Event sponsored by the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University. Organised by the Citizens’ Panel attached to the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (CSJCA), Durham University.

This event follows on from a very successful Institute of Advanced Study-sponsored series of activities in 2012:  ‘New storylines for living with environmental change: citizens’ perspectives’. During this series, a Citizens’ Panel was formed with the overall aim of developing an approach to public engagement with science – exploring the social and ethical implications of different emerging and potentially contested technological responses to ‘living with environmental change’. Our first event of 2013 was held on 7th March, and was entitled ‘Responsible Science and Public Engagement: A Scientific Dilemmas Café.’

Monday 3rd June 2013, 4.00pm – 6.00pm

Holgate Centre, Grey College, Durham University

South Road, Durham DH1 3LG. Phone: 0191 334 5900 Read more

The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience is hosting a unique forum for postgraduate researchers interested in learning more about fieldwork from a variety of perspectives.

Friday 24 May 201310.15-12.30 (followed by lunch) Joachim Room, Hild Bede College, Durham University

The forum is an opportunity to mix with Postgraduate Students from around the University and exchange ideas and experience about the challenges and opportunities of carrying out fieldwork and practical work at postgraduate level. Presentations will be given by postgraduate students on their international field work experiences in hazard and risk research. Early career researchers will also be available for a Q&A session about doing field work.

To register for the Postgraduate Forum please send an email to ihrr.pg@durham.ac.uk with name and dietary requirements.

Reblogged from Earthquakes without Frontiers:

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Professor Alex Densmore and I are currently recruiting a Post-Doctoral researcher to work with us on a project on earthquake-induced landslides. This post, which will start on 1st October 2013, is a two month position that is part of the consortium team on the ‘Earthquakes Without Frontiers’ project that is featured on this blog, funded by the…

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Resilience can mean many things to different people, spanning art, culture, history, language, science and nature, to name but a few. What is fascinating about resilience is that it may not be limited to words.  Photography can be used to explore a highly ambiguous term by revealing its meaning through pictures.  Not long ago IHRR held an online photo competition to see how people viewed resilience from their perspective.  What we received in response was a wide range of photos, from portraits of people to landscapes, ways of life and survival.  These photos tell stories of resilience in both personal and universal ways.  Since we couldn’t include all of the photos in the next issue of our magazine Hazard Risk Resilience, we decided to post some of the runners-up here for everyone to see. Read more

Rob Parker (University of Cardiff) and Dave Petley

The Mw = 7.8 earthquake on Tuesday in Iran was the largest event in that country for about 50 years. Fortunately, the depth of the earthquake (82 km) and the low population density in the affected areas meant that loss of life was low for an event of this size.  Indeed, reports suggest that only one person died in Iran, although there are reports of 40 deaths in Pakistan.  This single fatality in Iran was the result of a landslide, and one of the images on the BBC reports about the earthquake also seems to show landslides:

Over the last three years or so, we have been working with our colleagues Alex Densmore and Nick Rosser, funded by the Willis Research Network, to develop a model that will allow us to make an initial assessment of landslide impacts in earthquakes.  Rob recently submitted his PhD, and has now moved to a post-doctoral position at Cardiff.  However, we thought that this event would be an interesting first application of the model, which has been produced through a statistical (logistic regression) analysis of spatial patterns of landslides (with areas larger than 11,000 square metres) triggered by four large earthquakes in the USA, New Zealand, Taiwan and China. The model provides a first-order prediction of the probability of hillslope failure across the region affected by seismic shaking, based on the strength of ground motions and the gradient of hillslopes. Areas likely to have experienced high levels of landslide activity are shown in red, and while areas we expect to be less affected by landslides are shown in green and then blue. Here, landslide probability has been estimated using preliminary ground motion data published by the USGS and hillslope gradients derived from the ASTER global elevation model. Read more

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