Advances in Debris-Flow Science and Practice

這本書提供了泥石流科學和實踐各個方面的最新綜述，旨在成為從業人員的全面技術參考和科學家的最新研究概述。書中配有方程式、圖表、照片和表格的豐富插圖。該書使學生、從業人員和監管機構能夠了解這一科學的最新發展。目前，每週有2到3篇關於泥石流科學某些方面的論文發表。這造成了大量的文獻，單個人無法涵蓋。本書提供了迄今為止的全面概述，包括初始災害評估、詳細的定量風險評估、泥石流預警系統、泥石流減災結構設計和減災工程失敗，以及新的主題，如氣候變化對泥石流的影響。

Matthias Jakob, Ph.D., P.Geo., Principal Geoscientist, was an internationally recognized specialist on geohazard and risk assessment and management. Sadly, Dr. Jakob passed way in 2022. He remains one of Canada's leading experts in hazard and risk assessment of landslides, especially debris floods and debris flows. He completed such assessments for several hundred creeks mostly in Canada but also in Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Austria. Dr. Jakob was involved as the lead author for the Professional Practice Guidelines of Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC) on Landslide Assessments in Residential Developments and Legislated Flood Assessments in a Changing Climate in BC. Dr. Jakob authored some 100 publications in the fields of applied geohazard assessments and was senior editor on a book on debris flows and debris avalanches published in 2005 that won the prestigious Burwell Award in 2009.

Scott McDougall is an associate professor of Geological Engineering in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He completed a B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Geological Engineering at UBC in 2006. Before joining the faculty at UBC full time in 2016, he worked for 10 years as a consultant with BGC Engineering in Vancouver, where he was engaged in a wide variety of projects in the mining, energy, transportation, and municipal development sectors. His research team specializes in the development of tools and techniques for the analysis of geohazards, including landslides, landslide-generated waves, shoreline erosion, and dam breaches. He has served as the chair of the Canadian Geotechnical Society's (CGS) Geohazards Committee and was a recipient of the 2014 CGS Colloquium Award and the 2023 Thomas Roy Award.

Paul Santi is a professor of Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, wherehe has been on the faculty for over 22 years. Previously, he taught for 6 years at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and worked for 6 years as an engineering consultant in San Francisco and Denver. His recent research has focused on analysis, prediction and mitigation design for debris flows, landslide analysis, and general geologic hazard analysis. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Geology and Physics from Duke University, an M.S. in Geology from Texas A&M, and a Ph.D. in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, he has been the chair of the Engineering Geology Division of that organization, and he has been the president of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists.

Matthias Jakob博士是一位地質科學家，擁有博士學位和P.Geo.資格，是國際上公認的地質災害和風險評估與管理專家。可惜的是，Jakob博士於2022年去世。他仍然是加拿大在山崩、特別是泥石流和碎屑洪水的災害和風險評估方面的領先專家之一。他在加拿大以及智利、阿根廷、厄瓜多爾、玻利維亞和奧地利等地完成了數百個溪流的評估工作。Jakob博士曾擔任英屬哥倫比亞省工程師和地質學家專業實踐指南（EGBC）《住宅開發中的山崩評估》和《氣候變化下的法定洪水評估》的主要作者。他在應用地質災害評估領域發表了約100篇論文，並擔任2005年出版的一本關於泥石流和碎屑崩塌的書籍的高級編輯，該書於2009年獲得了著名的Burwell獎。

Scott McDougall是不列顛哥倫比亞大學（UBC）地球、海洋和大氣科學系地質工程的副教授。他於1998年在多倫多大學獲得土木工程學士學位，並於2006年在UBC獲得地質工程博士學位。在2016年全職加入UBC之前，他在溫哥華的BGC工程公司擔任顧問工作了10年，參與了礦業、能源、交通和市政發展等各種項目。他的研究團隊專門從事地質災害分析工具和技術的開發，包括山崩、山崩引發的波浪、岸線侵蝕和壩體破壞。他曾擔任加拿大岩土工程學會（CGS）地質災害委員會主席，並獲得了2014年CGS學術研討會獎和2023年Thomas Roy獎。

Paul Santi是科羅拉多礦業學院的地質工程學教授，已在該學院任教超過22年。此前，他在密蘇里科學技術大學任教6年，並在舊金山和丹佛擔任工程顧問6年。他最近的研究專注於碎屑流、山崩分析和一般地質災害分析的分析、預測和減災設計。他擁有杜克大學的地質和物理學士學位，德克薩斯農工大學的地質學碩士學位，以及科羅拉多礦業學院的地質工程博士學位。他是美國地質學會的會士，曾擔任該組織的工程地質學部門主席，並擔任環境和工程地質學家協會的主席。