Advances in Solid Earth Geohazards: From Process Understanding to Forecasting and Risk Mitigation

Session ID#: 280220

Session Description:
Solid Earth geohazards—including earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions—pose significant and evolving hazards to communities, infrastructure, and critical systems worldwide. Recent advances in observational capabilities, numerical modeling, and data-driven approaches, as well as increased knowledge of past event and improved understanding of hazard-generating processes, are transforming our ability to detect, characterize, and forecast these hazards. This session is a joint effort between five sections of AGU: Natural Hazards, Seismology, Tectonophysics, Geodesy, EPSP, and cross-listed with VGP; we thus particularly welcome interdisciplinary work. We invite contributions that advance the understanding, modeling, and forecasting of physical processes governing Solid Earth geohazards, as well as studies that bridge the gap between fundamental science and applied risk reduction. We particularly encourage submissions that demonstrate cross-scale integration (spatial and temporal) — combining field observations, laboratory experiments, remote sensing, machine learning, statistical analysis, and computational modeling—and that contribute to actionable insights for resilience and hazard mitigation.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

4328 Risk [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4341 Early warning systems [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Christelle Wauthier, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Lisa Clare McNeill, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Anne Socquet, University Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France and Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Cesar Lopez, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States
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