Publications

1. Flentje, P., Chowdhury, R., Miner, A.S. and Mazengarb, C., 2010. Periodic and continuous landslide monitoring to assess landslide frequency – selected Australian examples. Geologically Active, Proceedings of the 11th IAEG Congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, 2010. Paper submitted Feb 2010.
   
   
2. Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P., 2010. Geotechnical analysis of slopes and landslides - achievements and challenges. Geologically Active, Proceedings of the 11th IAEG Congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, 2010. Paper submitted Feb 2010.
   
   
3. Miner, A.S., Flentje, P., Mazengarb ,C. and Windle, D.J. 2010. Landslide Recognition using LiDAR derived Digital Elevation Models-Lessons learnt from selected Australian examples. Geologically Active, Proceedings of the 11th IAEG Congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, 2010. Paper submitted Feb 2010.
   
   
4. Miner, A.S., Vamplew, P., Windle, D.J., Flentje, P. and Warner, P., 2010. A comparative study of Various Data Mining techniques as applied to the modeling of Landslide susceptibility on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Geologically Active, Proceedings of the 11th IAEG Congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, 2010. Paper submitted Feb 2010.
   
   
5. Chowdhury, R and Flentje, P., 2008. Strategic Approaches for Mangement of Risk in Geomechanics, Proceedings of The 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), Goa, India, 1-6 October, 2008.
   
   
6. A.S. Miner, P. Flentje, C. Mazengarb, J.M. Selkirk-Bell and P.G. Dahlhaus, 2008. Some geomorphological techniques used in constraining the likelihood of landsliding selected Australian examples. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, Xi'an, China, 30 June - 4 July 2008
   
   
7. Flentje, P., Stirling, D., Palamara, D. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2007. Landslide susceptibility and landslide hazard zoning in Wollongong. Proceedings 10th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics: Common Ground. Brisbane, Australia, October 21-24, 2007. Volume 2, pages 392 to 397.
   
   
8. Chowdhury ,R and Flentje, P., 2007. Perspectives For The Future of Geotechnical Engineering, Keynote Paper, Proceedings of the Conference, Civil Engineering For the New Mellenium, 150 year anniversary conference of Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, January 11-14, 2007, 20 Pages.
   
   
9. Flentje, P., Stirling, D. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2007. Landslide Susceptibility and Hazard derived from a Landslide Inventory using Data Mining - An Australian Case Study. Proceedings of the First North American Landslide Conference, Landslides and Society: Integrated Science, Engineering, Management, and Mitigation. Vail, Colorado June 3-8, 2007. CD, Paper number 17823-024, 10 pages.
   
   
10. Palamara D, Brassington G, Flentje P, Baafi E 2006. High-resolution topographic data for subsidence impact assessment and SMP preparation: methods and considerations. Coal 2006: 7th Underground Coal Operators' Conference. University of Wollongong, 5-7 July 2006. pp 276-292.
    
    
11. Zahiri H, Palamara DR, Flentje P, Brassington GM, Baafi E. 2006. A GIS-based Weights-of-Evidence model for mapping cliff instabilities associated with mine subsidence. Environmental Geology. Volume 51, Number 3. Pages 377-386.
    
    
12. Palamara DR, Nicholson M, Flentje P, Baafi E, Brassington GM. An evaluation of airborne laser scan data for coalmine subsidence mapping. The International Journal of Remote Sensing.
    
    
13. Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2006. Observational Approach for Urban Landslide Management, Engineering geology for tomorrow's cities. The 10th International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) Congress, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 6-10 September 2006.
    
    
14. Palamara, D, Baafi, E, Flentje, P. and Brassington, G., 2006. An Overview of the Application of Geographic Information Systems to Coalmine Subsidence Impact Assessment. Bulletin of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. January/February, Number 1. Pages 50 - 54.
    
