Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
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 …
Second field work in Bolivia – SNIS Project Read MoreThe 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 …
Napoleome project Read MoreGood news! The number of citations that we are receiving concerning Natural Hazards related journals is considerably increasing… For the past five years we have had the 2nd most cited …
On the impact of our research in Natural Hazards journals Read MoreUne trentaine de personnes ont participé au cours qui a eu lieu du 16 au 20 Juin 2014 à Bernin (Grenoble) dans les cadre de l’Université européenne d’été sur les risques …
Université européenne d’été sur les risques naturels Read MoreEarly 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 More