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18 December 2009
AGU Day 4 – session on Scientists' Communication on Critical Global Environmental Issues
I am going to split my AGU Day 4 report into two posts. This one will cover the session this morning on the communication of the science of environmental change, whilst the second post will cover the landslide sessions. The first session that I attended this morning was an excellent, experience-led examination of how to communicate environmental science to the public and to policy-makers. The central theme was, perhaps inevitably, …
AGU Day 4 – session on Scientists’ Communication on Critical Global Environmental Issues
I am going to split my AGU Day 4 report into two posts. This one will cover the session this morning on the communication of the science of environmental change, whilst the second post will cover the landslide sessions. The first session that I attended this morning was an excellent, experience-led examination of how to communicate environmental science to the public and to policy-makers. The central theme was, perhaps inevitably, …
17 December 2009
AGU Day 3
There were two highlights of day 3 for me, which to be honest did not have much of interest on landslides. The first was the Geobloggers lunch, which was attended by about 30 bloggers. It was interesting to put names to faces and also to learn about some new blogs. I was struck by two things: 1. the range of ages of bloggers – far less oriented towards the young …
16 December 2009
AGU Day 2
NB: I have posted a review of the session on Scientists’ communication of critical global environmental change issues, in which both Michael Mann and Richard Alley spoke here:Communication of critical global environmental change issues There wasn’t much in the Natural Hazards area of interest to me on Day 1, so I decided not to blog yesterday. There was a little more today – and lots later in the week – …
12 December 2009
The annual cycle of fatal rainfall-induced landslides
On the flight to San Francisco yesterday I spent some time preparing for one of my AGU presentations – the one on Friday on the impact of landslides on society. I have been looking at my landslide fatality database, which now stretches back for over seven years. There is still some way to go with this to really understand long term trends in fatal landslides, but the dataset is now …
3 December 2009
Landslides at the AGU Fall meeting
Like 16,000 other Earth and environmental scientists, I am heading off next week to the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, which is held in San Francisco. I have attended several times before – it is an amazing meeting – but this year there is added spice provided by the new Natural Hazards grouping, which means that there is far more of interest for me. The landslide specific session …
27 July 2009
Landslide sessions as the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco
The annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has long been the meeting of choice of the geoscience community, although these days it is being challenged by its European equivalent (the European Geosciences Union). The meeting this year is expected to attract about 16,000 earth and environmental scientists (I bet you didn’t realise there were that many…).A frustration for the surface process and natural hazards communities has been …
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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