Dear colleagues, We have a vacancy for a 2-year postdoc position at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando. The successful candidate will be working in the Civil, Environmental, … Continue reading Postdoc opportunity to work on compound flooding
Atmospheric rivers (ARs), long filaments of high water vapour concentration, play an important role in the occurrence of compound events (CEs) in the form of coinciding heavy precipitation and high … Continue reading New article on compound events online in NHESS Discussions
The AGU 2018 Fall Meeting will mark another dynamic year of discovery in Earth and space science, serve as the advent of AGU’s Centennial year, and provide a special opportunity … Continue reading 2018 AGU Fall Meeting
We are happy to announce that we will be launching a new session at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018, entitled “Compound and Cascading Events: an Emerging Challenge for Natural Hazard … Continue reading Call for abstract: AGU Fall Meeting session on Compound and Cascading Events
The joint working days are an initiative started within the Dutch research community working on compound events. The objective of this day is to create a space where researchers can … Continue reading 4th Dutch Compound Events Joint Working Day
On Monday June 11, Wiebke Jäger will defend her PhD thesis at the Delft University of Technology. Wiebke's PhD thesis focuses on how selected multivariate probabilistic methods can be adapted for … Continue reading PhD Defense: Multivariate Methods for Coastal and Offshore Risks
In this month's issue of Nature Climate Change, we published a Perspective on Future climate risk from compound events. We present a new definition of compound events, which has emerged … Continue reading Perspective paper on Compound Events published in Nature Climate Change
Last week, international scientists came together for the 8th GEWEX Open Science Conference: Extremes and Water on the Edge. In 26 sessions a wide range of interdisciplinary topics were covered. … Continue reading GEWEX Open Sciences Conference – Summary of session on “Addressing the Challenges of Compound Events”
The joint working days are an initiative started within the Dutch research community working on compound events. The objective of this day is to create a space where researchers can … Continue reading 3rd Dutch Compound Events Joint Working Day
The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from natural sciences (e.g. hydrology, meteorology, geomorphology, hydraulic engineering, environmental science, seismology, geography), risk research, nonlinear systems dynamics, and applied … Continue reading International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World