This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings. The blog is written on a personal basis by Dave Petley, who is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

This blog is a personal project that does not seek to represent Durham University.

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Slope Stability 2011

The website of the latest in an excellent set of Canadian conferences on slope stability and instability is now available at the following link:

http://www.slopestability2011.ca/

The meeting will be held on 18th-21st September 2011 in Vancouver.  The focus is on  Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering.  The call for papers is now out, with abstracts due by 31st December 2010. 

This meeting serves as a nice aperitif to the International Symposium on Landslides, which will be held in Banff, Canada in June 2012.  Abstracts for that meeting are due on 15th April 2011.
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Rick Guthrie said...

Hi Dave,

Can you also let your readers know about Geohazards5? http://www.geohazards5.ca/
With the Oliver and Mount Meager landslides this year, we are going to have pretty cool meeting.

Best regards,

Rick.

7:50 pm, October 18, 2010

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