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27 December 2016
The Safeland project reports on landslide hazard and risk management
The full set of project reports about landslide hazard and risk management from the EU FP7 Safeland project are now available online once more.
8 September 2016
PhD opportunity: A platform for regional scale earthquake induced landslide hazard assessment
Dr Chris Massey at GNS Science has an interesting PhD opportunity entitled: “A Platform for Regional-Scale Earthquake-induced Landslide Hazard Assessment”
9 February 2015
Simulating submarine landslides
Joris Eggenhuisen has published a fascinating video on Youtube showing a simulation of submarine landslides using the Eurotank Flume at Utrecht University
16 January 2014
Aoraki / Mount Cook: A new survey of its height after the 1991 landslide
A GNS / University of Otago expedition has just resurveyed the height of Aoraki / Mount Cook after the 1991 rock avalanche. The mountain has lost 30 m.
31 October 2012
Fully funded PhD studentship in my research team
A fully funded PhD studentship is available in my research team at Durham to work on the modelling of rock slope failure
12 October 2012
Safeland project reports
A number of really interesting reports about landslide hazard and risk are now available on the Safeland web site
3 April 2012
The need for investment in large-scale natural hazards research programmes
Today a decision will be made on the $2 billion square kilometre array; we should aim for a similar level of investment in natural hazards
19 March 2012
Landslides and constrictions – a request for help (and, incidentally, an amazing benefit of geoblogging)
A request for help to find examples of landslides that pass through constrictions
12 March 2012
Please contribute to this debris flow research project
A request for help to create a global debris flow database
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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