Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
From 20 to 24 September 2015, Clément Michoud (PhD student), Jeremie Voumard (PhD student) and Patrick Huber (Msc student) were in the area of Dieppe (Normandy, France) for LiDAR acquisitions of cliffs from a boat on the …
Coastal cliff stability fieldwork in Normandy, France Read MoreThis month two PhD students arrived from Italy for visiting the Risk group Lucia Losasso is PhD student at the Engineering School of the University of Basilicata (Southern Italy). Her course in …
Two Italian PhD students visiting the group Read MoreLe groupe Risk de l’UNIL au 20 heures de France2 On Tuesday 3rd November 2015, three minutes of the TV news of the French national channel France2 were dedicated to research …
The Risk group in the national French TV news Read MoreMartin Franz and Michel Jaboyedoff participated to the conference GeoQuebec 2015 – the 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, which held in Québec city from 22 to 23 September 2015. They presented two papers: …
GeoQuebec 2015 and visit to ULAVAL Read MoreMichel Jaboyedoff had a sabbatical stay at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of Kyoto University at Uji Campus from July 18 March to August 16, 2015. This was kindly …
Sabbatical stay at DPRI Kyoto University Read MoreUNIL Risk Group recently returned from a two week field visit to Nepal where we were involved in two activities: The follow up of research and contributing to a workshop …
Post-earthquake Nepal Read MoreHi! We’ve just arrived from an exciting fieldwork campaign in Tempelfjord (8-16 August 2015), Svalbard using our Applanix mobile system. We’ve been interested in monitoring the Tunabreen glacier front during …
Svalbard Mission – August 2015 Read MoreTwo severe storms at one day interval have caused damages due to debris flow in Scuol (GR), lower Engadine, at the end of July . During two days of high precipitations in …
Bad weather in Graubünden, July 2015 Read MoreTwo recent master students A. Vioget and P. Limousin and M. Jaboyedoff participated to JAG 2015 in Caen. The group risk was involved in the 4 following papers: Ambient seismic …
JAG 2915, Journées Aléa Gravitaire 3 September 2015 Read MoreBad weather caused damages and evacuations in Western Switzerland in early May due to floods, debris flow and landlsides. Strong precipitations occurred on Western Switzerland in the beginning of May …
Bad weather in Western Switzerland, May 2015 Read More