Amandine Missana
NTNU Trondheim, Norway
Project: Environmental seismology for detection of rock slope failure activity in Norway
My research objectives: When I get asked what my PhD is about, I answer "rock and roll!" as its main objective is to better understand rockslides, in Norway. I focus on their mechanism at depth, evolution over time, internal and external conditioning, and change of environmental conditions. At the same time as we study rockslides, we experiment on how to use environmental seismology on them (questions such as: where to place the sensors? which parameters to choose?).
Last News (Newsletter #5 - Fall/Winter 2024):
This semester I have eventually finished all the courses that I had to take in the Norwegian PhD system. This has allowed me to finally start focusing only on my thesis project. I am now working on the mapping for my first paper, which will focus on the geomorphology of one of my sites. In parallel, I am working on the seismology, still receiving a lot of help from my co-supervisor, Eric Larose, and co-worker, Agnes HelmsteIer, from ISTerre, France. Now that I have more time for it, seismology is starting to become more familiar to me. Getting to know a new scientific field makes my PhD challenging but really interesting!