Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
François Noël, Teresa Gracchi and Emmanuel Wyser of the Risk Analysis Group (UNIL) went to Barcelonnette (France) from the 23rd to the 27th of September for an amazing experimental work …
Fieldwork in Barcelonnette during September 2018 Read MoreIn collaboration with the Fondazione Montagna Sicura, Michel Jaboyedoff, Antoine Guerin and Li Fei went to Entrèves (Aosta Valley, Italy) on 23 October 2018 to investigate the 1997 Brenva rockslide …
Inspection of the Brenva spur (Mt Blanc, Italy) Read MoreOn contrary to hazards which have defined return time for establishing natural hazard maps (for example rock falls or floods), there is no similar methodology for shallow and spontaneous landslides. …
Inventory of shallow and spontaneous landslides and improvement of the methodology to establish hazard and risk maps for the Canton of Vaud Read MoreWith Hans-Ruedi Pfeifer (Hon. Prof. at the University of Lausanne), I had the pleasure to publish a paper in the Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles on the chemical …
Hydrogeochemical characterization of alpine spring waters Read Moreby 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 …
New publication in Environmental Earth Sciences about sinkhole-related risk Read MoreFive 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 …
Flight at Bondo (GR) Read MorePierrick Nicolet defended publicly on the 9th of January his PhD entitled “Quantitative risk analysis for natural hazards at local and regional scales”. The thesis aims at improving the quantification …
Thesis on risk analysis available for download Read MoreThe Risk Group participated to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on 17 April to 22 May 2017. This huge meeting brought together 14’496 scientists from 107 countries with …
Risk group @ EGU 2017 in Vienna Read MoreMichel Jaboyedoff reciveing the DRPI Award from thge director of DPRI Prof. Kaoru Takara (Picture from https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/9141/) On February 21st, Michel Jaboyedoff received the DPRI Award (Disaster Prevention Research Institute …
Michel Jaboyedoff received the DPRI Award 2017 in Kyoto University Read MoreThe Risk Group participated to 6th Interdisciplinary Workwhop on Rockfall Protection in Barcelona, Spain, on 22-24 May 2017. The first two days, we followed the different presentations while the third day, …
Risk group @ RocExs 2017 – Barcelona Read MoreAntoine Guérin, François Noël and Emmanuel Wyser of the Risk Analysis Group (UNIL) went to Yosemite Valley from the October 6th to October 20th, 2016. They were there to pursue …
Fieldwork in the Yosemite Valley during October 2016 Read MoreWe have recently published two papers written with our former Master’s student Jacques Bechet who died tragically in a snow avalanches on 28 March, 2015. We dedicate these papers to …
In memoriam Jacques Bechet Read More