Triggering and Motion of Landslides 57th Rankine Lecture British Geotechnical Association Dear colleagues, I would like to share with you the keynote lecture by Professor Eduardo Alonso, from the Universitat Politecnica of Catalunya (UPC). Prof. Alonso has always been a leading figure in landslides and slope stability investigation. He has has won several medals, prizes and awards, and his achievements…
Dear colleagues, I have recently received a formal invitation for becoming a member of the editorial board in the “Academic Journal of Geographical Studies”, supported by the “International Association of Scientists and Researchers” (whatever this organization would be…). The email states that the editorial promotes publication of open-access, high standard and peer reviewed research articles in more than 45 disciplines….
I have recently achieved a new milestone: I participated in the publication of 30articles that were published on JCR-Indexed journals (landslides, Rock Mechanics, Remote Sensing, Natural Hazards, etc.). I would like to deeply acknowledge my international research network, including respectful professors, excellent post-docs and vibrant PhD students Several other manuscripts are on their way for this and forthcoming years, stay…
I’d like to share this information with all of you interested on an InSAR course: The Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) will be holding a 3-day InSAR training workshop at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK from 31 October – 02 November, 2016. The workshop, which is aimed at early…
– closed- Postdoctoral Fellow in Geohazards/Rock slope failures Application deadline: 14.4.2016 ………… Ref.: 2016/1277 ………… The Department of Geology has a Postdoctoral Fellow position vacant. The position, for a period of three years, will be part of the research groups in Crustal Dynamics and Coastal and Terrestrial Geosciences with emphasis on Geohazards and Rock slope failures
I’ve played Atari Breakout during my childhood and I am sad now knowing that computers can beat humans in several tabletop and video games… Google’s DeepMind computer program has shown its efficiency using a combination of artificial neural networks and deep reinforcement learning to improve its own capabilities with gaming… It has recently beaten Lee Sidol, a top-ranked player of…
Dear colleagues, The deadline for abstract submission to Virtual Geoscience Conference (VGC) 2016, that will take place in Bergen, 22-23 September 2016, is pproaching (30th April 2016). Here I would like to share with you some words from the organizing committee: ————————————————————————– Since the last announcement we have secured our first keynote speaker – Prof Lars Harald Blikra from the…
I found this petition very interesting, so here I share it in my personal website.. I hope you also agree with the main points… Christmas is over. Research funding should go to research, not to publishers! With this statement “Moving Forwards on Open Access“, LERU calls upon all universities, research institutes, research funders and researchers to sign this statement and…
Project title: A data driven approach to forecast landslide crisis Academic supervisor(s): Dr. Antonio Abellan Lab/School/Institute/University: Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology group / Institute of Applied Geoscience / School of Earth and Environment / University of Leeds External partner(s): Norway (NVE: Norwegian Water andEnergy directorate) and others project partners in Switzerland and Spain. Preferred start date and duration: Summer…
Hi! Good news, we have a new website for the RockRisk project, This is challenging project leaded by my colleagues at Technical school of Catalonia (Nieves Lantada and Jordi Corominas) aiming to investigate rockfall hazard and risk, both studying rockfall volumes, fragmentation, propagation and vulnerability of the building to rockfall impacts. Please, take a look at the website and collaborators…