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The Limpopo River in Mozambique, which can pose a threat to human infrastructure when floodwaters rise
Posted inScience Updates

Can We Build Useful Models of Future Risk from Natural Hazards?

by A. J. Kettner, I. Overeem and G. Tucker 10 September 201812 December 2022

Geoprocesses, Geohazards—CSDMS 2018: A CSDMS hosted Workshop; Boulder, Colorado, 22–24 May 2018

MOOC participants all over the world learn about natural disasters.
Posted inScience Updates

A New Massive Open Online Course on Natural Disasters

by J. Stix, J. Gyakum, K. Caissy, A. Guadagno, A. Steeves-Fuentes, W. W. Yan, F. Roop, P.-A. Vungoc, C. Walker, A. Finkelstein and L. Winer 1 February 201812 December 2022

Two professors put their college course online. Enrollment jumped more than 20-fold, and a forum for exchanging ideas with a multigenerational international community was born.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Reducing Uncertainty in Hazard Prediction

by K. Riley, M. Thompson, P. Webley and K. Hyde 28 April 201720 May 2022

The editors of a new book describe how to characterize uncertainty in natural hazards, the incorporation of uncertainty into modeling, its contribution to better decision-making, and research needs.

Researchers examine the mechanics behind a deadly rock avalanche in China.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Causes Rock Avalanches?

by Terri Cook 24 April 201710 March 2023

Experimental studies of frictional weakening beneath a deadly rock avalanche in China help to clarify the mechanisms that cause these devastating natural disasters.

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