Summer School - Mass movements under climate change: characterisation and monitoring
12.07.2024
The Mass movements under climate change: characterisation and monitoring - Summer School will be held from 18 to 20 September 2024 at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padova (via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova (Italy).
The Summer School, held in English, offers frontal lessons and a field trip in the Southern Alps mountains to visit landslide case studies. It is reserved for Ph.D. Students, earth-sciences early career scientists, geologists, environmental and geotechnical engineers, public agency employers, etc.
Mountain environments are particularly threatened by extreme events and climate change, especially in terms of slope instability.
Mass movements are expected to increase in number and magnitude in the near future. Advanced remote sensing techniques, coupled with geophysical characterisation of the subsurface and monitoring systems, can now help us study the evolution of landslides.
This multi-disciplinary Summer School will focus on the following critical open questions:
- meteorological predisposing conditions and extreme events: what can we expect?
- remote sensing: how to monitor dynamics?
- geophysical characterisation: what's inside?
- monitoring system: early warning and long-lasting monitoring?
Participation, with registration, is limited to maximum 25 participants and admission fee is fixed to euro 100.
Deadline for application: September 11, 2024.
