Bilde av Vick, Louise
Bilde av Vick, Louise
Associate Professor Department of Geosciences louise.m.vick@uit.no +4777644545 You can find me here

Louise Vick


Job description

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I am an engineering geologist with an interest in landslides and avalanches. My research focuses on the process and mechanics behind natural hazard events with a goal to improving hazard understanding and lowering risk. Much of my research focuses on mapping and monitoring large mountain landslides. A selection of roles in external research projects include: task leader in Impetus (an EU Green Deal project to increase resilience to climate change in different regions around Europe), progression domain leader of the GEOMME project (international partnership for Climate-induced geohazard mitigation, management, and education). 

My teaching portfolio includes the national geohazards course for bachelor students (GEO-2012), and rock slope failure for masters students (GEO-3135). Additionaly I have helped to establish and maintain courses in geotechnics and snow avalanches.


  • Vilde Edvardsen Hansen, Christopher James D'Amboise, Louise Mary Vick :
    Limitations of RAMMS:Debrisflow as a slushflow simulation tool
    International Snow Science Workshops (ISSW) Proceedings 2024 ARKIV
  • Sarah Valent, Nilas Tilo Mikkelsen, Jordy Hendrikx, Holt Hancock, Christopher James D'Amboise, Louise Mary Vick et al.:
    University snow science courses - an analysis of student learning outcomes
    International Snow Science Workshops (ISSW) Proceedings 2024 ARKIV
  • Yoichi Ito, Graham Gilbert, Dieter Issler, Callum Tregaskis, Louise Mary Vick, Carly Faber et al.:
    Building resilience to avalanches and other climate-driven geohazards through international collaboration in education: experience from the GEOMME partnership
    International Snow Science Workshops (ISSW) Proceedings 2024 ARKIV
  • Christopher James D'Amboise, Vilde Edvardsen Hansen, Louise Mary Vick :
    Motivation for slushflow classification
    International Snow Science Workshops (ISSW) Proceedings 2024 ARKIV
  • Line Rouyet, Karianne Staalesen Lilleøren, Martina Böhme, Louise Mary Vick, Reynald Delaloye, Bernd Etzelmüller et al.:
    Regional Morpho-Kinematic Inventory of Slope Movements in Northern Norway
    Frontiers in Earth Science 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Louise Mary Vick, Martin Mikkelsen, Geoffrey Corner, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Leif Trønnes, Anne Hormes et al.:
    Evolution and temporal constraints of a multiphase postglacial rock slope failure
    Geomorphology 2021 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Louise Mary Vick, Jørgen Nicolai Berg, Mark Eggers, Anne Hormes, Ingrid Skrede, Lars Harald Blikra :
    Keynote Lecture: The Jettan Rockslide—An Engineering Geological Overview
    Springer Nature 2021 DOI
  • Anne Hormes, Marc Adams, Anna Sara Amabile, Franz Blauensteiner, Christian Demmler, Christine Fey et al.:
    Innovative methods to monitor rock and mountain slope deformation
    Geomechanics and Tunneling 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Louise Mary Vick, Steffen G Bergh, Stephan Höpfl, Jack James Percival, Ellery Brydon Daines :
    The role of lithological weakness zones in rockslides in northern Norway
    2020
  • Louise Mary Vick, Martina Böhme, Line Rouyet, Steffen G Bergh, Geoffrey D. Corner, Tom Rune Lauknes :
    Structurally controlled rock slope deformation in northern Norway
    Landslides. Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Louise Mary Vick, Valerie Zimmer, Christopher White, Chris Massey, Tim Davies :
    Significance of substrate soil moisture content for rockfall hazard assessment
    Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Josh Walter Borella, Mark Quigley, Louise Mary Vick :
    Anthropocene rockfalls travel farther than prehistoric predecessors
    Science Advances 2016 ARKIV / DOI
  • Christopher James D'Amboise, Vilde Edvardsen Hansen, Jordy Hendrikx, Louise Mary Vick :
    The initial steps for a data science investigation on slushflows in northern Norway
    2023
  • Torill Nyseth, Arild Buanes, Johanne Kryger, Louise Vick, Stein Arne Rånes :
    Hvordan skal vi tilpasse oss et varmere, våtere og villere klima?
    Nordlys 08. April 2022
  • Louise Mary Vick, Carly Faber, Graham Lewis Gilbert, Anders Solheim, Kjersti Gleditsch Gisnås :
    Education in climate-induced geohazards, risk and mitigation
    2022
  • Danilo Godone, Changdong Li, Louise Vick :
    Editorial of Special Issue “Geo-Hydrological Risks Management”
    Geosciences 2022 DOI
  • Louise Mary Vick, Valerie Zimmer, Christopher White, Chris Massey, Timothy Davies :
    Significance of soil moisture content for rockfall hazard assessment
    2019
  • Louise Mary Vick, Martina Böhme, Line Rouyet, Steffen Gunnar Bergh, Geoffrey D. Corner, Tom Rune Lauknes :
    Structurally-controlled rock slope deformation in northern Norway
    2019
  • Bernt Kristian Flekstad Vik, Gaute Sikveland, Martina Böhme, Louise Mary Vick, Steffen Gunnar Bergh :
    Structural assessment and characterisation of the unstable rock slope at Mellomfjellet
    2018
  • Louise Mary Vick, Steffen Gunnar Bergh, Martina Böhme, Geoffrey D. Corner :
    The influence of inherited bedrock structure on the deformation of unstable rock slopes in northern Norway
    2018
  • Louise Mary Vick :
    Evaluation of field data and 3D modelling for rockfall hazard analysis
    2015 FULLTEKST

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    Research interests

    Engineering geology, rock slope failure, rock slope deformation, geohazards, mass movements, landslides, avalanches, mass movements, structural geology, natural hazards, climate change, adapatation, policy, hazard and risk