Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)
Landscape evolution and disasters
Following the Zhouqu debris flow disaster that killed over 2000 people in 2009, we obtained funding from NERC (Grant NE/I016260/1) to use remote sensing and field surveys to investigate the tectonic and slope evolution of Gansu Province in China...more...
Regional models of geotechnical properties and landslides
We are building a model of the geotechnical properties of Tertiary clays and sands found within the Hampshire Basin (Hampshire, West Sussex, Dorset and the Isle of Wight)...more...
Auger Rotation and Pile Skin Friction in Clays
With Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering we are examining how detailed knowledge of a geological succession at construction sites may be used to improve the efficiency of continuous flight auger pile installation and of their subsequent performance...more...
High Resolution Remote sensing for landslide characterization
Commissioned research for BP to assess the use of new, high-resolution optical remote sensing techniques for the identification, monitoring, and risk assessment of landslides...more...
Spectral analysis for landslide characterization
A huge amount of information about landslide age, origin and stability might be available if we better understand the information held in their infra-red and visible light signatures’...more...
