Workshops

This workshop will be led by Chris Massey and Ian Hamling. The programme aims to move away from expensive local reactive (post-event) in-situ monitoring to proactive (pre-event) space-based observation across New Zealand Aotearoa. This ambitious approach will enable landslides to be identified nationwide, link their movement patterns to climatic drivers, and characterise their behaviour before they cause damage. 

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss emerging remote sensing techniques and advanced modelling approaches to link these to potential landslides, and to consider how best international practice can be applied to the Landslide Watch NZ project.

It is accepted that consistent, high quality data is essential for large scale analysis of landslide susceptibility, hazard, risk and loss. The United Nations office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and its partners encourage the development of data standards and methodological frameworks as part of the process to strengthen national capabilities in tracking disaster losses and damages.

This workshop will focus on how traditional approaches to documenting landslides can be adapted to align with modern data standards, to support the UNDRR and others around the world.

The 2007 AGS Landslide Risk Management guidelines are being updated by an international panel. The guidelines aim to provide geotechnical practitioners, land managers, asset managers and regulators with a state of the art, internationally respected, clear and concise guidance to identify, assess and mitigate landslide hazards. While the focus is on use in Australia and New Zealand, they are expected to be useful globally.

The updated documents should be 90% complete by April 2026. The workshop, led by Darren Paul and Anthony Miner, will solicit feedback on the documents from experts around the world which will be used to finalise the document. Case studies will be presented, and assessed using a variety of approaches from around the world to identify international differences and opportunities for improvements. 

The Hōretireti Whenua Sliding Lands programme will create national-scale landslide models that can forecast where rapid and dangerous landslides are likely to be triggered by earthquakes and rainfall events. The programme will have a significant focus on communication and outreach. It will investigate people’s perception of landslide phenomena, hazards, and the models we develop to understand the risk and impacts of landslides, as well as their perceptions of vulnerability to landslides. Findings will be used to improve the communication and visualisation of model outputs around risk, as well as inform the development of the models themselves.

This workshop, led by Saskia de Vilder and Emma Hudson-Doyle, will compare lessons from related projects around the world to identify common lessons and overlaps.

LEARNZ is a programme of free virtual field trips, helping students access the inaccessible and visit inspiring places around Aotearoa, Antarctica and beyond.

This workshop, led by the LEARNZ team, will record a series of interviews with delegates as part of our field trips in interesting landslide locations. It aims to raise awareness with intermediate school children, and to introduce them to geoscience as a profession.