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SUMMARY:Steps Towards Forecasting Cascading Mountain Hazards - Lorenzo Nav
 a (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20251008T130000Z
DTEND:20251008T140000Z
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CONTACT:Adriano Gualandi
DESCRIPTION:Landslides\, debris flows\, and avalanches\, are fast-moving\,
  high-impact phenomena that threaten nearly 8% of the global population. F
 orecasting them is essential to reducing human and economic losses\, but t
 wo major challenges still remain: identifying where initial slope failure 
 will occur and predicting their runout once triggered. In this talk\, I wi
 ll present work on spaceborne offset tracking to detect precursory motion 
 before failure and neural network emulators for fast\, single-phase geophy
 sical flow modeling to efficiently propagate uncertainty into flow predict
 ions. Together\, these approaches are key steps towards forecasting cascad
 ing mountain hazards.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre
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