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Activity

2023

• UAS EVALUATION OF A 2020 DEBRIS FLOW THAT LED TO A FIERY TRAIN DERAILMENT IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY
  T55 These Old Mountains Still Got It: Natural Hazards of the Evolving Appalachian Mountain Belt
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  317 / 318

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2022

• IMPLEMENTATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS FOR DESIGN, RISK ANALYSIS, AND HAZARD MITIGATION OF ROCK SLOPES IN VIRGINIA
  4 Geosciences for a Sustainable Future
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  North Meeting Room 206

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2021

• RISK ESTIMATION OF HIGH PRIORITY UNSTABLE ROCK SLOPES IN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA
  T113 Geoscience and Hydrology of Your Public Lands: STEM Internships, Research, Science, Mapping, Resource Management, and Education
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  D137

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2020

• DIGITAL 3D MODELING OF ROCK SLOPES AT DIFFICULT SITES USING STICK-MOUNTED DRONES FOR IMAGE COLLECTION
  72 Defining 3D Geologic Mapping in the Eastern North America (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Anne
• A BATHYMETRIC AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CLAYTOR LAKE USING SONAR TECHNOLOGY
  7 D6. Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology, and Soils (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Anne

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2019

• IMPLEMENTATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FOR THE DESIGN, RISK ANALYSIS, AND HAZARD MITIGATION OF ROCK SLOPES FOR THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
  T72 Innovative Tools for Mapping, Modelling, and Sharing 3D Geological Data: Drones, Photogrammetry, Lidar, Virtual, and Augmented Reality
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 102AB, West Building
• SCANNING, PANNING, AND PROCESSING: DELINEATION OF IGNEOUS DIKE ORIENTATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN PATAGONIAN BATHOLITH, CHILE
  T72 Innovative Tools for Mapping, Modelling, and Sharing 3D Geological Data: Drones, Photogrammetry, Lidar, Virtual, and Augmented Reality
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 102AB, West Building
• TESTING THE USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) TO EXTRACT GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE DATA FROM UNSTABLE ROCK SLOPES IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA FOR VDOT STUDIES
  12 Technology and Mapping in the 21st Century (Posters)
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom
• USING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) TO PRODUCE POINT CLOUDS OF QUARRY WALLS FOR TESTING CHANGE DETECTION SOFTWARE AND THEIR APPLICATION TO STUDYING HIGHWAY ROCKFALL RATES
  12 Technology and Mapping in the 21st Century (Posters)
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom
• MAPPING THE WEST VIEW CEMETERY IN RADFORD, VIRGINIA AND IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL UNMARKED GRAVES USING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS)
  14 Geoarchaeology
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:20 AM - 12:00 PM

  Rutledge Room

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2018

• EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL NEW ROCK FALLS AT NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK, VIRGINIA, USING GEOPHYSICS, UAS 3-D PHOTOGRAMMETRY, LIDAR, AND VIBRATION ANALYSIS
  T202 Environmental & Engineering Geology Division
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 134
• CRYPTIC FAULTING AND BASIN INVERSION REVEALED THROUGH GEOCHRONOLOGY OF VOLCANIC CLASTS IN CONGLOMERATE, REFINED USING 3-D MODELS OBTAINED BY UAS
  T142 Geologic Mapping in the Twenty-First Century: Innovative Applications of Technology and Strategies to Aid Field-Based Studies
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 242
• GIGAPAN VERSUS DRONE TOOLS: A CASE STUDY OF ROCK SLOPE STABILITY ISSUES AT NATURAL BRIDGE, ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY VA, USA
  16 Teaching Geosciences at the College Level
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 300 C

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2017

• IDENTIFYING SINKHOLES USING INFRARED AERIAL IMAGERY
  T354 Drones in Geoscience (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• PLANNING AND EXECUTING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) MISSIONS FOR LANDSLIDE INVESTIGATIONS
  T151 Current Trends in Landslide Monitoring: New Techniques, Methods, Successes, Failures, and Case Studies III
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Skagit 5
• ENGAGING STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES IN GEOLOGIC MAPPING USING COMPACT UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS - (TINY DRONES)
  T81 New Tools in the Geologist’s Toolbelt: Using Technology to Educate and Inspire Others about Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• USING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS, LIDAR, AND GEOPHYSICS TO STUDY KARST AT THE SELU CONSERVANCY, RADFORD, VIRGINIA
  5 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  James River Ballroom
• COMPARING BATHYMETRIC MAPS FROM 2011 AND 2016 USING SIDE-SCAN SONAR AND UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS AT MOUNTAIN LAKE, GILES COUNTY, VIRGINIA
  14 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  James River Ballroom
• COMBINING SIDE-SCAN SONAR, SUBMERSIBLE ROVS, AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES FOR UNDERWATER INSPECTIONS AND BATHYMETRIC MAPPING OF AN INACTIVE QUARRY NEAR CLAYTOR LAKE, VIRGINIA
  3 Digital Imaging Techniques for Enhancing Student Learning and Research
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Shenandoah H
• TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPING A SEDIMENTATION MODEL AT CLAYTOR LAKE, DUBLIN, VIRGINIA - A PROGRESS REPORT
  3 Digital Imaging Techniques for Enhancing Student Learning and Research
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Shenandoah H
• UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS 3D MODELING OF SHRINKING SHORELINES AND THE LEAKING LAKEBED, MOUNTAIN LAKE, GILES COUNTRY, VIRGINIA
  3 Digital Imaging Techniques for Enhancing Student Learning and Research
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Shenandoah H

