Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Superficial alteration of rocks caused by thermal stresses is often overlooked to the benefit of other mechanism such as frost shattering, rain or earthquakes. However its effect can be significant …
Vincent Regard: Synthesis and Exploration of Rock’s Alterations due to Thermal Stress Under the Read More
The aim of this thesis is to understand the behaviour of rock with regard to heat transfers between the rock face and its environment but also within the rock …
Léna Maillard: Les comportements d’une paroi rocheuse face aux changements thermiques journaliers Read MorePaper published in french with an extended abstract in english reproduced below. Reference: Sahli V. & Derron M.-H. 2019, Hydrogéochimie des eaux minérales suisses en bouteille. Bulletin de la Société …
Geochemistry of Swiss bottled waters Read MoreMy firstname is Nasrin and I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and study in niche, habitat suitability, and distribution modeling, mainly at the level of …
A new PhD student joining the group, Nasrin Amini Tehrani Read MoreChunwei Sun will stay for 2 years in the Risk Group at UNIL. Chunwei is a joint-PhD student of the Department of Geological Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, …
Chunwei Sun : Processes under water-rock chemical interaction Read MoreTiggi 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 More