Selected Publications

Journal Papers

• Straumann, R., Korup, O., in press. Quantifying sediment storage at the mountain-belt scale. Geology.
  
• Korup, O., 2009. Linking landslides, hillslope erosion, and landscape evolution. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 1315-1317.
  
• Korup, O., Clague, J.J., 2009. Natural hazards, extreme events, and mountain topography. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 977-990.
  
• Korup, O., Schlunegger, F., 2009. Rock-type control on erosion-induced uplift, eastern Swiss Alps. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278, 278-285.
  
• Weidinger, J.T., Korup, O., 2009. Frictionite as evidence for a large Late Quaternary rockslide near Kanchenjunga, Sikkim Himalayas, India – implications for extreme events in mountain relief destruction. Geomorphology 103, 57-69.
• Korup, O., Montgomery, D.R., 2008. Tibetan Plateau river incision inhibited by glacial stabilization of the Tsangpo gorge. Nature 455, 786-789, doi:10.1038/nature07322
  
• Korup, O., 2008. Rock type leaves topographic signature in landslide-dominated mountain ranges. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L11402, doi:10.1029/2008GL034157.
• Korup, O., Tweed, F.S., 2007. Ice, moraine, and landslide dams in mountainous terrain. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 3406-3422.
• Korup, O., Clague, J.J., Hermanns, R.L., Hewitt, K., Strom, A.L., Weidinger, J.T., 2007. Giant landslides, topography, and erosion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 261, 578-589.
• Korup, O., Schlunegger, F., 2007. Bedrock landslides, river incision, and transience of geomorphic hillslope-channel coupling: evidence from inner gorges in the eastern Swiss Alps. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 112, F03027, doi:10.1029/2006JF000710.
• Davies, T.R.H., Korup, O., 2007. Persistent alluvial fanhead trenching resulting from large, infrequent sediment inputs. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32, 725-742.
• Korup, O., Strom, A.L., Weidinger, J.T., 2006. Fluvial response to large rock-slope failures – examples from the Himalayas, the Tien Shan, and the Southern Alps in New Zealand. Geomorphology 78, 3-21.
• Strom, A.L., Korup, O., 2006. Extremely large rockslides and rock avalanches in the Tien Shan mountains, Kyrgyzstan. Landslides 3, 125-136, doi: 10.1007/s10346-005-0027-7.
• Korup, O., 2006b. Effects of deep-seated bedrock landslides on hillslope morphology, Southern Alps, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, F01018, doi:10.1029/2004JF000242.
• Korup, O., 2006a. Rock-slope failure and the river long profile. Geology 34, 45-48.
• Korup, O., Schmidt, J., McSaveney, M.J., 2005. Regional relief characteristics and denudation pattern of the western Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geomorphology 71, 402-423.
• Korup, O., 2005d. Geomorphic imprint of landslides on alpine river systems, southwest New Zealand. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 30, 783-800.
• Korup, O., 2005c. Large landslides and their effect on alpine sediment flux: South Westland, New Zealand. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 30, 305-323.
• Korup, O., 2005b. Geomorphic hazard assessment of landslide dams in South Westland, New Zealand – fundamental problems and approaches. Geomorphology 66, 167-188.
• Korup, O., 2005a. Distribution of landslides in southwest New Zealand. Landslides 2, 43-51.
• Korup, O., McSaveney, M.J., Davies, T.R.H., 2004. Sediment generation and delivery from large historic landslides in the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geomorphology 61, 189-207.
• Korup, O., 2004c. Landslide-induced river channel avulsions in mountain catchments of southwest New Zealand. Geomorphology 63, 57-80.
• Korup, O., 2004b. Geomorphic implications of fault zone weakening: slope instability along the Alpine Fault, South Westland to Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 47, 257-267.
• Korup, O., 2004a. Geomorphometric characteristics of New Zealand landslide dams. Engineering Geology 73, 13-35.
• Korup, O., 2002a. Recent research on landslide dams – a literature review with special attention to New Zealand. Progress in Physical Geography 26, 206-235.
• Korup, O., Busche, D., 2001. Persistence of flood impact on a small sand-bed stream, southeast Australia. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementband NF 122, 165-190.