    
15. Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2005. Managing landslide hazards on the Illawarra escarpment. Proceedings of the GeoQuest Symposium on Planning for Natural Hazards - How can we mitigate the impacts? Editor: Associate Professor John Morrison. University of Wollongong, 2-5 February 2005. Published by GeoQuest Research Centre, University of Wollongong 2005, p 65 - 78.
    
    
16. Pennel, R, Ruberu, D and Flentje, P., 2005. Realtime display of landslide monitoring data. The Eleventh Australasian World Wide Web Conference, Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, 2nd to 6th July 2005
    
    
17. Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2005. Reliability of Landslide Management In An Urban Area. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability - ICOSSAR'05, Rome, Italy, June 19-23, 2005.
    
    
18. Moon, A.T., Wilson, R.A. and Flentje, P.N., 2005. Developing and using landslide size frequency models. Joint Technical Committee on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, JTC-1, in association with Vancouver Geotechnical Society. Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management/18th Annual Vancouver Geotechnical Society Symposium, Vancouver. May 31 to June 4, pp 589 - 598.
    
    
19. Hendrickx, M., Wilson, R., Moon, A., Stewart I. and Flentje, P., 2005. Slope hazard assessment on a coast road in New South Wales, Australia. Joint Technical Committee on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, JTC-1, in association with Vancouver Geotechnical Society. Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management/18th Annual Vancouver Geotechnical Society Symposium, Vancouver. May 31 to June 4 (10 page pdf on CD)
    
    
20. Flentje, P. Chowdhury, R.N., Tobin, P and Brizga, V., 2005. Towards real-time landslide risk management in an urban area. Landslide Risk Management, Editors Hungr, O, Fell, R, Couture, R and Eberhardt, E. Vancouver. Joint Technical Committee on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, JTC-1, in association with Vancouver Geotechnical Society. Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management/18th Annual Vancouver Geotechnical Society Symposium, May 31 to June 4, pp. 741-751
    
    
21. Ko Ko, C., Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2005. Hazard and risk of rainfall-triggered landsliding along a railway line. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. Volume 38, Part 2, May, pp 197-213. London, UK
    
    
22. Ko Ko, C., Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2004. Interpretation of probability of landsliding triggered by rainfall. Landslides, Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides. Volume 1 Number 4. pp 263 -275
    
    
23. Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P., 2004. Risk Assessment for Landslides as Natural hazards. Invited Keynote Paper, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Risk Assessment in Site Characterisation and Geotechnical Design. Indian Institute of Science. Bangalore, India, Nov. 26 - 27, 2004. In association with Risk Assessment and Management Committee, Geo-institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
    
    
24. Ko Ko, C., Flentje P. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2004. Landslides qualitative hazard and risk assessment method and its reliability. Bulletin of International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Volume 63, Number 2, June, pp.149-165
    
    
25. Chowdhury, R.N., Zhang, S. and Flentje, P., 2004. Reliability updating and geotechnical back-analysis, Proceedings Skempton Conference, Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 2, pp. 815-821
    
    
26. Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R.N., 2004. Case Study of landslide Investigation and Monitoring, Proceedings 9th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Auckland, February, Volume 1, pp. 412-418
    
    
27. Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P., 2003. Aspects of Modern Research Concerning the Management of Landsliding. Invited Keynote Paper, Proceedings, Indian Geotechnical Conference, Roorkee, Vol 2, pages 717-728
    
    
28. Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P., 2003. Role of slope reliability analysis in landslide risk management. Journal of the International Association of Engineering and the Environment. Volume 62, Number 1, pp. 41-46
    
    
29. Ko Ko, Chit, Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P., 2003. Hazard and Risk Assessment of rainfall - induced landsliding along a railway line. Journal of the International Association of Engineering and the Environment.
    
