Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
The 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 MoreThe field trip for bachelor students in environment took place at Les Diablerets mountain village in the Swiss Alps during the first week of May. The nearby Pont Bourquin landslide …
Bachelor Fieldtrip 2018 at Pont Bourquin Read MoreThe Journées de la Géologie Tunisienne was organized by the office national des mines in Hammamet from 23 to 25 March. This year, this conference was dedicated to the mapping …
Tunisian Geological Days on mapping georisks Read MoreBeginning of March was a great opportunity for Marc-Henri Derron to visit sites and colleagues in Taiwan for the first time. Invited by Prof. C.W. Lin (National Cheng Kun Univ. …
Field trip and visit in Taiwan Read MoreTeresa Gracchi will stay for 6 months in the group RISK at UNIL. Teresa is a joint-PhD student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of …
Scientific stay of Teresa Gracchi in the group RISK Read MoreThe 4th Slope Tectonics Conference was held from 14 to 18 October 2017 in Japan. It started with two days of presentations at the University of Kyoto and was followed …
4th Slope Tectonics Conference – Kyoto Oct. 2017 Read MoreBeginning of June 2017, the field-camp in risk and slope processes for master students took place in the valley of Ubaye, at Barcelonnette (France). During almost two weeks, the students …
Fieldcamp in Barcelonnette 2017 Read MoreA couple of people arrived recently in the group. Cecile d’Almeida, from the University of Grenoble, will spend 5 months with us to do her master thesis on rockfall analysis …
New comers in the RISK group Read More