We are excited to be organising the tenth Gravel Bed Rivers conference, in Scotland in September 2026. To help us with planning and to register your interest, please complete the following form: forms.office.com/e/BBgrB2mg91 We hope to see you there! Please RT.

I smile every time I walk past one of the (many) monitors around #EGU2024 and see Dom’s (Dominique Townsend) face! Congrats again on last years’ award!

Great to see so many people attend the EGU #EGU2024 GeoCinema screening of our Lost Lands documentary, a film by Andy Ball. A reminder that you can watch it here: shifting-sands.org/lost-lands-doc…

For those at #EGU24 interested in sediment and geomorphology, come listen to me talk and discuss my research at Pico Spot 3 in session GI2.6 from 10:45 on global adcp calibrations for variability in SSC measurements 🌍🏞️

Which follows Prof. Julian Leyland presenting an awesome film reporting on our sand mining resesrch in the #mekong delta
🎥 youtu.be/Y7WJTlZdxV4?si…

Important points here from ⁦Steve Brace⁩. Geography students are losing access to nature as fieldwork falls - The Guardian apple.news/A98HAFVzDR6yZt…

Almost done with #PhD and looking for the next opportunity?
Research Fellow position open at the University of Southampton,on Drivers of Global Water and Sediment Dynamics! Check out - jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…. Contact Prof. Julian Leyland for more info.

🚨JOB ALERT! Come and join our team researching the drivers of global sediment yield from rivers using Bayesian/ML techniques. 18 month PDRA position. Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…. Please do get in touch with me to discuss further.

📢 Congrats to Dominique Townsend on publishing the first part of her PhD work linking nearshore morphology and depth of closure. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.geom… (with Hachem Kassem Charlie Thompson and Ian Townend)

Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom, but at what cost to the environment?
Prof. Julian Leyland from Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton features in this BBC Sounds documentary, that also aired on BBC World Service.
Listen below 🔊bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

'UK universities are one of this country’s greatest assets - a global sector that’s truly worth celebrating.... but things need to change... No other multi-billion-pound sector is treated with such disdain.'

Well said Prof Nick Jennings 👊👏👏💜
lboro.ac.uk/services/vco/s…

Application deadline for Flood-CDT #PhD projects has been extended to 8th April!

So still plenty of time to reach out to potential supervisors and get your application in

Here's a project with me on the links between #flooding and geomorphic processes: lboro.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

👏 amazing. Mary has inspired so many Geographers, including me as a young UG!

Dr Mary Edwards is a Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Southampton (University of Southampton) and QRA James Croll Medal recipient.

#IWDGeographers

Feel very privileged to work with so many of the awesome geographers on this list! Check it out…

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The results for the UK Hydrology Skills and Satisfaction Survey 2023 are now published on the Flood Hydrology Improvements Programme (FHIP) engagement pages!

286 users of hydrology told us about their skills, backgrounds, and careers. 1/6

…environmentagency.uk.engagementhq.com/w4-skills-surv…

The #FloodCDT website is now live! flood-cdt.ac.uk

Flood-CDT will train the next generation of research practitioners who will make a tangible difference to future flood management in the UK and internationally.

PhD projects advertised here:
noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/project…

📣New paper published in #areajournal by Prof Katherine Brickell, Sabina Lawreniuk and Lauren McCarthy introducing an upcoming Special Section:

'Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research'.

doi.org/10.1111/area.1…