29.03.2010: ecorisQ will organise two Rockyfor3D training courses in June 2010 with support of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Stand Montafon Forstfonds and CREALP. During the morning such a course takes place in the field, and during the afternoon in a meeting room. The 16th of June 2010 we will organise a course in Deutsch/English near Gaschurn (Montafon, Austria) and the 23rd of June 2010 a course en français near Sion (Valais, Switzerland). Preliminary costs are 60 Euros p.p. for ecorisQ members and 230 for non-members (inkl. lunch and apéro). This course will also show how opensource GIS packages (QGIS and SAGA GIS) can be used for preparing input data for Rockyfor3D.

11.11.2009: With the start of the carnaval season, the first members of ecorisQ received the stand-alone executable of Rockyfor3D. We are anxious to hear about their first experiences.

16.10.2009: The team of Frederic Berger of Cemagref Grenoble, with support of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), succesfully carried out full-scale rockfall experiments on diagonally cut tree stems in an avalanche couloir in the French Alps. The impressive experiments showed the both the efficacy and limits of such protective measures.

20.08.2009: In cooperation with Umwelt Büro Klagenfurt and Geo7, ecorisQ participates in a pilot study on minimal standards for hazard (indication) maps within the framework of the Interreg project MassMove. For this, ecorisQ will carry out 3D rockfall simulations with and without the protective effect of forests in Carynthia, Austria.