Risk Group at the 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Davos, Switzerland

   

The 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, organized by the WSL-Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF and the Platform Geosciences of the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT, was held on 17th and 18th of November 2017 in Davos (Switzerland).

16 different sessions were planned during this meeting and the Risk Group members contributed to several presentations mainly in the “Progress in assessment of hazards and risks in mountain regions” session. Presentations are below:

5 Talks:

Aye Z.C., Artigue V., Jaboyedoff M., Derron M., Gerber C., Lévy S. An open-source webGIS platform for risk management of natural hazards in Canton Vaud

Derron M.-H., Rouyet L., Guerin A., Lefeuvre C., Jaboyedoff M. Imaging of non-gravitationnal movements in rock faces

Franz M., Rudaz B., Jaboyedoff M., Podladchikov Y. Coupling SLBL with shallow water model to assess landslide-generated tsunami hazard at Oeschinensee

Jaboydedoff M., Artigue V., Aye Z.C., Derron M.-H., Gerber C., Lévy S. From the average velocities of deep seated landslides to intensity-frequency scenarios

Noël F., Wyser E., Jaboyedoff M., Derron M. Real-size rockfall experiment: How different rockfall simulation impact models perform when confronted with reality?

8 Posters:

Meier C., Derron M., Jaboyedoff M., Gerber C., Artigue V. Inventory of shallow landslides in regards to their frequency in the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland

D’almeida C., Guerin A., Jaboyedoff M., Hantz D. Model and cartography of the Saint-Eynard cliff erosion by rockfalls

Wyser E., Jaboyedoff M. Dramatic granular impact(s): a plastic- or friction-dominated transition phase

Noël F., Wyser E., Jaboyedoff M., Derron M. Real-size rockfall experiment: A relatively simple method to acquire 3D impact characteristics from video footage

Nduwayezu E., Jaboyedoff M., Derron M.-H, Nsengiyumva J.-B., Twarabamenye E. Pression démographique et outils analyse d’aléas et risques gravitaires au Rwanda.

Ben Hammouda M., Jaboyedoff M., Derron M.H., Bouaziz B. Rockfall hazard evaluation in a touristic area of northern Tunisia using SFM photogrammetry in a zero data site

Voumard J., Derron M.-H., Jaboyedoff M. Characterization of natural hazard events affecting the Swiss transportation networks from 2012 to 2016

1 poster for the “Hydrology, Limnology and Hydrogeology” session:

Kouame A.A., Jaboyedoff M., Goola Bi Tie A., Derron M., Kouamé Kan J. Assessment of potential pollution of an unconfined aquifer in Abidjan by hydrocarbons

The full proceedings volume of VGC2016 is available at: https://geoscience-meeting.ch/sgm2017/wp-content/uploads/SGM_2017_Abstract_Volume.pdf