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Announcing “Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate”, a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to be launched 12 January, 2015

November 28, 2014December 6, 2023

This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) covers a broad range of topics from disaster management, climate change, ecosystem management and community resilience. How these issues are linked and how well-managed ecosystems …

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New weather stations and LIDAR scans in Nepal

November 28, 2014December 6, 2023

A team from UNIL Risk Analysis Group recently conducted a field study trip in the Pokhara area of Western Nepal, where UNIL (in collaboration with IUCN) is establishing three bio-engineering …

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Mudslide crashed into a small building in the Swiss Alps

November 28, 2014December 6, 2023

A three-storey appartment building was destroyed by a landslide on November 16th 2014 in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. Two women were killed. At 2:30 pm, a wall -weakened by the heavy …

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Landslide destroy a house in Swiss Alps

November 28, 2014December 6, 2023

A two-storey house located in a large wooded area was destroyed by a landslide on November 5th 2014 in the canton of Ticino. The two occupants, a mother and her …

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Train derailed due to a landslide in Swiss Alps

November 6, 2014December 6, 2023

A train of the Rhaetian Railway derailed into a ravine after hitting a landslide felt on the track on August 13th 2014. Eleven persons were injured, five of them seriously. …

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3rd Slope Tectonics Conference

October 3, 2014December 6, 2023

During the first fortnight of September, the 3rd Slope Tectonic Conference took place at the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU). The conference, focused on the study of slope deformation processes and …

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Media: Geneva Lake victim of a tsunami?

September 30, 2014December 6, 2023

Martin Franz (PhD student in our group) explains in the La Côte newspaper his researches about tsunami in lakes. Please find the article in the “Media” section.

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XII International IAEG Congress, Torino

September 30, 2014December 6, 2023

The 12th international congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology (IAEG) took place in Torino (Italy) from 15 to 19 September 2014. Several members of the risk group attended …

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FOSS4G 2014 PORTLAND, OREGON, USA 8TH – 13TH SEPTEMBER, 2014

September 30, 2014December 6, 2023

FOSS4G 2014 FOSS4G conference is the largest gathering for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial techologies. It is hosted by OSGeo since 2006 and has been held all over …

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CHANGES-SDSS meeting in Lausanne on 18-22 August 2014

September 10, 2014December 6, 2023

One of the monthly meeting within the CHANGES project for development of a Spatial Decision Support system (SDSS) The purpose of these meetings is to present the current results of …

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Second field work in Bolivia – SNIS Project

September 10, 2014December 6, 2023

In the context of our project SNIS named “Sustainable Land Management in Mountain Regions of Bolivia and Nepal in the Context of Outmigration, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction” (in …

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Napoleome project

August 1, 2014December 6, 2023

The Napoleome project of the University of Lausanne is a participatory scientific project about genomics. Public conferences and workshops are organized to popularize the research and issues in genetics. Practically, the …