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2016

• AN INVESTIGATION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES FOR SEVERAL DIFFERENT SOIL TYPES IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINA
  58 Recent Advances in Engineering Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• THE USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS FOR DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHIC AND THERMAL MODELING OF MOUNTAIN LAKE VIRGINIA
  58 Recent Advances in Engineering Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• RELIABILITY OF DISCONTINUITY DATA COLLECTION BY AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV
  58 Recent Advances in Engineering Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F

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2015

• ROCK SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSES USING STRUCTURE-FROM-MOTION SOFTWARE AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
  T86 Landslide Inventories and Time Series: Data Collection, Statistics, Geospatial Analysis, and Relationships to Other Geohazards
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 307
• POTENTIAL AUXILIARY WATER SOURCES FOR MOUNTAIN LAKE, GILES COUNTY, VIRGINIA
  39 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom
• EFFECTS OF TERRAIN MODIFICATION ON SURFACE WATER RUNOFF FROM THE BLUEBERRY COTTAGES WATERSHED AT MOUNTAIN LAKE, GILES COUNTY, VIRGINIA
  38 The Science behind Water and Land Management Practices (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom
• WATER LOSS AT MOUNTAIN LAKE, GILES COUNTY, VIRGINIA: LIKELY EFFECTS OF A LEAKY COLLUVIAL DAM IN CONJUNCTION WITH DRAINAGE BASIN MODIFICATIONS ON THE WATER BUDGET
  13 In Honor of Hugh H. Mills: Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes in the Southern Appalachians: Landscape Evolution and Practical Applications II
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 2:20 PM

  Rose

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2014

• UNDERWATER REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE INVESTIGATIONS OF A LEAKY LANDSLIDE DAM, MOUNTAIN LAKE, GILES COUNTY, VIRGINIA
  264 Environmental and Engineering Geology
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  217/218
• SOLVING THE ‘MOUNTAIN-LAKE’ PUZZLE: APPLICATION OF SCUBA–ASSISTED VIDEOGRAPHY, SIDE-SCAN SONAR AND HIGH-RESOLUTION, ACOUSTIC DOPPLER, CURRENT METERING FOR DETERMINING BOTTOM FLOWS
  13 Geohazards: Methods for Mapping, Monitoring, and Mitigating
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Solitude

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2013

• INVESTIGATION OF THE DAMMING OF POND DRAIN AT MOUNTAIN LAKE, VIRGINIA
  11 Seismology and Geophysics Research In The Circum-Caribbean and Eastern North American Regions (Posters)
  Wednesday, 20 March 2013

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  San Cristobal Ballroom

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2012

• SEISMIC REFRACTION SURVEY OF LANDSLIDE COLLUVIUM AND LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS AT MOUNTAIN LAKE, GILES COUNTY, VA
  156 Environmental Geoscience (Posters)
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY SURVEY OF MOUNTAIN LAKE, VA
  1 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Saturday, 31 March 2012

  7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2011

• A FRACTURE PERMEAMETER FOR EXAMINING THE ROLE OF CLEFT WATER PRESSURE IN TRIGGERING ROCK SLIDES AND A COMPARISON WITH WATER-TRIGGERED DEBRIS FLOWS
  T81 Landslides and Debris Flows: Understanding Past, Present, and Future Events
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room L100FG

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2010

• USING AIRBORNE LIDAR FOR FORENSIC STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY— TWO ROCKFALL EXAMPLES FROM YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA
  7 Seeing the True Shape of Earth’s Surface: Applications of Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR in the Geosciences
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502

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2002

• USE OF ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TO DISTINGUISH EARTH MATERIALS IN THE APPALACHIANS WITH SPECIAL APPLICATION TO DEBRIS FLOW DEPOSITS IN GRAVES MILL, VIRGINIA
  T242 Remotely Sensed Data for Geologic and Environmental Studies
  Wednesday, 30 October 2002

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2001

• CAUSE VERSUS TRIGGER IN ROCKFALLS AND ROCKSLIDES: IMPLICATIONS IN CASES OF PROPERTY DAMAGE AND PERSONAL INJURY
  10 Engineering and Environmental Geology
  Thursday, 5 April 2001

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM