International Landslide Research Group


Published Newsletters


We have published Newsletters since 1987; we switched to an electronic format in 1999. All published volumes are listed. We are very happy to receive reprints and news items from our readers, and we encourage each of you to contribute frequently. We do not encourage the citation of these newsletters.

2008

  • v22dn2 - About ILRG; Officers; Synopsis of ICFL Meeting in Switzerlands; Meeting announcement; Landslide news worlwide; End of an era

  • v22dn1 - About ILRG; Officers; Meeting announcements and news; Landslide news worlwide; Lidar make the news

  • 2007

  • v21dn4 - About ILRG; Officers; Meeting announcements and news; Landslide news worlwide; Road piping in Denmark

  • v21dn3 - About ILRG; Officers; Responses from Readers

  • v21dn2 - About ILRG; Officers; International Program on Landslides; Participation of Fao in World Landslide Forum; Asia Disaster Reduction Center; New Publications; Rockslide Summer School; Meetings; Bolivia Highway for Trucks; What is Happening Politically in the Usa?; World Landslides Database 12; Dr. Seuss Explains Computer Problems

  • v21dn1 - About ILRG; Officers; First World Landslide Forum; New Publications of Interest; Meetings; News from readers; Rockslide Summer School; Grand Canyon Walkway

  • 2006

  • v20dn3 - About ILRG; Officers; Editorial; Your Opinion about an International Program; Meetings; News from readers ; News fram Swizterland; Bulwer-Lytton Award

  • v20dn2 - About ILRG; Officers; News from readers ; Meetings; New cd; Rissa Landslide; Clarence King; Chances of employment for Phd's; New Reports

  • v20dn1 - About ILRG; Officers; Missing Volume; News from readers; Meetings (Previosly Announced); Meetings (New Announced); New Books; New Articles

  • 2005

  • v19dn6 - About ILRG; News officers; Mailing Problems; News from readers; Meetings; New Books; How to propose a Meeting of the ICFL; Old USGS Maps and Reports Now Online

  • v19dn5 - About ILRG; News officers; Information from Editor; Information from President; Eleventh ICFL; Poem; News from readers; Feeling old?; Backlog

  • v19dn4 - About ILRG; News officers; Newletter experiments; News from readers; Summary of life; Photos of California coastline; Total immersion??

  • v19dn3 - About ILRG; News from readers; First North American Landslide Conference

  • v19dn2 - About ILRG; News from readers; Poem; Job available; PHD deficit; Huge landslide at lake Tahoe; Startling new books; English lesson

  • v19dn1 - International Landslide Newsletter 2005; Red Cross World Disaster report;Japan; Bimrocks; Ethiopia Landlides; California; Maine; Busy man in Spain; Poland; Austria; Membership

    2004

  • v18dn1 - International Landslide News; ILRG Excellence and Achievement Award for Mr. Rafi Ahmad; XI International Conference and Fieldtrip on Landslides; How many lessons do we need?: A review of scientific contributions on the Stava Valley disaster; Request for technical materials from the organization of American States; Book, Map, and Conference Reviews includeing the following: Landslides, Lessons learnt from landslide disasters in Europe, Landslide susceptibility map of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy, 4th European Congress on Regional Geoscientific, Cartography and Information Systems, Workshop on Coping with Natural Hazards in Jamaica, 3rd Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards; Upcoming Conferences and Workshops; Publications and Websites of Interest; Requests, Questions and Comments; Links and Contributions

    2003

  • v17dn1 - International Landslide News; A Preliminary Digital Map of Susceptablility to Large Landslides; Request for Technical Materials from the Organization of American States; Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2003: review, publications, & notes; Natural Terrain: A Constraint to Development? review, publications, & notes; 3rd IC On Landslides, Slope Stablility & The Safety of Infrastructures: review, publications, and notes; International Conferences and Workshops; Publications and Websites of Interest; Requests and Questions; Links and Contributions

    2002

  • v16dn2 - International Landslide News; International Conference and Fieldtrip on Landslides Annual Meeting; Xth ICFL - Poland: Review, Publications and Notes; Landslides of the Emilia-Romagna Apennines; Origin of the International Landslide Research Group; International Conferences and Workshops; Publications and Websites of Interest; Software; Requests and Questions; Links and Contributions

  • v16dn1 - Landslide News; Landslide Causal Factors and Remedial Measures; Introducing the GADR Website and Toolbox; Conference and Workshops: Xth International Conference and Fieldtrip on Landslides - International Symposium on Landslides Holocene Paleoseismicity - AEG-AIPG Joint Annual Meeting 2002 - GSA Annual Meeting - "Natural Terrain - A Constraint To Development?"; Websites of Interest; Software; Requests and Questions

    2001

  • v15dn3 - Xth International Conference and Fieldtrip on Landslides - POLAND; Research on geohazards- slope movement and land use planning in the tropics; Upcoming events of interest.

  • v15dn2 - Xth International Conference and Fieldtrip on Landslides - POLAND; International Workshop on Disaster Reduction; Crowding the Rim, Summit 2001 summary; ICIMOD is not a headless horseman; Introducing a new member; News from elsewhere; Website of interest.

  • v15dn1 - Managing ground instability in urban areas; Landslide fatalities and risk in Italy; GIS landslide project in Spain; Remote sensing for earthquake effects; buried topography and coal mine fires; The velvet revolution and rebirth of the Czech Institute of rock mechanics; Oregon landslides and timber harvesting; You do not need to tell if you are on a rainfall-generated landslide; Residents resist moving out of house hanging over cliff; The role of geology in military operations; International conference of potential interest.

    2000

  • v14dn5 - Sneak preview of the 10th ICFL 2002 Poland!; conference on vulnerability reduction of trade corridors; Cunab Geological Survey extends an invitation; What's out there in ether space? Acute sensitivity of landslide rate to initial soil porosity; Letters from you!; the Storegga slide and its impact on Scotland; American planning association landslide project.

  • v14dn4 - Big Bash for Brabb; Distinguished Leadership Award to William Cotton; Distinguished Leadership Award to Robert Schister; News from readers; Pacific Rim data wanted; Rock avalanches? Forces of Nature web site; Wiped out most of Scotland?

  • v14dn3 - Substantial changes proposed; citation for distinguished leadership to Lucio Ubertini; citation for distinguished leadership to Jose Chacon Montero; ILRG links with ICFL; policies and practices of the ILRG; ponderings from Steven Wright, whoever he is; website dealing with landslides; conferences; do you have answers? news about some of our members?

    1999

  • v13dn6 - Japanese group for the ICFL, News from the readers, Is the hell exothermic or endothermic?, Landslides in timber harvest areas, Academic training in landslides, introducing Margit Kurka. 

  • v13dn5 - Report from the UK field trip, The 10th ICFL

  • v13dn4 - Response to geomorphology questions

  • v13dn3 - Brazil Thesis on landslides; GIS request; A murky future for engineering geology?; report on the 1996 Janhs lectureship tour

  • v13dn2 - Introducing David Howell; Interest in landslide hazard information in Jamaica and the San Francisco Bay Region; Conference on debris flow hazards mitigation; Yosemite rock falls; Plinius conference on Mediterranean storms.

  • v13dn1 - Computer news from the Editor; Book review; Papers for the 9th ICFL book, News from readers.

    1998

  • v12no3 - Surprised?; A not so famous storm; Debris flow hazard mitigation; Yosemite again; IAEG; EGS; USGS landslide activity (unofficial); News from the readers; New landslide courses in The Netherlands; New landslide newsletter.

  • v12no2 - Surprised?; Trouble in Paradise; Computer sex?; USGS volunteers; Letters; Bad literature awards; California El Nino, Continued SFBR; Maxims from the internet age; Other landslide events; Regarding work; Reprint received; Earthquake prediction?; News from Russian Academy; Landslide hazards in seismically active regions; What do you want? Why?

  • v12no1 - Last ICFL?; El Nino Blasts California; Alaska bears; Landslide dams in Dominica; News from the readers; Why are U.S. rails 4 feet 8 inches apart?; Signs and Notices.

    1997

  • v11no3 - News from readers; Reprint received; Not clear on the concept; Meetings; Net problem; Questions planners ask; Summer school on landslides; Children respond to love questions.

  • v11no2 - Ultimate credit?; Big changes ahead?; Meetings; News from readers; New Web Site; Report on ISL; Paleoanthropology; Papa New Guinea Landslide Problems; Books and reprints.

  • v11no1 - Email now?; Who will pay?; NhrAIC focus on natural hazards; Comments from readers; Meetings.

    1996

  • v10no3 - 8th ICFL; Predicting Landslides; Kudos to Rogers; Avoiding poverty from lawsuits; Landslide in Japan; Environmental meeting in Turkey; Debris flow meeting in San Francisco; Comments from readers; Funky newsletters; Some of the reprints received; 1996 IG Nobel prizewinners .

  • v10no2 - Blockbuster Book; Spanish Honors; Sackungen Sites Needed; Satellite Photos Now Cheap; World Landslide Inventory.

  • v10no1 - Award to Lucio Ubertini; Introducing Fausto Guzzetti; Editorial Note; ILRG Newsletter goes on the WEB; Ukrainian life and landslides.

    1995

  • v9no3 - Introducing Ed Medley; Earth awareness day October 11, 1995; Tips for increasing your awareness of landslides; News from members; USGS downsizing; Cruden replies to Marinos; Meetings.

  • v9no2 - GIS in Spain; where is Don Quixote?; GIS in Africa; the rain in Spain; beware of sand; New Zealand viewing stand falls; the descent of man; world data; neigh to toxics; news from members; the top 25?; meetings

  • v9no1 - La Conchita Southern California slide; USGS in trouble; reprint review; satellite images released; ILRG debris flow maps; large Hawaiian landslides; Alaska landslide; mud slide or mudslide?; Geological Survey Canada changes.

    1994

  • v8no3 - USGS in trouble; news from Argentina, Hong Kong and India; unhappy scientists; selling geology; Colorado sackungen; San Jose regional landslide study; funds for FSU research; bimrock; NZ village sliding; obituary for Embleton; UK slides; Email.

