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January 21, 2005
Weather leads to fatal landslide…As long as it keeps raining, homeowners through out the Lower Mainland, particularly on the North Shore, in Port Coquitlam and in Tsawwassen, are likely to remain anxious. Two SFU earth scientists can provide expert information on why weather and terrain combine to make BC prime territory for potentially fatal landslides. They can also talk about what kind of tests, studies and building guidelines developers and city engineers typically undertake to guard against building in known slide-prone areas.
Brent Ward has been taking his students up to the Blueridge neighbourhood, the site of the North Shore's recent fatal mudslide, for the last few years because it is a example of what he teaches. The earth scientist says that certain areas are to be avoided as neighbourhoods because the rain, steep slopes and loose glacial sediments mean they are tailor-made for landslides.
Contact info: 604.291.4229, brent_ward@sfu.ca
Doug Stead, an engineering geologist and the Forest Renewal BC chair at SFU, has 20 years of experience surveying the slopes of urban developments internationally. He has helped urban developers in Hong Kong understand and predict the hazards of designs that do not properly address landslide concerns. Stead is shepherding the development of graduate and professional development programs in terrain analysis at SFU.
Contact info: 604.268.6670, dstead@sfu.ca
Brent Ward has been taking his students up to the Blueridge neighbourhood, the site of the North Shore's recent fatal mudslide, for the last few years because it is a example of what he teaches. The earth scientist says that certain areas are to be avoided as neighbourhoods because the rain, steep slopes and loose glacial sediments mean they are tailor-made for landslides.
Contact info: 604.291.4229, brent_ward@sfu.ca
Doug Stead, an engineering geologist and the Forest Renewal BC chair at SFU, has 20 years of experience surveying the slopes of urban developments internationally. He has helped urban developers in Hong Kong understand and predict the hazards of designs that do not properly address landslide concerns. Stead is shepherding the development of graduate and professional development programs in terrain analysis at SFU.
Contact info: 604.268.6670, dstead@sfu.ca