Natural hazards such as earthquakes, epidemics, floods, or man-made disasters such as fires, major traffic accidents or terrorist attacks pose sudden and huge challenges to a society. The key to managing these crises is preparedness for the event of a disaster and then management during the disaster. What distinguishes the concepts of risk, hazard and crisis?
"Efficient geomorphological mapping based on geographic information systems and remote sensing data: an example from Jena, Germany" by Zangana et al. 2023, published in Journal of Maps
Dr. Bell of the research group is part of an international team of researchers who are conducting research in the Ahr Valley, investigating whether earthquake sensors can help to detect floods and warn them in time. The german broadcasting service SWR published a report on it.
As part of the GIUB lecture series "Mittwochs im GIUB", Dr. Bell will give a lecture and discussion session on "Extreme topography - extreme natural hazards? Risks and Resilience in Nepal" on 09. November 2022
"A Seismic Approach to Flood Detection and Characterization in Upland Catchments" -
The benefits of seismic data for the collection of flood information by Dietze et al. 2022, published in Geophysical Research Letters.
In light of the anniversary of the flood disaster of the Ahr valley in July 2021, Prof. Dr. Lothar Schrott explains the role of the tributaries, narrow valleys and the river delta near Sinzig during an excursion with students captured in a television report from SWR. Please find the link to the German report below.
In February & March 2022, the first field phase of our new DFG-funded project HyPerm (“Spatial occurrence and hydrological significance of Andean permafrost (Agua Negra, San Juan, Argentina)") took place. Here's a small summary of our journey to the Andes:
Prof. Dr. Lothar Schrott on the Terra X (ZDF) podcast with Harald Lesch "Was tun, wenn die Naturkatastrophe kommt" (english: "What to do when the natural disaster comes").