On Thursday, June 5, within the LandAware WG5 meeting, Corey Froese from Wavelength Advisory Services, Edmonton, CA, presented his work on forecasting deep-seated landslides in North America with a presentation entitled “Awareness and Forecasting for deep-seated landslides: considerations for activity data collection”.
The recordings of the webinar are available on the LandAware YouTube channel:
NEWS received from
Manfred Stähli, WSL, Switzerland
On Thursday, June 5, 4:00 – 5:00 pm CEST, within the next WG5 meeting, Corey Froese from Wavelength Advisory Services, Edmonton, CA, will present his work on “Advancing Operational Awareness and Warning for Accelerations in Deep Seated Landslides in North America”.
Corey Froese is a geological engineering consultant based in Western Canada and has spent over 30 years focusing on risk management associated with deep-seated landslides. For over 20 years, this has focused on the use of remote-sensed technologies, such as InSAR and Lidar, to characterise spatial and temporal patterns of landslide movement. Over the past four years, Corey has led teams at BGC Engineering to develop relationships between historic landslide displacements and hydroclimatic drivers and displacement trends. Corey’s presentation will provide an overview of the critical learnings from these projects.
Teaser: Slowly moving landslides create unique challenges to infrastructure and communities when displacement rates change over time, typically associated with changes in water balance of different time periods. The primary challenge for warning is to understand the time periods of moisture infiltration that precede accelerations in order to provide sufficient warning to infrastructure owners to take appropriate actions. These actions may include proactive mitigation in the periods of years prior to expected accelerations or following exceedance of moisture-related thresholds. Corey will share learnings from studies across three large regions in North America where different data sets are being utilized to reconstruct historical displacement patterns and integrate these data with hydroclimatic models to better understand hydroclimatic drivers of activity changes. This presentation will also offer insight into both the temporal and spatial aspects of warning and awareness that end-users are determining are useful to support their operational decisions.
Link to MS Teams meeting
NEWS received from
Manfred Stähli (WSL, Switzerland)
In the meeting of WG5 held on 14 June, 2023, Ann-Kathrin Edrich from RWTH Aachen University presented her work entitled “Time-dependent shallow landslide hazard mapping using an event-based machine learning approach“
The recorded presentation is now available: https://youtu.be/rTFglFOLXiw
The next WG5 meeting is planned for September 2023.
NEWS received from
Manfred Stähli (WSL, Switzerland) and Ben Mirus (USGS, USA)
On February 3, 2023, a meeting of LandAware WG 5 “Innovations” addressed the role of wind speed and direction for landslide occurrence in Hurricane prone regions.
Guest speaker, Yuri Gorokhovich (Lehman College, City University of New York) illustrated how we are getting closer to predicting landslides in Hurricane prone regions in real-time using wind information.
The recorded presentation is available in the LandAware youtube channel
The next WG 5 meeting – with a completely different topic – will take place in May/June 2023.
Manfred Stähli & Ben Mirus