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9 December 2011
AGU days 2 and 3: some notable talks
A summary of talks at AGU 2011, including presentations on landslides, earthquakes, sea level rise and the LUSI mud volcano
6 December 2011
AGU 3: Great Disasters of the 21st Century
A brief review of the Great Disasters of the 21st Century session at the AGU Fall meeting 2011
6 May 2010
EGU Day 3 – Dave Keefers Sergey Soloviev lecture
On Wednesday morning I attended the presentation by Dave Keefer, the winner of the Sergei Soloviev medal. Dave has single-handedly defined the field of seismically-induced landslides, an area of great importance. In the lat five years alone such slides have killed over 50,000 people, and the ongoing landslide activity in the aftermath of big earthquake events means that the legacy of the shaking continues for decades after the main shock. …
5 May 2010
EGU Day 2 – afternoon sessions on vulnerability, plus Italian landslide statistics
In the afternoon of Day 2 I decided to focus more on the human / vulnerability side of natural hazards, and went to two sessions on Social Sciences in Natural Hazards Research. First up was Katie Oven from Durham, with a number of co-authors , who talked about landslide hazards in Nepal . Now I was the principal supervisor of this research, but I am going to write about it …
4 May 2010
EGU Day 2 – morning landslide sessions
For this year’s EGU General Assembly I intend to only blog on talks that really catch my eye. This morning there was a fabulous session on Landslide Forecasting with series of great talks. Of these, Samuele Segoni and colleagues presented a very interesting paper on a hugely ambitious project to develop a regional landslide warning system for Tuscany based on rainfall thresholds. The project appears to be extraordinarily successful – …
18 December 2009
AGU Day 4: landslide sessions
There were two landslide sessions at AGU today, both in the afternoon. This was the part of the meeting about which I was most excited, but sadly to be honest the reality did not meet my expectations. I won’t write about all of the talks here, just a selected few. First up was Bruce Malamud, who talked about the statistics of landslide clusters. This is great work, showing the remarkable …
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 – …
19 September 2009
Special session on Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan
This afternoon at the Chi-Chi earthquake conference in Taiwan the organiser laid on a special session on the impact of Typhoon Morakot in August. This is of great interest to me, given the impact of the landslides, so I thought I’d give summary of the key points. Apologies for the note form – I have done this Twitter-style! 1. The magnitude of the typhoonFor Taiwan this was an extraordinary event. …
22 May 2009
Sinorock conference report – the Wenchuan Earthquake session
Yesterday there was a special session of the Sinorock Conference in Hong Kong, focused on the Wenchuan Earthquake. This involved six presentations and then a lively round-table discussion. This is a brief review. The first talk was given by colleagues from Chengdu University of Technology on the topic of the landslides triggered by the earthquake. This was visually spectacular, emphasising the scale, density and impact of the landslides that were …
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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