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First GEOS symposium in Oslo

News received from
Luca Piciullo (NGI, Norway)

This year August 31 – September 2, in Oslo, Norway, we are preparing the first GEOS symposium as exit strategy of one (i.e., GEOMME) of the three NGI-lead international collaboration projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council: GEOMME, NATRISK and IP4EWS. We wish to invite you to join and contribute to this symposium which will cover interdisciplinary topics connected to natural hazards research and practice, and will be an arena for networking and building future collaborations.

The GEOS 2026 website is now live: https://www.ngi.no/en/events/geos-symposium/. You can find all relevant information about the program and participation there.

The program is structured around six thematic sessions, each following the same format:

  • Four presentations (15 minutes each)
  • Followed by a 30-minute panel discussion

Our aim is to encourage discussion within each session. To support this, we will seek a balanced and representative selection of presentations, covering a range of topics and geographic contexts (e.g., Japan, Korea, Norway, Canada, Brazil, India, and other European partners). We therefore encourage you to consider how contributions might best be distributed across the sessions before submitting preferences. Participants will be asked to indicate which session they are most interested in contributing to.

Registration process

If you are interested in joining GEOS 2026, we ask you to fill out the Preliminary registration formwhich will be used for mapping contributions, and for follow-up. The form is located here: GEOS 2026 Symposium – Preliminary Registration – Fill out form (https://forms.office.com/e/g0XKqS5z4M)

Participants

Due to the capacity of the venue, the GEOS symposium will have a maximum of 120 participants. These will be filled on a first-come, first served basis.

Deadline

The deadline for completing the registration form is: Friday, May 15

Conveners: Graham Gilbert and Luca Piciullo (NGI, Norway)

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LARAM School 2026: Doctoral school on “Landslide risk assessment and mitigation”

News received from
Michele Calvello (University of Salerno, Italy)

LARAM is an International School on “LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation” of the University of Salerno. The School is held annually and is aimed at 40 PhD students and 10 young doctors selected every year from those working in the field of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Engineering Geology or with a similar Engineering background.

The LARAM School 2026 will be held in Lausanne (Switzerland) from Monday 7 to Friday 18 September in person (https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2026/2026).

CANDIDATE PARTICIPANTS

The LARAM class will be composed of:

  • 40 selected PhD students
  • Up to 10 young doctors (PhD defended not before 2021)

Participants pay their own travel and accommodation expenses, as well as a registration fee of 500 CHF.

Deadline for PhD applications and young doctor registrations: May 30, 2026

SCHOOL PROGRAMME

The programme of the school will consist of 6-hour daily lectures and tutorials from Monday to Friday (details on the web site).

The programme is structured in the following sessions:

  • S1, Introduction to landslides
  • S2, Landslide risk theory
  • S3, Landslide modelling
  • S4, Landslide risk analysis and zoning
  • S5, Landslide monitoring and mitigation
  • S6, Landslide risk management and risk governance

SELECTION

The selection of the participants will be based on an evaluation of the candidate’s curriculum – including academic performance, previous research experience and publications – and on the content of the recommendation letter(s) in relation to the PhD year, the field of expertise and the research topic.

Note. In exceptional cases, it will be allowed that some extra students, additional to the 40, will attend remotely, but only for documented reasons. For those candidates, the application is still mandatory, and participation will be allowed upon selection. While uploading the CV, include also a page explaining the reasons for remote participation.

  • The list of selected students will be issued by 12 June 2026.

ACCOMMODATION

  • Selected student will pay for their accommodation.
  • The Local Organizers are booking possible options at reduced fares.
  • Information on this issue will be published on the web site soon.

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Survey on the use of AI in LEWS

News received from
Anika Braun (TU Berlin, Germany)

Exploring the status of the use of Artificial Intelligence in Landslide Early Warning Systems

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important across many fields in recent years, including landslide monitoring and early warning.

In her Bachelor’s thesis, a student of Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, Germany, wants to investigate how AI is already being used in operational landslide early warning systems (LEWS), as well as the concerns and challenges related to AI use. To support this research, she created a short survey for organizations that operate, manage, or are otherwise involved in these systems, whose insights are extremely valuable.

Key Information about the survey: 

  • Participation is anonymous
  • It takes about 5-10 minutes
  • Results will be used solely for academic purposes
  • The survey will remain open until 17 May 2026

Link to the survey: https://umfragen.tu-berlin.de/index.php/126332?lang=en

We would greatly appreciate it if you could take this survey and share it with colleagues or networks who might also provide valuable insights. Thank you for your support. For further questions, please contact Anika Braun at TU Berlin anika.braun@tu-berlin.de (thesis supervisor).

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1st Webinar of LATin AMerican regional group

News received from
Johnny Vega, Isabela Horta, Elias Garcia-Urquia, Mario Reyes, Graziella Devoli

Estimados colegas

Los invitamos al:
1er Webinar de LandAware Grupo LATAM – 1º Webinar do Grupo LandAware LATAM (en español)
Jueves 9 de abril de 2026 (14:00pm Colombian Time) (16:00 Rio de Janeiro) (13:00 Central American time) (19:00 UTC) (21:00 CEST)

Link de Acceso: Ingresa aquí!

