Cordova avalanche and landslide hazards

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1663

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Cordova landslide

• Parent Project:

  Alaska Landslide Hazards Program

• Status:

  Active

• Description:

  As part of the CTP partnership agreement with FEMA, DGGS will conduct landslide and snow avalanche mapping and slope analysis for community-selected areas in and around Cordova, Alaska. This project will collect and process lidar data, utilize existing imagery products, and conduct geospatial analysis and modeling to produce assessments of 1) landslide characteristics and susceptibility and 2) avalanche hazards in and around Cordova. Official project title: Landslide and Snow Avalanche Resiliency Project for Cordova, FEMA grant #EMS-2021-CA-00014-01

• Project Date(s):

  2022 - 2024

• Primary Contact:

  Wolken, Gabriel J.

• DGGS section:

  Geologic Hazards

• Project Participants:

  Gabriel J. Wolken, Mandy L. Willingham, J. Barrett Salisbury, Katreen M. Wikstrom Jones

Publications

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RDF 2025-7

Zechmann, J.M., Wolken, G.J., and Wikstrom Jones, K.M., 2025, Lidar-derived elevation data for Goodwin Glacier, southcentral Alaska, collected September 22, 2023: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2025-7, 5 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31519

RDF 2024-6

Zechmann, J.M., Wikstrom Jones, K.M., and Wolken, G.J., 2024, Lidar-derived elevation data for Cordova, southcentral Alaska, collected August 18-19, 2023, and September 19 and 22, 2023: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2024-6, 11 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31159