Natural Hazards



Assessment of Ground Hazards for Bohol Island Bridges
Primary Convener:  Hamidreza Sadeghi, Katahira Engineering International, Overseas Branch, Tokyo, Japan
Convener:  Hamidreza Sadeghi, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States


Gilbert F. White Distinguished Lecture Award
Primary Convener:  Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, United States
Convener:  Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States


NH001
Advances in Hurricane Intensity Forecasting and Research Through the Use of Innovative Ocean Observing Technologies
Primary Convener:  Kathleen Bailey, NOAA NOS U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Conveners:  Cheyenne Stienbarger, NOAA OAR, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Silver Spring, United States, Travis N Miles, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Johna E. Rudzin, Mississippi State University, Department of Geosciences & Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State, MS, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Cheyenne Stienbarger, NOAA OAR, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Silver Spring, United States


NH002
Applications of AI/ML using Remote Sensing, Social Sensing and Model Data to Study Hazard
Primary Convener:  Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geography and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, United States
Convener:  Qunying Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Qunying Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, United States


NH003
Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary Convener:  Debayan Mandal, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States
Conveners:  Lei Zou, Texas A&M University College Station, Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Heng Cai, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Debayan Mandal, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States


NH004
Characterization, Mitigation, Mission Designs, and Consequences of Asteroid Impacts on Earth
Primary Convener:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Brent Barbee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Catherine S Plesko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Catherine S Plesko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


NH005
Climate and Natural Disaster Risk Management for Human-Natural Systems
Primary Convener:  Ronan Lucey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Amanda Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Reid Alan Sherman, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Rachel Soobitsky, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States


NH006
Climate-Informed Risk Assessment for Extreme Events
Primary Liaison:  Patrick Harr, National Science Foundation, Arlington, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Chia-Ying Lee, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Harr, Jupiter Intelligence, San Mateo, CA, United States, Joshua Hacker, Jupiter, Boulder, CO, United States and Park Williams, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States


NH007
Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events: Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management of Multi-hazards
Primary Convener:  Antonia Sebastian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environment, Ecology and Energy Program, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Conveners:  Md Mamunur Rashid, The Nature Conservancy, Global Science, Arlington, United States, David F Muñoz, Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, United States and Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Robert Sakic Trogrlic, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria


NH008
Earthquake Scenario Development, Deployment, and Uses
Primary Convener:  Yolanda Lin, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Geography and Environmental Studies, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Janise Ellen Rodgers, GeoHazards International, Menlo Park, United States and David J Wald, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Elizabeth M Sherrill, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States


NH009
Geohazards and Society: Striving Towards Improved Natural Hazard Resilience for All
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth A Vanacore, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Dept Of Geology, Puerto Rico Seismic Network, Mayaguez, PR, United States
Conveners:  Felix Kwabena Donkor, University of Education-Winneba, Department of Geography Education, Winneba, Ghana, Wendy Bohon, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States and Nicole D Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Tiegan E Hobbs, Natural Resources Canada, NRCan-RNCan, Vancouver, BC, Canada


NH010
Geospatial Approaches and Crowdsourced Geo-Information for the Study of Natural Hazards
Primary Convener:  Motti Zohar, University of Haifa, Geography and Environmental Studies, Haifa, Israel
Conveners:  Yair Grinberger, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Geography, Jerusalem, Israel and Carolin Klonner, University of Heidelberg, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg, Germany


NH011
Human-induced Factors and Effects on Natural Hazards
Primary Convener:  Seung Hee Kim, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States
Convener:  Son V Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Wonei Choi, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea


NH012
Implementing Natural- and Nature-based Features: The Nexus of Flood Protection & Biodiversity
Primary Convener:  Matthew V Bilskie, University of Georgia, College of Engineering, Athens, United States
Conveners:  Burton Suedel, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States and C Rhett Rhett Jackson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Matthew Chambers, University of Georgia, College of Engineering, Athens, United States


NH013
Innovative Technologies to Monitor and Model Sediment Entrainment and Transport in Geomorphic and Hydrogeological Hazardous Flows
Primary Convener:  Irene Manzella, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
Conveners:  Georgina Bennett, University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom, Kristen L Cook, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Johnson P. L. Joel, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


NH014
Integrated Studies of Geospheres Interaction Associated with Pre-earthquake processes, Geohazards, and Space Weather by Ground and Space-Borne Multi-Instrument Observations
Primary Convener:  Dimitar Ouzounov, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (Institute for ECHO), Orange, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tiger J.Y Liu, Institute of Space Science and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Patrick T Taylor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Livio Conti, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy


