8% der männlichen Bevölkerung eine
rot-grün Schwäche haben. Es gibt extra Farbverläufe die für die meisten Farbenlinden funktionieren

Converting stream networks to shapefiles in TT3 What’s new in TopoToolbox 3? Well, we have restructured the toolbox a lot, making distribution and installation easier. However, there are also some new features. One of these features is the…

TopoToolbox 3 has some cool new functions. Here's how to export stream networks to shapefiles (and kml): topotoolbox.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/c...
#TopoToolbox #MATLAB #terrainanalysis #geomorphometry #geomorphology

The community development of TopoToolbox starts now Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on the blog!  by Wolfgang Schwanghart (Researcher, University of Potsdam, Germ...

Last week, we had a #TopoToolbox Hachathon in Berlin. Read more about it here blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

Nice! we should do a geomorphologist jam session 🎸🥁

Exciting news!!!🎉 We are thrilled to announce the Keynote Speakers and the Schedule for the 2025 #SteepestDescentMeeting !!!🌍🏞

We are going to have exciting talks from
@aaronbufe.bsky.social, from LMU Munich, and Kimberly Huppert, from City College of New York (CCNY)!🤩 (1/2)

Landscape Hydrology tenure track position at ZALF @zalf.bsky.social jobs.zalf.de/jobposting/3...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Tectono-Geomorphic Processes and Mountain Biodiversity

Exciting interdisciplinary postdoc opportunity, combining landscape evolution, and the evolution of species. You might also end up collaborating with me, on constraining mountain building in the Northern Andes.
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

For geomorphologists going to EGU - registration is now open for Steepest Descent! This is an awesome 1/2 day meeting on the Sunday before EGU. Completely ECS community organized thanks to Jesse, Caroline, Rocio, Amanda, Jonah, Reha, and Emma!
www.steepestdescentmeeting.org/home

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

I've never seen these icy sidewalks anywhere other than Berlin /Potsdam. Have also been wondering what's going on...