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Academic Lectures
CE Seminar Series with Dr. Gabe Walton
Department / Organization: Civil Engineering
Modern Strategies for Characterizing and Forecasting Rockfall Hazards - Fri 11/14 11:00 AM MZ 108
Who: Dr. Gabe Walton
What: Civil Seminar series, Dr. Walton will give his seminar titled Modern Strategies for Characterizing and Forecasting Rockfall Hazards.
Where: Marquez Hall 108
When: November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM MST
Abstract: Rockfall is a common hazard in mountainous regions within the United States and around the world. Effective management of these hazards requires both characterization of the hazard as it exists today and forecasting of how the hazard may evolve into the future. Traditional approaches for rockfall hazard characterization provide a relatively coarse categorization of relative hazard, and many methods based on infield assessments are limited in terms of their accuracy. In this talk, techniques for rockfall hazard assessment using point-cloud-based monitoring are presented, and practical recommendations for slope assessment are provided. Then preliminary efforts to develop evidence-based approaches for forecasting changes in hazard over time are presented.
