The Collaborative Center for Landslide Geohazards (CCLG) held two Virtual Workshops in Spring 2023.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded a Track I – Center Catalyst effort, the Collaborative Center for Landslide Geohazards through its Centers for Innovation and Community Engagement in Solid Earth Geohazards program. This national effort is being led by the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), and the University of Colorado Boulder (CUB). The University of Washington and Pennsylvania State University have recently joined to develop the proposal for the Center. The Track I effort uses Puerto Rico as a living laboratory. The Center seeks to integrate efforts in four regions: Appalachia, Caribbean, Pacific Ranges, and Rockies – areas susceptible to landslides.
The center has three foci: Scientific Research; Education and Workforce Dev/Training; and Outreach/Community Engagement. These two-hour virtual workshops held on May 25 and June 6 invited participation from all interested parties that wanted to influence this important initiative as the project team plans for a Track 2 – Center Operation proposal. Participants were encouraged to attend one or both workshops.
The workshops both included an Introduction and Center Overview; Lightning Talks; Breakout Sessions; and Breakout Session Report Outs. The moderators and Lightning Talk speakers were as follows:
May 25
- Moderator: Roman DiBiase,Associate Professor (Penn State University)
- Lighting TalksKaty Barnhart (USGS), Roman DiBiase (Penn State), Alison Duvall (University of Washington), Carlos Ramos (University of Texas Austin)
June 6
- Moderator: Greg Tucker, Professor (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Lightning Talks: Elisa Arnone (Università degli Studi di Udine), Dalia Kirschbaum (NASA), Luke McGuire (University of Arizona), Irina Overeem (University of Colorado Boulder), Annette Patton (Sitka Sound Science Center), Karl Wegmann (North Carolina State University)
Lightning Talk Presentations
- Katy Barnhart: Participatory Modeling for Landslide Hazards
- Roman DiBiase: Tracking post-fire sediment delivery in steep landscapes using repeat airborne lidar
- Alison Duvall: Cascadia Landslides & their Aftermath
- Carlos Ramos: Sediment mobilization by landsliding in steep wet tropical settings – The case of western Puerto Rico
- Elisa Arnone: Rainfall induced-landslides: the potential of the modeling tools
- Dalia Kirschbaum
- Luke McGuire: Effects of fire on debris-flow hazards
- Irina Overeem: CSDMS-Earth Surface Processes Institute
- Annette Patton: Community Partnerships for Geohazards Monitoring in Southeast Alaska
- Karl Wegmann: Earthquakes, Landslides, Tsunamis, and Fish: The Holocene Sedimentary Record from Lake Crescent, Clallam County, Washington