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Nick Rosser is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science. Their work encompasses subfields such as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies

Nick Rosser has contributed to several recent publications, which include:

  • "Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "An investigation of the combined effect of rainfall and road cut on landsliding," 2022, Engineering Geology
  • "Changing significance of landslide Hazard and risk after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake," 2021, Progress in Disaster Science
  • "Evolution of Coseismic and Post-seismic Landsliding After the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "Cosmogenic exposure dating reveals limited long-term variability in erosion of a rocky coastline," 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Mark Kincey
  • Alexander L. Densmore
  • Katie Oven
  • Tom Robinson
  • Ram Shrestha

The publication venues where Nick Rosser's work appears most frequently include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Nature Communications
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Best Publications

  • Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth

    Robert N. Parker;Alexander L. Densmore;Nicholas J. Rosser;Marcello de Michele

  • Terrestrial laser scanning for monitoring the process of hard rock coastal cliff erosion

    Nicholas Rosser;David Petley;Michael Lim;Stuart Dunning

  • Terrestrial laser scanning of rock slope instabilities

    Antonio Abellán;Thierry Oppikofer;Michel Jaboyedoff;Nicholas J. Rosser

  • Trends in landslide occurrence in Nepal

    David N. Petley;Gareth J. Hearn;Andrew Hart;Nicholas J. Rosser

  • The Hattian Bala rock avalanche and associated landslides triggered by the Kashmir Earthquake of 8 October 2005

    Stuart Dunning;Wishart Mitchell;Nicholas Rosser;David Petley

  • Combined digital photogrammetry and time-of-flight laser scanning for monitoring cliff evolution

    Michael Lim;David N. Petley;Nicholas J. Rosser;Robert J. Allison

  • Patterns of precursory rockfall prior to slope failure

    Nicholas Rosser;Michael Lim;David Petley;Stuart Dunning

  • Erosional processes in the hard rock coastal cliffs at Staithes, North Yorkshire

    Michael Lim;Nicholas J. Rosser;Robert J. Allison;David N. Petley

  • Detection of surface change in complex topography using terrestrial laser scanning: application to the Illgraben debris-flow channel

    Peter Schürch;Peter Schürch;Alexander L. Densmore;Nicholas J. Rosser;Michael Lim

  • Optimising 4-D surface change detection: an approach for capturing rockfall magnitude–frequency

    Jack G. Williams;Nick J. Rosser;Richard J. Hardy;Matthew J. Brain

  • Spatial distributions of earthquake-induced landslides and hillslope preconditioning in the northwest South Island, New Zealand

    Robert Parker;Graham Hancox;David Petley;Christopher Massey

  • Structural and geomorphological features of landslides in the Bhutan Himalaya derived from terrestrial laser scanning

    S.A. Dunning;C.I. Massey;N.J. Rosser

  • Formation and failure of the Tsatichhu landslide dam, Bhutan

    Stuart Dunning;Nicholas Rosser;David Petley;Chris Massey

  • Dynamic controls on erosion and deposition on debris-flow fans

    Peter Schürch;Peter Schürch;Alexander L. Densmore;Nicholas J. Rosser;Brian W. McArdell

  • Coastline retreat via progressive failure of rocky coastal cliffs

    Nick J. Rosser;Matthew J. Brain;David N. Petley;Michael Lim

  • Modeling cliff erosion using negative power law scaling of rockfalls

    John Barlow;Michael Lim;Nicholas Rosser;David Petley

  • Satellite-based emergency mapping using optical imagery: experience and reflections from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes

    Jack G. Williams;Nick J. Rosser;Mark E. Kincey;Jessica Benjamin

  • The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation

    Jack G. Williams;Jack G. Williams;Nick J. Rosser;Richard J. Hardy;Matthew J. Brain

  • Quantifying the Controls and Influence of Tide and Wave Impacts on Coastal Rock Cliff Erosion

    Michael Lim;Nicholas J. Rosser;David N. Petley;Michael Keen

  • Rapid post-earthquake modelling of coseismic landslide intensity and distribution for emergency response decision support

    Tom R. Robinson;Nicholas J. Rosser;Alexander L. Densmore;Jack G. Williams

  • Identifying the behavioural characteristics of clay cliffs using intensive monitoring and geotechnical numerical modelling

    J.D. Quinn;N.J. Rosser;W. Murphy;J.A. Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander L. Densmore
Alexander L. Densmore Durham University
David N. Petley
David N. Petley University of Sheffield
Brian W. McArdell
Brian W. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Witold Szczuciński
Witold Szczuciński Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Dylan H. Rood
Dylan H. Rood Imperial College London
Tim Davies
Tim Davies University of Canterbury
Antony J. Long
Antony J. Long Durham University
James Leonard Best
James Leonard Best University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doug Stead
Doug Stead Simon Fraser University
Alfred Stein
Alfred Stein University of Twente

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