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Jana Eichel

@alpinebiogeo.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in #Biogeomorphology @ Utrecht University | Plant traits | Ecosystem engineering | Vegetation succession | Periglacial Processes | Glacier forelands | Hillslopes | Mountains | Ecology | Geomorphology

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Journal of Vegetation & Applied Vegetation Science @jvs-avs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New in Applied Vegetation Science: Schmidtlein et al. introduce Vegapp, a free Android app for vegetation fieldwork, recording layered vegetation, individual inventories, and species lists, with flexible export for databases and analysis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) & interested email CV & transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️ @igs-egg.bsky.social
icebergs in a glacial lake
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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 18/03/2026
🦫Beaver-induced hydrological change turned a Swiss wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year 🧪 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43... @unibirmingham.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social @creaf.cat @manchester.ac.uk
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Beavers can convert stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks - Communications Earth & Environment
Beaver-induced hydrological change turned wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year, according to a comprehensive carbon budget analysis from a beaver wetl...
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Sergey Rosbakh @srosbakh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📢 PhD position in Vegetation Ecology (@ Leibniz University Hannover) Join our team to study long-term coastal vegetation dynamics under sea-level rise, climate & land-use change. Fieldwork, traits, spatial analyses & drones included. Deadline: April 15, 2026
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Working in recently #deglaciated areas or on #glacier retreat? Let us know your key scientific knowledge gaps in our #BeyondIceFutures survey: www.soscisurvey.de/beyond_icefu... Participants can apply to join our follow-up workshop in Autumn 2026 in the Austrian Alps!🏔️❄️ @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
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Kristen Cook @kristencook.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Please nominate! That geoscientist that you think is so awesome has no chance to win an award/medal if they're not nominated! In Geomorphology we have the Outstanding Early Career Scientist award (www.egu.eu/awards-medal...) and the Bagnold Medal (www.egu.eu/awards-medal...).
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Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide.
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Mountain Research Initiative @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🏔️ The BeyondIceFutures project has been awarded MRI Synthesis Funding to bring together interdisciplinary expertise on recently #DeglaciatedLandscapes. The project will identify knowledge gaps & develop visions for positive futures beyond ice. 🔗 bit.ly/beyondicefut... #OurChangingMountains
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Stefan Haselberger @biogeomorph.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🌍 Join us at #EGU26! Our session #Biogeomorphology Across Scales (ITS5.3/GM2), with Magdalena Lauermann, @fbetz.bsky.social, Annegret Larsen & @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social, explores how how biotic–abiotic feedbacks shape #EarthSurfaceDynamics. 🔗 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Big congratulations to Master student Philipp Gewalt for getting his excellent MSc thesis published and thanks to all colleagues who supplied us with high resolution UAV data for plot selection.
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We identified median grain sizes for coarse (> 2 mm) and fine (≤ 2 mm) sediments, sediment chemistry (bulk Fe, Ca) & soil properties (TOC, N concentrations) as most important sediment properties in our study. Have a look below how to efficiently include them into your biogeomorphic research:
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sampling across debris flow, rock glacier, moraine and solifluction slopes in Valais, Switzerland, we found that if biogeomorphic feedbacks can happen depends on both geomorphic activity and sediment properties, with grain size related textural establishment and ecosystem engineering thresholds.
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
On #mountain slopes, we previously found strong feedbacks between #geomorphic processes, #landforms and #plants. But what about #sediments? Do they matter for #biogeomorphic feedbacks? If yes, which sediment properties should we measure and how? Have a look! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Why sediments matter for mountain biogeomorphology
Grain size distributions, sediment and soil chemistry control feedback between plants and geomorphic processes across alpine hillslopes. With our developed workflow, this key sedimentological data ca...
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Dario Martin-Benito @dendroecologist.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by @cmosig.bsky.social
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📢 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 · 11/07/2025
.. 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 · 11/07/2025
#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 · 09/07/2025
Traffic jam on the way to work today.. #fieldwork #GoOrGrow
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#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!🏔️🏞️🌊🌱🪴🦫🍄‍🟫🪸🦞
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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 · 13/05/2025
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...
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Redirecting
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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🌿 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...
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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.
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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Please help save our department, sign the petition! 💪 www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
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Red Aardwetenschappen aan de VU!
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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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Highlighting Jana Eichel, GM Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee 2025
Recently, EGU announced the 2025 medals and awards to be presented at the General Assembly in April, and the winner of the Geomorphology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is Dr. Jana E...
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Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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
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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...
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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!
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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 · 10/12/2024
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
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thanks Martin!
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thanks Florian! :)
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Welcome to Bluesky @leonduurkoop.bsky.social! In his PhD research, Leon is investigating feedbacks between #mountain #greening and #hydrology in the beautiful Meretschi catchment in the Swiss Alps. #traits #ecohydrology
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hi Martin, great, would be happy to be included :)
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thanks Ingolf! :)
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thanks Stefan! :)
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thanks Alastair! :)
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Jamie Shulmeister @jamie-shulmeister.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Reminding everyone that the International Geomorphological Congress is in Christchurch in February 2026. Plan to join us in a geomorphological wonderland. More than 80 sessions and 12 workshops have been offered. www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/
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IAG International Conference on Geomorphology - 2026 IAG International Conference on Geomorphology
We look forward to welcoming you to Christchurch New Zealand for the IAG International Conference on Geomorphology in 2026. Aotearoa New Zealand offers world-class geomorphology with some of the world...
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Thanks Kerry! :)
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It's been an exciting, but sometimes also exhausting scientific journey across mountain slopes and disciplinary boundaries. This required a big team effort, so special thanks to all students, colleagues, co-authors & two very young biogeomorphologists joining & supporting me!
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Happy and honoured to receive the @eurogeosciences.bsky.social 2025 #Geomorphology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for my work on #mountain #biogeomorphology :) #EGU25 www.egu.eu/news/1170/eg...
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EGU announces the 2025 awards and medals!
The European Geosciences Union is honouring 49 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.
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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
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 · 05/04/2024
First month back from maternity leave: Cleaning and weeding my “alpine” #soil #erosion experiment at Utrecht botanic gardens and finally analyzing its data from 2023. First results: #alpine plant species’ #traits matter for soil erosion! #biogeomorphology #GoOrGrow
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