On July 3-4, the EUMA ("Creating an EUropean Higher Education Network for MAster’s Programmes in Disaster Risk Management") project leader, the University of Vienna, hosted the second Specialised Workshop on 'Natural Hazards and Risks within Disaster Risk Management'.
Representatives from EUMA partner institutions, along with DRM professionals and policy makers, joined both in-person and online. Dr. Rainer Bell and Everjoy Chiimba represented the University of Bonn. By discussing relevant topics of the EUMA Master’s programme and considering past, present and future trends in natural disaster management, the workshop will contribute to the development of the EUMA curriculum.
The EUMA team ("Creating an EUropean Higher Education Network for MAster’s Programmes in Disaster Risk Management") hosted a successful hybrid Kick-off Stakeholder Meeting on June 3rd 2024. The workshop brought together key local and international stakeholders to share their invaluable knowledge and experience, focusing on the needs and demands for the education of future disaster managers. Led by Prof. Lothar Schrott and Dr. Rainer Bell and supported by Everjoy Chiimba, Marie Weil and Christina Páez Maletz, the workshop was filled with lively discussions, including a comprehensive SWOT analysis on the current educational landscape of disaster managers. Participants also assessed essential and desirable skills for a (future) disaster risk manager. The results of the Kick-off meeting will contribute to the development of the EUMA curriculum.
Between June 16th and 20th, the 12th International Conference on Permafrost took place in the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre in Whitehorse, Canada. The overarching theme for this year's ICOP, "Integrating Perspectives of Permafrost Thaw, Change, and Adaptation," timely underscored the urgency for a comprehensive understanding of climate change impact on permafrost and the necessity to develop adaption strategies based on robust science.
The International Conference on Permafrost takes place every 4 years. It is organized by the International Permafrost Association in collaboration with local partners. With 400 to 1000 participants, depending on the location, it is a nexus for the global permafrost community.
Bringing together experts from the global community as well as hosting the fields of science and engineering, the conference together with its workshops and fieldtrips offered an enriching and unforgettable experience to all research group members that attended.
Three members of the AG Schrott attended presented their research to the virtual and onsite conference audience:
- Full conference paper and oral presentation by Melanie Stammler
Vertical surface change signals of rock glaciers: combining UAV- and Pléiades imagery (Agua Negra, Argentina). https://doi.org/10.52381/ICOP2024.138.1 - Full conference paper and oral presentation by Tamara Köhler
Underestimated permafrost landforms - block- and talus slope distribution in the Dry Andes of Argentina. https://doi.org/10.52381/ICOP2024.151.1 - Two poster presentations by Diana Agostina Ortiz (no doi, please contact her for more information)
1) Mountain permafrost in taluses and blockslopes in the Agua Negra Basin (Argentina) - towards a quantification using geophysics.
2)Advantages of different electrical resistivity tomography arrays for mountain permafrost mapping in the Dry Andes of Argentina.
Text by Melanie Stammler
This year, four researchers have won the International Paper Award of the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn. Ikram Zangana, PhD candidate in our research group, is one of them.
Climate warming causes severe changes in high mountain environments. This is particularly evident by the rapid melting of glaciers, the formation of new proglacial lakes and the increase in rockfalls and rockslides due to slope instability. But how does global warming affect the subsurface on a local scale? And how does it affect the periglacial zone, where the perennially frozen ground, the so-called permafrost, occurs?
To find this out, geography students accompany the research group Geomorphology and Environmental Systems at the University of Bonn, headed by Prof. Lothar Schrott, to the Großglockner region. Almost every year they carry out field measurements that reveal the existence and status of alpine permafrost.
Click on the link below to find out more about our last field trip to the Glorer Hut in September 2023! :)
On 26 January 2024, the new Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) gathered for its inaugural meeting - among them is also the head of the KaVoMa study programme, Prof. Dr Lothar Schrott.
Members of the research group attended this year's annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology (DGGM - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geomorphologie), which was held in Aachen from October 4 to 6. The DGGM is a forum of mainly German geomorphologists aiming to connect the discipline on a national and international level and to support young scientists on all levels.
A consortium of 7 European universities and higher education institutes received funding to promote a European network of postgraduate programs in the field of disaster risk and crisis management.