Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Well, the probability of such a landslide is difficult to estimate, given that it's probability in time and space. But such events are not uncommon. It needs to be sufficiently large (here, a max. landslide depth of 150 m) to displace water that finally overtops. 110
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Ok, next level. Simulating a landslide hitting a proglacial lake, producing a #GLOF. Note that the flood is (not yet) able to erode but just spills through two channels. In reality, the displacement wave would probably incise and widen the outflow channels, triggering a more severe flood downstream. 2111
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 30/07/2025GraphFlood is finally available in the MATLAB version of TopoToolbox. Check out my latest blog entry. Simulating steady flow has never been as easy as this. topotoolbox.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/g... #TopoToolbox #Hydrology #Hydraulics #Floodtopotoolbox.wordpress.comGraphFlood in TopoToolboxI have featured GraphFlood before (and here), but now it’s finally time to write about its MATLAB implementation. We had a very productive mini-hackathon today and one of the results is a bin… 020
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Sedimentary Systems Group - FU Berlin @sedsystems.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Just out in Science Advances with @topotoolbox.bsky.social: Submarine canyons preferentially form where the seafloor is steepest—not where rivers bring much sediment. Our global study reveals what controls canyon distribution and the world’s oceans. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgSeafloor slopes control submarine canyon distribution: A global analysisSubmarine canyon distribution is driven by slope inclination, linking tectonic and thermal forces to canyon formation. 3158
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025🌊 Tiefsee-Canyons: riesig, verborgen – und klimarelevant. Eine neue Studie von @sedsystems.bsky.social und @topotoolbox.bsky.social zeigt: Entscheidend für deren Entstehung ist nicht die Nähe zu Flüssen, sondern wie steil der der Meeresboden ist. #ScienceAdvances ➡️ Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/a3kekm2m 021
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Here's my first blog entry on using #TopoToolbox with #Python. See how to run Boris Gailleton's GraphFlood and display water depth along with a longitudinal river profile. topotoolbox.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...topotoolbox.wordpress.comPython TopoToolbox and GraphFloodMany have probably waited for this. And here we go. Let’s try out TopoToolbox’ Python version. Our aim will be to calculate flow depth along the Big Tujunga river and display the result… 162
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Austria without mountain glaciers. We can do better! ❄️ #scicomm #climate #science 🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️ #geosky #ClimateHealth #ClimateAction tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...tc.copernicus.orgRecent observations and glacier modeling point towards near-complete glacier loss in western Austria (Ötztal and Stubai mountain range) if 1.5 °C is not metAbstract. Most glaciers in Austria are expected to disappear in the coming decades. The general trend to deglaciation is apparent from observations of past glacier change as well as projections of fut... 182
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Finally some sedimentation in TTLEM #TopoToolbox 050
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 09/04/2025TopoToolbox 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 #geomorphologytopotoolbox.wordpress.comConverting stream networks to shapefiles in TT3What’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… 061
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart emmalodes.bsky.social @emmalodes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Heard of TopoToolbox? Now is your chance to contribute to the development of this useful toolset, now w/ python & R implementations! Check out the @egu.eu GM blog post blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm... by @topotoolbox.bsky.social on a recent hackathon and new #github organization github.com/TopoToolbox/blogs.egu.eu 042
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Too bad you couldn't make it this time. But let's see. There will be a second time! 000
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Last week, we had a #TopoToolbox Hachathon in Berlin. Read more about it here blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...blogs.egu.euThe community development of TopoToolbox starts nowPlease 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... 151
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Christoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Angesichts der aktuellen Ergebnisse der Merz-Union & SPD zur Klimapolitik, hier noch einmal die Worte von Prof. Latif: "Ich kann Politikerinnen und Politikern nichts mehr beibringen. Die wissen alles. Da gibt es keinen Beratungsbedarf mehr. Sie handeln wider besseren Wissens". 271489623
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025On #WorldGlacierDay, our paper in @science.org about the Sikkim glacial lake disaster has been published in its final form: 🧪⚒️❄️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe Sikkim flood of October 2023: Drivers, causes, and impacts of a multihazard cascadeOn 3 October 2023, a multihazard cascade in the Sikkim Himalaya, India, was triggered by 14.7 million cubic meters of frozen lateral moraine collapsing into South Lhonak Lake. The impact generated an ... 58220
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 25/03/2025#TopoToolbox has a scale bar that you can add to some axes. Now, the scale bar also works with axes that represent geographical coordinates. Nice to see how the length of the scale bar changes once you pan northward. 050
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart geomorphyuggs.bsky.social @geomorphyuggs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Our paper on how landscape evolution impacts the trajectory of life is out in @science.org! Work by two great post-docs in @iuearth.bsky.social and collaboration with the brilliant Tara Smiley of Stony Brook resulted in this. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgDirect effects of mountain uplift and topography on biodiversityBiodiversity hotspots in Earth’s mountain ranges suggest a strong connection between topographic development and biological processes. However, it remains unclear whether high biodiversity in mountain... 04210
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Maja Göpel @beyond-ideology.bsky.social · 21/03/2025“DeSmog can also reveal that the Heritage Foundation has been holding private meetings with European politicians in recent months, as the group attempts to forge new alliances on the continent.” In Deutschland war die Foundation vor kurzem wieder bei der CDU (s.u.) www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/h...desmog.comHeritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EUThe group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investiga... 16475225
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 20/03/2025@tagesspiegel.de schreibt heute besonders mutig 🙃. 000
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 18/03/2025First of two days #TT3hackathon and it’s going just great! #topotoolbox 020
