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Session Proposal: Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes (AGU25)

EP024
Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes

Session ID#: 252444

Session Description:
Natural hazards may arise from single triggering events or set off cascading surface processes that amplify impacts to life and property well beyond the initial disturbance. Both climatic (e.g., extreme weather, wildfire, climate change) and geologic (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes) events can initiate landslides, debris flows, and other mass movements. As the landscape and critical zone adjust to these disturbances, the spatial variability and dynamic nature of Earth’s surface can give rise to complex hazard chains—such as landslide-induced sedimentation and flooding, or fire–storm–debris flow sequences, among others. This session highlights cutting-edge research on both individual extreme events and cascading hazards, with a focus on interactions among atmospheric, hydrologic, and geologic systems. We welcome contributions that examine geomorphic processes and hazard cascades through observational (ground-based or remote sensing), theoretical, modeling, or applied approaches across a range of landscapes.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1402 - Critical Zone [CRITICAL ZONE]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Brian J Yanites, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, United States
Conveners:  Seulgi Moon, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Scott W McCoy, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States and A. Joshua West, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Chan-Mao Chen, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Climate-Tectonic Feedbacks in the East African Rift:A New Frontier for Earth System Science (1847054)
Dr Dereje Teklemariam, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Development Management, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Kindey Aychelhume Atalay, Organization Not Listed, Environment and Natural Resources Management, Washington, United States, Dr. Engi. Sileshi Kore Dubbe, House of Peoples' Representatives of Ethiopia, Standing Committee of State-owned Enterprises Affairs, Addis ababa, Ethiopia, Hon. Lomi Bedo Kumbi, House of Peoples' Representatives of the FDRE, Deputy Speaker, Addis ababa, Ethiopia and Hon. Gashaw Dagnew Lakew, House of Peoples Representatives of Ethiopia, Addis ababa, Ethiopia
 
The 2021 La Palma eruption: social dilemmas resulting from life close to an active volcano (1852088)
Valentin R Troll1, Meritxell Aulinas2, Juan-Carlos Carracedo3, Harri Geiger4, Francisco Jose Perez-Torrado3, Vicente Soler5, Frances M Deegan6, Christin Bloszies7, Franz Weis6, Helena Albert8, Guillem Gisbert9, James M Day10, Alejandro Rodriguez-Gonzalez3, Esteban Gazel11 and Kyle Dayton12, (1)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural Resources & Sustainable Development, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Geomodels Research Institute, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Departamento de Física-Geología, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, (4)University of Freiburg, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Freiburg, Germany, (5)Inst Productos Naturales, La Laguna, Spain, (6)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences/Natural Resources & Sustainable Development, Uppsala, Sweden, (7)University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, (8)Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology, University of Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain, (9)University of Barcelona, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, (10)Univ. California, San Diego, Geosciences Research Division, La Jolla, United States, (11)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (12)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Landslide-Channel Feedbacks Amplify Channel Widening During Floods (Invited) (1858370)
Georgina Lucy Bennett, University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, Diego Panici, University of Exeter, Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW), Exeter, United Kingdom, Francis K Rengers, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, Jason W Kean, U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States and Sara L Rathburn, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States
 
FlowAlert: A new tool for postfire debris-flow situational awareness (1861363)
Francis K Rengers, U.S. Geological Survey, Landslide Hazards Program, Golden, CO, United States
 
Widespread landsliding, catastrophic debris flows, and forest loss across southern Appalachia triggered by Hurricane Helene: past, present, and ongoing hazards (1862921)
Benjamin B Mirus1, Francis K Rengers2, Lauren Schaefer3, David Korte4, Patrick Moore5, Rick Wooten6, Olivia Hoch1, Charles Miles3, Anne Witt7, Matthew Crawford8, Jennifer Bauer9, Stephen Fuemmeler9, Philip Prince9, Arpita Nandi10, Corey Scheip11, Bradley Gordon Johnson12, Arthur J Merschat13, Liam Toney3, Paula Burgi3 and Kate Allstadt14, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (3)USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, (4)North Carolina Geological Survey, Raleigh, United States, (5)NOAA, Greenville-Spartanburg, United States, (6)North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Mooresville, NC, United States, (7)Virginia Department of Energy, Geology and Mineral Resources Program, Charlottesville, United States, (8)University of Kentucky, Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington, KY, United States, (9)Appalachian Landslide Consultants, PLLC, Asheville, United States, (10)East Tennessee State University, Geosciences, Johnson City, United States, (11)BGC Engineering Inc., Golden, United States, (12)Davidson College, Environmental Studies, Davidson, United States, (13)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (14)USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States
 
