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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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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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LandAware Early Career Professional Networking Event

NEWS received from
Tobias Halter, Shreeja Das, Nicola Nocentini and Lisa Luna

Dear LandAware Members

On 3rd March, we are organizing an online LandAware networking event specifically for early career professionals working in landslide research and related fields.

The event will feature a series of short presentations, during which you will have the opportunity to present your work and highlight a specific challenge you have faced in your career to date.

After hearing input from your peers, we will discuss how we can solve the issues we have faced in our work together in smaller groups. 

If you would like to pitch your work or a specific challenge in three minutes, please email Shreeja Das (nddas@cyf-kr.edu.pl) by 17 February.

We can only spotlight eight presentations, so first come first served.

The event is scheduled to start on 3rd March at 14:00 UTC (15:00 CET, 9:00 EST, 6:00 PST, 19:30 IST) and will take place online on Teams (see link below, no registration is required).

TEAMS LINK

If you have any questions or problems accessing the Teams link, please contact Tobias Halter (tobias.halter@wsl.ch).

Please share this announcement with your students, PhDs and Postdocs. It will be a great opportunity to connect with our peers.

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AGU25 LandAware get-together in New Orleans: Tue, December 16 – 6:30 pm

NEWS received from
Tobias Halter (WSL, Switzerland), Lisa Luna (USGS, USA)

We invite all LandAware Members who will be attending the AGU25 annual meeting, as well as their friends and interested research fellows, to join us for an informal dinner on Tuesday, December 16th.

We will meet after the session “Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessment II Oral” and walk from the conference center in about 5 mins to the

We will meet after the session “Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessment II Oral” and walk from the conference center in about 5 mins to the restaurant Zesty Creole (https://zestycreole.com/) where we suggest to meet at 6:30 pm (Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/duTFijbp5MenGWmVA).

If you are interested, please fill in the following google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd40Ci3kk4FAPo4g3yQyE5ISssDEIuJBRKVONrk34ELRZE9jQ/viewform?usp=dialog

Note, that we have only have space for 25 people, so sign up now to reserve your spot.

We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans.

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Open Post-Doctoral position at NGI on risk assessment and climate adaptation measures for transportation networks

NEWS received from
Minu Treesa Abraham (NGI, Norway)

New open Post-Doctoral position at NGI focused on dynamic risk assessment for prioritizing climate adaptation measures for transportation networks in Norway.

Topics:

  • Identifying and assessing physical vulnerabilities to climate-related hazards in transportation infrastructure
  • Risk assessment and development of a framework for selecting and prioritising climate adaptation measures for transportation
  • Data processing, Early warning systems (EWS) and dynamic risk assessment methodologies

The PostDoc period is September 2026 to August 2029.

Application deadline: 15 January 2026 

Photo credit: NGI

Requirements:

  • PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, Geoscience, Remote Sensing, or a related field
  • Proven experience in risk assessment of natural hazards, especially those triggered by hydrometeorological processes
  • Familiarity with climate adaptation strategies and transport infrastructure resilience
  • Experience with data processing, early warning systems, and dynamic risk assessment
  • Excellent collaboration and English language skills

Full advertisement:

https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=388&ProjectId=175872

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LEWS Session at EGU26

News received from
Luca Piciullo (NGI, Norway), Stefano Luigi Gariano (CNR, Italy), Samuele Segoni (University of Florence, Italy)

The call-for-abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2026 is open! EGU26 will be held in Vienna, Austria, and online on 3–8 May 2026.
Don’t miss the chance to submit an abstract to the session, “The use of monitoring, modelling, and forecasting in Landslide Early Warning Systems“.

This session focuses on LEWS at all scales and stages of maturity, from prototype to active and dismissed ones. Test cases describing operational application of consolidated approaches are welcome, as well as works dealing with promising recent innovations, even if still at an experimental stage.
Contributions addressing the following topics will be considered positively:
– real-time monitoring systems (IoT);
– prediction tools for warning purposes;
– in-situ monitoring instruments and/or remote sensing devices;
– analysis of hydro-meteorological drivers to enhance forecasting;
– warning models for issuing warning;
– operational applications and performance analyses;
– machine learning techniques applied for early warning purposes.

The abstract submission deadline is 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET.

On-site participants who wish to apply for Roland Schlich travel support must submit an abstract by 1 December 2025, 13:00 CET. They must be the contact author and the first and presenting author of their contribution.

Conveners: Luca Piciullo, Lisa Luna, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Ting Xiao, Samuele Segoni

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Newly published paper, “Weather-Induced Landslide Activity in Clayey Slopes: Modeling for the Design of Site-Scale Early Warning Systems”

NEWS received from
Vito Tagarelli (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)

A new paper entitled “Weather-Induced Landslide Activity in Clayey Slopes: Modeling for the Design of Site-Scale Early Warning Systems”, has just appeared in the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.

The paper explores how soil–vegetation–atmosphere (SVA) interactions control landslide activity in clayey slopes. Drawing on long-term field monitoring and advanced numerical modelling, we show how SVA processes influence pore-water pressures and slope stability, driving both shallow and deep landslides.

This work enabled us to identify effective indicators and precursors—such as pore-pressure patterns and cumulative rainfall thresholds—which may support their integration into landslide early warning systems (LEWS).

The results suggest that a new paradigm for designing LEWS is possible, emphasising the importance of phenomenological and numerical diagnosis of site-specific landslide processes. The framework we propose is applicable to a range of geo-hydro-mechanical contexts as well as future climate scenarios.

The work may be of interest to the LandAware community, given the relevance of the topic to both research and practice.