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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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