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30 April 2020
EGU General Assembly 2020: the online landslide sessions
The EGU General Assembly 2020 will be held online next week, and anyone can join. I thought it would be helpful to list the Landslide sessions in chronological order.
27 March 2020
EGU2020: sharing landslide research online
The EGU2020 meeting in Vienna has been cancelled, but the organisers are allowing the research to be posted online, with discussion during the sessions
20 November 2012
Landslide sessions at EGU 2013
Information about landslide sessions at the EGU 2013 meeting in Vienna in April 2013
2 December 2011
Some interesting natural hazard sessions as the EGU 2012 meeting in Vienna
Some interesting sessions at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna in April next year
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 – …
24 April 2009
EGU presentation on landslide fatalities in 2008
I thought that it would be helpful to make available my Powerpoint file for the presentation that I am giving on the occurrence of landslide fatalities in 2008. This presentation details the fatalities that I recorded on the database over the course of the year, providing maps and tables of some of the data. I hope that you will find it useful. The file should be visible below: http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=179794_633761376305452631Uploaded on …
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 …
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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