Catherine Pennington
Engineering Geologist, Landslide Specialist
Tel: 0115 936 3049
E-mail Catherine Pennington
Research interests
- Long term monitoring of landslides, landslide observatories
- Science Communication
- The National Landslide Database and GIS of Great Britain, which documents details on over 17,000 landslides and is the backbone to a variety of nationally and commercially important landslide susceptibility projects
- National landslide susceptibility mapping and modelling
- Part of the Landslides Team that provides susceptibility assessments, responsive reporting and contributes to the Natural Hazards Partnership in association with the Met Office, providing geohazard notes and daily hazard assessments.
- Bespoke assessments to national organisations on how landslides may affect or be affected by third party assets
- Field expertise on the East Anglian and Yorkshire Coasts, North York Moors, Pennines
Biography
- 2001 – ongoing : Engineering Geologist, Landslides Team, British Geological Survey
- 2014 – ongoing : Science Writer/Editor for BGS Blog GeoBlogy
- 2013 – ongoing : Part of the team providing Daily Hazard Assessments for the potential for landslides to occur in the UK. This is for the Natural Hazards Partnership in association with the Met Office
- MSc Advanced Engineering Geology with distinction: Durham University
- BSc Geology: University of Wales, Abersytwyth
References
- 2019 : Establishment of a coastal landslide observatory at Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
- 2019 : Coastal landslide monitoring at Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK **OPEN ACCESS**
- 2019 : Hot off the press! Results from our Coastal Landslide Observatory and PODCAST
- 2018 : Why do we need to know what's under our cities? And what's it got to do with Icebergs?!
- 2018 : FRACTURE CAPTURE!
- 2018 : Unseen video footage: The Holbeck Hall landslide 25 years on
- 2018 : PODCAST: Geology is boring, right? What?! NO! Why scientists should communicate geoscience
- 2017 : A user guide for the GeoSure Extra: Debris Flow Susceptibility Model for Great Britain (version 6.0)
- 2017 : Creation of a national landslide domain map to aid susceptibility mapping in Great Britain
- 2017 : How to draw pictures in the sand on a sunny(ish) beach
- 2017 : A water balance approach to enhance national (GB) Daily Landslide Hazard Assessments
- 2016 : Landslide mapping for susceptibility and hazard assessment: North York Moors, UK
- 2016 : Landslide hazard assessment for National Rail network
- 2015 : The historic role of women scientists at BGS and a look at what is happening today
- 2015 : The National Landslide Database of Great Britain: acquisition, communication and the role of social media
- 2015 : A combined geomorphological and geophysical approach to characterising relict landslide hazard on the Jurassic Escarpments of Great Britain
- 2014 : Landslides in the East Midlands
- 2014 : Antecedent precipitation as a potential proxy for landslide incidence in South West United Kingdom
- 2014 : An unscrupulously woolly investigation: a look at the more unusual work at BGS
- 2014 : Hunting for landslides in St Lucia
- 2014 : Tales from a Geological Adventurer
- 2013 : Slope dynamics project report : Holderness Coast - Aldbrough, survey & monitoring, 2001-2013
- 2013 : 2012 - Landslide Year? Was the increase in UK landslides during 2012 real or apparent?
- 2013 : Landslide management in the UK—the problem of managing hazards in a ‘low-risk’ environment
- 2012 : The National Landslide Database of Great Britain : development, evolution and applications
- 2012 : Landslide hazard assessment and characterisation for forestry asset management in Great Britain
- 2011 : Three-dimensional geophysical anatomy of an active landslide in Liassic Mud Rocks, Cleveland Basin, UK
- 2011 : Geophysical-geotechnical sensor networks for landslide monitoring
- 2011 : Trimingham : structural architecture of the Cromer Ridge Push Moraine complex and controls for landslide geohazards
- 2011 : Digital field system for landslides research: an insight from the latest British Geological Survey product development
- 2011 : Mapping a nation’s landslides: a novel, multi-stage methodology for landslide mapping and inventory within the UK
- 2010 : Monitoring coastal change using terrestrial LiDAR
- 2009 : Landslides of the area around Chesterfield, Geological Sheet 112
- 2009 : Landslide research at the British Geological Survey : capture, storage and interpretation on a national and site-specific scale
- 2008 : A national hazard assessment of coastal landslides using GI capture systems : a government dataset
- 2008 : Slope Dynamics Project Report : Norfolk Coast (2000 - 2006)
- 2006 : Preliminary investigation into monitoring coastal erosion using terrestrial laser scanning: case study at Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK
Published outputs
Skills
- BGS Landslides Response Team member
- ESRI ArcGIS, Socetset 3D landscape visualisation
- Field expertise: landslide mapping, geological mapping, digital data capture, terrestrial LIDAR
Offices and departments
See also
- Long term monitoring of landslides, landslide observatories
- National Landslide Database
- Natural Hazards Partnership
- GeoBlogy
- Natural Hazards Partnership
- Establishment of a coastal landslide observatory at Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
- Coastal landslide monitoring at Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK **OPEN ACCESS**
- Hot off the press! Results from our Coastal Landslide Observatory and PODCAST
- Why do we need to know what's under our cities? And what's it got to do with Icebergs?!
- FRACTURE CAPTURE!
- BGS Landslides Home
- BGS Landslide Case Studies
- Landslide Observatories
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