Month: March 2017

PRF 2017: Numerical modelling workshop confirmed and abstract submission deadlines extended

26th March 2017 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

NUMERICAL MODELLING WORKSHOP CONFIRMED Due to popular demand, we’re now happy to offer a full day numerical modelling workshop for Friday the 9/6. Register before Friday 31st March to confirm your place. Topics will include a hands-on introduction to best-practice methods for practical geotechnical applications, as well as advanced phenomenological approaches incorporating physical aspects of […]

Spalling along the Bedretto adit, showing (left) a close-up of the spall notch tip, and right, full sidewall spalling along the tunnel (Huber 2004).

MSc opportunity: Monitoring progressive damage accumulation at the Bedretto Tunnel, Switzerland

26th March 2017 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Project Framework and Goals The Furka-Oberalp railway line presents the only year-round east west connection in the Swiss Alps. It serves to link the resort areas of Valais, Central Switzerland, with those in the Grisons, as well as efficient local transportation. Construction of the Furka (Base) Tunnel began in 1972 and was completed in 1982. […]

The selected randkluft behind the Schmiedingerkees glacier (Kitzsteinhorn).

Environmental controls on bedrock fracturing and rockfall production adjacent to the rapidly thinning Schmiedingerkees glacier (Hohe Tauern Range, Austria)

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Candidate: Open Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Ingo Hartmeyer, Markus Keuschnig Institution: ETH Zurich, GEORESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH Activity: Beginning Fall 2018 Since 1880 mean annual air temperatures in Austria have risen by 2 °C, more than twice the average global warming of 0.85 °C. Glacier retreat has evolved into one of the most visible consequences of this climatic change in […]

Perspective view of the Hérémence Valley (south of Sion, VS). Hillslopes responding to long-term fluvial incision are highlighted, with increasingly cooler colours reflecting progressively older waves of incision.

MSc opportunity: The relationship between large-scale geomorphological processes and local slope instabilities affecting transport networks

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Candidate: Open Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Larissa de Palézieux Institution: ETH Zurich Activity: Beginning Fall 2018 The construction of transportation routes can markedly increase the risk of rockfalls and landslides in Alpine settings. Where forming road and rail routes involves excavation or the construction of embankments in locations already in a state of critical stability, minor changes to slope […]

Installed monitoring system at Langoren Island, Finland

MSc opportunity: Monitoring progressive fracture propagation in response to environmental stress variations

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Candidate: Open Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Matthew Perras Institution: ETH Zurich, York University Activity: Beginning Fall 2018 Exceptionally warm summer temperatures in northern Europe during the summer of 2014 were accompanied by active fracturing and small rockbursts from flat-lying postglacial bedrock surfaces on a small Finnish Island. Employing a new portable acoustic emission detection system, this project will investigate […]

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Month: March 2017

PRF 2017: Numerical modelling workshop confirmed and abstract submission deadlines extended

MSc opportunity: Monitoring progressive damage accumulation at the Bedretto Tunnel, Switzerland

Environmental controls on bedrock fracturing and rockfall production adjacent to the rapidly thinning Schmiedingerkees glacier (Hohe Tauern Range, Austria)

MSc opportunity: The relationship between large-scale geomorphological processes and local slope instabilities affecting transport networks

MSc opportunity: Monitoring progressive fracture propagation in response to environmental stress variations

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