Polar geohazards in a warming climate: marine evidence of large scale tsunamigenic rock avalanches in Vaigat, West Greenland: EARG

Join the East Anglian Regional Group and speaker Dr Matt Owen from Global Maritime Consultancy Ltd for this hybrid evening lecture

High latitude regions are generally remote and often less well geomorphologically mapped than other regions. Coupled with the projection of climatic warming-related, increased landslide occurrence, this means that geohazard risk is uncertain.  

Following the 2017 rockslide and tsunami in Karrat Fjord, West Greenland, a landslide screening study was undertaken to better constrain the hazard. Within this, Vaigat, the strait located between the island of Disko and the Nuussuaq peninsula on the west coast of Greenland, was identified as a landslide hot spot. A marine data gathering exercise, from international legacy datasets to new surveys, has now identified a globally unprecedented series of rock avalanche complex deposits on the seabed that provides evidence to the timing and magnitude of past events and that provides indications of future risk in this and other high latitude regions.

The event will take place at the Julian Study Centre, Lecture Theatre 0.01 at the University of East Anglia.

Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm in the foyer with the lecture commencing at 7pm. 

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