  • v8no2 - Retirement; reviews of reprints; report by Wayne Savigny, B.C.; IAEG dormant landslides comments; blueschist knockers; Dikau GIS work; email request; Shlemon on slip surfaces; Interpraevent 1996.

  • v8no1 - Kazakhstan news; who's on top?; obituary for Alavrado, Colombia; Univ Colombia landslide dam research project; landslide glossary; soc et tuum; hazard and risk maps wanted; FSU research funds available; Swiss re map; Turkey plans for Decade; Russian view of American science; Africa news; review of Galileo's Revenge by Huber.

    1993

  • v7no3 - Report on 7th ICFL Czech and Slovak Rep.; GIS meeting in Perugia; Dutch GIS package; Poland news; US risk course; Papua NG landslide mapping; Medley answered.

  • v7no2A - Topanga landslides; EPA regulations; knocker strength; Tully Valley, NY.

  • v7no2 - China landslide map; Vatican recants on Galileo; Italy landslides; Geneva risk course; world disasters; comparison of landslide on satellite images; news from Romania; talus runout according to Canadians.

  • v7no1 - Nichols letter on demise of engineering geology and Hamilton response; news from readers.

    1992

  • v6no3 - Varnes letter reengineering geology; Slosson complaints about engineering practice; review of Schumm book "To interpret the earth - 10 ways to be wrong".

  • v6no2A - Pennsylvania landslides; Jamaica landslides; "If I ruled the world".

  • v6no2 - USSR debris flow map; Rio de Janeiro landsliding; Rhine river wastes; more on OAS handbook; blame the Japanese; New Mexico rockfalls; builder complaint about San Mateo ordinances; Scullin et al letter about USGS landslide mapping.

  • v6no1 - OAS toolbox for planners; Mass. granite slide; landslides cut oil pipelines in Colombia; slope manual in Spanish; review of Scullin grading book; comments by George Kiersch; USGS in trouble.

    1991

  • v5no3 - Czech-Slovak ICFL notice; First Romanian landslide conference; New Mexico GIS; Fifth Perugia course; distinguishing between glacier and debris flow deposits; San Mateo Co susceptibility method; Los Angeles landslides; value of geological surveys; digital chart of the world; review of Kiersch book.

  • v5no2 - Dutch workshops in South America; Stanford seismic zonation meeting; report on USGS GIS activities; China landslide; milk as tracer in Colombia; review of Oshansky book; review of van Westen books.

  • v5no1 - Fragmented science; Ayala products; Marinos volumes; Colombia programs; Africa communication problems; controversial landslide in Washington; Illinois project to study earthquake-induced landslides; Landsat mosaic of USA.

    1990

  • v4no3 - Love Creek landslide; Chacon research; U. S. Federal Highway Admin. projects on rockfalls; Interpraevent 1992; New Zealand Survey cutbacks; Fourth Perugia course; OAS program in Central and South America; how to get USGS publications.

  • v4no2 - Report on Alps 90; Colombia landslides; landslide applications in Sweden; landslide damage to Alpine forests; Boston landslide problems; Utah high school hazards course; proposed ILRG field ltrip; IAEG Landslide Commission landslide vocabulary.

  • v4no1 - Libya landslides; reports from scientists in many countries.

    1989

  • v3no3 - 1921 disaster near Vancouver; Saratoga adopts stringent hillside rules; Swedish course in Central America; European landslide course.

  • v3no2 - European Center on Geomorphological hazards; news from England and Papua NG; New York landslide inventory; Caribbean landslide group; news from Trinidad; desert landslides by Inland Press.

  • v3no1 - More about Perugia hazard courses; earthquake-induced landsliding in Jamaica; IGC Balkema book; 1st South American Conference on landslides; Umbria landslide map; Loma Prieta earthquake-triggered landslides.

    1988

  • v2no3 - ILRG priorities for International Decade; worldwide mapping project; Nigeria landslide; Perugia landslide and flood hazard course.

  • v2no2 - flood policy does not cover landslides; Nebraska landslides; Squaw Creek slide, N. Calif.; real estate agents responsible for landslide disclosure; Mark Twain on 1906 earthquake; Sri Lanka landslides; Malibu settlement on 1983 landslide; Hurricane Gilbert landslides; landslide helps archaeologists.

  • v2no1 - flood insurance does not cover landslides; South American landslides; Nepal earthquake-triggered landslides; ISSMFE meeting in Lausanne; Riebsame comments on hazards in the 1990's; realtors kill quake-safety bill; the great Sequoia avalanche; Malibu sliding.

    1987

  • v1no3 - airplane-triggered landslide; French landslide disaster; ISSMFE technical committee on landslides; status of US states and USGS regional landslide projects.

  • v1no2 - Chengdu Inst. of Geography; Anzslide 1987; Risk analysis; Penitencia Cr landslide; landslide research in Italy; how to run a terrible field trip.

  • v1no1 - Mark Twain; landslides in semi-arid environment; status of San Mateo County GIS; activities of Regional Landslide Research Group; IGC project for Balkema book.


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