Stephen Hughes

University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Stephen Hughes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Puerto Rico. Please feel free to contact him at kenneth.hughes@upr.edu.

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Unit 2: Examining the Distribution of Mass Wasting Events part of Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis
What factors contribute to the distribution patterns of mass wasting events? In this unit, students will use a frequency-ratio method, one of the most common quantitative methods used in the statistical analysis of ...

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Unit 4: Analyze and Prescribe a Risk Assessment and Hazard Mitigation Plan part of Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis
How can community stakeholders use the landslide susceptibility model to inform planning and infrastructure decisions? Students will create a landslide risk analysis report and assessment plan for a specific ...

Unit 3: Develop and Test Models of Landslide Susceptibility part of Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis
How do geoscientists confidently create landslide susceptibility maps based on empirical data? Together with Unit 2: Examining the Distribution of Mass Wasting Events, this exercise helps students use GIS to gain ...

Unit 1: Mass Wasting Identification and Quantification part of Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis
How can geoscientists identify and quantify landslide events using remote sensing data? The analysis of mass wasting events from remotely sensed data is a complicated task, burdened by the range of geomorphic ...

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