Theses

• Megan McKellar

  Quantifying the effect of failure mechanism on dam breach: a physical modelling approach ↗

  PhD thesis, Queen's University, April 2024
• Negar Ghahramani

  Improved empirical and numerical predictive modelling of potential tailings dam breaches and their downstream impacts ↗

  PhD thesis, University of British Columbia, July 2023
• Nahyan Rana

  Global study of tailings dam failures by statistical and remote sensing methods ↗

  PhD thesis, University of Waterloo, April 2023
• Daniel Adria

  Compilation and critical assessment of observations from a selection of historical tailings dam breach events for numerical breach and runout modelling ↗

  MASc thesis, University of British Columbia, November 2022
• Kayleigh Barlow

  Numerical simulation of dam breach with XBeach ↗

  MASc thesis, Queen's University, July 2022
• Andrea Walsh

  Physical modelling of tailings dam breach ↗

  MASc thesis, Queen's University, December 2019

Journal articles

• Nahyan Rana, Keith Delaney, Stephen Evans, Evan Deane, Andy Small, Daniel Adria, Scott McDougall, Negar Ghahramani, Andy Take

  Application of Sentinel-1 InSAR to monitor tailings dams and predict geotechnical instability: practical considerations based on case study insights ↗

  Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 83, issue 5, May 2024
• Kayleigh Barlow, Ryan Mulligan, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Simulation of breaching of laboratory-scale earth dams by overtopping with XBeach ↗

  Coastal Engineering, volume 189, April 2024
• Negar Ghahramani, Daniel Adria, Nahyan Rana, Marcelo Llano-Serna, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Analysis of uncertainty and sensitivity in tailings dam breach-runout numerical modelling ↗

  Mine Water and the Environment, volume 43, March 2024, pages 87-103
• Daniel Adria, Negar Ghahramani, Nahyan Rana, Violeta Martin, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Insights from the compilation and critical assessment of breach and runout characteristics from historical tailings dam failures: implications for numerical modelling ↗

  Mine Water and the Environment, volume 42, December 2023, pages 650-669
• Negar Ghahramani, Joanna Chen, Daley Clohan, Shielan Liu, Marcelo Llano-Serna, Nahyan Rana, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  A benchmarking study of four numerical runout models for the simulation of tailings flows ↗

  Science of the Total Environment, volume 827, June 2022
• Sally Innis, Negar Ghahramani, Nahyan Rana, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take, Nadja Kunz

  The development and demonstration of a semi-automated regional hazard mapping tool for tailings storage facility failures ↗

  Resources, volume 11, issue 10, October 2022
• Nahyan Rana, Negar Ghahramani, Stephen Evans, Andy Small, Nigel Skermer, Scott McDougall, Andy Take

  Global magnitude-frequency statistics of the failures and impacts of large water-retention dams and mine tailings impoundments ↗

  Earth-Science Reviews, volume 232, September 2022
• Andrea Walsh, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Effect of upstream dam geometry on peak discharge during overtopping breach in noncohesive homogeneous embankment dams; implications for tailings dams ↗

  Water Resources Research, volume 57, issue 12, December 2021
• Nahyan Rana, Negar Ghahramani, Stephen Evans, Scott McDougall, Andy Small, Andy Take

  Catastrophic mass flows resulting from tailings impoundment failures ↗

  Engineering Geology, volume 292, October 2021
• Negar Ghahramani, Andrew Mitchell, Nahyan Rana, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Tailings-flow runout analysis: examining the applicability of a semi-physical area–volume relationship using a novel database ↗

  Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, volume 20, issue 12, December 2020, pages 3425-3438

Databases

• Daniel Adria, Negar Ghahramani, Nahyan Rana, Violeta Martin, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  A database of breach and runout characteristics from historical tailings dam failures ↗

  Borealis, 2023
• Nahyan Rana, Negar Ghahramani, Stephen Evans, Andy Small, Nigel Skermer, Scott McDougall, Andy Take

  Supplementary materials to "Global magnitude-frequency statistics of the failures and impacts of large water-retention dams and mine tailings impoundments" ↗

  Borealis, 2022
• Nahyan Rana, Negar Ghahramani, Stephen Evans, Scott McDougall, Andy Small, Andy Take

