I never cease to be amazed by the landscape complexities revealed by lidar. Robbie Burns Mountain (British Columbia, Canada). Lat50.444299, Long -118.830018. Data from lidar.gov.bc.ca/pages/downlo...

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Colleagues at the BC Geological Survey just released a surficial geology compilation for the central part of the province. www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...

Debris flows after fires can destroy infrastructure. The #USGS just improved its methods for assessing debris flow risk. eos.org/articles/a-n...

A New Approach Can Better Predict Debris Flow Hazards Years After Fires - Eos

USGS hazard maps don’t always reflect real landslide risk in the years after wildfires. Fine-tuning assessments of vegetation recovery could help.

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In British Columbia, the remarkable CAN$115 million Cheekeye Debris Barrier Project is almost complete, designed to mitigate the risk posed by debris flows to the town of Squamish. eos.org/thelandslide...

The Cheekeye Debris Barrier Project - Eos

Upstream of the town of Squamish in Canada the Cheekeye Debris Barrier Project is underway to mitigate the risk of debris flows.

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Interested in post-wildfire geohazards? There is an in-person and online workshop as part of the Geohazards 9 conference. It is possible to just register for the workshop. www.geohazards9.ca/workshops

📢 @geogdurham.bsky.social, a world-leading department for geographical research and education at @durham.ac.uk, is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography with expertise in Earth Observation... 🛰️ 1/3

I wish I was in Aotearoa this week to attend in person but streaming it online will be the next best thing landsliderisk.nz

Landslide Risk and Geo-Education Conference 2026

Landslide Risk & Geo-Education (LaRGE 2026) International Landslide Risk and Geo-Education Conference in Queenstown, New Zealand.

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“Rock slide closes Yellowhead Highway west of Jasper” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - CBC News The Yellowhead Highway, also known as #BCHwy16, is still closed west of Jasper, Alberta according to Drive BC: www.drivebc.ca?pan=-118.666... 511 Alberta: 511.alberta.ca#:Alerts #ABRoads #BCPoli #Jasper

Rock slide closes Yellowhead Highway west of Jasper

One of the main routes through the mountains connecting Alberta and B.C. is currently impassable. RCMP confirm a rock slide early Saturday morning has forced the closure of Highway 16 in both directio...

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ICYMI: “The Peace River Regional District has issued a notice to an expanded group of homes, telling residents of Old Fort that they should be prepared to leave on short notice.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/23/n... - @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social #OldFort cc: #FortStJohn

New evacuation alert issued for Old Fort, B.C., residents after landslide

Officials have issued a new evacuation alert for residents in an area of northeastern B.C. where a landslide has cut off access.

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Reported new activity near the Old Fort Landslide in British Columbia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Cracking' at site of historic landslide near Fort St. John triggers shelter-in-place, road closure | CBC News

The Ministry of Transportation says it closed Old Fort Road, south of Fort St. John, Sunday night after "cracking" appeared at the site of two historic landslides.

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Nice view of Canmore today: Cougar Creek (centre of the photo), which drains out these snowy mountains, is one of the stops on our upcoming @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social field school, where we will meet with a town engineer to talk about geohazards and mitigation.

Since 1994 there has been a 32 times increase in the number of research outputs with the keyword "landslide". This represents a diversification of the discipline areas with an interest in landslides, and in the geography of the researchers themselves. eos.org/thelandslide...

Well played YYJ, those cherry blossoms sure make the uphill part of the bike commute pretty.

Our paper (me, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social and Carie-Ann Hancock) providing highlights for British Columbia from the preliminary Canadian landslide database is now available at cmscontent.nrs.gov.bc.ca/geoscience/P... A bit thanks for all the 15 contributors for their ongoing support.

Knock knock, no one’s there. Study finds scientists’ jokes mostly fall flat www.nature.com/articles/d41... Yup I have had jokes fall flat during conference presentations. Apparently I am not alone (maybe even in the majority)

Knock knock, no one’s there. Study finds scientists’ jokes mostly fall flat

Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.

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COQUITLAM, BRITISH COLUMBIA: “Search and rescue crews used a helicopter and long lines to airlift eight people, two dogs and a cat to safety after a landslide in northern Coquitlam Thursday.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #Coquitlam

8 people, 3 pets rescued after landslide knocks out power lines in Coquitlam, B.C.

A landslide in rural northern Coquitlam knocked down power lines and caused an outage for more than 5,000 BC Hydro customers, as a series of storms continued to batter the Lower Mainland Thursday.

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www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/w... Reports of rock slide overnight on Whistler Mountain

Version 13 of the Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database is available. Highlights include 2,500 new entries and 449 slopes that were likely moving (2016-2024) based on interpretation of NRCan and NASA InSAR-based deformation maps. zenodo.org/records/1821...

Magnitude 6.8 earthquake ten minutes ago along Yukon/Alaska border on the Fairweather Fault. I am guessing this will result in some big landslides. 🧪⚒️ earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

This week I get the chance to present at the Rock Slope and Gravity 2025 (RSG-2025) Conference: Forecasting and Modelling Large Rock Slope Failures in a Changing Mountain Environment. Lots of interesting talks: wp.unil.ch/rsg-2025/pro... It has an option to attend online.

Natural Resources Canada has released a national scale maps of active deformation processes based on 2017-2024 Sentinel-1 InSAR data. For best results download the images, load them up in your fav GIS software, and watch out many hours will be spent checking out features you always wondered about.

Only six days left to submit an abstract to Geohazards 9 which will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada next June. www.geohazards9.ca

Geohazards 9

Welcome to the 9th installment of the Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards.  Since the inception for the series in 1992, applied earth science practitioners from across Canada have ...

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The 17 December 2024 Takhini River landslide and river-ice tsunami in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada highlights the role of progressive failure in frozen materials. eos.org/thelandslide...

Had a great day in the field yesterday. Between Woss and Zeballos on Vancouver Island.

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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Over the last three years, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social, @geocron.bsky.social, me, and twelve colleagues have been compiling a Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database. Version 12 is now available and contains 25,500 entries. zenodo.org/records/1721...

IT’S ALIVE! The Glossary of Permafrost Science and Engineering is released and available to all for free! Spread the news! You can download it here: canadianpermafrostassociation.ca/glossary-of-...

You can now submit your abstract for the Geohazards 9 conference next June in Edmonton Alberta www.geohazards9.ca/call-for-abs...

Interesting landslide landscape visible in the newly available 2024 lidar along the Fraser River. Lidar from lidar.gov.bc.ca/pages/downlo... Landslide outlines from www.frdr-dfdr.ca/repo/dataset... Landslide points from zenodo.org/records/1529...