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Asimina Voskaki

My name is Asimina Voskaki, and I am a Doctoral Researcher working on analysing climate risk in an airport context. I am a geoscientist with an MSc in environmental planning and an MRes in airport environmental strategy assessment and water management efficiency. I am passionate about climate resilience and using my skills to support organisations to prepare for, mitigate the impact and recover from the effects of climate change.

Getting to know Anne Mangeney 2022 Sergey Soloviev Medal

March 21, 2022
Getting to know Anne Mangeney 2022 Sergey Soloviev Medal
Icebergs floating in the ice fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland (photo credit: Steffen Seitz, distributed via Imaggeo)

In today’s interview, we talk with Anne Mangeney, Professor of Geosciences at the Paris Diderot University. Anne has been awarded the 2022 Sergey Soloviev Medal. This medal is awarded for outstanding scientific contributions in fundamental research that improves our knowledge of basic natural hazards principles and research that assesses and leads to the proper mitigation of natural hazards ...[Read More]

Building a risk-aware culture

November 1, 2021
Building a risk-aware culture
Photo credit: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay (Pixabay License)

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The future depends on what you do today”. In the past months, we have witnessed extreme weather events, wildfires, earthquakes, and volcanic activity in different parts of the world. Although this activity is ordinary for a living planet like Earth, it can disturb the modern way of living and put people at risk. Even for the events that can be predicted with a higher deg ...[Read More]

Paving the way for climate resilience: what can we learn from the coronavirus pandemic?

July 12, 2021
Paving the way for climate resilience: what can we learn from the coronavirus pandemic?
Photo credit: adapted from the original found in Pixabay (Pixabay License)

Even though significant epidemics and pandemics have been recorded many times throughout human history, the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated how vulnerable our societies still are. While the consequences of the pandemic are still ongoing, the global response so far can potentially offer some insights to support climate change response. Undoubtedly, the world is already experiencing a wide range of c ...[Read More]

#vEGU21: Gather Online – Get ready for the Natural Hazards and ECS activities

April 16, 2021
#vEGU21: Gather Online – Get ready for the Natural Hazards and ECS activities

Have you heard the news? The next EGU’s General Assembly is starting on Monday, and this year it will last for two weeks!!! And yes, as you may have guessed, with the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to have a considerable impact on face-to-face scientific meetings throughout the world, EGU 2021 will be entirely virtual. And that’s not all. We will have the ability to interact with each ot ...[Read More]