CV
Citizenship: German
Date of birth: 29.04.1966
Civil status: Married, 2 children
Experience: 18 years (2013)
Publications: 59 papers in reviewed journals or books, 5 books edited, 65 conference proceedings, > 100 talks and posters on conferences and meetings
Languages: fluent in English, German, Spanish and Norwegian
Work experience:
3 years Head of Landslide Department Geological Survey of Norway
4 years Project manager "Stability of rockslopes" Excellence Centre: ICG
2 years senior researcher Geological Survey of Norway
2 scientific coordinator Geological Survey of Canada
2 years senior researcher Geological Survey of Canada
3 years researcher GFZ Potsdam, Germany
1 year post doc grant TU Karlsruhe, Germany
0,5 years Post doc position University Potsdam, Germany
3,5 years Doctor position University Potsdam, Germany
Awards:
2007 Departmental Merit Award, Natural Resources of Canada
2007 Merit Award, Earth Science Sector, Natural Resources of Canada
Research interests:
Research interests focus on rock slope stability that integrates the slope specific conditions with more regional controls as neotectonic, paleoseismology, and Quaternary landscape development and the technical and societal responds to landslide threats. Research topics include:
• Hazard and risk classification of rock slope failures including secondary effects
• Climate variability and rock slope stability
• Neotectonics, paleoseismology and rock slope stability
• Rockslide dam longevity and the impact of rock slide dams on landscape development
• Landslide threat within the Andes
Research tools:
• Field based structural geology and geomorphology
• Integration of Quaternary geochronology including Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide dating (TCN), luminescence dating, tephrochronology, 14C dating with stratigraphy and sedimentology
• Integration of monitoring data with structural geology and ground based, airborne and satellite remote sensing data
Administrative experience:
• Head of the landslide department, NGU, 2010 –
• Project leader of the inter-institutional project "rock slope stability" of the excellence centre: International Centre for Geohazards that included NGU, NGI, NTNU, and NORSAR, 2009 - 2012
• Scientific coordinator of the Multinational Andean Project: Geosciences for Andean Communities that included the geological surveys of Canada, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, 2006 - 2008
• Project leader of several tens of projects at NGU and GSC, 2004 -
• Secretary of the scientific advisory board of the German Committee for Disaster Reduction, 2001 - 2004
• Coordinator of the graduate program "Natural Disasters" at the TU Karlsruhe, 2000
Teaching and censoring experience:
• Fourteen 2-5-day courses on landslides, paleoseismology, quaternary dating techniques, monitoring techniques (dGNSS), airphoto interpretation for professionals in the Andean Countries, guest lectures at multiple universities
• Co-supervised master thesis at NTNU; University of British Columbia, Canada; University Erlangen, Germany; University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; University of Concepcón, Chile
• Co-supervisor of four PhD thesis at Simon Fraser University (2), Canada; University Erlangen (1), Germany; University of Buenos Aires (1), Argentina
• Opponent on PhD dissertation at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Other professional experience:
• Organiser of symposia, workshops, and meetings: 3rd Symposium on landslides in the Andes, Antofagasta, Chile, 2012; 1st Nordic meeting on TCN dating, Trondheim, Norway, 2012; 2nd Symposium on landslides in the Andes, Cuzco, Peru, 2010; 1st Symposium on landslides in the Andes, Jujuy, Argentina, 2008; 1st, and 2nd Meeting on Active faults in the Andes, Mendoza, Argentina, 2006, and Huaraz, Peru, 2005; NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Stability of rockslide dams", Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2004; NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Landslides from massive rock slope failures", Chelano, Italy, 2002; 3rd German Forum of disaster preparedness, Potsdam, Germany, 2002
• Session convenor at: Nordic winter meeting, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2012; Slope Tectonic Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2011; INQUA, Bern, 2011; IGC, Oslo, Norway, 2008 and others
• Book editor: "Natural and artificial rockslide dams", Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 2011, Springer, Editor of three books published in the Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería Chile, Publicación Geológica Multinacional Series No. 4, 7. and 8 in 2007, 2008 and 2009, "Landslides from massive rock slope failures", NATO Science Series, Springer, 2006
• Editor for three conference proceedings and two special issues of the Revista de la Associación Geológica Argentina
• Reviews for national science foundations: FWF, Austria; DFG, Germany; FONCYT, Argentina; ETH-VPFW, Switzerland; SNSF, Switzerland
• Reviews for: EPSL, Geomorphology, Eng. Geol., Tectonophysics, QSR, NHSS, Landslides, JAES, GSL, NJG, Springer books, and multiple conference proceedings
Selected publications
HERMANNS, R.L., 2013, Landslide dams. In: ed. BOBROWSKI, P., The Encyclopedia for Natural Hazards, Springer, Berlin, in press.