Rock and Roll: Smart Rocks for Observing Landslide Sediment Cascades from Within (1864288)
Georgina Lucy Bennett, University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, Kyle Roskilly, University of Exeter, Environment and Sustainability Institute, Penryn, United Kingdom, Kate Newby, University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom, Andreas Senn, Copernicus Technologies, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, Matt Westoby, Plymouth University, Geography, Plymouth, United Kingdom and SENSUM and Superslug Project Teams
 
Forecasting Channel Response to Extreme Floods Using River Morphology: Lessons from Hurricane Helene (1865385)
Claire C Masteller1, Julia Prata1, Ajay B Limaye2, Bradley Gordon Johnson3, Corey Scheip4 and Colin B Phillips5, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)Davidson College, Environmental Studies, Davidson, United States, (4)BGC Engineering Inc., Golden, United States, (5)Utah State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Utah Water Research Laboratory, Logan, United States
 
Watershed-Scale Rainfall–Subsurface Structure Interactions and their Influence on Shallow Landslide Triggering (1873598)
Mirna Kassem, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States and Dimitrios Zekkos, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States
 
Seasonal motion at the Barry Arm landslide, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, driven by headscarp-proximal glacier melt and subglacial topography of adjacent Cascade Glacier (1882297)
Helen Willemien Dow, USGS Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, Brian D Collins, USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Moffett Field, United States, Gabriel J Wolken, Dept. of Natural Resources, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Charles Miles, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States and Johannes Gassner, Geopraevent, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Storm Structure Properties and Reflectivity Patterns in Post-Fire Debris Flow-Triggering Events Using Radar Composites (1884473)
Silvana Castillo Guerra, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Development of Kinetic Energy–Rainfall Intensity (KE-I) Relationships using Disdrometer Measurements in the Mountainous Region of Tanay, Rizal (1887753)
Generich Capuli, Marco Polo Ibañez, Alvin Pura and Marcelino Villafuerte II, Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration, Research & Development and Training Division, Quezon City, Philippines
 
Frictional constraints on conditions leading to initiation of the Sevier Gravity Slide, Southern Utah (1893265)
Matthew Idzakovich1, W. Ashley Griffith1, Danika Mayback2, Robert F. Biek3, Michael John Braunagel4, David B. Hacker5, David H Malone6 and Tiffany A Rivera7, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, (2)Lettis Consultants International, Concord, United States, (3)Retired, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Duluth, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Duluth, United States, (5)Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States, (6)Illinois State University, Geography-Geology, Normal, IL, United States, (7)University of Missouri Columbia, Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States
 
From Fault to Flood: Quantifying the Emergence and Mass Balance of a Cascading Hazard Following an Earthquake and Successive Storms in Taiwan (1893680)
Ya-Shien Lin1, Brian J Yanites1, Zixin Lee2 and Ray Y Chuang3, (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, United States, (2)National Taiwan University, Department of Geography, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Investigating the potential for volcanic island flank collapse and tsunami generation within the Pacific Ocean (1896698)
Daniel O'Hara1, Shaul Hurwitz2, Mark E Reid3, Charles Mandeville4, Katherine R Barnhart5, Lauren Schaefer5 and Eric L Geist6, (1)USGS California Volcano Observatory, Mountain View, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, United States, (3)USGS, Volcano Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, United States, (5)USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, (6)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
How long can eruptions disturb river systems? (1897524)
Scott A Feehan, Jon J Major and Adam R Mosbrucker, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, United States
 
Predicting failure events and long-term evolution in landscapes by modeling sediment creep dynamics under groundwater flow forcing (1897799)
Morgane Houssais, Clark University, Physics, Worcester, United States, Mara Orescanin, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Oceanography, Monterey, CA, United States and David Litwin, Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States
 
Detection and Characterization of Debris Flow Events in a Catchment Affected by Historical Volcanic Deposits (1903262)
Takashi Koi, Hokkaido University, Center for Natural Hazards Research, Sapporo, Japan and Naomi Nagata, Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Japan
 
Integrating Geospatial Technologies and Field Data to Evaluate Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Alaska’s Wildlands and Wildland-Urban Interface. (1905148)
Edward Graham, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, United States, Jennifer Schmidt, University of Alaska Anchorage, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Anchorage, AK, United States, Hannah Chapman-Dutton, Geophysical Institute Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States and Jennifer Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Constructing a decadal sediment budget following the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake (1905337)
Gen Li1, A. Joshua West2, Hongrui Qiu3, Zhangdong Jin4, Douglas E Hammond5, Alexander Densmore6, Robert G Hilton7, Fei Zhang4, Jin Wang8, Sijia Dong9, Abra Atwood10, Woodward W Fischer11 and Michael P. Lamb12, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, (4)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (5)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Durham University, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom, (7)Durham University, Geography, Durham, United Kingdom, (8)CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (9)Nanjing University, School of Sustainable Energy and Resources, Suzhou, China, (10)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (12)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
 
