PREDICTION OF GLACIAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS IN THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS, RUSSIA  

Project No. SfP 982143

Welcome! This project has formally started in summer 2006 and our first workshop was held in Moscow in November-December 2006.
 
Project description summary
 
Glacial hazards research and monitoring: first and second years of the project
 
Project workshop reports: 1st, 2nd
 
Report on field training mission to Kamchatka
 
Bashkara glacial lakes (North Caucasus, Russia) and outburst hazard
 
Field training project: Glacial Lake Melbern, British Columbia, Canada
 
Report on conference and field training mission to Peru
 
Publications of project participants in the field of glacial hazards and debris flows
 
Geomorphic Processes Related to Glacier Ice Loss (presentation in PDF, 2.6 Mb)
 
  Participating Institutions
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada   Project Director (NPD) Prof Stephen G. Evans
University Centre for Engineering Geodynamics and Monitoring, Moscow, Russia   Project Director (PPD) Dr Sergey S. Chernomorets
Moscow State Universitry, Moscow, Russia   Project Co-Director Dr Dmitry A. Petrakov
Ministry of Environment of British Columbia, Nanaimo, Canada   Project Co-Director Mr Richard Guthrie
         
   
Project-related links
 
Database of glacial hazards and glacier disasters in the Central Caucasus: pilot version (in Russian)
 
Beware: Kazbek glaciers! (our popular brochure in Russian)
 
End-users, conferences, and other links
 
 
 
   
     
 

 

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