Book Chapters

• Korup, O., in press. Rockslide and rock-avalanche dams in the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Proceedings NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Security of Natural and Artificial Rockslide Dams”, Bishkek June 2004. Kluwer Science Series.
• Strom, A.L., Korup, O., Abdrakhmatov, K.E., Havenith, H.B., 2005. Investigating rock-slope failures in the Tien Shan: State-of-the-art and perspectives of international cooperation (M111). In: Sassa, K., Fukuoka, H., Wang, F.W., Wang, G. [Eds.] Landslides. Risk analysis and sustainable disaster management. Springer, Berlin, pp. 109-112.
• Korup, O., Ottmer, B., 2005c. Fels- und Bergstürze – Gefahr am Hang. In: Wienecke-Janz, D. [Ed.] Entfesselte Elemente. Der Mensch und die Kräfte der Natur. Spektrum Verlag, pp. 202-205.
• Korup, O., Ottmer, B., 2005b. Armensiedlungen – Wildwuchs im Hochrisikogebiet. In: Wienecke-Janz, D. [Ed.] Entfesselte Elemente. Der Mensch und die Kräfte der Natur. Spektrum Verlag, pp. 192-195.
• Korup, O., Ottmer, B., 2005a. Erdrutsche – Hänge in Bewegung. In: Wienecke-Janz, D. [Ed.] Entfesselte Elemente. Der Mensch und die Kräfte der Natur. Spektrum Verlag, pp. 186-191.
• Korup, O., 2004d. Landslide dam. In: Goudie, A.S. [Ed.] Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Volume 2. Routledge, London, pp. 608-609.

Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed)

• Korup, O., 2005e. Rockslides and rockslide dams in postglacial fjord environments, New Zealand. In: Senneset, K., Flaate, K., Larsen, J.O. [Eds.] Landslides and Avalanches. Proceedings 11th International Conference and Field Trip on Landslides, 1-10 September 2005. Balkema/Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 221-227.
• Korup, O., Crozier, M., 2002. Landslide types and geomorphic impact on river channels, Southern Alps, New Zealand. In: Rybar, J., Stemberk, J., Wagner, P. [Eds.] Landslides. Proceedings 1st European Conference on Landslides 24-26 June 2002, Prague. Balkema, Lisse, pp. 233-238.

Conference Abstracts

• Korup, O., Montgomery, D.R., Hewitt, K., 2009. Spatial clustering of natural dams at the Tibetan Plateau in rivers draining the Himalayan syntaxes. Geophysical Research Abstracts 11, 8344.
  
• Korup, O., 2009. Landsliding rates revisited. Geophysical Research Abstracts 11, 8066.
• Straumann, R., Korup, O., 2009. Quantifying sediment storage at the mountain-belt scale. Geophysical Research Abstracts 11, 7750.
• Korup, O., Schlunegger, F., 2008. Rock-type control on erosion-induced uplift, eastern Swiss Alps. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, #T53A-1898.
  
