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6 July 2008
Reflections on the International Symposium on Landslides and Emgineered Slopes
As I sit in Terminal 5 at Heathrow, enduring an interminable wait for a flight to Newcastle, I have started to reflect upon the International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, and upon the state of landslide science in general. First, the conference conveners should be congratulated for a well-organised meeting. The venue (the Shaanxi Guest House in Xian) was quite good, although I was quite glad that we chose …
3 July 2008
Xian paper on landslide prediction and the Saito effect
Tomorrow (Friday) I am due to present a paper at the 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes. The paper title is: “Temporal prediction in landslides – understanding the Saito effect”. The power point file is below (there appears to be a fault on slideshare that is preventing this from being visible on blogger. If it is not visible below, you can get it from here): http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=0806-xian-saito-talk-2003v-1215095797361691-9 | View …
1 July 2008
Xian Round Table Powerpoint file
Today I participated in a round table discussion at the 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes. The topic of the discussion was: “Strength criteria and design approaches for difficult soils and rocks”. Each of the four panelists was asked to talk for 10-12 minutes before the panel discussion started. I was asked to talk about “Slow Moving Rockslides”. So, below is my deliberately somewhat provocative presentation. (there appears …
30 June 2008
International Symposium of Landslides – Wenchuan (Sichuan) earthquake landslides
This week is the 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, which is a once every four years get together. This time round it is being held in Xi’an in China, which is particularly appropriate given the recent events a few hundred kilometres to the southwest. The organisers managed to timetable a session of two keynotes and six other presentations on landslides associated withe the earthquake. The session was …
18 April 2008
EGU Day 4
I spent the morning in the session on the Characterization, monitoring and early warning related to large landslides. I was struck during the presentations by the degree to which the technologies for monitoring landslides have improved over the last decade or so. For example, Casagli and his colleagues gave a very polished presentation on the application of their ground-based radar LISA to the monitoring of the Ruinon landslide near to …
15 April 2008
EGU day 2
Day 2 of EGU had less of interest to me than Day 1. I started out in the Historical Landslides session, in which my paper was the first. Most of the other five presentations were excellent. Notable amongst these was a paper by Jan Klimes and his colleagues on the landslide threat to Macchu Micchu. In recent years there have been some fairly lurid headlines about the threat to Machu …
14 April 2008
EGU day 1
Over the next few days I will try to write up some comments on issues that arise at the landslides sessions at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna. EGU is a massive meeting (c. 10,000 earth scientists), and the natural hazards section is one of the largest. The landslide field is the biggest component of natural hazards, so there is usually something for everyone. In total there are …
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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