Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
0n 14th January 2014, our colleague Dr. Jean-Philippe Malet defended his HDR (habilitation à diriger des recherches) at the University of Strasbourg. It was an honor for M. Jaboyedoff to …
Congratulation to Dr. Jean-Philippe Malet Read MoreOn December 18th December 2013, M.Jaboyedoff participated to the PhD committee of André Stumpf at the University of Strasbourg. The title of the PhD (under the supervision of J.-P. Malet) …
Member of the PhD committee of André Stumpf at University of Strasbourg under the supervision of J.-P. Malet Read MoreThe Institute of Earth Sciences is monitoring erosion dynamics in a study site in Draix (SE France), in cooperation with several other research groups, as part of Benjamin Rudaz’ PhD …
Erosion monitoring – Project Roubinette is operational Read MoreTwo members of our group (Dr. Ivanna Penna and Dr. Antonio Abellán) have recently conducted several weeks field work research in the Andes and Pampeanas range (Argentina), in collaboration with …
Field work in the Andes and Pampeanas Range Read MoreAmenan Agnès Kouame (PhD student at UNIL) is working on the vulnerability to pollution of the aquifer of Abidjan. Abidjan is a 7 million inhabitants megacity, with several huge rubbish …
Abidjan’s aquifer vulnerability Read MoreA 100 tons, 40 m3, rock block struck a former sheepfold transformed into a chalet in the village of Isola in the night on February 23th 2014, in the French …
Rock crushes a chalet in French Alps Read MoreA 10 to 20 tons rock block, of the size of a car, struck a train in the French Alps on February 8th 2014 (Nice-Matin, Haute-Provence info). Two persons were …
Rock strucks a train in french Alps Read MoreAn exceptional rainfall period affected the sourthern part of France during mid-January. Rainfall caused flooding but also triggered numerous landslides, most of them occurring on January 17th. Ivanna Penna and …
Nice – Field visit Read MoreBeginning of December, Dario Carrea, Marc-Henri Derron and Michel Jaboyedoff visited the deep geological repository for nuclear fuel of Onkalo, on the island of Olkiluoto (Western Finland). Onkalo is the first …
Visit to the nuclear fuel repository of Onkalo (Finland) Read Moreby Pierrick Nicolet, Loris Foresti, Olivier Caspar and Michel Jaboyedoff: “Shallow landslide’s stochastic risk modelling based on the precipitation event of August 2005 in Switzerland: results and implications” Due to …
New publication in NHESS about landslide risk modeling Read MoreTo celebrate the publication of a book on natural hazards in Switzerland, a conference entitled “Meteorites: from genesis to catastrophe” will be held at the University of Lausanne (Géopolis, room …
“Les météorites : de la genèse aux catastrophes” Conference by Prof. Ph. Gillet, EPFL (in French) Read MoreAbellán, A., Oppikofer, T., Jaboyedoff, M., Rosser, N. J., Lim, M. and Lato, M. J. (2014), Terrestrial laser scanning of rock slope instabilities. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3493 This …
New publication: ESPL state of science (terrestrial LiDAR on rock slopes) Read More