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Well, I guess 10-20% of what‘s possible. 110
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 15/03/2025 I played a beast tonight. You may like it, @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social 210
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Our 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.socialeos.orgTopography and the Terrestrial Water Cycle - EosThe 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... 0173
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 10/03/2025X is down, and TSLA lost 10% only today. What a great day. 050
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart The Steepest Descent Meeting @steepestdescent.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Exciting 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) 188
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 05/03/2025We are delighted to share that Dr. Ann Rowan has taken over as the Editor-in-Chief of JGR: Earth Surface. 🎉 In @eos.org , learn about her research interests and vision for the journal in the coming years: buff.ly/y3pZX8c #AGUPubs #STEM #geomorphology #EarthScience @jgrearthsurface.bsky.socialbuff.lyIntroducing the New EIC of JGR: Earth Surface - EosLearn about the person taking the helm of JGR: Earth Surface and their vision for the coming years. 1357
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025NOTHING can destroy a Cyber Truck….😎😏 #WorldBollardAssociation 813053513
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Landscape Hydrology tenure track position at ZALF @zalf.bsky.social jobs.zalf.de/jobposting/3...jobs.zalf.deTenure Track Scientist (m/f/d) on “Landscape Hydrology”This Classic Tenure Track Call invites applications of scientists integrating hydrological research from the plot to the landscape scale considering system effects. The position explicitly addresses t... 013
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Europe’s Tesla sales drastically decrease electrek.co/2025/03/03/t... … and so does the stock price. 000
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Great to have you here, @eurogeosciences.bsky.social! 010
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 03/03/2025Hello Bluesky! EGU is pleased to be able to activate our account here, and share all the exciting news about the upcoming General Assembly: #EGU25, our #OpenAccess publications and more! Several of our Divisions will be making the move over from Twitter/X too, so keep an eye out for your favourites! 19389101
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The title photo perfectly emphasizes the importance of the message 🙃 110
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Richard Ott @georichard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Exciting 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...jobs.ethz.chPostdoctoral Researcher in Tectono-Geomorphic Processes and Mountain Biodiversity 032
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025You can still apply ! 28730
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025You can still apply 🌊! 15827
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025This is the kinda shit that happens when you ignore science and scientists. Just go ask people whose homes burned in wildfires, were swept away by floods, or are inundated by rising sea level. In red states and blue. Hear no climate harm, see no climate harm, do lots of climate harm. 🧪 #scicomms 1135
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Check out #ttminvoellmy, a #MATLAB and #TopoToolbox software to simulate rock avalances ⛰️. You can download the toolbox here: github.com/TopoToolbox/... . Reply with videos of your simulations here 🔽 0213
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Landscapes Live Seminar series @landscapeslive.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Hello Bluesky! 🦋🏞️ We are organizing weekly seminars for scientists to present their research in and around geomorphology. Affiliated with @eurogeosciences.bsky.social GM More information on our website: www.landscapeslive.orglandscapeslive.orgLandscapes LiveLandscapes Live is a weekly online seminar series freely accessible to the international scientific community interested in various aspects of geomorphology. Our talks take place on Zoom every Thursda... 1146
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Monica Gonzalez-Marquez @aeryn-thrace.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2025Public notice: If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-). 123167
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Gestern Abend sollte ich auf einem Podium kurz die wichtigsten Folgen der Klimawandels zusammenfassen. Ich war nicht ganz zufrieden mit meiner Antwort. Nicht prägnant genug, manches vergessen... Heute habe ich ChatGPT gefragt - und war überrascht, wie kompetent die Antwort war! Probiert es selbst. 1123453
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Tomorrow's the last day of my one-week #BSc level #TopoToolbox course. At the end, students will be able to calculate stream networks, analyze them, and combine geospatial modelling and visualization techniques. This course has a steep learning curve, but is also great fun. 040
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Dr. Felix Henselowsky @henselowsky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025In Anbetracht aktueller internationaler und nationaler Entwicklungen haben wir vom #VGDH eine Stellungnahme aus Sorge um #Wissenschaftsfreiheit und #Diversität verfasst. Nicht nur, aber auch ein Thema was die #Geographie betrifft vgdh.de/aktuelles/20... 095
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I argue here we need to follow the science not the whims of politicians. Greenland's value is its ice. Free to republish. Pass it on. Spread the word. We need to bring science and rational thought back into the national dialogue . @us.theconversation.com 💙📚🧪 theconversation.com/greenlands-r...theconversation.comGreenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extractMelting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living and working in Greenland. 311152
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Slashing of Federal science support - so awful for people who have worked so hard to support America's science enterprise for at the National Science Foundation. This is hardly the way to innovate and solve pressing problems like climate change and biodiversity. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgTrump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaosFollow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally 012
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 18/02/2025It would be funny if it weren't so sad. 010
Reposted by Wolfgang Schwanghart Reviews of Geophysics @reviewsgeophysics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025In a new review paper, the authors combine literature review and data synthesis to explore the influence of topography on the global terrestrial water cycle, from the atmosphere down to the groundwater @topotoolbox.bsky.social @egu-esurf.bsky.social @agu.org #AGUPubs doi.org/10.1029/2023... 061
Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 18/02/2025That's super important, and inspiring. There are many things we can and should do, and reaching out to the public is one of them. What happens in the US is deeply worrying. And it's happening, still to different degrees, here in Europe, too. We, as scientists, need to respond. 100