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4 June 2011
The Springhill Landslide in Utah – community action at its best
An overview of the Springhill landslide in Utah, which is progressively destroying a residential neighbourhood in a suburb outside Salt Lake City.
9 September 2010
A round up of intersting events and documents in the world of landslides and slopes
1. Please vote for a slope monitoring projectOne of the recurrent themes of the IAEH Congress is the growing importance of slope monitoring techniques to provide warning of the development of failure. One of the most exciting projects is the ALARMS project, led by Prof. Neil Dixon at Loughborough University, which is developing techniques that use acoustic emissions to monitor slope movements. The project has been entered into an Enterprise …
11 September 2009
Real time landslide monitoring in New Zealand – the Utiku landslide
I have posted previously about the near real time landslide monitoring project that is being undertaken on the Taihape landslide by the GEONET team in New Zealand. The most amazing aspect of this project is that the monitoring data is streamed onto a web server and can then be viewed using a rather neat online graphing package (available here). The great news is that the team have now instrumented another …
22 December 2008
Landslide on State Route 87, Arizona
Arizona Geology, the Blog of the Arizona State Geologist Lee Allison, has a new post highlighting the reactivation of an ongoing slope failure on Highway 87, which links Phoenix with the town of Payson. Movement on this slope was first noted in March 2008, whereupon emergency works were initiated to try to reduce the immediate hazard. Nonetheless, the road was closed for six days at that time. The failure is …
16 November 2008
Taipei workshop presentation
On 15th November I attended a workshop on land degradation and monitoring at the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University. This was to mark both the launch of a new Land Monitoring Centre and to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the university. Below is the presentation that I gave at that meeting: http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?p=108323_633623719125496250Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Dr_Dave As usual you can download the slide show by …
4 May 2008
The Taihape Landslide monitoring project
Last summer I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days with my friends from GNS Science who are undertaking a monitoring project on the Taihape landslide in New Zealand (see Google Earth image right). Taihape, which is located as -39.68°, 175.80°, is described on Wikipedia as “a small, picturesque town near the middle of the North Island . It services a large rural community and lies on the …
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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