  A comprehensive global database of tailings flows ↗

  Borealis, 2021
• Andrea Walsh, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Effect of upstream dam geometry on peak discharge during overtopping breach in noncohesive homogenous embankment dams; implications for tailings dams (2021-06-07) ↗

  Borealis, 2021

Conference papers

• Nahyan Rana, Negar Ghahramani, Andy Small, Scott McDougall, Andy Take, Stephen Evans

  Improvements in case history knowledge for dam failures by statistical and remote sensing methods (CanBreach project)

  27th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Vancouver, November 2023, pages 275-286
• Negar Ghahramani, Daniel Adria, Sally Innis, Nahyan Rana, Evelyn Dina, Nadja Kunz, Stephen Evans, Andy Take, Scott McDougall

  Methods for empirical and numerical analysis of tailings flow runout (CanBreach project)

  27th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Vancouver, November 2023, pages 251-262
• Megan McKellar, Andrea Walsh, Kayleigh Barlow, Ryan Mulligan, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Physical and numerical modeling of tailings dam breach processes (CanBreach project)

  27th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Vancouver, November 2023, pages 240-250
• Nahyan Rana, Stephen Evans, Negar Ghahramani, Scott McDougall, Andy Take

  The magnitude-frequency of tailings flows resulting from failures of tailings impoundments

  25th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Banff, November 2021, pages 509-516
• Daniel Adria, Negar Ghahramani, Anda Cen, Scott McDougall, Nahyan Rana, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Advancements in the modelling of tailings dam breaches

  25th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Banff, November 2021, pages 324-332
• Megan McKellar, Andrea Walsh, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  Physical modelling of tailings dam breach: exploring overtopping following shear failure ↗

  3rd Mine Waste and Tailings Conference, Brisbane, July 2021
• Nahyan Rana, Negar Ghahramani, Stephen Evans, Scott McDougall, Andy Take

  Analysis of downstream field behavior of long‐runout tailings flows using remote sensing ↗

  3rd Mine Waste and Tailings Conference, Brisbane, July 2021
• Negar Ghahramani, Nahyan Rana, Shielan Liu, Joanna Chen, Daley Clohan, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take

  A preliminary benchmarking numerical modelling exercise for tailings‐flow runout analysis ↗

  3rd Mine Waste and Tailings Conference, Brisbane, July 2021
• Sally Innis, Negar Ghahramani, Nahyan Rana, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans, Andy Take, Nadja Kunz

  Automated hazard mapping of tailings storage facility failures

  24th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, November 2020, pages 661-669
• Negar Ghahramani, Scott McDougall, Andrew Mitchell, Stephen Evans, Andy Take, Vanessa Cuervo

  Introducing a runout zone classification for the analysis of tailings flows

  23rd International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Vancouver, November 2019, pages 555-568
• Andrea Walsh, Andy Take, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans

  Physical modelling of tailings dam breach

  23rd International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Vancouver, November 2019, pages 705-714

Reports

• Daniel Adria, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans

  Parametric method for tailings-dam breaches and its application to the breach event at the Mount Polley Mine, south-central British Columbia ↗

  Geoscience BC, 2022, pages 81-92

Talks

• Daniel Adria, Nahyan Rana

  Case history databases

  Recent advances in tailings dam breach analysis, 35th Annual Conference & Trade Show of the Canadian Dam Association, Niagara Falls, October 2024
• Negar Ghahramani

  Improved numerical predictive modelling of potential dam breaches and their downstream impacts

  Recent advances in tailings dam breach analysis, 35th Annual Conference & Trade Show of the Canadian Dam Association, Niagara Falls, October 2024
• Andy Take

  Physical and numerical modelling of overtopping dam breach

  Recent advances in tailings dam breach analysis, 35th Canadian Dam Association Annual Conference & Trade Show, Niagara Falls, October 2024
• Scott McDougall

  An overview of the CanBreach project

  Tailings dam breach analysis workshop, 23rd International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Vancouver, November 2019
• Scott McDougall, Negar Ghahramani, Stephen Evans, Andy Take, Andrea Walsh

  CanBreach: an integrated tailings dam breach research and technology development project

  Tailings research workshop, 87th Annual Meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams, Ottawa, June 2019
• Andrea Walsh, Andy Take, Scott McDougall, Stephen Evans

  CanBreach: physical modelling of tailings dam breach

  Tailings research workshop, 87th Annual Meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams, Ottawa, June 2019