Blog post written by:Patricia Silva and Khalil Teber On the morning of the 18th of July, around 30 people gathered in a warm room on the first floor of the Faculty … Continue reading Training School on Dynamical Modelling of Compound Events
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This summer we will welcome you in Lisbon for the final conference of the DAMOCLES COST action. The conference is entitled ‘Perspectives and ways forward in Compound Event research’ and … Continue reading final conference of the DAMOCLES COST action
We are happy to announce the inter-journal Special Issue (SI) on compound events in the EGU journals HESS, NHESS, BG and ESD. By including these four journals, this SI will … Continue reading Inter-journal Special Issue on compound events
Presentation The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) seek for a motivated candidate for a new PhD position. The successful candidate will be advised … Continue reading PhD position: Geomorphic hazards and compound events in Africa
The motivation for the "Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events", a.k.a. the Risk KAN, is that complex, interacting, and poorly understood risks related to extreme weather and … Continue reading Announcing the Risk KAN: Compound Events networking group
Guest blog by Natacha Le Grix and Elisabeth Tschumi, Universität Bern, Switzerland What could possibly bring together experts of the copula theory, hydraulic engineers and climate scientists working on extremes like … Continue reading First DAMOCLES training school
There is a faculty (i.e. open ended academic) position at Loughborough going. Loughborough is consistently in the 10 best university in the UK by recent rankings, often up to 5th, … Continue reading Faculty position at Loughborough
Guest blog by Davide Faranda, M. Carmen Alvarez Castro Mediterranean cyclones or "medicanes" Windstorms, extreme precipitations and instant floods seems to strike the Mediterranean area with increasing frequency. These events … Continue reading Medicanes: tropical-like-cyclones in the Mediterranean Sea and their uncertain fate with climate change
The Workshop on Correlated Extremes will take place on Columbia University’s Morningside campus (Manhattan, NYC) on May 29-31, 2019, preceded by an evening panel on May 28. It will be … Continue reading Workshop on Correlated Extremes
Guest Blog by Wouter Berghuijs (orcid) Frequent readers of this blog may be aware that different natural hazards often happen at the same time; periods of drought may coincide with … Continue reading When rivers flood, surrounding rivers often flood at the same time.