NH015
Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science
Primary Convener:  Hiroaki Tsushima, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Conveners:  Maria Kazolea, Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest Inria Research Centre, Bordeaux, France, Robert Weiss, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Patrick J Lynett, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


NH016
Miscellaneous Topics in Natural Hazards
Primary Convener:  Robert Weiss, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Convener:  Yekaterina Y Kontar, National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, Alexandria, VA, United States


NH017
ML-Physics Couplings for Downscaling in Natural Hazards and Climate
Primary Convener:  Anamitra Saha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Sai Ravela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Auroop R Ganguly, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Boston, MA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Anamitra Saha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Cambridge, MA, United States


NH018
Multi-Hazard Flood Modeling: From Inland to Coast
Primary Convener:  Felix Luis Santiago-Collazo, University of Georgia, School of Environmental, Civil Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering, Athens, GA, United States
Conveners:  Matthew V Bilskie, University of Georgia, College of Engineering, Athens, United States and Rick Luettich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Avantika Gori, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States


NH019
Performance, Progress, and Promotion of Earthquake Early Warning Worldwide
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Danielle F Sumy, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States, Jessie K Saunders, Caltech, Pasadena, United States and Sara K McBride, USGS, Moffett Field, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Amy L Williamson, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


NH020
Recent Advances in Flood and Shallow Water Modeling
Primary Convener:  Eirik Valseth, The University of Texas at Austin, The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Clint Dawson, University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Austin, TX, United States, Ethan Kubatko, Ohio State University Main Campus, Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, United States and Joannes J Westerink, Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Eirik Valseth, The University of Texas at Austin, The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, TX, United States


NH021
Seismological Monitoring of Landslides in the Himalayas
Primary Convener:  Deepak Rawat, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Roorkee, India
Conveners:  Mukat Lal Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Earthquake Engineering, Roorkee, India and Debi Prasanna Kanungo, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad - 201002, Geo-Hazard Risk Reduction Group, Roorkee, India


NH022
The future of Multi-hazards: Physical and Social interactions in a Changing Climate
Primary Convener:  Anne M Wein, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Moffett Field, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Barnard, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Oronde Drakes, U.S. Geological Survey, Iowa City, United States


NH023
The Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessments
Primary Convener:  Lauren N Schaefer, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States
Conveners:  Ben Adam Leshchinsky, Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources & Management, Corvallis, OR, United States, Nicolas Mathews, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States and Yuankun Xu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Nicolas Mathews, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States


NH024
Transferring Risk: Bridging science, practice and policy to in(en)sure sustainable natural peril risk transfer/financing applications
Primary Convener:  Colby K Fisher, Hydronos Labs LLC, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Elinor Benami, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, United States and Michaela Dolk, World Bank, London, United Kingdom


NH025
Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems
Primary Convener:  Christian L. E. Franzke, Institute for Basic Science, Center for Climate Physics, Busan, South Korea
Conveners:  Jana Sillmann, Universtiy of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Jürgen Scheffran, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Colin Raymond, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Alessio Ciullo, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland


NH026
Use of satellite remote sensing data for disaster management:  perspectives from disaster management practitioners and case studies
Primary Convener:  Frederick S Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Beth Tellman, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Albert Kettner, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Shanna N. McClain, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences, Washington, DC, United States


NH027
Why are Wildfires Becoming More Severe – Where is the Next One?
Primary Convener:  David S Green, NASA Headquarters, Application Science - Wildfires, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Christian Klose, Swiss Re, Armonk, United States, Nancy Watkins, Milliman, Inc., Property and Casualty, San Francisco, CA, United States, Edward Joseph Kearns, First Street Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, United States and David S Saah, University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sashi Sabaratnam, Naval Postgraduate School, National Security, Monterey, CA, United States


Compounding Hazards and Cascading Impacts: Spurring Multidisciplinary Exchanges on Critical Risks
Primary Convener:  Colin Raymond, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Hamed Moftakhari, The University of Alabama, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research, Tuscaloosa, United States, Jane Wilson Baldwin, University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States and Moetasim Ashfaq, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


A018
Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Processes in the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific
Primary Convener:  Sean William Freeman, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Conveners:  Ning Zhao, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Je-Yuan Hsu, National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan and Mingting Li, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mingting Li, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China


