International summer school on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River valley, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: IPL-106-2 project and WCoE

Abstract

The International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River valley, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan is the annual field training course focused on identification and study of large-scale bedrock landslides. These phenomena pose a threat to communities living in mountainous regions all over the world and are characterised by the enormous amount of material involved, and its high mobility and ability to create natural dams. Since 2006 more than 50 students and young landslide researchers from 17 countries have been introduced to rockslides and rock avalanches of different morphological types, some of which have formed deeply eroded rockslide dams that allow study of their internal structure, as well as evidence of inundation and of catastrophic outburst floods, and impressive manifestations of recent tectonic phenomena.