When designing infrastructure, settlements or facilities in mountainous areas, rockfall hazard assessment is considered essential, as it is a major hazard worldwide. Rockfall hazard estimation can help greatly in the design of countermeasures, such as barriers and net fences, in order to protect the built environment, as well as for landuse planning. Rockfall modelling is considered an effectiv...

introduction the ramand area, southwest of buin- zahra, about 60 kilometers from qazvin, lies in the igneous belt of the urmieh-dokhtar region, the main structural zone of north-central iran. rhyodacite and rhyolite lava flows are the principal host rocks of mineralization and alteration of the area, most of which occurs in faulted and brecciated zones alongmaj or northwest-trending fault syste...

Landslide monitoring activities are of paramount importance for landslide hazard and risk assessment. They allow predictions to be made of the phenomenon evolution which can be used to define risk scenarios, especially when urban areas and infrastructures are involved. Over the last decades, spaceborne and, more recently, ground-based interferometric synthetic aperture radar (GB-InSAR) have bee...

S OF ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS FINAL LIST OF PRESENTATIONS 32 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PACIFIC SEABIRD GROUP 27 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WATERBIRD SOCIETY PORTLAND, OREGON, USA 19–22 JANUARY 2005 Underline = presenting author * = student paper SEABIRD AWARE PROJECT: REACHING MARINE STAKEHOLDERS AND BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO REDUCE THREATS TO SEABIRDS IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM [Poster] Sue A...