News/Updates

Last updated 07/2024

07/2024: Fieldwork in the Teno Valley, Maule Region, Chile

Brilliant all-female team collected new field data and CRN samples for some exciting new projects! Watch this space!

06/2024: Sediment Cascades and Climate Change 2024!

A BSG network grant supported the first "Sediment Cascades and Climate Change" workshop in Los Queñes, Maule Region, Chile. This bilingual, interactive 4-day workshop aimed to establish new collaborations and research focused on enhancing our knowledge around geomorphic hazards and climate change. The 27 attending researchers came from South and North America and Europe, spanning the disciplines of geomorphology, hydrology, climatology, and geology, all with a shared interest in the workshop themes. The workshop featured invited talks, group discussions, team-building activities, a field excursion up the Rio Teno, and a "Meet the Local Community" event in Los Queñes. Many thanks to Rebekah Harries, German Aguilar, Paulina Vergara for helping to organise the workshop! More info: https://sedimentcascades.webspace.durham.ac.uk/

05/2024: Pre-print of our new paper in Earth Surface Dynamics is available!

Orr, E., Schildgen, T., Tofelde, S., Wittmann, H., and Alonso, R.: Landscape response to tectonic deformation and cyclic climate change since ca. 800 ka in the southern Central Andes, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-784 , 2024.

05/2024: Ooopps…haven’t updated in a while.

Will try and be better! Some updates about activity between 2022 and 2024 can be found on X.

07/2022: New position at Durham University

Really excited to be moving to Durham in September to take up a lectureship in the Department of Geography! Can’t wait to get started!

06/2022: Fieldwork in Cairngorms, Scotland

A fantastic 2 week field trip in the sunny Cairngorms with Michelle Fame, Lewis Owen, Isaac Larsen, Grace Turner, and Doug Benn. Great progress made! Looking forward to seeing the projects shape up over the next couple of years!

05/2022: AGU 2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing Award

Chuffed to have been recommended by the JGR-Earth Surface Editors for the 2021 award. Reviewing great research for JGR is always a pleasure!

03/2022: Joined EGU’s Landscapes Live Committee

Really pleased to announce that I will be joining the committee this spring! Looking forward to helping organize the online seminar series! Get in touch if you are an early career geoscientist who would like to talk about a recent project.

01/2022: New paper led by Taylor Schildgen in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The paper entitled ‘Quantifying drainage-divide migration from orographic rainfall over geologic timescales: Sierra de Aconquija, southern Central Andes’ can be found here.

09/2021: Congratulations to all my MSc dissertation students for handing in their dissertations!

I had the pleasure of supervising students across the MSc Climate Change Science and Policy, as well as MSc Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Bristol. Some really interesting projects covering themes from Scottish peatlands, bioenergy, to Arctic permafrost. Good luck to everyone with your next steps!

04/2021: Virtual EGU General Assembly!

Looking forward to the next two weeks of EGU. Check out my presentation and supporting materials here! Excited to learn about the research that the community has got up to over the last year.

03/2021: New paper in JGR Earth Surface

New paper entitled ‘Rockwall erosion in the northwest Himalaya’ is now available! Thank you to all my co-authors for their hard work! Find the paper here.

01/2021: Lectureship in Physical Geography

I am really excited to be joining the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. I can’t wait to get started!

12/2020: APECS Polar Times podcast

I was interviewed by Jack Buckingham for the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) new podcast called PolarTimes. We chatted about my research in the Third Pole (a.k.a. the Himalaya), the rapid response of mountains to modern climate change, the importance of field safety and how yaks should not be used as travel companions! Also, PolarTimes has some other great episodes about polar science which I would definitely recommend! Check it out on Spotify!

11/2020: AGU EPSP Twitter Takeover

This week I will be tweeting about my research of earth surface processes in mountainous terrain. FInd more information @AGU_EPSP. Also check out my EPSP Early Career Spotlight interview!

11/2020: The new website has been launched!

All design and implementation was by Charles Heckman. Thank you for this sleek new look!

04/2020: New paper on fan surface abandonment in the commemorative GSA Special Paper for Stephen C. Porter. 

Orr, E. N., Owen, L.A., Saha, S., Caffee, M. 2020. Climate-driven late Quaternary fan surface abandonment in the NW Himalaya. ‘Untangling the Quaternary Period: A Legacy of Stephen C. Porter’. GSA Special Paper, edit. Waitt, R., Thackray, G., Gillespie, A. Find the paper here.

01/2020: New methods paper out

Saha, S., Owen, L.A., Orr, E.N. and Caffee, M.W., 2020. A statistical and numerical modeling approach for spatiotemporal reconstruction of glaciations in the Central Asian mountains. MethodsX, 100820. Find the paper here.

11/2019: New paper on rockwall slope erosion in the NW Himalaya. Check it out!

Orr, E.N., Owen, L.A., Saha, S. and Caffee, M.W., 2019. Rates of rockwall slope erosion in the upper Bhagirathi catchment, Garhwal Himalaya. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Find the paper here.

10/2019: Elected Council Chair of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists. Looking forward to the 2019/2020 term!

09/2019: New paper on Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Himalaya and Tibet . Well done Sourav Saha!

Saha, S., Owen, L.A., Orr, E.N., Caffee, M.W., 2019. High-frequency Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Himalaya and Tibet. Quaternary Science Reviews. 220, 372-400. 

08/2019: Successful field campaign to the Toro Basin, NW Argentina.

Great scientific discussions and company. Thanks are extended to Steffi Tofelde, Taylor Schildgen, Peter van der Beek and Yanina Rojo! Excited to begin processing samples for new project testing for orbitally-driven climate forcing in the Toro fan record.

06/2019: Started postdoctoral scholar position with the IRTG-StRATEGy group at the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam and the Institute for Geosciences, University of Potsdam. Very excited to start work in Argentina this summer!

04/2019: Successful defense of my PhD work on 'Deciphering the tectonic and climatic controls on erosion and sediment transfer in the NW Himalaya'. Thank you to everyone involved!

03/2019: New paper accepted in ‘Ice-Age glaciers, water, and wind — Interdisciplinary Quaternary science round the world.’ GSA Special Paper in honor of Stephen C. Porter.

Orr, E.N., Owen, L. A., (in press). Climate-driven late Quaternary fan surface abandonment in the NW Himalaya. ‘Ice-Age glaciers, water, and wind — Interdisciplinary Quaternary science round the world.’ GSA Special Paper in honor of Stephen C. Porter, edit. Waitt, R., Thackray, G., Gillespie, A.

01/2019: Release of the State of Environmental Science for Svalbard (SESS) 2018 report. 

Orr, E. N., Hansen, G., Lappalainen, H., Hübner, C., Lihavainen, H., (eds) 2019. ‘State of Environmental Science for Svalbard’, SESS report 2018, Longyearbyen, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System.