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July 7, 2025
Rope access is a specialized work positioning system derived from climbing and caving techniques, enabling safe access to hard-to-reach areas without scaffolding. Common in geotechnical work, it’s used for tasks like geologic reconnaissance, rock scaling, and installing anchors or slope netting. With proper training, equipment, and oversight, rope access offers a safe, efficient solution for steep slope work. This webinar covered key safety standards and best practices, focusing on fall risks from equipment failure, hazards from falling objects, the importance of proper training and competency, and minimum standards for steep slope rope access.
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May 20, 2025
Rockfall is a common hazard in mountainous regions across the U.S. and globally. Effective management requires both current hazard characterization and forecasting future changes. Traditional methods often provide only coarse assessments and rely on limited in-field accuracy. This talk presents point-cloud-based techniques for rockfall hazard assessment within the context of existing literature, offers practical slope evaluation recommendations, and introduces preliminary efforts to develop evidence-based forecasting approaches.
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December 9, 2024
With Departments of Transportation placing greater emphasis on asset management, an increased focus on resilience strategies has emerged that the FHWA Geotechnical Program is trying to address. The presentation will focus on aligning research and program efforts for characterization of geotechnical assets and hazards and the potential impact of external stressors with broad legislative efforts to improve system performance.
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November 21, 2024
This webinar introduces RocTunnel3, Rocscience’s new tool for analyzing structurally-controlled block failures in underground excavations using a 3D limit equilibrium approach. The demo will cover creating a 3D model, integrating discontinuities, and working with ShapeMetrix, Dips, and UnWedge. It will also include staging excavations, bolts, shotcrete, and external loads, as well as calculating blocks, safety factors, and interpreting results for stabilization.
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September 26, 2024
Rockfalls from structurally controlled failures were hazard-mapped by identifying their origins and block sizes. The process involved geological surveys and 3D slope analysis using RocSlope3, a program from Rocscience, to determine block stability and safety factors. These findings informed rockfall origins for simulation in RocFall3, aiding in rockfall protection and slope stabilization. A demo highlighted these workflows in both programs.
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May 15, 2024
Learn about Geosetta, a nonprofit geotechnical data database, to optimize slope projects near infrastructure by accessing historical data, improving project accuracy through preliminary research, and exploring case studies demonstrating its benefits.
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January 24, 2024
This webinar covers the rockfall mitigation project at Hell Hole Dam spillway, detailing slope investigation, rockfall simulations, barrier design and construction, post-rockfall repairs, LiDAR change detection, and energy absorption analysis following the 2022/2023 atmospheric rivers in California.
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November 29, 2023
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration uses autonomous UAVs to monitor roadside geohazards like avalanches and landslides; the GEOSFAIR project aims to develop transferable methodologies, test technology, establish best practices, and recommend implementations.
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November 1, 2023
This webinar covered rockfall catchment fences, focusing on a case study tracking the 15-year performance of a 1000 kJ fence, providing insights for owners and designers.
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December 15, 2022
This webinar reviews a NIOSH-funded research project by the Geotechnical Center of Excellence on using thermal imaging cameras to detect and record rockfall events in surface mining operations to protect mine workers.
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November 17, 2022
This webinar overviews impact theories for 3D rockfall analysis in RocFall3, including slope surface creation, material assignments by image segmentation, rock shape library, barriers, results interpretation with heatmaps and graphs, and multi-section export.
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May 25, 2022
This webinar reviews resources and partnerships characterizing potential hazards from landslides near Barry Glacier and efforts to understand tsunamigenic landslide hazards in Prince William Sound.
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April 28, 2022
This webinar covers snow avalanche dynamics, explaining their development and comparing them with other rapid slope hazards, including video analyses and mitigation options based on avalanche impact.
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December 13, 2021
This webinar introduces DebrisFlow Predictor software, explaining agent-based simulation and its efficacy, showcasing successful case studies of its deployment, and discussing pros and cons through live video feed demonstrations of LABS in action.
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December 1, 2021
The 2013 floods in Alberta, Canada were devastating, particularly in Canmore, where extreme rainfall exceeding 250 mm over three days caused debris floods and flows damaging homes, businesses, and infrastructure. This webinar shares the Town of Canmore's efforts and lessons learned in the aftermath.
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October 28, 2021
This webinar provides a quick review of 2-D theories before contrasting them with 3-D impact theories, showcasing computed results and their presentation in the RocFall 3 software. The demonstration emphasizes slope surface creation, barrier addition, computation, rock animation, results filtering, contour heat maps, and graphics.
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April 22, 2021
This webinar summarizes the outcomes of two recent industry publications: TRB Circular - "Managing Rock Slope Scaling (E-C260)" and "Estimating and Contracting Rock Scaling Adjacent to Highways (NCHRP Synthesis 555)."
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February 25, 2021
This webinar detailed the historical progression of sensing concepts and products over the last 100 years, reviewed the present commercially available platforms, and forecasted future developments aimed at identifying, assessing, and monitoring geohazards with unprecedented accuracy and thoroughness.
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January 28, 2021
This webinar showcased the use of real-time GB-InSAR systems for early warning of landslide movements in safety-critical scenarios, focusing on an Oregon Department of Transportation project along Interstate 5 involving interstate widening and landslide remediation.
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November 24, 2020
This webinar presented approaches to prioritize geohazard risk across large and typically data-scarce regions like British Columbia and discussed how their results supported development planning, regulation, and emergency management.
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July 30, 2020
This presentation discussed grouting basics, explored the background of various grouting techniques, highlighted design and planning considerations, and provided insights from various project examples along with operational tips and tricks.
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June 18, 2020
This webinar offered an overview of commercially available anchoring products, highlighting key technical aspects of anchor design and selection, including Specification Compliance, Geotechnical Design Considerations, Mechanical Properties, Longevity, Corrosion Protection, Anchor Economics, and Practical Commentary reflecting the current state of practice.
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March 19, 2020
This webinar closely examines debris flow behavior, critical parameters, load concepts, and design considerations for selecting mitigation solutions, focusing on Debris Flow Barriers as containment systems designed to withstand high dynamic loads from channelized debris flows and shallow landslides.
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November 14, 2019
This webinar explores the similarities and differences between ground anchors and ground reinforcement members, discussing PTI testing, anchor components, testing of complex and simple anchors, and how such testing applies to rock reinforcement like tensioned Rock Bolts and passive Rock Dowels.
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September 18, 2019
This webinar introduces Rocscience’s RocFall, a 2D statistical analysis program that simulates rockfall energy, velocity, and bounce height along slope profiles to aid in rockfall risk assessment and mitigation design. It focuses on barrier/berm analysis, barrier sensitivity analysis, and design reports.
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July 15, 2019
This webinar covers current trends and technologies in multi-instrument data acquisition, analysis, and reporting in geotechnical asset and geohazard fields, including UAS, LiDAR, Photogrammetry, GbSAR, SatSAR, Microseismic, DFOS, and GNSS, offering practical suggestions for maximizing the benefits of multi-sensor acquisition deliverables.
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March 14, 2019
This webinar describes sediment and large wood trapping structures utilized in debris-flow and debris-flood mitigation schemes, introducing the driving mechanisms of deposition and erosion processes at both the fan and structure scales to aid engineers in selecting the optimal type of structure for a site and designing its shape and geometry.
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January 24, 2019
This webinar discusses how snow avalanches differ from other geohazards, impacting assessment and mitigation methods. It outlines techniques for characterizing avalanche terrain, extreme snow avalanches, assessment, mapping methods, and mitigation approaches such as structural defenses and remote triggering.
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