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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

5 years monitoring this wonderful #beaver release site in #Yorkshire! Pulling together a wide range of evidence, we saw changes in hydrology (reduced peaks/baseflow increase), reduction in turbidity, and increased vertebrate species richness and aquatic plant diversity 🦫👍https://tinyurl.com/bdd9k2ke

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Joseph Holden @prof-joseph-holden.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

First paper now out from Rossana Escanilla-Minchel's PhD - showing land cover change impacts on riverflow in central Chile during different ENSO phases. Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @geomorphmark.bsky.social @water.leeds.ac.uk environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/pg...

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Land Cover Change Drives River Flow Modifications in Central Chile

This study examines the combined effects of land cover change and ENSO on streamflow dynamics in four coastal catchments of central Chile, using a 45-year (1979–2023) dataset of remote sensing and hy...

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Lecturing tip #312. Increase student attention and engagement in the field by having a herd of cows stare at them throughout. Some adaptations needed to the Roger Stevens building perhaps…

A cow stares at a group of assembled students being talked to by a farmer

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Applications open for a 3-year Post Doc position in Leeds (UK) on the #UKRI funded Still Waters project. We are looking for #hydrology #geomorphology modelling skills to embed surface hydrology into #malaria models with fieldwork in Zambia. Pls contact me for more details: tinyurl.com/3356rt44

The Zambezi river flows under a road bridge

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hi all! Just a reminder that the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social BSG Annual Conference abstract deadline is tomorrow. The conference, celebrating 50 years of #ESP&L, is 16-18 Sept right in the very centre of Leeds… 1 minute from the railway station… and a conference dinner hosted in Leeds Armouries.

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If your name’s not down… you’re not coming in. It’s great having #bees in our garden. Two ‘bouncers’ here guarding their entrance and bee-handling this unfortunate bee right across the garden. Perhaps ‘guard bees’ and ‘robber bees’ in action?

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Well done @connieharpur.bsky.social on producing a wonderful poster at #EGU25. You smashed it and drew a crowd throughout your poster session. Maybe some new collaborations there too! Woop Woop!

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

On this years’ Portugal trip, while wandering over the student field sites we found some naked men. Thankfully, the Naked Man orchid (also generously known as the Italian man orchid). Good spot @kofitim.bsky.social - you have a good eye for these things! Nice hat too

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Zambia has experienced bad recent droughts: our new paper @mrozelizabeth.bsky.social shows future climate will change annual Barotse flooding. Reds = decreasing flood duration and, well, there are no blues. Impacts already seen with Kuomboka ceremony shifting later/cancelled tinyurl.com/yc5u48ej

Flood duration changes on the Barotwse floodplain. REds = decreasing duration. There are no blue areas of increasing duration

Graph showing Kuomboka dates are gradually shifting later in the year

An image of the Kuomboka ceremony. By Samuraijack, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=819689

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Another gorgeous field day surveying the Yorkshire #beavers. Laser scans, UAV surveys, a bit of dGPS where trees allowed and some iPad LiDAR surveys too. That's the 7th annual survey complete. Loads of activity... and look! I think I stumbled on a beaver workshop?

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Lovely to see a release of beavers into the wild in England… especially today on my annual beaver survey day of the #Yorkshire Beavers. Amazing changes here over 6 years… maybe next year the change will be that the fences have gone!

A beaver dam and terrestrial laser scanner

A UAV on the landing pad by a beaver lake

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Connie Harpur @connieharpur.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Time-lapse trail cameras… not just for wildlife! 📸 Chuffed to share this Tools of the Trade article in @natrevearthenv.bsky.social, highlighting how we can capture glacier calving to better understand rates and drivers of ice loss. 📖 rdcu.be/eaj20 @envleeds.bsky.social @yes-dtn.bsky.social

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Well done @danielcolson.bsky.social You deserved it. Enjoy the caterpillar cake: suitable for every occasion 🐛🍰

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Lovely to be part of group meetings in Lusaka for the CIHR healthcare access project. We planned local/national dissemination, pulling together key messages across this wonderfully friendly, diverse and international team. Ranging from flood modelling to focus groups to tackle this complex challenge

A group photo of the Access project team

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Back in Zambia for a set of final project dissemination meetings in Lusaka. But a chance to stop by a #fluvial #geomorphology global highlight! The mighty Mosi oa Tunya/Victoria falls gearing up for what we hope is a good wet season this year 🤞🤞🇿🇲🇿🇲

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Rebecca Hodge @rebeccahodge100.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Great couple of days thinking about roughness and geomorphology. Thanks everyone for being so enthusiastic, @geogdurham.bsky.social for funding and @houseago.bsky.social for organising.

