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Overview

François Kervyn is affiliated with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium. Their research intersects multiple fields, primarily focusing on Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Social Sciences. The scientist's work covers a broad range of applied topics related to natural hazards, environmental management, and societal impacts.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science (19 publications)
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences (14 publications)
  • Social Sciences (10 publications)

Within these domains, Kervyn has explored various subfields such as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Science.

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (9 publications)
  • Sociology and Political Science (9 publications)
  • Global and Planetary Change (7 publications)
  • Geophysics (7 publications)
  • Atmospheric Science (4 publications)

The research focuses significantly on topics related to hazards and risk management including landslides, flood risk, and disaster resilience:

  • Landslides and related hazards (14 publications)
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management (10 publications)
  • Disaster Management and Resilience (10 publications)
  • Cryospheric studies and observations (6 publications)
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies (6 publications)
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (4 publications)
  • Fire effects on ecosystems (4 publications)

Kervyn has published in multiple well-established venues, frequently contributing to journals such as:

  • Nature Sustainability (2 publications)
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences (2 publications)
  • Nature Geoscience (1 publication)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment (1 publication)
  • Nature (1 publication)

Recent notable papers include:

  • Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • When image correlation is needed: Unravelling the complex dynamics of a slow-moving landslide in the tropics with dense radar and optical time series, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Precursor-free eruption triggered by edifice rupture at Nyiragongo volcano, 2022, Nature
  • Intra-Crater Eruption Dynamics at Nyiragongo (D.R. Congo), 2002-2021, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Kervyn frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Caroline Michellier, Olivier Dewitte, Benoît Smets, Matthieu Kervyn, and N. d'Oreye.

Best Publications

  • Strain accommodation by slow slip and dyking in a youthful continental rift, East Africa

    Eric Calais;Nicolas d'Oreye;Julie Albaric;Anne Deschamps

  • Geodynamic significance of the TRM segment in the East African Rift (W-Tanzania): Active tectonics and paleostress in the Ufipa plateau and Rukwa basin

    D. Delvaux;F. Kervyn;A.S. Macheyeki;E.B. Temu

  • Magma sources involved in the 2002 Nyiragongo eruption, as inferred from an InSAR analysis

    C. Wauthier;C. Wauthier;Valérie Cayol;Francois Kervyn;Nicolas d'Oreye

  • Detailed multidisciplinary monitoring reveals pre- and co-eruptive signals at Nyamulagira volcano (North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo)

    Benoît Smets;Benoît Smets;Nicolas d’Oreye;François Kervyn;Matthieu Kervyn

  • Satellite interferometry for mapping surface deformation time series in one, two and three dimensions: A new method illustrated on a slow-moving landslide

    Sergey Samsonov;Antoine Dille;Antoine Dille;Olivier Dewitte;François Kervyn

  • Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks

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  • Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift

    Arthur Depicker;Liesbet Jacobs;Nicholus Mboga;Benoȋt Smets;Benoȋt Smets

  • Late Quaternary tectonic activity and lake level change in the Rukwa Rift Basin

    D. Delvaux;F. Kervyn;E. Vittori;R.S.A. Kajara

  • High-resolution TanDEM-X DEM: An accurate method to estimate lava flow volumes at Nyamulagira Volcano (D. R. Congo)

    F. Albino;F. Albino;B. Smets;B. Smets;N. d'Oreye;F. Kervyn

  • Precursor-free eruption triggered by edifice rupture at Nyiragongo volcano

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  • Modelling topography with SAR interferometry: illustrations of a favourable and less favourable environment

    François Kervyn

  • Seismic hazard assessment of the Kivu rift segment based on a new seismotectonic zonation model (western branch, East African Rift system)

    Damien Delvaux;Jean-Luc Mulumba;Mwene Ntabwoba Stanislas Sebagenzi;Silvanos Fiama Bondo

  • When image correlation is needed: Unravelling the complex dynamics of a slow-moving landslide in the tropics with dense radar and optical time series

    Antoine Dille;Antoine Dille;François Kervyn;Alexander L. Handwerger;Alexander L. Handwerger;Nicolas d'Oreye

  • Landslide inventory for hazard assessment in a data-poor context: a regional-scale approach in a tropical African environment

    Elise Monsieurs;Elise Monsieurs;Liesbet Jacobs;Caroline Michellier;Joseph Basimike Tchangaboba

  • Dry gas vents (“mazuku”) in Goma region (North-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo): Formation and risk assessment

    Benoît Smets;Dario Tedesco;Dario Tedesco;François Kervyn;Antoine Kies

  • Evaluating TMPA Rainfall over the Sparsely Gauged East African Rift

    Elise Monsieurs;Elise Monsieurs;Elise Monsieurs;Dalia Bach Kirschbaum;Jackson Tan;Jackson Tan;Jean-Claude Maki Mateso

  • Causes and triggers of deep-seated hillslope instability in the tropics – Insights from a 60-year record of Ikoma landslide (DR Congo)

    Antoine Dille;Antoine Dille;François Kervyn;Toussaint Mugaruka Bibentyo;Damien Delvaux

  • The role of inherited crustal structures and magmatism in the development of rift segments: Insights from the Kivu basin, western branch of the East African Rift

    Benoît Smets;Benoît Smets;Damien Delvaux;Kelly Ann Ross;Kelly Ann Ross;Sam Poppe

  • Giant, ∼M8 earthquake-triggered ice avalanches in the eastern Kunlun Shan, northern Tibet: Characteristics, nature and dynamics

    Jerome van der Woerd;Lewis A. Owen;Paul Tapponnier;Xu Xiwei

  • Voluminous lava flows at Oldoinyo Lengai in 2006: chronology of events and insights into the shallow magmatic system

    Matthieu Kervyn;Gerald G. J. Ernst;Jurgis Klaudius;Joerg Keller

  • Evidence of recent faulting in the Rukwa rift (West Tanzania) based on radar interferometric DEMs

    François Kervyn;Samwel Ayub;Rugaibuhamu Kajara;Elikunda Kanza

  • Spatio-temporal dynamics of eruptions in a youthful extensional setting: Insights from Nyamulagira Volcano (D.R. Congo), in the western branch of the East African Rift

    B. Smets;B. Smets;M. Kervyn;N. d'Oreye;F. Kervyn

  • Nyamulagira's magma plumbing system inferred from 15 years of InSAR

    Christelle Wauthier;Christelle Wauthier;Christelle Wauthier;Valérie Cayol;Michael P. Poland;François Kervyn

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Dewitte
Olivier Dewitte Royal Museum for Central Africa
Matthieu Kervyn
Matthieu Kervyn Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Damien Delvaux
Damien Delvaux Royal Museum for Central Africa
Sergey Samsonov
Sergey Samsonov Natural Resources Canada
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dario Tedesco
Dario Tedesco University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Hans-Balder Havenith
Hans-Balder Havenith University of Liège
Dalia Kirschbaum
Dalia Kirschbaum Goddard Space Flight Center
Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure

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