T162 Debris Flow, Landslide, and Rockfall: Initiation, Prediction, and Warning

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  QUANTITATIVE DEBRIS FLOW RISK ANALYSIS
  Matthias Jakob, BGC Engineering Inc, Vancouver, BC
  124237 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  SOIL ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF LANDSLIDE AND DEBRIS FLOW INITIATION SITES, COAST RANGE, OREGON
  Jonathan P. McKenna, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Xavier Amblard, Université Paris VI, Scences de la Terre, Paris, N/A
  131046 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  NUMERICAL MODELING OF DEBRIS FLOW RUNOUT IN THE SWISS ALPS
  Brian W. McArdell, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, N/A and Matteo Cesca, Department of Land and Agro-Forest Environments, Legnaro (Padova), N/A and Christian Huggel, University of Zurich, Zurich, N/A and Thomas Scheuner, University of Zurich, Zurich, N/A and Christoph Graf, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, N/A and Marc Christen, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Davos Dorf, N/A
  131544 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  USING DEBRIS RETENTION BASIN DATA TO UPDATE MODELS THAT PREDICT SEDIMENT VOLUME FROM DEBRIS FLOWS AND FLOODS
  Joseph E. Gartner, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Susan H. Cannon, N/A
  127451 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  ESTIMATION OF INUNDATION AREAS OF POST-WILDFIRE DEBRIS FLOWS
  David R. Bernard, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Susan H. Cannon, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO and Paul M. Santi, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Jerry D. Higgins, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  126992 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  STORM RAINFALL CONDITIONS FOR FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS FROM RECENTLY BURNED AREAS IN SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  Susan H. Cannon, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Joseph E. Gartner, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Raymond C. Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and James C. Bowers, U.S. Geological Survey, Apple Valley, CA and Jayme L. Laber, National Waether Service, Oxnard, CA
  127295 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  LANDSLIDE WARNING CAPABILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
  Rex L. Baum, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  131212 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  A MODEL FOR PREDICTING THE TRANSITION OF A FLASH FLOOD TO A DEBRIS FLOW CAUSED BY CHANNEL EROSION AND BANK COLLAPSE
  Jason W. Kean, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  129564 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  THE VELOCITIES AND IMPACT FORCES OF DIFFERENT SIZE PARTICLES WITHIN DEBRIS FLOWS
  Adam B. Prochaska, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Paul M. Santi, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Jerry D. Higgins, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Susan H. Cannon, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  130718 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM A FOLLOW-UP STUDY ON RATES OF SHALE UNDERCUTTING
  William L. Niemann, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
  129201 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  USING AIRBORNE LIDAR AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES FOR FIELD VERIFIED VIRTUAL LANDSLIDE HAZARD MAPPING— A NEW APPROACH TO AN OLD PROBLEM WITH EXAMPLES FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND SAN FRANCISCO
  William Haneberg, University of Kentucky Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington, KY
  128507 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  THE ROLE OF CEMENTATION VARIABILITY IN COASTAL BLUFF-LANDSLIDE ANALYSIS
  Brian Collins, US Geological Survey Landslide Hazards Program, Menlo Park, CA and Nicholas Sitar, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Robert Kayen, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  130375 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  CRITICAL ROCK HAZARD RATING COMPONENTS FOR SEDIMENTARY SLOPES IN COLORADO
  Paul M. Santi, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Jessica Spriet, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Chris Russell, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Jerry Higgins, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  129348 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  OVERCONSOLIDATED SHALES AND THEIR ROLE IN TRIGGERING MEGALANDSLIDES IN THE GRAND CANYON SHALES
  Conor M. Watkins, University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO and J. David Rogers, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO
  127056 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  MODES OF FAILURE AND REMEDIATION TECHNIQUES FOR ROCK CUTS IN SEDIMENTARY STRATA SUBJECT TO DIFFERENTIAL WEATHERING
  Abdul Shakoor, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH
  126849 (Technical Sessions)