Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessment

Session ID#: 279448

Session Description:
Landslide events can be highly destructive, causing loss of life, infrastructure damage, and economic disruption. Landslide science, which seeks to understand landslide processes and reduce impacts, is multidisciplinary and rapidly evolving, making communication and collaboration across subdisciplines essential to advance the field.

This session brings together contributions spanning the landslide life cycle, from fundamental process understanding to hazard characterization, forecasting, and risk communication. We welcome a wide range of contributions on topics including landslide mapping and modeling; rock and soil properties; susceptibility and risk assessment; triggering mechanisms such as seismic and hydroclimatic forcing; links between weather, climate variability and landslides; ground-based and remote sensing observations; cascading hazards; and early warning systems. We invite studies that bridge disciplines, including geomorphology, hydrology, and meteorology, and span scales ranging from the global scale to individual hillslopes.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1810 Debris flow and landslides [HYDROLOGY]
1826 Geomorphology: hillslope [HYDROLOGY]
4302 Geological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Jacob Woodard, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan P Perkins, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology Minerals Energy and Geophysics Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, Stratis Karantanellis, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, United States and Eric L Bilderback, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Deanna Nash, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States
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