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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">On Wed. our very own Ben Mirus will be presenting some interesting work from on a USA landslide inventory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#174E86;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Francis Kevin Rengers, Ph.D. | Geomorphologist </span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#174E86"><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/francis-rengers"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/francis-rengers</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Thomas, Matthew A" <matthewthomas@usgs.gov><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, August 17, 2020 at 8:43 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>LHP Seminar <landslidegroupmeeting@doimspp.onmicrosoft.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Joint LHP & GHSC Seminar, this Wed. (Aug. 19th): Ben Mirus presenting "Landslides across the United States: Occurrence, Susceptibility, and Data Limitations"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">We will hold a joint <span class="markodqcx5pjw"><b>LHP & GHSC</b></span><b> <span class="mark48qj373ti">Seminar</span></b> (virtually, via Microsoft Teams) this week on<b> Wednesday,
August 19th @ 1500</b> <b>Mountain </b>Daylight Time.</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Our very own <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/ben-mirus?qt-staff_profile_science_products=0#qt-staff_profile_science_products" title="https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/ben-mirus?qt-staff_profile_science_products=0#qt-staff_profile_science_products">Ben
Mirus</a> will be presenting, "Landslides across the United States: Occurrence, Susceptibility, and Data Limitations":</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Description:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> This presentation will review our efforts to compile a landslide
inventory database for the U.S., including the challenges we faced with developing and maintaining a uniform national product from disparate datasets. This national-scale compilation shows regions where better mapping of landslides is likely needed, and also enabled
the first opportunity for a spatial evaluation of existing susceptibility maps across the conterminous U.S. Our qualitative and quantitative evaluation highlights the need for an improved assessment of landslide potential for the entire nation that accounts
for the potentially higher risk in areas previously considered to be only moderately susceptible to landslides. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Take care,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">matt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Matthew A. Thomas</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Research Hydrologist (Mendenhall Fellow)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/matthew-a-thomas" title="https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/matthew-a-thomas"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;background:white">USGS</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> |
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Thomas27" title="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Thomas27"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ResearchGate</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">
| <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Hg7I2YcAAAAJ&hl=en" title="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Hg7I2YcAAAAJ&hl=en">
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