Landslide Runout Modeling for Alaska Infrastructure and Government
Alaska presents some of the most demanding conditions for landslide hazard assessment in North America. Steep terrain, active glacial and…
Building North Carolina’s Statewide Landslide Inventory
by Bobby Sas The North Carolina Geological Survey’s landslide mapping program maintains the state’s authoritative spatial record…
Five Years of Project Delivery Across Asia-Pacific
by Bobby Sas Fugro’s Geotechnical Division in Hong Kong operated across some of the most demanding project environments in the…
Shaping Hong Kong’s Landslide Safety Standard for Seven Million People
by Bobby Sas In 2012, Hong Kong’s Geotechnical Engineering Office commissioned a fundamental overhaul of its core methodology for…
A Method for Developing Regional Road-Fill Failure Hazard Assessments Using GIS and Virtual Fieldwork
For this project, I worked with my collaborators to create an easy-to-use map‑based tool to estimate where mountainous roads might fail and…
Quartzite Terrains, Geologic Controls, and Basin Denudation by Debris Flows: Their Role in Long-Term Landscape Evolution in the Central Appalachians
In this study, I looked at how the type of rock and the shape of steep valleys in the Blue Ridge mountains of central Virginia relate to…