• Trommler, N., Huggel, C., Korup, O., Schneider, J.F., 2008. Assessing post-failure geomorphic impact of an earthquake-triggered landslide dam, Jhelum River, Pakistan. Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, 00622.
• Korup, O., 2008. Landslide scaling properties – at or beyond the limit? Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, 07833.
• Korup, O., Montgomery, D.R., 2008. Glacial defeat of river incision into southeast Tibet? Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, 07805.
• Korup, O., Montgomery, D.R., 2007. Do glacier dams retard river incision into southeast Tibet? EOS Transactions AGU 88(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract C52-A01.
• Korup, O., Clague, J.J., Hermanns, R.L., Hewitt, K., Strom, A.L., Weidinger, J.T., 2007. Giant landslides, topography, and erosion. Geophysical Research Abstracts 9, 08122.
• Weidinger, J.T., Korup, O., 2006. Detection of large Late Quaternary rock-slope failures in the Himalayas: Implications for extreme events in mountain relief destruction. Geophysical Research Abstracts 8, 03668.
• Korup, O., 2006. Timescales of transient on- and off-site effects of large rock-slope failures on bedrock river long profiles. Geophysical Research Abstracts 8, 03573.
• Korup, O., Strom, A.L., Weidinger, J.T., 2005. Effects of large Rockslide Dams on Sediment Budgets –Evidence from the Himalaya, the Tien Shan, and the New Zealand Southern Alps. Geophysical Research Abstracts 7, 01195.
• Korup, O., 2004f. Bedrock landslides and sediment flux in tectonically active orogens. Proceedings 2nd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland, 19-20 November 2004, pp. 218.
• Korup, O., 2004. Rockslide-dam hazards in high mountain environments. In: Abdrakhmatov, K., Evans, S.G., Hermanns, R., Scarascia Mugnozza, G., Strom, A.L. [Eds.] Security of Natural and Artificial Rockslide Dams. Proceedings NATO Advanced Research Workshop 8-13 June 2004, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 118-124.
• Korup, O., 2004. The relevance of landslides in alpine fluvial geomorphology. Proceedings 11th Australia New Zealand Geomorphology Group Meeting, Mount Buffalo, Australia, 15-20 February 2004. ANZGG Occasional Paper 3, pp. 43.
• Korup, O., 2002. Landslide dams in an active collisional orogen: implications for alpine sediment flux, South Westland, New Zealand. EOS Transactions AGU 83(47), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H12B-0927.
• Korup, O., 2002. Landslide dams in New Zealand – Problems of attributing “hazard” to composite geomorphic phenomena. In: Soldati, M., Borgatti, L. [Eds.] Relationships between man and the mountain environment in terms of geomorphological hazards and human impact in Europe. Proceedings IAG Symposium 14 July 2002, Dornbirn, Austria, p. 73.

Solicited Presentations

• Tektonik, Klima und Erosion in Hochgebirgen — Neue Methoden für alte Hypothesen: 3. Forum Geomorphologie, Institute of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany, 3 April 2009
• Geomorphic process coupling in erosion and sediment yield studies: Physical and Regional Geography Research Group, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, 18 February 2008
• Wet & green — Lanslide sediment yields from humid mountain belts: Physical and Regional Geography Research Group, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, 18 February 2008
• Predicting erosion in the 21st century (Jan de Ploey Memorial Lecture): Physical and Regional Geography Research Group, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, 16 February 2008
• The role of extreme events in mountain-belt erosion: Graduate School of Earth Surface Processes, Institut für Geowissenschaften, University of Potsdam, Germany, 17 November 2008
• Using LiDAR to determine rock-mass strength? Institute of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 13 November 2008
  
• Schluchten und Gletscher — Transiente Landschaftsentwicklung in grossen Einzugsgebieten der Alpen und Südosttibets: Institute of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany, 1 July 2008
  
• Grenzen der Reliefentwicklung in aktiven Orogenen: Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Münster, Germany, 23 May 2008
  
• Landslide scaling properties — At or beyond the limit? European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008
• Bergstürze im Wechselspiel von Klima, Tektonik und Erosion: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1 April 2008
  
• Wechselwirkungen zwischen Tektonik, Klima und Erosion — eine Spurensuche: Institute of Geology, University of Hannover, Germany, 11 February 2008
  
• Landslides as a rate-limiting process in hillslope and channel evolution: Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 18 December 2007
• Erosional controls on glaciated landscapes: Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury. Christchurch, New Zealand, 17 October 2007
• Geomorphic coupling of hillslope and channel systems in active mountain belts: 3rd European Earth Surface Processes Group Meeting, Gwatt/Thun, Switzerland, 29-30 June 2006
• Transient landscapes in the eastern Swiss Alps — The role of landslides: Department of Geological and Geotechnical Sciences, Università di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy, 23 February 2006