HERMANNS, R.L., L´HEUREUX, S.-J., BLIKRA, L.H., 2013, Dispalcement wave/landslide triggered tsunami. In: ed. BOBROWSKI, P., The Encyclopedia for Natural Hazards, Springer, Berlin, in press.
HERMANNS R.L., DAHLE H., BJERKE P.L., CROSTA G.B., ANDA E., BLIKRA L.H., SAINTOT A., LONGVA O., EIKEN T., 2013, - Rock slide dams in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway: Examples for the hazard and potential of rock slide dams. In: MARGOTTINI, C., CANUT,I P. & SASSA, K. (2013 Eds.) - Landslide Science and Practise. Springer, Berlin. in press.
BÖHME, M., HERMANNS, R.L., OPPIKOFER, T., FISCHER, L., BUNKHOLT, H.S.S., EIKEN, T. PEDRAZZINI, A., DERRON, M.-H. JABOYEDOFF, M., BLIKRA, L.H., NILSEN, B., 2013, Analyzing complex rock slope deformation at Stampa, western Norway, by integrating geomorphology, kinematics and numerical modelling. Engineering Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2012.11.016.
HERMANNS, R.L., VALDERRAMA, P., FAUQUE, L., PENNA, I.M., SEPÚLVEDA, S., MOREIRAS, S., ZAVALA CARRIÓN, B., 2012, Landslides in the Andes and the need to communicate on an interandean level on landslide mapping and research, Revista de la Associacíon Geológica Argentina, v. 69 (3), p. 321-327.
PENNA, I., HERMANNS, R.L., FOLGUERA, A., NIEDERMANN, S., 2011, Multiple slope failures associated with neotectonic activity in the southern central Andes (37º-37º30’S). Patagonia, Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, 1880-1895.
FENTON C.R., HERMANNS R.L., BLIKRA L.H., KUBIK P.W., BRYANT C., NIEDERMANN S., MEIXNER A., GROETHALS M.M., 2011, Regional 10Be production rate calibration for the past 12 ka deduced from the radiocarbon-dated Grøtlandsura and Russenes rock avalanches at 69? N, Norway. Quaternary Geochronology. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2011.04.005.
BLAIS-STEVENS, A., HERMANNS, R.H., JERMYN, C., 2011, A 36Cl age determination for Mystery Creek rockavalanche and its implications in the context of hazard assessment, British Columbia, Canada, Landslides, DOI 10.1007/s10346-011-0261-0.
PENNA, I., HERMANNS, R.L., FOLGUERA, A., NIEDERMANN, S., 2011, Multiple slope failures associated with neotectonic activity in the southern central Andes (37º-37º30’S). Patagonia, Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1880-1895.
BÖHME, M., HENDERSON, I., SAINTOT, A., HERMANNS, R.L., HENRIKSEN, H., 2011, Rock-slope instability investigations in Sogn & Fjordane County, Norway: a detailed structural and geomorphological analysis. In: ed. Jaboyedoff, M., Slope tectonics, Geological Society, London, v. 351, p. 97-111.
HERMANNS, R.L., NIEDERMANN, S., 2011, Late Pleistocene-early Holocene paleoseismicity deduced from lake sediment deformation and coeval landsliding in the Calchaquíes valleys, NW Argentina. In: eds. Audemard, F. und Michetti, A.M. Advances in Paleoseismology, Geological Society of America, Special Paper, v. 479, p. 181–194.
HERMANNS, R.L., LONGVA, O.: Rapid rock-slope failures. In: eds. Clague, J.J., Stead, D., Landslides: Types, Mechanisms and Modeling. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 59-70.
HERMANNS, R.L., FOLGUERA, A., PENNA, I.M., FAUQUE, L., 2011, Landslide dams in the Argentine Andes, relation between dam - and valley morphology, climate and long term stability. In: eds. Evans, S.G., Hermanns, R.L., Scarascia Mugnozza, G. und Strom, A., Natural and artificial rockslide dams, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Springer, Berlin, p. 147-176.
HERMANNS, R.L., HEWITT, K., STROM, A., EVANS, S.G., DUNNING, S.A., SCARASCIA-MUGNOZZA, G., 2011, The classification of rockslide dams. In: eds. EVANS, S.G., HERMANNS, R.L., SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA, G., STROM, A., Natural and artificial rockslide dams, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Springer, Berlin, p. 581-593.
