Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Long-term topographic changes at high altitude in the Alps, at different spatial and temporal scales, are challenging to quantify, often due to lack of direct evidence. Historic rockfalls are not …
Daniel Uhlmann : Topographic changes in the high-altitude walls of the Mont Blanc massif: quantification at different spatial and temporal scales Read More
Le recul des falaises normandes est un processus multifactoriel et constitue un aléa important pour ces régions côtières. Ce travail s’inscrit dans la continuité des projets visant à établir une …
Maxime Mignot : Etude de l’influence des systèmes structuraux dans l’effondrement des falaises de Haute-Normandie : analyse structurale et modèles analogiques. Read More
In the south of Switzerland, the canton Ticino corresponds to the transition from a pre-Alpine to a fully Alpine setting. It is exposed to great number of natural hazards, including …
Amalia Gutiérrez : Geological, geometrical, and statistical analysis of landslides and rockfalls listed in Ticino during the last 20 years Read More
Rockfalls and mass movements in the Mont Blanc Massif (MBM) are increasing due to climate change and can affect humans, mountaineering routes, infrastructures, and nearby villages. Monitoring high mountain rock …
Joëlle Hélène Vicari : Rock instability hazard in high mountain area: the example of the Brenva spur (Mont Blanc massif) Read More(24/8/2022) Summer time was a great time for doing monitoring fieldwork. This project is part of the project “ Stability study of the northern slope along the RD 1091“, a …
La Grave Fieldwork 2022 Read MoreAfter almost two years struggling with Covid-19, Tiggi, a PhD student in the Risk Group at the University of Lausanne, eventually succeeded in gathering field data in Indonesia as part …
Rockfall Mapping and Fieldwork in Indonesia 2022 Read MoreRyan Kromer is PhD graduate of Queen’s University and a post doctoral researcher at the Colorado School of Mines. He was a visiting PhD student at the University of Lausanne …
Ryan Kromer – visiting scientist in the RISK group Read MoreThe 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 …
Andorra-la-Vella : Lidar monitoring Read More
Battista Matasci Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Greg M. Stock, Dr. Brian Collins, Prof. Giovanni B. Crosta, Dean François Bussy Characterizing the geological features and structures …
Battista Matasci: Rockfall susceptibility assessment and remote geological mapping with LiDAR point clouds Read More
Alexandre Loye Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Klaus Holliger, Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Frédéric Liébault, Dr. Francesco Brardinoni, Prof. Oldrich Hungr This thesis is a compilation of projects to …
Alexandre Loye: Budgeting rockfall and modeling sediment delivery in torrent systems 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