    
30. Ko Ko, Chit, Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R., 2003. Quantitative Hazard and Risk Assessment: a Case Study. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. Vol. 36, pp. 261-271
    
    
31. C Ko Ko, RN Chowdhury and P Flentje, 2002. Landslide Hazard and Risk Along a Railway Line. Conference on Railway Engineering (CORE 2002). Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 10-13 November 2002, published by Railway Technical Society of Australia (RTSA), pp 191-201
    
    
32. RN Chowdhury and P Flentje, 2002. Strategies for Assessment and Management of Geotechnical Risk with Particular Reference to Urban Slope Stability. The inaugural INDOROCK Conference, Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Technology (ISRMTT), New Delhi, November 28-29, 2002, pp157-174
    
    
33. Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P., 2002. Keynote Address - Modern Approaches for Assessment and Management of Urban Landslides. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Landslides, Slope Stability and the Safety of Infrastructures. July 11 - 12, Singapore. CI-Premier Conference Organisation, pp 23 - 36
    
    
34. Flentje and Chowdhury, 2002. Frequency of Landsliding as Part of Risk Assessment. Australian Geomechanics News, Volume 37 Number 2, May, pages 157 - 167. Australian Geomechanics Society, Institution of Engineers, Australia
    
    
35. Flentje, P, Chowdhury, R and Tobin, P., 2002. GIS Framework for Landslide Risk Management. Proceedings of the International Conference on Instability - Planning and Management. Conference, editors: RG McInnes and Jenny Jakeways, May 2002, Isle of Wight, UK, Thomas Telford, London, UK, pp 237 - 248
    
    
36. Chowdhury, R, Flentje, P. and Hayne, M and Gordon, D., 2002. Strategies for Quantitative Landslide Hazard Assessment. Proceedings of the International Conference on Instability - Planning and Management. Conference, editors: RG McInnes and Jenny Jakeways, May 2002, Isle of Wight, UK, Thomas Telford, London, UK, pp 219-228
    
    
37. Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P., 2002. Uncertainties in Rainfall-Induced Landslide Hazard. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. Symposium in Print on Landslides. London (UK), Volume 35 Part 1, February 2002, pp 61-70
    
    
38. Flentje, P and Chowdhury, R. N, 2002. Landsliding in an Urban Area - Photographic Feature. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. Symposium in Print on Landslides. Volume 35 Part 1, February 2002, pp 5 - 7
    
    
39. Ko Ko, C., Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P., 2001. Rational Approaches for Landslide Risk Management, published in a Volume containing papers from Fourteenth Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference, Hong Kong, 'Geotechnical Engineering Meeting Society's Needs', AA Balkema, Netherlands, pp 103-108
    
    
40. Ko Ko, C., Flentje, P., and Chowdhury, R. N. 2001. Investigating Landslide Hazards along a railway route. Proceedings of the Eighth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 5-7 December
    
    
41. Flentje, P. and Chowdhury, R. N, 2001. Aspects of Risk Management for Rainfall - Triggered Landsliding. Proceedings of the Engineering and Development in Hazardous Terrain Symposium, New Zealand Geotechnical Society Inc. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand. August 24-25, pp 143-150
    
    
42. Chowdhury, R. and Flentje, P, 2000. Role of Slope Reliability Analysis in Landslide Risk Management. International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability Conference. Newport Beach, California, United States of America, June 17-22, 2001
    
    
43. Flentje, P., Chowdhury, R. N. and Chit Ko Ko, 2000. A Matrix Approach for Landslide Risk Assessment. Proceedings of GeoEng2000, an International Conference on Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. Melbourne, November 19 - 24. Technomic, Pennsylvania, on CD ROM paper number SNES0252.Pdf
    
    
44. Flentje, P, Chowdhury, R and Tobin, P., 2000. Management of Landslides Triggered by a Major Storm Event in Wollongong, Australia. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Debris-Flow hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment. Taipei, Taiwan. Balkema, Rotterdam, p 479 - 487
    
    
45. Flentje, P and Professor Robin Chowdhury, 2000. Slope Instability, Hazard and Risk Associated with a Rainstorm Event - A Case Study. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Landslides. Cardiff, United Kingdom. Thomas Telford, London, p 559 - 566
    
