The USGS Landslide Hazards Seminar is a speaker series that brings together landslide researchers, academics, students, applied scientists, and others to share their work in a long format. Topics range from deep dives into numerical models to broad overviews of landslide hazards of a state. The 50-minute presentations are presented live on regular Wednesdays at 3:00 PM Mountain Time.
2023 Seminars
2022 Seminars
2021 Seminars
DATE | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE (click to view video) |
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12/08/2021 | Jennifer Bauer |
Appalachian Landslide Consultants |
Landslide science - One consultant’s role in connecting research with the public |
11/17/2021 | Jeremy Lancaster |
California Geological Survey |
Landslide case studies across California’s diverse terrain |
11/10/2021 | Annette Patton |
University of Oregon |
Climate change and landslides in subpolar Alaska: Less ice, more water |
10/27/2021 | Greg Stock | U.S. National Park Service |
Pace of rockfalls and cliff retreat in Yosemite Valley since the Last Glacial Maximum |
10/20/2021 | Andrew Graber | Colorado School of Mines |
Evaluating rockfall frequency from natural slopes at multiple timescales using multiple timescales – Examples fro Glenwood Canyon, CO |
9/29/2021 | Denny Capps | U.S. National Park Service |
Infrastructure on ice – when your road rides on an accelerating rock glacier |
09/22/2021 | Erich Peitzcsh |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Snow avalanches: A hazard and driver of landscape change |
09/15/2021 | Paul Santi | Colorado School of Mines |
Water and sediment supply requirements for post-wildfire debris flows in the western United States |
09/08/2021 | Richard Giraud | Utah Geological Survey |
Utah landslides — Types, problems, and risk reduction |
08/25/2021 | Kevin Schmidt | U.S. Geological Survey |
Active landsliding and rock strength controls along the Big Sur Coast, California |
08/18/2021 | Francis Ashland | U.S. Geological Survey |
Widespread landslides during the 2018 wet year in Pittsburgh: The impact of extreme winter storms on subsurface hydrologic conditions and the resulting reduction of the critical rainfall threshold |
08/11/2021 | Helen Delano | Pennsylvania Geological Survey |
Pennsylvania landslides, Pittsburgh and beyond: A 40-year perspective |
07/28/2021 | Kirk Townsend |
University of Michigan |
The contribution of rock-mass strength to topographic form and post-wildfire erosion: Insights from the western Transverse Ranges, southern California |
07/21/2021 | Kate Mickelson |
Washington Geological Survey |
Washington Geological Survey’s Landslide Hazard Program |
07/14/2021 | Katy Barnhart |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Preliminary assessment of the wave generating potential from landslides at Barry Arm, Prince William Sound, Alaska |
06/30/2021 | Jon Perkins | U.S. Geological Survey |
How can vadose zone hydrology influence the timing and dynamic range of seasonal landslide deformation? A case study from northern California’s Oak Ridge earthflow |
06/23/2021 | Matt Thomas | U.S. Geological Survey |
Postwildfire soil-hydraulic recovery and the persistence of debris flow hazards |
06/16/2021 | Bill Burns | Oregon Dept. of Geology & Mineral Industries |
Fire and debris-flow hazards in Oregon: ETART (BAER) and GEER - Initial post-fire debris flow observations |
06/09/2021 | Corey Froese | BGC Engineering |
Management of large rock slope hazards: Two decades of learnings |
05/26/2021 | Jason Kean | U.S. Geological Survey |
Forecasting the frequency and magnitude of postfire debris flows across southern California...and maybe beyond |
05/12/2021 | Scott McCoy | University of Nevada Reno |
Rainfall-intensity thresholds for post-wildfire debris-flow initiation vary with climatology of peak rainfall intensity |
04/28/2021 | Adam Booth | Portland State University |
Landslide-forest feedbacks in the United States' largest forest carbon reservoir: southeast Alaska |
04/21/2021 | Noah Finnegan |
University of California Santa Cruz |
Deformational processes governing frictional sliding in a large, slow-moving landslide |
04/14/2021 | James Guilinger |
University of California Riverside |
A nested scale analysis of postfire sediment source and transport dynamics across the 2018 Holy Fire burn scar, Santa Ana Mountains, CA |
03/31/2021 | Ingrid Tomac | University of California San Diego |
Rainwater droplet impact dynamics on hydrophobic sand surface and mudflow onset mechanism |
03/24/2021 | Jeff Moore | University of Utah |
Slope stability vibrometry: In-situ seismic vibration measurements for slope stability characterization and monitoring |
03/17/2021 | Stephanie Kampf |
Colorado State University Fort Collins |
Post-fire erosion model comparisons at hillslope to watershed scale |
03/10/2021 | Richard Iverson |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Landslide disparities, flume discoveries, and Oso despair |
02/24/2021 | Katy Barnhart, Ryan Jones, Matt Thomas |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Meet the Mendenhalls |
02/17/2021 | Netra Regmi | Oklahoma Geological Survey |
