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Maxime Collombin: De l’affleurement à la caractérisation réservoir : étude de fracturation sur la base d’une acquisition LiDAR

February 13, 2018February 19, 2018

Maxime Collombin Supervisor: Dr. Marc-Henri Derron The study of fractured reservoirs is of primary importance for hydrocarbons, water and geothermal exploration. The investigation of natural fracture networks affecting potential reservoir is a …

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Susanna Büsing: Analyse spécifique de l’activité récente des éboulements au Piz Lischana (Basse-Engadine)

February 13, 2018February 14, 2018

Susanna Büsing Supervisor: Prof. Michel Jayboyedoff Internal Experts: MSc. Antoine Guerin, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron External Expert: Dr. Marcia Phillips On 31 July 2011, a rockfall with an estimated volume of 7000 …

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3D modelling the oak of Napoléon

January 13, 2018December 6, 2023

The Risk group participed in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Lausanne whose results where published in Nature Plants . Results reveal that the genome of oak Napoleon has …

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Conference of Professor GOULA Bi Tié Albert from Université Nangui Abrogoua Abijan

December 21, 2017December 6, 2023

On 12 December 2017 Professor GOULA Bi Tié Albert from Université Nangui Abrogoua Abijan, gave a talk entitled: Processus GIRE en Afrique de l’Ouest : Cas de la Côte d’Ivoire …

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New publication in Environmental Earth Sciences about sinkhole-related risk

December 17, 2017December 6, 2023

by Pierrick Nicolet, Marc Choffet, Marc-Henri Derron, Michel Jaboyedoff and Bertrand Lauraux: “Evaporite sinkhole risk for a building portfolio” Karst-related hazard can be a problem for buildings, especially in the …

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Andorra-la-Vella : Lidar monitoring

December 1, 2017December 6, 2023

The Risk Analysis Group (C. d’Almeida, F.Noël) spent a week in the principality of Andorra to carry out lidar survey. The city of Andorra-la-Vella, located in the hearth of the …

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Risk Group at the 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Davos, Switzerland

November 30, 2017December 6, 2023

The 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, organized by the WSL-Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF and the Platform Geosciences of the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT, was held …

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Scientific stay of Teresa Gracchi in the group RISK

November 3, 2017December 6, 2023

Teresa Gracchi will stay for 6 months in the group RISK at UNIL. Teresa is a joint-PhD student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of …

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4th Slope Tectonics Conference – Kyoto Oct. 2017

October 30, 2017December 6, 2023

The 4th Slope Tectonics Conference was held from 14 to 18 October 2017 in Japan. It started with two days of presentations at the University of Kyoto and was followed …

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Journée des Aléas Gravitaire (JAG) 2017

October 20, 2017December 6, 2023

The group participated to the Journée des Aléas Gravitaires (JAG) in Besançon on October 23 and 24 2017. It was a great opportunity to exchange about many topics related to …

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GeoOttawa 2017 70th Canadian Geotechnical Conference Ottawa / 1-4.10.2017

October 15, 2017December 6, 2023

Jaboyedoff participated to GeoOttawa 2017. Two papers were presented where he was co-author with LERN-ULAVAL team: Analyse cinématique sur modèle 3D sous forme de nuage de points. By F. Noël …

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Flight at Bondo (GR)

September 30, 2017December 6, 2023

Five people of the Risk Analysis Group went to Bondo, Canton of Graubünden, on 29 September 2017 to make a helicopter flight along the debris flow and cliff collapse of …