04 October 2021
Open Call to join Risk KAN Steering Committee

 
Self nominations are welcome from October 04 until November 26
 
Apply using out online application form

13 October 2021
Risk KAN Early Warnings Working Group
Welcome to the webinar
 
Thursday, October, 28, at 15:00 CEST
 
Steve Penson and Nic Parham (ACAPS)
Climate hazards & complex humanitarian crises
 
Please register here to get the zoom link.
06 October 2021
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group
Welcome to the webinar
 
Wednesday, October, 20, at 14:00 UTC
 
Tom Matthews (Loughborough Univ.)
Double trouble from the tropical cyclone? extreme heat compound hazard?

Suzana Camargo (Columbia Univ.)
Subseasonal tropical cyclone forecasts: Recent results and compound events
 
Zoom link find here (Meeting ID: 998 8671 3018)
Talks will be followed by about 45 min of freeform small-group discussion
on Wonder, as in previous months

13 September 2021
Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group
Welcome to the Webinar
 
Thursday 23rd Sept. at 14:30 AM (CEST)
 
An Early Career Perspective on Early Warnings for Multihazard and Systemic Risk
 
Speakers include Alessia Matanó, IVM-VU Amsterdam; Gemma Cremen, EPICentre-Univ. College London; Matias Menalled, Argentina Nat. Meteor. Service & Erika Melendez, Polytechnic Univ. of Catalonia,Center of Applied Res. in Hydrometeor.
 
Register at https://tinyurl.com/riskan-23Sept
13 August 2021

Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group

 
Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems
 
8 – 10 February 2022, online
 

more information you will find here
 
Deadline for the abstract submission:
15 October 2021
 

29 July 2021
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group
Welcome to the webinar
 
Thursday, August 19, at 14:00 UTC
 
Manuela Brunner, University Freiburg
Spatially compounding floods in the US: where, why, and how often are they happening
 
Ankit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee
Multi-scale approaches in forecasting extreme floods and their global connections
 
Zoom link find here
(Meeting ID: 941 0725 3063 )
20 June 2021
Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group
Welcome to the Webinar
 
24th June at 10:00 AM (CEST) 2021
 
Systemic Risk & Covid-19
 
Speakers include Mark Quigley, University of Melbourne, Evan Easton-Calabria, University of Oxford and Sheikh Khairul, German Red Cross
 
Register at https://forms.gle/Pb6F6cF8F6z6x25dA
26 May 2021
Photo: Vilma/flickr.com
 
More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals
 
Nature Commentary: Reichstein, M., Riede, F., Frank, D. (2021). More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals. Nature, 592, 347-349. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00927-x
25 May 2021
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group
Welcome to the webinar
 
Thursday, June 10, at 14:30 UTC
 
Alexander Fekete, TH Köln
General introduction to the critical-infrastructure concept
 
Lee Chapman, Univ Birmingham
Forget climate resilience, what about weather resilience?
 
Mari Tye, NCAR
Understanding infrastructure fragility to future weather and climate extremes
 
Zoom link find here
(Meeting ID: 967 3023 4610)