SLATE

The over-arching aim of the European Training Network SLATE is two-fold: § to understand key factors triggering submarine landslides, the subsequent motion and evolution of failed material, as well as ensuing geohazards, e.g. tsunamis; and § to integrate an innovative broad range of scientific disciplines and private sector needs into a novel training-through-research and co-supervision of Early-Stage Researchers (ESR). SLATE focusses on investigating submarine landslides and associated geohazards as important natural risks that threaten offshore infrastructures and coastal regions in Europe. Submarine landslides can be far larger than any terrestrial landslide and can produce tsunami whose far reaching effects can rival those produced by earthquake-tsunamis, and which threaten increasingly populated European coastlines.