Edier Aristizábal (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) – “La lluvia como detonante de movimientos en masa en el Valle de Aburrá (Colombia)”

Daniel F. Ruiz (Universidad EAFIT) – “Sistemas de alerta temprana de deslizamientos a múltiples escalas: de la implementación local a la regional”

Edier Aristizábal es Ingeniero Geólogo especializado en riesgos geológicos, también asociados con el clima. Formado en la Universidad de Ginebra (Suiza), tiene maestría en ingeniería conseguida en la Universidad de Shimane (Japón), doctorado en Ingeniería con énfasis en recursos hidráulicos de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, y recientemente desarrolló su postdoctorado en la Universidad de Potsdam (Alemania). Desde el año 2015 se encuentra vinculado al Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente de la Facultad de Minas como profesor.

Daniel F. Ruiz es ingeniero civil formado en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y cuenta con estudios de maestría y doctorado en Ingeniería Geotécnica por la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Actualmente se desempeña como director del programa de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad EAFIT y participa como asesor técnico en sistemas de alerta como SIATA, SAMA y SIMER, consolidando una trayectoria académica y profesional enfocada en la gestión del riesgo y la ingeniería geotécnica.

Atentamente

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Dear colleagues

You are invited to the the 1st Webinar LandAware LATAM Group (in Spanish)
Tuesday 9th of April 2026 (14:00pm Colombian Time) (16:00 Rio de Janeiro) (13:00 Central American time) (19:00 UTC) (21:00 CEST)

Link: Ingresa aquí!

Edier Aristizábal (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) – “La lluvia como detonante de movimientos en masa en el Valle de Aburrá (Colombia)”

Daniel F. Ruiz (Universidad EAFIT) – “Sistemas de alerta temprana de deslizamientos a múltiples escalas: de la implementación local a la regional”

Best regards

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Session on landslide catalogues and inventories at WLF7

News received from
Maria Teresa Brunetti (CNR, Italy), Silvia Peruccacci (CNR, Italy), Mateja Jemec Auflič (Geological Survey of Slovenia)

The call-for-abstracts of 7th World Landslide Forum is approaching the deadline on 30 April 2026.

The Forum will be held in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Faridabad, 23 – 27 Nov 2026.

We look forward to seeing you at the Session 2.6:

Landslide catalogues and inventories: advances in data collection, standardization, and sharing for landslide prediction and hazard mitigation

We will explore current practices, emerging technologies, and innovative approaches in landslide data collection, storage, standardization, and dissemination. We encourage presentations that address challenges and opportunities in creating interoperable databases, integrating multi-source data (field surveys, remote sensing, historical archives, and citizen science).

We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Development and maintenance of landslide catalogues at various scales (local to global)
  • Data standardization, quality control, and metadata protocols
  • Integration of multi-source data: field mapping, remote sensing, historical archives, and citizen science
  • Novel technologies for data collection: UAVs, satellite imagery, LiDAR, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
  • Database interoperability and data sharing platforms
  • Applications of landslide databases in hazard assessment, susceptibility mapping, and risk analysis
  • Use of catalogues for temporal and spatial analysis of landslide occurrence
  • Case studies of national and regional landslide information systems
  • Challenges in long-term database maintenance and sustainability
  • Open data policies and ethical considerations in landslide data sharing
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LEWS session at WLF7

News received from
Graziella Devoli (NVE, Norway), Samuele Segoni (University of Florence, Italy), Neelima Satyam (IIT, Indore), Stefano Luigi Gariano (CNR, Italy), Ting Xiao (Central South University, China)

The call-for-abstracts of 7th World Landslide Forum  is approaching the deadline on 30 April 2026. WLF7 will be held in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Faridabad, 23 – 27 Nov 2026.

Don’t miss the chance to submit an abstract to the Session 2.3: LANDSLIDE EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS: INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

This session aims to discuss recent innovations to overcome current deficits in the successful operation of LEWS. Innovations may include new techniques for landslide detection and monitoring, novel approaches and data for landslide modeling and (spatial and temporal) prediction, and enhanced technologies for ingesting and disseminating landslide information. This session addresses LEWS at all scales and stages of maturity: test cases describing operational application of consolidated approaches are welcome, as well as works dealing with promising recent scientific and technical innovations, even if still at an experimental stage. The session will also welcome contributions highlighting how operators deal with the implementation of new methods: a particular focus will be on the integration of innovations into established workflows and on the exploration of the trade-off between reliability and technical advancement. In addition, the session will cover all the LEWS aspects closely connected with social sciences, including communication strategies and the social perception of warnings and uncertainties. Ultimately, we would like to stimulate a discussion between developers of innovations and those who are in charge of making the best possible use of them.

