For today blog, we have interviewed Clemens Eisank about OBIA and its application in Natural Hazard. Dr. Clemens Eisank is Remote Sensing Specialist & Project Manager at GRID-IT Company in Innsbruck (Austria). He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS at Salzburg University in 2013. In his Ph.D. research, he proposed a workflow for automated geomorphological mapping w ...[Read More]
“Twenty or more Leagues Under the Sea”: A journey to understand submarine canyons
As NhET, we have the pleasure to have Mauro Agate as our guest and interviewee today. We discuss about submarine canyons and related geo-hazards. Further details will be available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064513002488 for a scientific-oriented audience; or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWErQNoZYpJhhkxPa82x5g for a broader audience. Dr. Mauro Agate is a ...[Read More]
Ethics and Geosciences: discovering the International Association for Promoting Geoethics
Geoscientists do not have to deal only with technical matters, but have to think also about the ethical implications related to their discipline. To increase the awareness of researchers on the ethical aspects of their activities, it has been created the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG). To better understand what geoethics and the IAPG are, we interviewed Silvia Peppoloni, ...[Read More]
Our first Interview is ready!
Paola is an Assistant Professor at University of Notre Dame (US). Her research focuses on improving understanding of aerosol impacts on human health and climate by using regional atmospheric chemistry models at high spatio-temporal resolution.
Today we are happy to post our first interview and to thank our first interviewee, Paola Crippa for her contribution. The topic focuses on mortality from high concentration of particulate matter generated from widespread wildfires. This topic wants to be just the starting point to address another and broader theme: dealing with lack-of-data for research purposes in developing countries. This will ...[Read More]