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22 April 2009
EGU Day 3
I am just going to write up one session from today’s meeting as it contained the most interesting talks that I heard. This was an annual session on landslides induced by volcanoes and earthquakes, the first three talks of which focussed on the Wenchuan event. Regular readers will know that I am very interested indeed in this event (see here for example). So first up was Ed Harp and two …
21 April 2009
EGU Day 2
The landslide elements of Day 2 at EGU were split between two sessions on landslide forecasting and two on landslide risk. The latter is of comparatively little interest to me, and I had a load of work to do and meetings to attend, so I only attended the morning sessions. In terms of landslide forecasting, there was some pretty good stuff presented. I would say that some speakers need to …
20 April 2009
Updated: European Geosciences Union Day 1
Updated to include the afternoon sessionsThis week is the annual European Geosciences Union assembly in Vienna. This is the biggest annual landslide meeting – there are >300 landslide related papers this time around – and since I am the scientific secretary for the landslide session I cannot allow the opportunity to comment on what I see to pass. So here are my thoughts on Day 1. My intention is not …
25 November 2008
World Landslide Forum Report
Readers will probably be aware that last week the First World Landslide Forum was held at the United Nations University in Tokyo. This was apparently “a global cooperation platform for all types of organizations from academia, United Nations, governments, private sectors, and individuals which are willing to contribute for landslide and other related earth system risk reduction.”Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend, but two of my colleagues (Nick Rosser and …
12 November 2008
Conference report: Sendai
Here are my views of the Sendai landslide conference. The meeting was entitled “The First World Landslide Forum Satellite Conference”, with the theme of “Management of Landslide Hazard in the Asia-Pacific Region”. There were over 200 delegates from more than 30 countries, with many (but not all) Asia Pacific countries represented. The first memorable contribution was the short but sweet keynote by Alexander Strom. It is being argued by some, …
Sendai presentations
The following are my presentations from the World Landslide Forum Satellite Conference in Japan on 11th and 12th November 2008. In each case, you should be able to download the Powerpoint show from the link below the file. I am more than happy to send copies of the papers to anyone who might like them, and will post them online next week. I also welcome any comments that you might …
3 November 2008
Malaysia talk
The following is my presentation at the International Symposium on Slopes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is an invited paper on the topic of landslides in Asia in relation to climate change and other environmental pressures. I hope you find it of interest. The file should appear below: http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?p=102769_633612995446250000Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Dr_Dave If you cannot see the file then click on the highlighted Dr_Dave link above. The full Powerpoint …
21 October 2008
Sichuan Earthquake session at SinoRock 2009
Prof. ZuYu Chen has today emailed to bring to my attention a special conference session on the geohazards associated with the Wenchuan Earthquake. This will be held at the SinoRock 2009 conference in Hong Kong on 22nd May 2009. It will be followed by a field trip to the earthquake zone. Beichuan New Town landslide. Source: This is Life Blog Papers are due by 15th January 2009. Details of the …
5 October 2008
Scottish landslide study
August 2004 was unusually wet in, with some areas of the country experiencing three times the long term average rainfall for the month. The most memorable manifestation of that time was a series of landslides that hit the road network. In particular, on 18th August a series of debris flows the hit a main road , the A85, in Glen Ogle. This is widely seen as a pretty near miss …
27 August 2008
The influence of the summer monsoon on fatal landslides in Asia
I am currently putting together a keynote paper for the forthcoming International Conference on Slopes, which is being held in Malaysia in November. I have been looking at the occurrence of fatal landslides in Asia, using the Durham Landslide Database as the source of data. I have plotted the number of fatal landslides by month for 2002-2007 for three areas – South Asia (i.e. the Indian subcontinent), East Asia (which …
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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