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New Special Issue on EWS in NHESS journal

NEWS received from
Luca Piciullo (NGI, Norway)

New Special Issue in NHESS journal: “Early Warning Systems from Research to Operations: Status, Innovations and Multi-Hazard Applications”

Guest Editors:
Timothy Tiggeloven, Kelley De Polt, Christopher White, Marc van den Homberg, Erick Mas, Samira Pfeiffer, Lara Smale, Luca Piciullo

This special issue aims to advance the field of early warning systems (EWSs) and focuses on practical implementation, multi-hazard and impact-based integration, innovation, and evidence from operational EWSs. We are particularly interested in contributions that move beyond conceptual frameworks and that demonstrate how EWSs can effectively forecast (multiple) hazards and their interrelationships while taking the vulnerabilities and coping capacities of diverse populations in real-world settings into account and by enabling early action.

Key Information:

  • Submission Deadline: 31 December 2027
  • Submission Process: Authors can register and submit via the NHESS online system: https://editor.copernicus.org/NHESS/manuscript_registration
  • Important: Please ensure the correct SI is selected during registration. Manuscripts will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis.

We welcome contributions including research articles and review/overview papers.

Info: https://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/articles_and_preprints/scheduled_sis.html#1395

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Permanent researcher position at the Czech Academy of Sciences

NEWS received from
Jan Klimeš ( Czech Academy of Sciences)

Permanent researcher position at the Department of Engineering Geology, Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Our established research team is looking for a new colleague ready to bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm to our projects. We study how gravitational and tectonic forces cause rock deformation – fundamental phenomena that can compromise infrastructure and affect future development. Our mission is to reduce landslide and fault-related risks through extensive field monitoring and rigorous investigations, carried out in collaboration with both international partners and the communities affected.

Your work:

  • Develop engineering geological models for landslides and underground spaces
  • Integrate field monitoring data directly into your models
  • Model rock deformation and strain changes using advanced numerical methods
  • Communicate your findings through presentations, reports, and publications

Requirements:

  • Ph.D. in science or engineering
  • Demonstrated experience with numerical modelling software
  • Strong record of publications in international peer-reviewed journals
  • Initiative in seeking grant opportunities and fostering international collaborations
  • Proficiency in English (B2/C1 level or higher)

We offer:

  • Full-time position is available immediately
  • The base salary follows the institute’s pay scale, with opportunities to supplement income through grants and publications
  • Friendly, collaborative research team with access to extensive field and monitoring data
  • Flexible working hours, including remote work, with 25 vacation days and 5 sick days per year
  • Access to training courses offered by the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Discounts for sports facilities and the Academia bookstore
  • Possibility of affordable housing and access to childcare in Prague

Application deadline 02.04.2026

Please submit a one-page motivation letter and a one-page structured professional CV to klimes@irsm.cas.cz.

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Open Ph.D. position at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia

News received from
Rosa Palau (UPC, Barcelona)

We are looking for a candidate for an Industrial Doctorate (DI) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC·BarcelonaTech), in collaboration with the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC). Preferential training is in Civil, Environmental, and/or Geological Engineering.

The research will be conducted within the framework of the MonTSE Project.

Research Focus

  • Sediment transport modelling: From source areas in mountain torrent catchments to downstream transport along stream channels.
  • Semi-quantitative multi-hazard risk analysis: Assessing risks associated with rockfalls and debris floods.

🎯 Desired Profile

  • Fieldwork Readiness: High motivation to conduct extensive field campaigns in mountainous terrain.
  • Technical Proficiency: Knowledge of programming and numerical modelling of debris flood mechanics.
  • Collaborative Mindset: Strong interest in interdisciplinary work and collaborative research environments.
  • Spanish or Catalan required

🚀 Why Join Our Team?

  • Join a research group with an international projection and a long history
  • Work with field data and long time series in natural laboratories
  • Full-time contract for 3+1 years
  • Work with Barcelona as your base 🌍

Application deadline: 2 March 2026
More info: MonTSE Industrial Doctorate Offer

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Final Webinar of the PRIN-ITALERT project

NEWS received from
Stefano Luigi Gariano (CNR, Italy)

The final webinar of the PRIN-ITALERT (Prediction of Rainfall-INduced landslides – Improving multi-scale TerritoriAL Early warning through aRTificial intelligence) project is scheduled on Tuesday, 24 February 2026 at 10:00 am CET (9:00 am UTC).

The webinar will focus on the main findings of the project. After a brief introduction, three main presentations will be delivered:

– Landslide data and satellite rainfall products to define reliable tools for landslide prediction, by Stefano Luigi Gariano (Italian National Research Council)
– Leveraging hydrological information through machine learning for Landslide Early Warning Systems, by Nunziarita Palazzolo (University of Catania)
– A dynamic, machine learning–based early warning model for daily spatio-temporal landslide prediction, Nicola Nocentini (University of Florence)

To join the webinar (no registration needed), use the following link:

Teams LINK

More info on the project can be found
here: https://www.irpi.cnr.it/en/project/prin-italert/