Research Geologist
Email:
ejensen@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
303-273-8579
ORCID:
0000-0002-2797-0694
Location
P.O. Box 25046
Denver
, CO
80225-0046
US
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The effects of climate change have the potential to impact slope stability. Negative impacts are expected to be greatest at high northerly latitudes where degradation of permafrost in rock and soil, debuttressing of slopes as a result of glacial retreat, and changes in ocean ice-cover are likely to increase the susceptibility of slopes to landslides. In the United States, the greatest increases in air temperature and precipitation are expected to occur in Alaska. In order to assess the impact that these environmental changes will have on landslide size (magnitude), mobility, and frequency, inventories of historical landslides are needed. These inventories provide baseline data that can be used to identify changes...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Alaska,
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
climate change,
frequency, All tags...
glaciers,
icefield,
inventory,
landslide,
magnitude,
mobility,
permafrost,
rock avalanche,
size, Fewer tags
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During September 2017, Hurricane Maria caused widespread landsliding throughout mountainous regions of Puerto Rico, with more than 71,000 landslides being subsequently identified from aerial imagery (Hughes et al., 2019). Most landslides apparently mobilized as debris flows and occurred within soil (unconsolidated material overlying saprolite and bedrock) and saprolite overlying less-weathered rock (e.g., Bessette-Kirton et al., 2019a). To better understand the characteristics of Maria-triggered landslides, debris flows, and materials in which landslides occurred, we performed reconnaissance-level studies of 118 landslides, 46 soil exposures generally within landslide scars, 24 saprolite exposures, and 37 rock exposures....
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On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm. Heavy rainfall caused landslides in mountainous regions throughout the territory. This data release presents geospatial data describing the concentration of landslides generated by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We used post-hurricane satellite and aerial imagery collected between September 26, 2017 and October 8, 2017 to visually estimate the concentration of landslides over nearly the whole territory. This was done by dividing the territory into a grid with 4 square km cells (2 km x 2 km). Each 4 square km grid cell was classified as either containing no landslides, fewer than 25 landslides/ square km or more than...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Hurricane Maria,
Puerto Rico,
Remote Sensing,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
data release, All tags...
debris flows,
geology,
landslide density,
landslide distribution,
landslides,
landslides,
maps and atlases,
rainfall, Fewer tags
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The use of high-resolution remotely sensed imagery can be an effective way to obtain quantitative measurements of rock-avalanche volumes and geometries in remote glaciated areas, both of which are important for an improved understanding of rock-avalanche characteristics and processes. We utilized the availability of high-resolution (~0.5 m) WorldView satellite stereo imagery to derive digital elevation data in a 100 km2 area around the 28 June 2016 Lamplugh rock avalanche in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska. We used NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline, an open-source software package available from NASA, to produce one pre- and four post-event digital elevation models (DEMs) of the area surrounding the Lamplugh...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Alaska,
Glacier Bay National Park,
Lamplugh Glacier,
NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
Worldview satellite imagery,
digital elevation model,
landslide,
remote sensing,
rock avalanche,
stereogrammetry, Fewer tags
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Introduction This data release is a compilation of known mass movements that generated seismic signals recorded by seismic networks. It represents a major update of a previous data release (Allstadt and others, 2017) available at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7251H3W. This update includes all events published in the previous data release along with more instances of landslides, debris flows, snow avalanches, outburst floods, and lahars, as well as new event types including mine collapses, a submarine landslide, a volcanic flank collapse, and a pyroclastic density current. The 2017 release included only mass movements in the western United States and Canada. The current data release adds new events in North America, and...
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