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Stephen G. Evans

Stephen G. Evans

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Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
13948
World Ranking
2804
National Ranking
133

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Stephen G. Evans is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within engineering, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences, focusing on civil and structural engineering, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science. They have contributed extensively to areas relating to tailings management and dam engineering.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Tailings Management and Properties
  • Dam Engineering and Safety
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Engineering Geology
  • Mine Water and the Environment
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

Notable recent publications feature comprehensive studies on tailings and water-retention structures:

  • "Catastrophic mass flows resulting from tailings impoundment failures" (2021, Engineering Geology)
  • "Geomorphic Process Chains in High-Mountain Regions-A Review and Classification Approach for Natural Hazards Assessment" (2023, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • "Global magnitude-frequency statistics of the failures and impacts of large water-retention dams and mine tailings impoundments" (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "A benchmarking study of four numerical runout models for the simulation of tailings flows" (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Tailings-flow runout analysis: examining the applicability of a semi-physical area-volume relationship using a novel database" (2020, Natural hazards and earth system sciences)

Stephen G. Evans has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Scott McDougall
  • W. Andy Take
  • Nahyan M. Rana
  • Negar Ghahramani
  • Andy Small

The scientist has been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2019.

Best Publications

  • A review of the classification of landslides of the flow type

    Oldrich Hungr;S. G. Evans;M. J. Bovis;J. N. Hutchinson

  • Earthquake-Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts

    Xuanmei Fan;Gianvito Scaringi;Gianvito Scaringi;Oliver Korup;A. Joshua West

  • A review of catastrophic drainage of moraine-dammed lakes in British Columbia

    John J. Clague;John J. Clague;Stephen G. Evans

  • Entrainment of debris in rock avalanches: An analysis of a long run-out mechanism

    Oldrich Hungr;S.G. Evans

  • The assessment of rockfall hazard at the base of talus slopes

    S.G. Evans;O. Hungr

  • Magnitude and frequency of rock falls and rock slides along the main transportation corridors of southwestern British Columbia

    O Hungr;S G Evans;J Hazzard

  • Recent climatic change and catastrophic geomorphic processes in mountain environments

    Stephen G. Evans;John J. Clague

  • An overview of recent large catastrophic landslides in northern British Columbia, Canada

    Marten Geertsema;John J. Clague;James W. Schwab;Stephen G. Evans

  • The 2002 rock/ice avalanche at Kolka/Karmadon, Russian Caucasus: assessment of extraordinary avalanche formation and mobility, and application of QuickBird satellite imagery

    C. Huggel;S. Zgraggen-Oswald;W. Haeberli;A. Kääb

  • Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability

    Andreas Kääb;Silvan Leinss;Adrien Gilbert;Yves Bühler

  • The 2000 Yigong landslide (Tibetan Plateau), rockslide-dammed lake and outburst flood: Review, remote sensing analysis, and process modelling

    Keith B. Delaney;Stephen G. Evans

  • A re-examination of the mechanism and human impact of catastrophic mass flows originating on Nevado Huascarán, Cordillera Blanca, Peru in 1962 and 1970

    Stephen G. Evans;Nicholas F. Bishop;Lionel Fídel Smoll;Patricio Alonso Valderrama Murillo

  • Rock avalanche runout prediction using a dynamic model

    O Hungr;S. G Evans

  • Earthquake-induced-landslides : Distribution, motion and mechanisms

    Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Gabrielle Scarascia-Mugnozza;Stephen Evans

  • Analysis of landslide frequencies and characteristics in a natural system, coastal British Columbia

    R. H. Guthrie;S. G. Evans

  • The maximum discharge of outburst floods caused by the breaching of man-made and natural dams

    Stephen G. Evans

  • Large-scale brittle and ductile toppling of rock slopes

    Susan L Nichol;Oldrich Hungr;S G Evans

  • Velocity and runout simulation of destructive debris flows and debris avalanches in pyroclastic deposits, Campania region, Italy

    Paola Revellino;Oldrich Hungr;Francesco M. Guadagno;Stephen G. Evans

  • Improved age estimates for the White River and Bridge River tephras, western Canada

    J. J. Clague;S. G. Evans;V. N. Rampton;G.J. Woodsworth

  • Formation and failure of natural dams in the Canadian Cordillera

    J J Clague;S G Evans

  • Landslides from massive rock slope failure

    Stephen G. Evans;Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza;Alexander Strom;Reginald L. Hermanns

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Clague
John J. Clague Simon Fraser University
Oldrich Hungr
Oldrich Hungr University of British Columbia
Reginald L. Hermanns
Reginald L. Hermanns Geological Survey of Norway
Gianvito Scaringi
Gianvito Scaringi Charles University
Hiroshi Fukuoka
Hiroshi Fukuoka Niigata University
Runqiu Huang
Runqiu Huang Chengdu University of Technology
Marten Geertsema
Marten Geertsema University of Northern British Columbia
Jeffrey S. Kargel
Jeffrey S. Kargel Planetary Science Institute
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Andreas Kääb
Andreas Kääb University of Oslo

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