Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Hi! We’ve just arrived from an exciting fieldwork campaign in Tempelfjord (8-16 August 2015), Svalbard using our Applanix mobile system. We’ve been interested in monitoring the Tunabreen glacier front during …
Svalbard Mission – August 2015 Read MoreTwo severe storms at one day interval have caused damages due to debris flow in Scuol (GR), lower Engadine, at the end of July . During two days of high precipitations in …
Bad weather in Graubünden, July 2015 Read MoreTwo recent master students A. Vioget and P. Limousin and M. Jaboyedoff participated to JAG 2015 in Caen. The group risk was involved in the 4 following papers: Ambient seismic …
JAG 2915, Journées Aléa Gravitaire 3 September 2015 Read MoreBad weather caused damages and evacuations in Western Switzerland in early May due to floods, debris flow and landlsides. Strong precipitations occurred on Western Switzerland in the beginning of May …
Bad weather in Western Switzerland, May 2015 Read MoreThe collaboration of the Risk-Group ISTE is still ongoing with the Geological survey of Norway (NGU). M. Jaboyedoff stayed there from 25 to 31 January to work with the natural …
Stay at NGU (Norway) for M. Jaboyedoff Read MoreThe group-Risk ISTE (M. Jaboyedoff) is participating to the project ParaChute dedicated to rockfall hazard mapping along a railway line in western Québec. This project is led by Prof. J. …
Participation to the project ParaChute (Rockfall along a railway line in Quebec) Read MoreM. Jaboyedoff participated to the “Second Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Development of a Research Road Map for the Next Decade” which was held at Uji …
GSRIDRR, Kyoto University, 19-20 March 2015 Read MoreThe swiss Intercantonal Reinsurance (VKF/UIR) published a report on a hail event which occurred in Northern Switzerland in 2011. This report has been written in collaboration with our group. The study …
Publication of a report on a hail event Read MoreSimone Alber is a Master student from the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany). She will be working with us during the next three months (May, June, July 2015), some more information of …
MsC student visit: Simone Alber Read MoreRyan Kromer is visiting the group from Queen’s University in Canada. He is a masters student working on monitoring rockslopes along Canada`s vast rail network. Ryan is collaborating with our …
New visit: Ryan Kromer from Queen’s Univ, Canada Read MoreRoxana is a visiting PhD Candidate from the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria and a Marie Curie Fellow working in CHANGES Project (Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks …
PhD student visit: Roxana L. Ciurean Read MoreA joint IUCN – UNEP – University of Lausanne workshop in Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal on the topic of Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction was held April 21-25, 2015. The main …
UNIL-IUCN-UNEP workshop in Nepal concludes minutes before earthquake struck Read More