Natural Hazards

How can we encourage and empower Early Career Researchers? Reflections on a short course held at EGU 2025

Kelley De Polt, Judith N. Claassen, Sophie L. Buijs, Núria Pantaleoni Reluy, Julius Schlumberger and Naveen Ragu Ramalingam November 17, 2025

Response to Mentimeter question: “What is engagement and empowerment to you?”

At the EGU General Assembly 2025, we initiated a short course entitled “Best Practices for Early Career Researcher (ECR) Engagement and Empowerment in Research Projects”, designed and led by Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The goal was to provide an interactive platform for ECRs, project leaders, and anyone involved in research projects to come together, reflect, share experiences, co-learn, and ...[Read More]

From Classroom to Community: Bridging Disaster Risk Reduction Education with the Real World Through Service-Learning

Paulo Hader October 27, 2025

Students exploring ideas for making uncertainties in natural hazards and risks more visible to the residents of Tübingen as part of a Service-Learning course at the University of Tübingen (Image credit: Iris Schneider)

This week, we turn our attention to education and collaboration in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Dr. Solmaz Mohadjer has been leading an innovative Service-Learning course that brings students together with non-profit organisations working at the forefront of risk reduction. The course not only introduces students to the complexities of disasters and resilience but also creates space for dialogue ...[Read More]

Disaster Risk Reduction in Humanitarian Action – An interview with Gözde Kazaz from Hayata Destek (Support to Life)

Şevval Sude Çeliker, Savyon Both and Isabella Bourrachot September 22, 2025

About 160,000 buildings collapsed or were badly damaged by the Kahramanmaraş earthquake, leaving 1.5 million people homeless (image credit: Hayata Destek / Kerem Uzel, Kahramanmaraş 2023)

This summer, we participated in a Service-Learning course titled “Breaking the Cycle of Disaster, Response, Recover, and Repeat”. The course was developed by Solmaz Mohadjer and offered as part of the Transdisciplinary Course Program at the University of Tübingen, Germany. We were brought together from different disciplines to explore key factors that contribute to effective disaster risk reductio ...[Read More]

No Resilience Without Trust – An interview with Janise Rodgers and Mary Antonette Beroya-Eitner from GeoHazards International

Aminata Ehrath, Manolo Heimberger and Yvette Roos September 1, 2025

School children at the forefront of disaster awareness campaigns in Cap Haitian, Haiti, expressing themselves through the slogan: “Remember the 1842, the 2010 and the 2021 earthquakes, let’s get our community ready!” (Image credit: GeoHazards International)

This summer, we participated in a Service-Learning course titled “Breaking the Cycle of Disaster, Response, Recover, and Repeat”. The course was developed by Solmaz Mohadjer and offered as part of the Transdisciplinary Course Program at the University of Tübingen, Germany. We were brought together from different disciplines to explore key factors that contribute to effective disaster risk reductio ...[Read More]