Characteristics of shallow landslides in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas |
02/10/2021 | Jonathan Warrick |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Coastal landslides (and other changes) through the lens of SfM photogrammetry |
01/27/2021 | Alex Handwerger |
University of California Los Angeles, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Landslide identification using synthetic aperture radar change detection on the Google Earth Engine |
01/20/2021 | Kate Allstadt | U.S. Geological Survey |
Documenting and modeling landslides and liquefaction triggered by recent US earthquakes |
01/13/2021 | Melissa Ward Jones |
University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Recent retrogressive thaw slumping activity in the Canadian high Arctic |
2020 Seminars
11/18/2020 | Colton Conroy |
Columbia University |
Modeling entrainment of bed sediment by debris flows and water floods |
10/28/2020 | Jeff Prancevic |
U.S. Geological Survey |
The relative importance of landslides and soil creep for eroding steep soil-mantled hillslopes |
10/21/2020 | Luke McGuire, Ann Youberg |
University of Arizona, Arizona Geological Survey |
Post-wildfire debris flow hazards: Insights from recovering burned areas in the Southwestern US |
10/14/2020 | Sean LaHusen |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Deep-seated landslide susceptibility and triggering in the Oregon Coast Range |
09/30/2020 | Benjamin Campforts |
University of Colorado Boulder |
How landslides alter sediment dynamics: Answers from HyLands, a large-scale landscape evolution model |
09/23/2020 | Margaret Darrow |
University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Impacts of permafrost slope stability on infrastructure in Arctic Alaska |
09/16/2020 | Matt Crawford |
Kentucky Geological Survey |
Landslide susceptibility and risk in eastern Kentucky |
09/09/2020 | William Medwedeff |
University of Michigan |
What controls weathering |
08/26/2020 | Don Lindsay |
California Geological Survey |
A systematic approach to evaluating and prescribing post-fire triggering thresholds in the second year after wildfire |
08/19/2020 | Ben Mirus |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Landslides across the United States: Occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations |
08/12/2020 | Hig Brentwood |
Ground Truth Trekking |
Questions raised by the Barry Arm landslides in Alaska |
07/29/2020 | Nina Oakley |
Center for Western Weather & Water Extremes |
Extreme precipitation research and tools at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) |
07/22/2020 | Corey Scheip |
North Carolina State University |
HazMapper: A global open-source natural hazard mapping application in Google Earth Engine |
07/15/2020 | Thomas Rapstine |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Towards airborne measurements of ground displacement |
07/08/2020 | Erin Bessette- Kirton |
University of Utah |
Slope stability vibration monitoring at Courthouse Mesa, Utah |
06/24/2020 | Arnaud Temme |
Kansas State University |
How do past landslides matter? |
06/17/2020 | Paul Burgess |
California Geological Survey |
Soil slip, shallow landslide, and debris flow activity in San Diego County, early April, 2020 |
06/10/2020 | Sabrina Martinez, Liam Toney |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Semi-automatic landslide detection in Puerto Rico and rock-ice avalanche dynamics in Alaska |
06/03/2020 | Eli Orland |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
Deep Learning to forecast soil moisture conditions on landslide-prone hillslopes |
05/20/2020 | Dalia Kirschbaum |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
Remote sensing of landslide hazard: A multi-scale, multi- modal approach |
05/13/2020 | Bill Schulz, Kenneth Hughes |
U.S. Geological Survey, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez |
Factors contributing to hurricane-induced landslides in Puerto Rico: Implications for hazards and sediment mobilization |
05/06/2020 | Stephen Slaughter, Jeff Coe |
U.S. Geological Survey |
USGS landslide mission to Chile: Initial motivations, March 2020 travel log, and future plans |
04/22/2020 | Brian Collins |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Linking mesoscale meteorology with extreme landscape response |
04/15/2020 | Francis Ashland, Sabrina Martinez |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Landslide response efforts in Vicksburg, Mississippi |
04/08/2020 | Francis Rengers |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Controls on debris-flow initiation during an exceptional rainstorm in southern New Mexico |
04/01/2020 | Jaime Kostelnik |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Developing a post-wildfire debris-flow event database and web page |
03/11/2020 | Bill Schulz |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Using a dense seismic array to determine structure and site effects of the Two Towers Earthflow in northern California |
02/19/2020 | Lauren Schaefer |
Colorado School of Mines |
Estimating physical and mechanical rock properties through reflectance spectroscopy |