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28 May 2015
The 12th International Symposium on Landslides, Naples, June 2016
The 12th International Symposium on Landslides will be held in Naples, Italy in June 2016
12 October 2010
Slope Stability 2011
The website of the latest in an excellent set of Canadian conferences on slope stability and instability is now available at the following link: http://www.slopestability2011.ca/ The meeting will be held on 18th-21st September 2011 in Vancouver. The focus is on Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering. The call for papers is now out, with abstracts due by 31st December 2010. This meeting serves as a nice aperitif to the …
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 …
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 …
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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