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Paulo Hader

I am an environmental engineer passionate about geoscience. In 2021, I obtained an MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the São Paulo State University (Brazil), where I worked with landslide risk assessment using AI. I am currently working outside of academia as a data scientist. My main interests are landslide forecasting, early warning system, climate change, earth observation and machine learning. I strongly believe in the power of scientific communication among different audiences to benefit society in this geologically active world. For this reason, I joined the EGU early career scientists team in 2020 and started to actively contribute in several activities we manage together.

The 2023 Carnival disaster in São Paulo: an all time record for rainfall in Brazil

May 22, 2023
The 2023 Carnival disaster in São Paulo: an all time record for rainfall in Brazil
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In February 2023, Brazil experienced its largest rainfall event on record, which devastated the northern coast of the state of São Paulo. This event caused landslides, floods, and numerous fatalities, making it even more tragic than previous disasters in the region, which already have been elaborated on in another blog post. The situation highlights the urgent need for effective emergency manageme ...[Read More]

Discovering the CoastSnap project – Interview with Dr Mitchell Harley

and February 13, 2023
Discovering the CoastSnap project – Interview with Dr Mitchell Harley

CoastSnap is a global citizen science project aiming at monitoring the changes in our coastlines due to processes such as storms, rising sea levels, and human activities using smartphones. We will discover more about this promising project by chatting today with Dr Mitchell Harley, founder of the CoastSnap program. Mitchell is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environment ...[Read More]

IoT and Natural Hazards: the latest updates

November 14, 2022
IoT and Natural Hazards: the latest updates
Photo credit: Image by Anthony Beure from Pixabay (Pixabay licence)

In my blog post last year, I talked about the escalation of extreme events in Brazil, and one of the main questions was whether the scientific community would need new methods and technologies to deal with extreme events aggravated by climate change. This year, during one of the Innovations (WG05) working group meetings of the International Network on Landslide Early Warning Systems (LandAware), I ...[Read More]

The new President-elect of the EGU Natural Hazards Division: a talk with Heidi Kreibich

May 30, 2022
Riverine flood
Credit: Christian Wasserfallen (https://www.pexels.com/pt-br/foto/ponte-em-arco-ponte-arqueada-calamidade-desastre-8770485/)

In today’s interview, we have the pleasure of talking with Dr Heidi Kreibich, lecturer at the Geography Department at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and head of the working group “Flood risk and climate adaptation” at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). From her interest in investigating different types of flooding associated with complex physical and anthropogenic ...[Read More]