Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Early July, the Risk Group went out for an entertaining afternoon. The excursion started with the Vallorbe Caves , in the Jura Mountains. Those caves result of limestone erosion by the underground Orbe River. A …
Group excursion in the Jura Read MoreStudents from Geosciences (UNIL) and Geology (UNIL-UNIGE) master programs attended the Slope Instability Field Camp from June 1st to June 7th 2014. On the menu, a close examination of the …
Field camp in Barcelonnette (French Alps) Read MoreThe village of Abi Barik (Badakhshan Province, North East Afghanistan) was destroyed by two consecutives landslides on May 2 2014 (DailyMail). About 1000 houses were affected and 300 of them …
Badakhshan landslides, Afghanistan Read MoreThe area named “Steelhead Haven” was engulfed by a major landslide on March 22, 2014, in Oso, Washington, United States (SeattleTimes). 41 fatalities (Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office) and 2 missed persons were …
Massive landslide in the United States – Oso (Washington State) Read MoreFieldwork Campaign in Tunisia – Structural characterization of oil reservoirs with Terrestrial Laser Scanning and GigaPan technics. As part of her PhD thesis, Raja Mastouri of the Risk Group is working on coupling terrestrial LiDAR and 3D …
Fieldwork in Tunisia Read MoreThe field work training in Les Diablerets related to the Landslide and Flooding modules from the Specialisation certificate for the Assessment and Management of Geological and Climate Related Risk (CERG), …
Landslides and Floods Training – Les Diablerets Read MoreImportant floods occurred in Central and Southeast Europe in middle May 2014, affecting four countries (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Romania) and causing at least 62 fatalities and more than …
Southeast and Central Europe floods Read MoreA new approach for semi-automatic rock mass joints recognition from 3D point clouds Riquelme, A., Abellan, A., Tomás, R., Jaboyedoff, M (2014). A new approach for semi-automatic rock mass joints …
New publication in Computer and Geosciences Read MoreAlmost the entire group Risk participated to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on 28 April to 2 May 2014. This huge meeting brought together over 12’000 …
EGU General Assembly 2014 Read MoreLandslides in deep weathered soils are a major concern for roads and other infrastructures in Nepal. The Risk group has developed a multi-disciplinary research program in the mid-hill areas (West …
Bioengineering for landslide mitigation in Nepal Read MoreOn 7 to 11 April 2014 the group risk of ISTE, University of Lausanne, organized the CHANGES meeting at Les Diablerets. CHANGES is an ITN European project entitled: “Changing Hydro-meteorological …
CHANGES meeting, at Les Diablerets – 7 to 11 April 2014 Read More
The Risk group has been working for a couple of years with the universities of Caen (S. Costa, P. Letortu and O. Maquaire) and Bretagne Occidentale (C. Delacourt) on coastal …
Workshop « lidar et milieux naturels – Caen 10 April 2014 » Read More