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Antoine Guérin: Novel approach for quantifying rockfall and rock mass failure: point cloud analysis of pluri-decennial rockfall activity and characterization of thermally induced rock deformation

June 22, 2021December 6, 2023

Antoine Guérin led a very innovative research financed by the SNSF Grants#: 200021_127132, 200020_146426, and 200020_159221, dedicated to rockfall hazard based on rockfall sources area statistics and thermal imaging. The …

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Field course 2021 for master students

June 14, 2021December 6, 2023

This year again the usual fieldtrip in Southern France for landslides mapping, rock stability an debris flows analysis was cancelled due to the sanitary conditions. However several days of fieldwork …

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EGU 2021 : Submitted abstracts

May 12, 2021December 6, 2023

The virtual EGU assembly took place from 19 to 30 April 2021. We submitted several abstracts to present the main topics and projects we are working on in our group. …

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Bachelor field work in Les Diablerets

May 12, 2021December 6, 2023

The 5-6-7th of May, the students from the environment bachelor had the chance to go on the field, in Les Diablerets to visit the Pont Bourquin landslide. We have been …

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Policy and Practice Interface on Climate Risk Reduction and Management for Building Climate Resilient Communities

April 28, 2021May 2, 2026

Deepak KC After graduating from the University of Tokyo, JAPAN , I began my professional career with United Nations Development Programme. I worked almost 16 years on designing and implementation …

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Second Field Visit to Ollon

April 21, 2021December 6, 2023

To obtain more detailed data regarding the occurrence of a landslide in Ollon (Swiss Prealps) on January 30, 2021, the Risk Group conducted a second field visit, by conducting soil …

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Ollon Landslide Investigations Survey

April 21, 2021December 6, 2023

A Landslide happened on 30 January 2021 in Ollon area (Swiss Prealps). This mass movement in gypsum rocks cut a road and reached vineyards close to residences. This event is …

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Lisalab GB-Insar training

April 21, 2021December 6, 2023

The latest acquisition of our group is a Ellegi Lisalab Ground-Base Insar. To fully and efficiently use it during our next fieldtrip to Ticino this summer, we followed a 3-day …

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Cristiano Gygax : Low-cost Arduino-based terrestrial lidar scanner

March 25, 2021December 6, 2023

Gygax Cristiano Starting date : September 2019 Supervisor : Marc-Henri Derron After a bachelor in Forest Sciences at HAFL Bern with specialisation in protective forests and a one year internship …

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Application of prediction of a model for mountain breeding birds in Western Swiss Prealps

May 5, 2020December 6, 2023

Fig. Prediction of the models for three groups of species. Binary prediction of the ensemble of small models (ESMs) (upper row). The final prediction of the ESMs (lower row) It …

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Geochemistry of Swiss bottled waters

January 17, 2020December 6, 2023

Paper published in french with an extended abstract in english reproduced below. Reference: Sahli V. & Derron M.-H. 2019, Hydrogéochimie des eaux minérales suisses en bouteille. Bulletin de la Société …

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A new PhD student joining the group, Nasrin Amini Tehrani

December 13, 2019December 6, 2023

My firstname is Nasrin and I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and study in niche, habitat suitability, and distribution modeling, mainly at the level of …