Natural Hazards

#shareEGU20 afterthoughts about virtual conferencing

Vale Cigala May 25, 2020

Thoughts of the participants to the NH Division ECS Virtual Reception on Zoom hosted during the #shareEGU20 week.

It’s 2020 and a new coronavirus has spread all over the world-changing most if not all our habits. In a few weeks, we’ve seen adaptations to living in a world with this pandemic, from many points of view. Science reacted and adapted very quickly, sharing research and opening dialogues using online tools. Similarly, the EGU General Assembly that usually hosts every year around 15,000 people i ...[Read More]

NH medallists Episode II – John Clague & his passion for Natural Hazard

Gabriele Amato May 11, 2020

John Clague leading a 'School of Rocks' field trip for the Hope Mountain Centre for Outdoor Learning (July 2014). Photo provided by John Clague.

In today’s interview, we talk with Prof John J. Clague, who was awarded the 2020 Sergey Soloviev Medal for his remarkable scientific contributions in fundamental and applied research on earthquakes, tsunamis, outburst floods and landslides, directed towards risk reduction for the benefit of societies. Hi John, can you please briefly introduce yourself, telling your main research focus and wh ...[Read More]

EGU 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online, NhET activities

Vale Cigala April 20, 2020

We are currently living uncertain times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we hope that you and your relatives are healthy and safe. As you may know by now, the physical EGU 2020 General Assembly was cancelled. To keep science in the front line, provide a discussion and sharing platform also at these times, it was replaced by the first interactive and digital EGU 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online ev ...[Read More]

Vitor Silva: 2020 Natural Hazards division medallist story

Giulia Roder April 6, 2020

Seismic risk training workshop for students organized at the EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia (Photo credits: Vitor Silva)

In today’s interview, we talk with Dr Vitor Silva, who was awarded the 2020 Natural Hazard Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for his fundamental contributions to the research on earthquake risk assessment. Seismic risk is the probable building damage and the number of people that are expected to be hurt or killed if a likely earthquake on a particular fault occurs. Disaster risk ca ...[Read More]