Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Tiggi Choanji has started a PhD project in the group RISK of the Institute of Earth Science (ISTE), University of Lausanne, under the supervision of Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff. Tiggi holds …
New PhD student in the group RISK Read MoreOn 11 August 2019, a debris flows stroke the village of Chamoson, in Wallis (Switzerland). One car with two passengers was washed away and disappeared in the debris flows. On …
Field visit at Chamoson for debris flows Read MoreOnce again the field course for master students in risk took place in the beautiful valley of Ubaye this year. During 11 days (end of May – beginning of June …
Barcelonnette fieldtrip 2019 for Msc students Read MoreThe usual fieldtrip for bachelor students in risk took place in Les Diablerets . About twenty students took part to this course on 1-3 May 2019. The Pont Bourquin landslide …
Bachelor fieldtrip in Les Diablerets Read MoreRyan Kromer is PhD graduate of Queen’s University and a post doctoral researcher at the Colorado School of Mines. He was a visiting PhD student at the University of Lausanne …
Ryan Kromer – visiting scientist in the RISK group Read More
Active mountain fronts are subject to large scale slope collapses which have the capacity to run long distances on piedmont areas. Over time, fluvial activity and other gravitatory processes can …
José Pullarello: First characterization of the “Rumi-Pana” rock avalanche deposits (Famatina Range, La Rioja, Argentina) Read MoreIn collaboration with the Fondazione Montagna Sicura, Michel Jaboyedoff, Antoine Guerin and Li Fei went to Entrèves (Aosta Valley, Italy) on 23 October 2018 to investigate the 1997 Brenva rockslide …
Inspection of the Brenva spur (Mt Blanc, Italy) Read MoreThe 3rd Virtual Geosciences Conference took place in Kingston (Ontario) on 22-24 August 2018. This conference is at the intersection of geomatics, visualization, computer vision, graphics and gaming, as well as virtual …
3rd Virtual Geosciences Conference Read MoreOn contrary to hazards which have defined return time for establishing natural hazard maps (for example rock falls or floods), there is no similar methodology for shallow and spontaneous landslides. …
Inventory of shallow and spontaneous landslides and improvement of the methodology to establish hazard and risk maps for the Canton of Vaud Read More
First, the potential sources of rockfalls are detected. These locations are determined using the slope histogram method. Then, one passes to the analysis and classification of the discontinuities present in …
Aron Somazzi: Rockfall hazard and risk analysis in the Pichoux Gorges (Jura, Switzerland) Read MoreWith Hans-Ruedi Pfeifer (Hon. Prof. at the University of Lausanne), I had the pleasure to publish a paper in the Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles on the chemical …
Hydrogeochemical characterization of alpine spring waters Read MoreThe field trip on gravitational slope movements for master students took place for the fifth year at Barcelonnette (French Southern Alps) at the beginning of June. During two weeks, the …
Barcelonnette field trip 2018 Read More