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 Natural hazards and emergency response
Natural Resources Canada > Earth Sciences Sector > Strong and safe communities > Natural hazards and emergency response > Landslides
Landslides
Current Activities

  • Emergency Mapping
    • Landslide inventory database development (Alain Grignon)
    • Landslide inventory and surficial geology mapping in central BC map areas 93A, 93B, 93G, 93H (Andrée Blais-Stevens)
    • Landslide inventory and surficial geology mapping of the Sea-to-Sky Highway (Andrée Blais-Stevens)
    • Mapping Methodologies Open File (Peter Bobrowsky)
    • Standardization of terminology, landslide classification, mapping standards and landslide symbology, landslide inventory, method of landslide hazard mapping (Reginald Hermanns)
  • Monitoring
    • Geotechnical investigations of slope stability and landslide characteristics in Canada's northern development regions (Baolin Wang)
    • Khyex River landslide study in northern B.C. (Andrée Blais-Stevens)
    • Results of Cross Canada Landslide Workshops (Peter Bobrowsky)
    • Monitoring of ground deformation in the discontinuous permafrost zone of central Yukon and the Mackenzie Valley as well as in the continuous zone of the Mackenzie Delta and the implications for pipelines (Wendy Sladen)
    • In SAR monitoring of large active Landslides: Frank (South East Alberta), East Gate ( BC) and Pink Mountain ( Prince George, BC) (Vern Singhroy)
    • Development of RS techniques for landslide inventory and monitoring along the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Route (Vern Singhroy)
    • Evaluation of geophysical techniques in the investigation of geological controls on landsliding and soft soil deformation in sensitive marine clay, Ottawa valley (Jan Aylsworth)
  • Research
    • Research on landslide impact on infrastructures (Baolin Wang)
    • Research on rockfall hazard mitigation, especially on reduction of rockfall damage to pipelines (Baolin Wang)
    • Development of numerical modelling techniques for stability studies of jointed rock slopes (Baolin Wang)
    • Landslide dam classification and landslide dam inventory data sheet (Reginald Hermanns)
    • Measurement of gradual slope movements and pore pressures in glacial sediments and underlying soft bedrock of northern BC and Alberta related to gas/oil pipelines (Wendy Sladen)
    • Earthquake-induced landslides in sensitive marine clay (Leda clay) of eastern Canada (Jan Aylsworth)
    • Landslide studies in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile (Reginald Hermanns)
    • Landslide studies in Peru (Peter Bobrowsky)
  • Outreach - Education
    • Landslides website design and maintenance (Alain Grignon)
    • Teach differential GPS field courses in Argentina, Bolivia (Reginald Hermanns)
    • Remote Sensing Training courses for Landside Inventory and Monitoring- Multinational Andean Program (Vern Singhroy)
    • Public outreach /media communications activities (Jan Aylsworth)
    • Best Practices Handbook (Peter Bobrowsky)

2005-11-09Important notices