EVANS, S.G., DELANEY, K.B., HERMANNS, R.L., STROM, A., SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA, G., 2011, Natural and artificial rock slide dams: an introduction. In: eds. EVANS, S.G., HERMANNS, R.L., SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA, G., STROM, A., Natural and artificial rockslide dams, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Springer, Berlin, p. 1-76.
BÖHME, M., HENDERSON, I., SAINTOT, A., HERMANNS, R.L., HENRIKSEN, H., 2011, Rock-slope instability investigations in Sogn & Fjordane County, Norway: a detailed structural and geomorphological analysis. In: ed. JABOYEDOFF, M., Slope tectonics, Geological Society, London, v. 351, p. 97-111.
PROYECTO MULTINACIONAL ANDINO: GEOSCIENCIAS PARA LOS COMUNIDADES ANDINAS, Atlas de deformaciones cuaternarias de los Andes, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería Publicación Geológica Multinacional, No. 7, 311p.
PROYECTO MULTINACIONAL ANDINO: GEOSCIENCIAS PARA LOS COMUNIDADES ANDINAS, Mapa de deformaciones cuaternarias de los Andes, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería Publicación Geológica Multinacional, No. 7, on CD.
RAMÍREZ, V., MINAYA, E., VALENCIA, J., TERAN, N., GONZALEZ, M., HERMANNS, R.L., CLAGUE, J.J., CERRITOS, O., 2009, Sistema de fallas El Alto. In: eds. Proyecto Multinacional Andino: Geosciencias para los Comunidades Andinas, Atlas de deformaciones cuarternarias de los Andes, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería Publicación Geológica Multinacional, No. 7, p. 163-170.
HERMANNS, R.L., SCHELLENBERGER, A., 2008, Quaternary tephrochronology helps define conditioning and triggering mechanisms of rock avalanches in Argentina, Quaternary International, v.178, 261-275.
KORUP, O., CLAGUE J.J., HERMANNS, R.L., HEWITT, K., STROM, A.L., WEIDINGER, J.T., 2007, Giant landslides, topography, and erosion, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 261, p. 578-589.
HERMANNS, R.L., BLIKRA, L.H., NAUMANN, M., NILSEN, B., PANTHI, K.K., STROMEYER, D., LONGVA, O., 2006, Examples of multiple rock-slope collapses from Köfels (Ötz valley, Austria) and western Norway, Engineering Geology, v. 83, p. 94-108.
FOLGUERA, A., RAMOS, V., GONZALEZ-DIAZ, F.E., HERMANNS, R.L., 2006, Miocene to Quarternary deformation of the Guañacos fold-and-thrust belt in the Neuquén Andes between 37°S and 37°30’ S. In: eds. Kay, S.M. und Ramos, V.A. Evolution of the Andean margin: A tectonic and magmatic view from the Andes to the Neuquén Basin (35° - 39° S lat), Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 407, p. 247-266.
FOLGUERA, A., RAMOS, V.A., HERMANNS, R.L., NARANJO, J., 2004, Neotectonics in the foothills of the southernmost Central Andes (37 – 38° S), Tectonics, TC 5008, doi: 10.1029/2003/TC001533.
HERMANNS, R.L., NIEDERMANN, S., IVY-OCHS, S., KUBIK, P.W., 2004, Rock avalanching into a landslide-dammed lake causing multiple dam failure in las Conchas valley (NW Argentina) – evidence from surface exposure dating and stratigraphic analyses: Landslides, v. 1, no. 2, p. 1-10.
HERMANNS, R.L., NIEDERMANN, S., VILLANUEVA, A., SOSA GOMEZ, J., STRECKER, M.R., 2001, Neotectonics and catastrophic failure of mountain fronts in the southern intra-Andean Puna Plateau, Argentina, Geology, v. 29, p. 619-623.
HERMANNS, R.L., TRAUTH, M. H., NIEDERMANN, S., MCWILLIAMS, M., STRECKER, M. R., 2000, Tephrochronologic constraints on temporal distribution of landslides in NW Argentina: Journal of Geology, v. 108, p. 35-52.
TRAUTH, M.H., ALONSO, R.A., HASELTON, K.R., HERMANNS, R.L., STRECKER, M.R., 2000, Climate change and mass movements in the NW Argentine Andes: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 179, p. 243-256.
HERMANNS, R.L., STRECKER, M.R., 1999, Structural and lithological controls on large Quaternary rock avalanches (sturzstroms) in arid northwestern Argentina: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, no. 6, p. 934-948.