🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Colleagues at the BC Geological Survey just released a surficial geology compilation for the central part of the province. www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...

Debris flows after fires can destroy infrastructure. The #USGS just improved its methods for assessing debris flow risk. eos.org/articles/a-n...

In British Columbia, the remarkable CAN$115 million Cheekeye Debris Barrier Project is almost complete, designed to mitigate the risk posed by debris flows to the town of Squamish. eos.org/thelandslide...

Interested in post-wildfire geohazards? There is an in-person and online workshop as part of the Geohazards 9 conference. It is possible to just register for the workshop. www.geohazards9.ca/workshops

📢 @geogdurham.bsky.social, a world-leading department for geographical research and education at @durham.ac.uk, is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography with expertise in Earth Observation... 🛰️ 1/3

I wish I was in Aotearoa this week to attend in person but streaming it online will be the next best thing landsliderisk.nz

“Rock slide closes Yellowhead Highway west of Jasper” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - CBC News The Yellowhead Highway, also known as #BCHwy16, is still closed west of Jasper, Alberta according to Drive BC: www.drivebc.ca?pan=-118.666... 511 Alberta: 511.alberta.ca#:Alerts #ABRoads #BCPoli #Jasper

ICYMI: “The Peace River Regional District has issued a notice to an expanded group of homes, telling residents of Old Fort that they should be prepared to leave on short notice.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/23/n... - @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social #OldFort cc: #FortStJohn

Reported new activity near the Old Fort Landslide in British Columbia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nice view of Canmore today: Cougar Creek (centre of the photo), which drains out these snowy mountains, is one of the stops on our upcoming @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social field school, where we will meet with a town engineer to talk about geohazards and mitigation.

Since 1994 there has been a 32 times increase in the number of research outputs with the keyword "landslide". This represents a diversification of the discipline areas with an interest in landslides, and in the geography of the researchers themselves. eos.org/thelandslide...

Well played YYJ, those cherry blossoms sure make the uphill part of the bike commute pretty.

Our paper (me, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social and Carie-Ann Hancock) providing highlights for British Columbia from the preliminary Canadian landslide database is now available at cmscontent.nrs.gov.bc.ca/geoscience/P... A bit thanks for all the 15 contributors for their ongoing support.

Knock knock, no one’s there. Study finds scientists’ jokes mostly fall flat www.nature.com/articles/d41... Yup I have had jokes fall flat during conference presentations. Apparently I am not alone (maybe even in the majority)

COQUITLAM, BRITISH COLUMBIA: “Search and rescue crews used a helicopter and long lines to airlift eight people, two dogs and a cat to safety after a landslide in northern Coquitlam Thursday.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #Coquitlam

www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/w... Reports of rock slide overnight on Whistler Mountain

Version 13 of the Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database is available. Highlights include 2,500 new entries and 449 slopes that were likely moving (2016-2024) based on interpretation of NRCan and NASA InSAR-based deformation maps. zenodo.org/records/1821...

Magnitude 6.8 earthquake ten minutes ago along Yukon/Alaska border on the Fairweather Fault. I am guessing this will result in some big landslides. 🧪⚒️ earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

This week I get the chance to present at the Rock Slope and Gravity 2025 (RSG-2025) Conference: Forecasting and Modelling Large Rock Slope Failures in a Changing Mountain Environment. Lots of interesting talks: wp.unil.ch/rsg-2025/pro... It has an option to attend online.

Natural Resources Canada has released a national scale maps of active deformation processes based on 2017-2024 Sentinel-1 InSAR data. For best results download the images, load them up in your fav GIS software, and watch out many hours will be spent checking out features you always wondered about.

Only six days left to submit an abstract to Geohazards 9 which will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada next June. www.geohazards9.ca

The 17 December 2024 Takhini River landslide and river-ice tsunami in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada highlights the role of progressive failure in frozen materials. eos.org/thelandslide...

Had a great day in the field yesterday. Between Woss and Zeballos on Vancouver Island.

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Over the last three years, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social, @geocron.bsky.social, me, and twelve colleagues have been compiling a Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database. Version 12 is now available and contains 25,500 entries. zenodo.org/records/1721...

