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Marten Geertsema
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Latest papers
A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship-frequented Alaska fjord.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
Less extreme and earlier outbursts of ice-dammed lakes since 1900.
Nature · 2023
A Robust Deep-Learning Model for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study of Kurdistan Province, Iran.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
Latest funding
- $240,000
PORTABLE LIDAR SYSTEM FOR EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
CFI · 2013 · Co-investigator
6 publications.
A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship-frequented Alaska fjord.
Shugar DH, Barnhart KR, Berdahl M, Caplan-Auerbach J, Ekström G, Fathian A, Geertsema M, Hicks SP, Higman B, Jensen EK, Karasözen E, Lynett P, Lyons J, Monahan T, Roe G, Svennevig K, Toney L, Van Wyk de Vries M, West ME
Less extreme and earlier outbursts of ice-dammed lakes since 1900.
Veh G, Lützow N, Tamm J, Luna LV, Hugonnet R, Vogel K, Geertsema M, Clague JJ, Korup O
A Robust Deep-Learning Model for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study of Kurdistan Province, Iran.
Ghasemian B, Shahabi H, Shirzadi A, Al-Ansari N, Jaafari A, Kress VR, Geertsema M, Renoud S, Ahmad A
Observations on the May 2019 Joffre Peak landslides, British Columbia.
Friele P, Millard TH, Mitchell A, Allstadt KE, Menounos B, Geertsema M, Clague JJ
Detection and Assessment of a Large and Potentially Tsunamigenic Periglacial Landslide in Barry Arm, Alaska.
Dai C, Higman B, Lynett PJ, Jacquemart M, Howat IM, Liljedahl AK, Dufresne A, Freymueller JT, Geertsema M, Ward Jones M, Haeussler PJ
The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska
Bretwood Higman, Dan Hirsh Shugar, Colin Peter Stark, Göran Ekström, Michele N. Koppes, Patrick Joseph Lynett, Anja Dufresne, Peter J. Haeussler, Marten Geertsema, S. P. S. Gulick, Andrew Mattox, Jeremy G. Venditti, M. A. L. Walton, Naoma McCall, Erin McKittrick, Breanyn MacInnes, Eric L. Bilderback, Hui Tang, M. J. Willis, Bruce M. Richmond, Robert S. Reece, Chris F. Larsen, Bjorn Olson, James Capra, Aykut Ayça, Colin K. Bloom, Haley B. Williams, Doug Bonno, ROBERT L. WEISS, Adam Keen, et al. (32 authors)
PORTABLE LIDAR SYSTEM FOR EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
Principal investigators: Menounos, Brian
Keywords: Geomatics, glaciology, geomorphology, landslides, climate change, remote sensing, glacier change
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Michele Koppes and Daniel Shugar: 8 shared papers
- Brian Menounos and Jeremy Venditti: 6 shared papers
- Michele Koppes and Jeremy Venditti: 5 shared papers
- Brian Menounos and Daniel Shugar: 5 shared papers
- Daniel Shugar and Jeremy Venditti: 5 shared papers
- Michele Koppes and Marten Geertsema: 1 shared paper
- Brian Menounos and Marten Geertsema: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Shugar and Marten Geertsema: 1 shared paper
- Jeremy Venditti and Marten Geertsema: 1 shared paper
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
- Geography
- Geoscience
- Department of Earth Sciences
- Department of Geography
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