A033
Bridging the Gap from Climate to Extreme Weather: Observations, Theory, and Modeling
Primary Convener:  Jane Wilson Baldwin, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Gabriel J Kooperman, University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Athens, GA, United States and Kevin A Reed, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States


B019
Climate and Human-driven impacts on Amazonian Forests
Primary Convener:  Gabriel de Oliveira, University of South Alabama, Department of Earth Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States
Conveners:  Paulo Artaxo, RCGI - Polytechnique School, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Luiz Aragao, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil and Maquelle Garcia, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hannah Stewart, Auburn University, Rural Sociology, Auburn, AL, United States


GC088
Urban Areas and Global Change
Primary Convener:  Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany and Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, United States


H004
Advancements in Watershed Modeling: Hydrologic/WQ Processes and Management Implementations on Regulatory Science
Primary Convener:  Haw Yen, Bayer CropScience, Environmental Safety North America, St. Louis, MO, United States
Conveners:  Latif Kalin, Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Agrilife Research, College Station, TX, United States and Bernard A Engel, Purdue University, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States


H044
Data Driven Approaches for Flood Observation, Model Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification
Primary Convener:  Sayan Dey, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Siddharth Saksena, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Abhinav Gupta, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Las Vegas, United States


H058
Global Floods: Forecasting, Monitoring, Risk Assessment, and Socioeconomic Response
Primary Convener:  Huan Wu, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States; Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Zhuhai, China
Conveners:  Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Albert Kettner, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Sagy Cohen, University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, United States


H067
Hydrometeorologic extremes: prediction, simulation, and change
Primary Convener:  Manuela Irene Brunner, University of Freiburg, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Freiberg, Germany
Conveners:  Laurie Huning, California State University, Long Beach, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, Long Beach, United States, Larisa Tarasova, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Catchment Hydrology, Halle (Saale), Germany and Gabriele Villarini, University of Iowa, IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Larisa Tarasova, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Catchment Hydrology, Halle (Saale), Germany


H084
Preparedness and Planning for Healthy Shared Water Systems Under Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Ibrahim Nourein Mohammed, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Derek Vollmer, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, Keith Gaddis, NASA Headquarters, Biodiversity and Eco Forecasting Program, Washington, DC, United States, Shanna N. McClain, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences, Washington, DC, United States and John D Bolten, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


H115
Utilizing Precipitation Datasets and Quantifying Associated Uncertainties in Hydrometeorological and Climate Impact Applications
Primary Convener:  Paul A Kucera, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, COMET, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Emad Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Civil Engineering, Lafayette, LA, United States and Ali Behrangi, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Paul A Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States


IN020
Near Real-Time/ Low Latency Data and Tools for Earth Science Applications
Primary Convener:  David S Green, NASA Headquarters, Application Science - Wildfires, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Vanessa M Escobar, NOAA Washington DC, 2., NOAA/NASA GEO-XO, Washington, DC, United States, Brad Quayle, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States and Tian Yao, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States


SY008
Community Modeling and Open Innovation to Advance Earth Prediction Systems
Primary Convener:  Jose-Henrique Alves, NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, EPIC Program, Weather Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Conveners:  Neil Jacobs, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Louisa B Nance, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States and Hendrik L Tolman, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States


S013
Induced seismicity and caprock failure in carbon sequestration and geo-energy applications
Primary Convener:  Noam Zach Dvory, University of Utah, Energy & Geoscience Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Jens-Erik Lund Snee, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences & Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CA, United States, Rebecca Olivia Salvage, University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada and Sam S. Hashemi, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Rebecca Olivia Salvage, University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada


T015
Structure, Mechanics, and Hazards of Geometrically Complex Fault Systems
Primary Convener:  James Biemiller, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States
Conveners:  Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, Roland Burgmann, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener:  Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States


T016
Structure, Tectonics, and Earthquake Hazards of Cratons
Primary Convener:  Xiaotao Yang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Andrea Stevens Goddard, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, Lijun Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geology, Urbana, United States and Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Xiaotao Yang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States


V019
Volcano Hazard Monitoring using Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence
Primary Convener:  Ciro Del Negro, INGV - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Etna Volcano Observatory, Catania, Italy
Conveners:  Eleonora Amato, University of Palermo, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Palermo, Italy, Claudia Corradino, INGV - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Etna Volcano Observatory, Catania, Italy and Federica Torrisi, University of Catania, Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Catania, Italy