IT’S ALIVE! The Glossary of Permafrost Science and Engineering is released and available to all for free! Spread the news! You can download it here: canadianpermafrostassociation.ca/glossary-of-...

You can now submit your abstract for the Geohazards 9 conference next June in Edmonton Alberta www.geohazards9.ca/call-for-abs...

Interesting landslide landscape visible in the newly available 2024 lidar along the Fraser River. Lidar from lidar.gov.bc.ca/pages/downlo... Landslide outlines from www.frdr-dfdr.ca/repo/dataset... Landslide points from zenodo.org/records/1529...

the new Landslide Mapping Guidelines from Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia are now available. A useful document for geohazard practitioners in British Columbia (and beyond). tools.egbc.ca/Registrants/...

Derek Cronmiller of the Yukon Geological Survey has provided a stunning set of the images of the fascinating recent failure that partially blocked the Yukon River. This is a textbook example of a complex rotational landslide:- eos.org/thelandslide...

A landslide in quick (sensitive) clay in central Québec this week as been featured in the news. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Lidar and previous landslide inventory support the statement in the news report that landslides have occurred in the area before.

I am pleased to report that we are now accepting abstracts for the 11th International Conference on #Geomorphology in Christchurch New Zealand in February 2026. #geoscience #hazards #rivers #tectonics #glaciers #coasts #landslides Please repost. www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/call...

Very interesting new paper by former colleagues Carie-Ann Hancock and Kyle Wlodarczyk on the role of wildfires and forest harvesting on geohazards and channel stability during the November 2021 atmospheric river in SW British Columbia, Canada. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The next Canadian Geohazards Conference will be June 1-3, 2026 in Edmonton Alberta. You can register for updates at geohazards9.ca

Brienz has just been evacuated for the second time. The decision is based, among other things, on thousands of simulations that ETH professor Jordan Aaron has produced using a computer model he developed. In an interview with ETH News, he explains why this model was used.

Really interesting article and radio interview about landslide early warning systems in British Columbia and Alaska. Featuring the work by @volcancanuck.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...

Pretty scenery this morning in Selbu, Trøndelag county, Norway

If you are a professional geoscientist or engineering in British Columbia, Canada, there is a new Artificial Intelligence Practice Advisory from EGBC. www.egbc.ca/News/Article...

Great new resources on slope stability published by the New Zealand Geotechnical Society www.nzgs.org/libraries/sl...

Hearing #bchwy7 is blocked by a rock slide by Haig Scale. #hopebc #agassiz

One of the most impressive landslide landscape in British Columbia Canada is near Pinaus Lake (9km south of small community of Falkland). The geology consists dominantly trachyandesite and breccia flows with some shale, sandstone, conglomerate units.

I had the chance to attend GeoMontreal 2024 (Canadian Geotechnical Society Conference) last week in Montreal. My co-authors and I got to present two papers on our recent work on landslides in Whitehorse, Yukon. www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

LiDAR difference map of the #ChilcotinLandslide, flown by Brian Menounos and @hakaiinstitute.bsky.social system shows about 6x10^6 m3 of change. Will be very interesting to see how this is incised as the flood begins in the coming days.

I saw an interesting bank erosion protection structure yesterday where tree root mat stumps were lashed and bolted together in a creek bend just before road culverts. It was a new one for me.

As part of the 14th International Symposium on Landslides field trip I visited the La Séchiliènne Landslide. Great to see this site after reading so many papers on it.

I had the chance to do fieldwork in Labrador this month. Such a beautiful landscape 😍

The number of fatal landslides in 2024 continues to be much higher than in any previous recorded year. The reasons are not clear, but may be related to the unprecedented high global surface air temperature and global sea surface temperature. eos.org/thelandslide... #climatechange #globalwarming

Tomorrow (April 30, 2024) is the deadline to submit abstracts to the Canadian Quaternary Association and Canadian Geomorphology Research Group Biennial Meeting. event.fourwaves.com/canqua2024/p...

Abstract submission is now open for the Canadian Quaternary Association and Canadian Geomorphology Research Group Biennial Meeting 2024 event.fourwaves.com/canqua2024/p...