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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 …
Forthcoming conference in Rapid Mass Movements
CCES in Switzerland will host a conference entitled: “Triggering of Rapid Mass Movements in Steep Terrain (Mechanisms and Risks)” The meeting is to be held from 11th to 16th April 2010 at Monte Verità in Switzerland. Details are available here:http://www.cces.ethz.ch/projects/hazri/tramm/conference
18 November 2009
Tailings dam failures and the price of commodities
A couple of weeks ago the University of Alberta hosted a conference entitled “Tailings and Mine Waste 2009“. Impressively, all of the presentations from the meeting have been posted online on an FTP site here. Most of the presentations focus upon technical aspects of tailings facility design, but there is a very interesting talk from Michael Davis and Todd Martin from AMEC online as a pdf here. This presentation examines …
18 September 2009
Presentation at the International Conference in Commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake
Below is my presentation from the conference in Taiwan. The file is on authorstream (my authorstream page is here – there are several of my presentations there). You should be able to play or download the presentation below or from the authorstream site. As ever, please acknowledge anything that you use from it. The paper was a review of the key things that we have learnt from research into landslides …
6 September 2009
Oh dear, more scientific hyperbole about climate change and natural disasters
My Alma Mater, University College London, is this week hosting an interesting colloquium on the theme of “Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards“. This is a really interesting topic and the organisers should be applauded for attracting some really interesting talks. If it wasn’t for the fact that I am heading out to Asia on Wednesday I would attend for sure. However, the Observer, which is the Sunday version …
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 …
14 December 2008
Landslide sessions at EGU in 2009
Around this time of the year I always start to turn my attention to the European Geociences Union meeting in April. This is a huge get-together of earth scientists from around the world (last year >8,500 people attended). One of the largest divisions is “Natural Hazards”, and the landslide section, of which I am the secretary, is the biggest single part of NH. Next year (2009) the meeting will be …
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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