Chair of Landslide Research

We would like to invite you to this year's 7th AK Permafrost Meeting, from the 24 - 26.10.14 in Wartaweil at the Ammersee (30 minutes from Munich). We will hold a 2-day excursion to the Zugspitze immediately prior to the conference (23 - 24.10). …

The landslide mapping course is provided by the Landslide Research group, and introduces students to geological and geomorphic mapping techniques relevant to landslide hazard identification and civil construction. This year 21 students participated…

Miloš' PhD thesis defended last year was regarding landslide susceptibility assessment and his latest project at Belgrade University (Serbia) involves GNSS and LiDAR landslide monitoring. As a Technical University Foundation Fellowship (TUFF) grant…

Heavy precipitation (over 200 mm in 3 days) caused by cyclone Tamara as it passed through Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia late last month caused unprecedented debris and earth flows in these areas. Entire sections of villages and smaller…

Lukas Paysen-Petersen has been recruited as a new PhD candidate in the TUM Landslide Research group to work on a new TUM - Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt project “Georisiken im Klimawandel - Gefahrenhinweiskarte Alpenvorland” (Georisks in climate…

The special issue arises from research presented at a recent 'Rockslides, rockfalls, and rock avalanches' session at the annual EGU General Assembly. The special issue was compiled by Michael Krautblatter and Jeffrey Moore (University of Utah), and…

The Frontiers in Earth Sciences seminar presents an opportunity for members of the Munich GeoCenter (including members from both TUM and LMU) to host leading researchers from a range of Earth science disciplines. The most recent presentation from…

A large landslide last week is thought to have killed over 2000 people from the village of Ab Barek in north-eastern Afghanistan. This is one of the worst landslide disasters of recent years, a timely reminder of the power of nature - and in this…

With two 'Rockfalls, rockslides, and rock avalanches' sessions scheduled for the annual European Geosciences Union meeting on Friday the 2nd of May, the TU Landslides group will be particularly busy. Alongside two presentations earlier in the week,…

The tectonic stress feedback loop used by Kerry Leith and co-authors to explain U-shaped glacial valley formation has this week been featured as a research spotlight in the American Geophysical Union weekly magazine, Eos. The magazine is distributed…