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Natural Hazards Research

Focus Group on Natural Hazards

The Focus Group on Natural Hazards fosters a focus within AGU on studies of geophysical hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, heat waves, landslides, space weather, storms, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, impact by near-Earth objects, and related events. The Group promotes fundamental research into the links between extreme natural hazards and dynamic processes on Earth and in space; real-time and long-term monitoring of active Earth processes; quantitative natural-hazard modeling; studying predictability of natural extreme events, their operational forecasting, and reducing predictive uncertainties; and implementation of effective strategies and designs for hazard mitigation and disaster management worldwide.

Highlights:

• Congratulations to Dr. Valentin Samuel Gischig, the winner of the 2011 AGU Natural Hazards Graduate Research Award!
• Gene Golub SIAM Summer School 2012
• Annual chair report for 2011
• Japan earthquake of March 11, 2011
• The Focus Group takes part in the project of the International Council for Science (ISCU): Extreme Natural Events and Societal Implications (ENHANS).

• European Geosciences Union: Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April 2012. A vibrant program in Natural Hazards
• New: Debris Flow Impact Database by Natural Resources Canda
• Chile earthquake of February 27, 2010
• Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010
• Eyjafjallajokull !!!