    
46. Phil Flentje and Robin Chowdhury, 1999. Geotechnical Assessment and Management of 148 Landslides Triggered by a Major Storm Event in Wollongong, Australia. Proceedings of the Australian Disaster Conference 1999. 1 - 3 November, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Pp 269-274
    
    
47. Chowdhury, R. N., Flentje, P. and Chit Ko Ko, 1999. Aspects of Recent Landslide Research At The University of Wollongong. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference and Field Trip on Landslides (9ICFL). Cardiff, United Kingdom 1999
    
    
48. Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P. 1999. Consideration of probability assessments relevant to hazard and risk for landslides. Proceedings Eighth International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability (ICASP8) Newcastle, Australia. December 1999
    
    
49. Chit Ko Ko, Dr. Phil Flentje and Professor Robin Chowdhury. 1999. Landslide Risk Assessment - Development of a Hazard Consequence Approach. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Slope Stability Engineering: Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Aspects. Volume 2, pp 1309-1315. Balkema. 8 -11 November. Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan
    
    
50. Flentje, P.N. and Chowdhury, R. N. 1999. Quantitative Landslide Hazard Assessment in an Urban Area. Proceedings of the Eighth Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics. Editor: Dr. Nihal Vitharana. February 15 - 17, Hobart, Tasmania. Institution of Engineers, Australia
    
    
51. Flentje, P.N. and Chowdhury, R. N. 1999. Instrumentation for Slope Stability - Experience from an Urban Area. Field Instrumentation for Soil and Rock, ASTM Special Technical Publication 1358. Editors: G.N. Durham and W. A. Marr. American Society of Testing Materials. June 18 - 19, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
    
    
52. Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P.N. 1998. Effective Urban Landslide Hazard Assessment. Eighth Congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, A Global View from the Pacific Rim. September 21 - 25. Vancouver, British Columbia
    
    
53. Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P. 1998. Spatial Hazard Assessment for Landslides under Seismic Conditions. Annales Geophysicae, European Geophysical Society, Abstract only. Supplement IV to Volume 16, page C1199 (also presented at the 23rd General Assembly of the EGS, Nice, France 20-24 April 1998)
    
    
54. Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P. 1998. Hazard Assessment for Rainfall-Triggered Landslides. Annales Geophysicae, European Geophysical Society. Abstract only. Supplement IV to Volume 16, page C1176 (also presented at the 23rd General Assembly of the EGS, Nice, France 20-24 April 1998)
    
    
55. Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P.N. 1998. A landslide database for landslide hazard assessment. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Environmental Management. February 10 -13. Wollongong Australia. Editor: Sivakumar, M. and Chowdhury, R. N. Pages 1229 - 1239. Elsevier London
    
    
56. Flentje, P.N. and Chowdhury, R. N. 1997. Risk Assessment of Sloping Land Using GIS-based mapping. Second Pan-American Symposium on Landslides and the Second Brazilian Conference on Stability of Natural Slopes. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. November 10 - 14. Paper number 69, 7 pages, published by ABMS
    
    
57. Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P.N. 1997. Relevance of mapping for slope stability in the Greater Wollongong area, New South Wales, Australia. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering Geology of the Environment. Athens, Greece. June 23 - 27. Editors: Marinos, P. G., Koukis, G. C., Tsiambaos, G. C. and Stournaras, G. C. Published by Balkema, Rotterdam
    
    
58. Flentje, P.N. and Chowdhury, R. N. 1996. Preparation and validation of digital maps of geology and slope instability. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference and Field Trip on Landslides, Madrid, Spain, December, 15 - 28, Editors: Chacon, J, Irigaray, C and Fernandez, T. Published by Balkema, Rotterdam ISBN 90 54108320
    
    
59. Chowdhury, R. N. and Flentje, P. N. 1996. Geological and Land Instability mapping using a GIS package as a building block for the development of a risk assessment procedure. Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Landslides, Trondheim, Norway. Editor: Senneset, K. June, Volume 1, 177 - 182, Balkema, Rotterdam ISBN 90 54108185