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International workshop of acoustic and seismic monitoring of bedload and mass movements

The difficulties in directly monitoring traction processes - bedload and mass movements - have prompted research into surrogate monitoring technologies, among which acoustic methods (geophones, hydrophones, ADCPs) are presently most developed, as demonstrated in the 2007 International Bedload Surrogate Monitoring Workshop held in Minneapolis. Since then it is apparent that acoustic techniques have been further developed with increasing interesting results in seismics. Hence, the objectives of this workshop are to (1) present first-hand principles of acoustics and seismics, (2) discuss first-hand signal processing techniques relevant to surrogate monitoring of bedload and mass movements, (3) consider calibration issues, and (4) describe monitoring methods that have been recently developed or improved. Workshop topics will encompass surrogate monitoring of bedload transport (river and coastal), debris flows, snow avalanches, landslides and rock avalanches with acoustic and seismic devices. Invited and submitted presentations will concentrate on research using acoustic and some relevant seismic methods. Workshop’s provisional timetable is:  

Bedload basket sampler at the Erlenbach stream.

Oral and poster presentations                                                4 - 5 Sept. 2013

Field trip 1:                                                                                         6 Sept. 2013

Bedload transport and geophone measurements in the Erlenbach  (Alptal valley, near Zürich)

Field trip 2:                                                                                         7 Sept. 2013

Debris-flow monitoring installations in the Illgraben (Rhone valley, near Sion)

• Media (some pictures) (in progress)
  
• Registration (not available yet)
• map.search.ch (Erlenbach, Illgraben)

We invite potential participants to contact Carlos Wyss (carlos.wyss@wsl.ch), indicating their extent of interest to participate at the workshop (likely / possibly / unlikely). Please contact Damia Vericat or Jens Turowski with further inquiries. The second announcement with details of registration will be posted in autumn.

Organizing committee:
Dieter Rickenmann (WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland), dieter.rickenmann@wsl.ch
Jonathan Laronne (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), john@bgu.ac.il
Jens Turowski (WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland), jens.turowski@wsl.ch
Damia Vericat (University of Lleida, Spain), dvericat@macs.udl.cat

Local organization:
Dieter Rickenmann, Carlos Wyss: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL,
Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Contact

• Dieter Rickenmann
  

• Jens Martin Turowski
  

• Carlos Rodrigo Wyss