People sitting in a classroom. There are lots of post-its on the whiteboard.

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

What does 50 years’ worth of geomorphological knowledge look like? A full compilation of @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social the ESP&L print run saved from recycling… ahead of the annual BSG meeting here in Leeds celebrating exactly this milestone. On 16th-18th Sept: pop it in your diaries now!

A person pushing a heavy trolley full of ESP&L issues. I only went out for a coffee.

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Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds @envleeds.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Megan Klaar and Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social joined The Wild podcast from Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. They discussed their research about the melting glacier and its incredible effects on the area's ecosystems. Listen here: www.thewildpod.org/episodes

Two people on a boat, recording footage of the mountains beyond.

Megan Klaar smiling with the podcast producers, standing in a river with trees behind.

Megan Klaar being interviewed on a riverbank, with trees behind. By Mark Smith.

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Scouting field sites for teaching in Tenerife… but no better way to cover lots of ground than a nice long run. This is my official reason for the run at least… 😬🌋🌲🏃‍♂️

Volcano and lava field and a lovely pine tree

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10/01/2025

2024 was also a record for the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere. Water vapour is a powerful greenhouse gas and a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, amplifying the CO₂ induced warming. The increased levels of water in the atmosphere mean that heavy rainfall events become more severe.

Timeseries of atmospheric water vapour content, showing a record 2024

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Great to finally hear the excellent podcast produced by the team that followed us into some remote Alaskan rivers this summer. Highly recommend THE WILD with Chris Morgan - we had an absolute blast with them looking at the changes in Glacier Bay National Park. open.spotify.com/show/6fjDWY0...

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The Wild with Chris Morgan

Podcast · KUOW News and Information · "THE WILD with Chris Morgan" explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and arou...

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Aslak Grinsted @glaciology.net · 12/12/2024

A new gigantic outburst flood from Catalina lake in East Greenland [Catalinadal, Renland, Scoresbysund]. total volume: 3.4 km3 peak discharge: ~7200 m3/s top-10 #GLOF in terms of both numbers. previous outburst 2013 I'm sending out a press release today about it. 🧪❄️ 🥼❄️ 1/x

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#Malaria remains a "formidable challenge" in latest WHO World Malaria Report - cases rise by 11 million in 2023, even increasing as an incidence rate per 1000 population. That's 263 million cases of malaria... www.who.int/teams/global...

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World malaria report 2024

Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across the globe

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Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The first images coming in from Sentinel 1C! With these first examples over Svalbard offering a glimpse of the boon it will be for sea ice monitoring and process understanding www.esa.int/Applications...

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Sentinel-1C captures first radar images

Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar images of Earth – offering a glimpse into its capabilities for environmental monitoring. These ini...

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It was a privilege to spend a two summers visiting Glacier Bay NP in Alaska to survey the in-stream wood and effects on river geomorphology/ecology with Megan Klaar, Sandy Milner and @lawrenceeagle.bsky.social. See Megan's new paper! Free downloads for 50 days! authors.elsevier.com/a/1k6ciErXCM...

A person in a river pool surrounded by a crazy number of salmon

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

When we did this rather silly comparison picture highlighting glacier retreat in Norway over the last 140 years... I don't think any of us expected it to make it into a news story on the NRK website 😂. Such is life! I ❤️the scratchy image they have at the top: www.nrk.no/klima/brefor...

A comparison image showing glacier retreat at an outlet of the Folgefonna ice cap in Norway between 1886 and 2024.

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Well the snow here didn’t last long, but we made the most of it!

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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I made a starter pack of those voices speaking to all things geomorph/glacio/geo/earth sci. Follow them if it's of interest. Will update as the site grows #earthsci #geomorphology #physgeog #science #glaciology go.bsky.app/ME4GNao

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

#Hydrology and #geomorphology can help us better understand environmental suitability for #malaria transmission. I’m excited to give this BSG seminar in two weeks with examples of our research from the last decade. That pic of me itself is at least a decade old 😂

Advert for the BSG seminar series on 2nd December. The talk is called Follow the Water: incorporating hydrology and geomorphology into estimate of malaria environmental suitability

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! Thought I should kickoff with some actual blue sky… work posts can wait for now, unless you want a nice picture of some online marking instead.

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