Projects and grants
- FRBC Endowed Chair in Resource Geoscience and Geotechnics. Research Chair: S. Sepúlveda, 2021-2026.
- "Understanding rock slope failure and coseismic landslide hazard in deglaciated Cordilleran landscapes". Principal Investigator: S. Sepúlveda. NSERC Discovery Grant, 2022-2027.
- "The Landslide Field Laboratory: a remote sensing suite for multiscale rock mass and slope modelling". Principal Investigator: S. Sepúlveda. CFI-JELF and BCKDF grants, 2022-2027.
- "Triggers of Rainfall-Induced Landslides in volcanic soils EXperiment: towards a fully understating of the water role in slope instability in the Southern Andes (TRILEX)". Principal Investigator: I. Fustos (U. La Frontera), Co-Investigator: S. Sepúlveda. Fondecyt Regular grant (Government of Chile), 2023-2027.
- "Assessing the geohazards of Mount Meager, BC, Canada: Insights to advance green energy production on volcanoes". Principal Investigator: G. Williams-Jones, Co-PI: S. Sepúlveda. Mitacs Accelerate, 2022-2023.
- "Mitigation measures against debris flows as an urgent response to Climate Change". Visiting researcher: D. Groch, Supervisors: S. Sepúlveda, V. Gil. Mitacs Globalink Research Award, 2022.
- "Catastrophic rockslides - debris flows in paraglacial environments: British Columbia and Patagonia". Principal Investigator: S. Sepúlveda. SFU Faculty Recruitment Grant, 2021-2025.
- "Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Stress Measurement and Mitigation of High Stress Hazards at Depth". Principal Investigator: E. Eberhardt (UBC), Co-Investigator: D. Stead. NSERC RTI grant, 2021-2022.
- "Investigating the role of block kinematics and brittle fracture in rock failure mechanisms: A combined multi-sensor remote sensing-numerical modelling approach". Principal Investigator: D. Stead. NSERC Discovery Grant, 2020-2025.
- “Landslide mechanisms and controlling factors in paraglacial rock slopes in the Chilean Andes”. Principal Investigator: S. Sepúlveda, Fondecyt Regular grant (Government of Chile), 2020-2022.