🌈News & Highlights🥳

2026/9/21

• VVN was invited to share scientific insights on the Matai'an River landslide and its associated hazards in United Daily News (UDN)'s special report, 崩塌未完 與馬太鞍溪共存-洪災周年報導 🎥

2026/6/16

• Congratulations to Hsuan-Kai Weng on receiving an Honorable Mention in the Student Paper Poster Competition at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society and the Geological Society Located in Taipei for his work entitled “Coseismic Seismic Velocity Variations of a Deep-Seated Landslide Caused by Two M6.5+ Earthquakes in Eastern Taiwan.” 🎉

2026/6

• Our research, published in Journal of GeoEngineering, combines Newmark analysis with a machine-learning-based decision-tree algorithm to rapidly assess coseismic landslide susceptibility in Taiwan. The framework was validated using multiple earthquake events and integrates the results into a web-based visualization system to support rapid hazard assessment and emergency response. 💡

2026/6/4

• Our research, published in Engineering Geology, integrates in-situ monitoring and discrete element analysis to investigate earthquake-induced displacement of a large-scale landslide in eastern Taiwan. The study identifies a site-specific threshold for catastrophic slope failure and highlights the influence of both ground-motion intensity and frequency content on landslide response. ⛰️

2026/5/2

• Our research study, published in Landslides, investigates the giant Matai'an landslide using multitemporal remote sensing and seismic source inversion. The results reveal a two-stage failure process with distinct sliding directions and show how pre-failure geomorphic changes and complex landslide dynamics contributed to the formation of the landslide dam. 🌏

2026/1/26

• Our collaborative study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, investigates a giant glacier detachment on the Tibetan Plateau using satellite observations and seismic signals. The study reveals rapid acceleration of the glacier prior to failure and suggests that its frozen terminus played a key role in triggering the approximately 40-million-m³ ice avalanche. ❄️

2025/12/29

• Our collaborative work, published in Water Resources Research, uses synchronized multidisciplinary observations from large-scale dam-breach experiments to investigate the evolution of overtopping failure. By integrating photogrammetry, flow measurements, autonomous scouring particles, and seismic monitoring, the study provides new insights into the complex erosion and breaching processes of landslide dams. 🌊

2025/12/12

• Congratulations to Cheng-Hung Chou and Yu-Hsuan Ou Yang on receiving an Excellence Award in the Student Paper Competition at the 2025 Taiwan Disaster Management Conference for their work on a real-time coseismic landslide early-warning and machine-learning-assisted risk assessment framework. 🏆

• Congratulations to Chih-Hsuan Chu on receiving an Honorable Mention in the Student Paper Competition at the 2025 Taiwan Disaster Management Conference for her work on reconstructing rainfall events and developing rainfall warning thresholds for landslides and debris flows. 🎊

2025/12/6

• Congratulations to Chih-Hsuan Chu on winning Third Place in the Student Oral Paper Competition at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Soil and Water Conservation Society (CSWCS) for her research integrating seismic monitoring, reconstructed rainfall-threshold analysis, and artificial intelligence for landslide and debris-flow early warning. 🥉

2025/10/17

• Congratulations to Cheng-Hung Chou on receiving an Outstanding Award in the Student Oral Paper Competition at the 2025 Taiwan Rock Engineering and Engineering Geology Symposium for his research on rapid coseismic landslide assessment and early warning using logistic regression and initial P-wave displacement. 🌟

2025/6/19

• Congratulations to Chih-Hsuan Chu on receiving an Honorable Mention in the Student Paper Poster Competition at the 2025 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly (TGA) for her work entitled “Reconstruction of Rainfall Events and Empirical Rainfall Threshold Modeling for Landslide and Debris Flow Forecasting.” 👏

2024/12/6

• Congratulations to Cheng-Hung Chou and the research team on receiving an Excellence Award in the Student Paper Competition at the 2024 Taiwan Disaster Management Conference for their study on factors controlling coseismic landslides during the 2024 Hualien earthquake. 🥳

• Congratulations to Chih-Hsuan Chu and the research team on receiving an Honorable Mention in the Student Paper Competition at the 2024 Taiwan Disaster Management Conference for their study on rainfall-triggered sediment events and early-warning thresholds in Butangbunasi Creek. 💐

2024/11/23

• Congratulations to Bo-Rui Chen on winning Second Place in the Student Paper Competition at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Soil and Water Conservation Society (CSWCS) for his research on riverbed grain-size surveying using RGB-D imagery and deep-learning models. 🥈

2024/10/5

• Congratulations to Bo-Rui Chen on being selected as a finalist in the College & Above Group of the 16th NARLabs i-ONE Instrument Technology Innovation Competition with the project “High-Precision Grain Size Analysis System: RGBDimagegrains.” ✨

2024/7/8

• Congratulations to Yu-Han Chen on receiving a College/University Student Research Project grant from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) for a project supervised by VVN on Rayleigh-wave ellipticity inversion for shear-wave velocity structure, with applications to geothermal exploration and landslide subsurface investigations. 🎓

2024/5/8

• Congratulations to Yu-Ru Li on receiving an Excellence Award in the Student Poster Competition at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society Located in Taipei and the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society for her work entitled “A Fast Unsupervised Deep Learning Algorithm Using Seismic Records of a Single Station for Roadside Rockfall Recognition.” 🏅

2023/11/25

• Congratulations to Yu-Ru Li on winning Second Place in the Student Paper Competition at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Soil and Water Conservation Society (CSWCS) for her research on an automated machine-learning classifier using near-river seismic signals to distinguish sediment-laden flow, hyperconcentrated flow, and debris flow. 🎖️

2023/5/18

• Congratulations to Tz-Shin Lai on receiving the Professor Yi-Ben Tsai Graduate Student Scholarship from the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society for her research entitled “A Local Magnitude Scale from Borehole Recordings with Site Correction of the Surface to Downhole.” 💫

• Congratulations to Chao-Ting Meng on receiving an Honorable Mention in the Student Poster Competition at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society and the Geological Society Located in Taipei for his work entitled “Probing Temporal Variation of Suspended Load to Bedload Ratio Using Seismic Saltation Model.” 🎈

2022/6/10

• Congratulations to Tz-Shin Lai on receiving an Excellence Award in the Student Poster Competition at the 2022 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly (TGA), for her work entitled “Rapid Coseismic Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Using Newmark Analysis and Decision Tree Algorithm, and Its Web-based Display System.” 🤩

• Congratulations to Yi-Syuan Chao on receiving an Excellence Award in the Student Poster Competition at the 2022 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly (TGA), for her work entitled “Miscellaneous Methods for Measuring River Water Level in Real-Time: Testing and Challenges.” 🚀