The Earth Surface Processes and Landforms special issue was guest edited by Michael Krautblatter (TUM) and Jeffrey R. Moore (Univ. of Utah). The issue contains 15 articles discussing state of the art in weathering, detachment, transport and… [weiterlesen]

Erosion in alpine landscapes occurs as a result of processes such as glaciation, cracking of rocks through freeze/thaw action, rockfall and landsliding, and river erosion. In a new study due to be published in the February 2015 issue of E&PSL,… [weiterlesen]

As part of the XII IAEG congress in Torino (Italy) Milos Marjanovic co-chaired a session on Advanced landslide field instrumentation and monitoring. The session gathered multidisciplinary researchers from China to Canada with illustrative case… [weiterlesen]

A "Preis für gute Lehre an Bayerns Universitäten" (Prize for Good Teaching at Bavaria's Universities) was awarded to Michael Krautblatter by Bernd Sibler, the Bavarian State Secretary of Science. The award ceremony for the fifteen nominees was… [weiterlesen]

Stress corrosion cracking is a process that describes the interaction of chemistry and loading on fractures in materials. This determines the time it takes for fractures to propagate in intact rock, and therefore the rate of rockfall development in… [weiterlesen]

A new article from Shiva Pudasaini (University of Bonn) and Michael Krautblatter (TUM) is now available online. In it, they introduce a new two-phase model that is capable of performing dynamic strength weakening due to internal fluidization and… [weiterlesen]

Monsoon rains triggered a large earth flow near the town of Koslanda yesterday (29/10/2014). The landslide struck early in the morning, and according to the Disaster Management Center destroyed more than 120 homes, with current estimates suggesting… [weiterlesen]

This week the Landslide Research Group at TUM hosted the 7th annual meeting of the German working group on permafrost (AK Permafrost). The meeting brought together 50 researchers from across Europe (Switzerland, Austria, United Kingdom, Norway,… [weiterlesen]

Increased rockfall activity has recently been noticed at the Hochvogel (2592 m üA, Allgäu, Germany), where a large fracture at the peak is gradually opening. Lukas Paysen-Petersen and Michael Krautblatter, along with MSc students of the TUM landslide… [weiterlesen]

The window is now open for abstract submission to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015. The conference will run from the 12th - 17th of April in Vienna (Austria), while the window for abstract submission closes on 7 Jan 2015. … [weiterlesen]