Landslide Hazards Seminar
'Variations in population exposure to landslides within the United States'
March 20, 2024
March 20, 2024
'Rainfall intensification amplifies exposure of American Southwest to conditions that trigger postfire debris flows'
February 21, 2023
February 21, 2023
'The Many Mysteries of the 2022 Chaos Canyon Landslide in Rocky Mountain National Park'
January 17, 2024
January 17, 2024
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.
2024 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Talk Title (click link to view video) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/20 | Sabrina Martinez |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Variations in population exposure to landslides within the United States |
| 03/13 | Lisa Luna | U.S. Geological Survey |
Global rainfall thresholds for urban landslides |
| 02/21 | Nina Oakley* Matt Thomas** |
*California Geological Survey, **U.S. Geological Survey |
Rainfall intensification amplifies exposure of American Southwest to conditions that trigger postfire debris flows |
| 02/14 | Sara M. Vallejo-Bernal |
University of Potsdam |
Atmospheric rivers cause the majority of precipitation- induced landslides in Western North America |
| 01/17 | Kate Allstadt | U.S. Geological Survey |
The Many Mysteries of the 2022 Chaos Canyon Landslide in Rocky Mountain National Park |
| 01/10 | Alex Strouth | BGC Engineering | Landslide risk evaluation: tools and tips for risky decisions |
2023 Seminars
2022 Seminars
2021 Seminars
| DATE | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE (click to view video) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 and hillslope strength in a tectonically active environment? Lessons from geotechnical observations in central Nepal |
| 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 |