Volume Estimation and Porosity Characteristics of Large Woody Debris Accumulation Using Indoor Experiments (1906537)
Fang Fang Hsiao, National Chung Hsing University, Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Taichung City, Taiwan, Min Chih Min Liang, National Chung Hsing University, Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Taichung, Taiwan and Su-Chin Chen, Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Taichung, Taiwan
 
Exploring Lithologic and Geomorphic Controls on River Hazard Cascades (1914551)
Fatemeh Shacheri, Virginia Tech, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, Ashanie Long-Reid, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, Brian Pinke, Graduated from Western Washington University, Belingham, United States, Allison M Pfeiffer, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Jonathan A Czuba, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States
 
Natural Hazards in India's Mountain Regions: Analyzing Risks, Impacts, and Resilience Strategies (1919151)
Saurabh Krishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
 
Evolution of Sediment Granular Characteristics Carried by Hurricane Hilary-Induced Post-Wildfire Debris Flows (1937884)
Ingrid Tomac, University of California San Diego, Department of Structural Engineering, La Jolla, CA, United States, Lucia Landaverde Robles, University of California San Diego, Structural Engineering, La Jolla, United States and Haohua Chen, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
 
Post-Disaster Landscape Recovery: Interactions Between Landslides, Vegetation Regrowth, and Soil Moisture in the Himalayas (1941857)
Anamika Sekar and Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Roorkee, India
 
Quantifying sediment fluxes for a small catchment from Cyclone Gabrielle using multitemporal lidar (1944665)
Justin C Stout, James Brasington and Justin M Rogers, University of Canterbury, Waterways Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
 
Projected changes in precipitation-driven soil erosion across the contiguous United States (1945533)
Renato Amorim, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, Gabriele Villarini, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States, Alexander Michalek, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Andreas Prein, ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Can Vegetation Regrowth Tame Post-Wildfire Flash Flooding? (1945578)
Elijah David Orland1,2, Rachel Loehman3, Johanna Blake4, Peter Robichaud5, Sarah Lewis6, Brian Scott Sheppard6, Brian A Ebel7, Melanie B Follette-Cook1, Tatiana V Loboda8 and Douglas C Morton1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR II, Baltimore, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Moscow, United States, (6)USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States, (7)U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Systems Processes Division, Water Resources Mission Area, Burlington, United States, (8)University of Maryland, College Park, United States
 
Leveraging River Channel Geometry to Enable Probabilistic Flood Inundation Forecasts Across Scales (1956762)
Colin B Phillips1, Jose Castejon Villalobos2, Noelle Patterson1, Anzy Lee2, Jesse Bower3, Rebecca Manners Diehl4, Claire C Masteller5 and Belize Arela Albin Lane2, (1)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States, (2)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States, (4)University of Vermont, Geography & Geosciences; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, United States, (5)Washington University in St. Louis, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States
 
Modeling Catchment-Scale Sediment Dynamics and Flood-Related Hazards with SMART-SED (1969547)
Monica Corti1, Camilla Crippa2, Monica Papini2 and Laura Longoni2, (1)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, 20133, Italy, (2)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milan, Italy
 
DistributedHydrologyGenerator: A new component for ingesting externally modelled distributed hydrology outputs into Landlab (1981284)
Jeffrey W Keck, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Port Angeles, United States, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Allison M Pfeiffer, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Eric Hutton, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, United States
 
Mapping buried ice and quantifying degradation rates for the most dangerous moraine dams in Nepal using fused Sentinel-1 InSAR and feature tracking (1985983)
George Brencher, University of Washington, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Scott T Henderson, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States and David E Shean, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States
 
Large-scale monitoring of post-wildfire sediment dynamics in southern California using repeat airborne lidar (Invited) (1986066)
Roman A DiBiase1,2 and Brandon Thomas Fong1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
 
Impact of Extreme Rainfall and Fire on Geomorphic Hazards of Western Transverse Ranges in Southern California (1989681)
Alexander Koutsoukos, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Seulgi Moon, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, A. Joshua West, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Idil Akin, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Adit Ghosh, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Chuxuan Li, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Analysis of Post-fire Floods: Connecting Hazards and Scales in Mediterranean Climates (1999863)
Sandra Muñoz1, Cristian R Escauriaza1, Sebastian Nash1 and Mariana Dobre2, (1)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Santiago, Chile, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, United States
 
Increasing frequency and magnitude of Himalayan glacial outburst flows (2002829)
Scott W McCoy, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States, Jonathan Jacquet, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Daniel McGrath, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States and Sajid Ghuffar, Institute of Space Technology, Space Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
 
Deep critical zone controls on shallow landslides (2003339)
Seulgi Moon1, Giuseppe Formetta2, Justin T Higa1, Riccardo Busti3, Dino G. Bellugi4, David Milledge5 and William E Dietrich6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Università di Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Trento, Italy, (3)University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Trento, Italy, (4)University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, (5)Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (6)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States