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Location: Lecture Hall S003 UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern / Ground Floor, Places: 232, Seating: fixed |
| Date: Tuesday, 28/Jan/2025 | |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Press conference: Press conference RIMMA2025 Location: Lecture Hall S003 Press conference |
| 1:15pm - 1:45pm |
Opening: Opening Session Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Andreas Paul Zischg Chair: Christophe Lienert Chair: Horst Kremers Chair: David N. Bresch Opening Session |
| 2:00pm - 2:45pm |
Keynote: Jie Shen: Cartography for Emergency and Disaster Management：Hotspots and Development Trends Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Jie Shen The speech will mainly concentrate on three parts: the introduction of the situation of disaster emergencymapping, the current research hotspots and the development trends of cartography for emergency and disaster management. Cartography for Emergency and Disaster Management：Hotspots and Development Trends |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
Impact Forecasts I: Closing The Circle: From Data to Hazard Warnings, Impact Forecasts, and the Verification Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Gabriela Grisel Espejo Gutierrez Chair: Firdewsa Zukanovic Chair: Evelyn Mühlhofer Chair: Irina Mahlstein From Meteorological Forecasts to Impact-Based Warnings: Challenges and Interdisciplinary Synergies (organized by young researchers and dedicated to young researchers) Further sessions:
Closing The Circle: From Data to Hazard Warnings, Impact Forecasts, and the Verification Thereof Windstorm Risk Model for the Canton of Zurich: Impact Forecasting and Probabilistic Risk Assessment Hail Impact Forecast Prototype for Switzerland within the scClim project Flash-Flood Alert System Using Ensemble Radar Prediction And Rainfall-Runoff Simulation Enhanced Accuracy And Precision In Meteorological Hazard Warnings Using The EURO1k Numerical Weather Model |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm |
Keynote: Jürg Luterbacher,: Early Warning at International Institutions Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Juerg Luterbacher The talk will give an overview of the MedEWSa project, which is a 3-year Horizon Europe project started in November 2023 led by the Justus Liebig University of Giessen with 29 partners from academia, research institutions, national meteorological and hydrological services, ECMWF, Red Cross, WMO, SMEs, first responders, civil protections, NGOs, local & regional governments, crisis planners as well as lighthouse stakeholders including UNEP, UNEP-MAP, UNDP, African Union and more. |
| Date: Wednesday, 29/Jan/2025 | |
| 8:45am - 9:15am |
Keynote: Katrin Schneeberger: Management of natural hazards in Switzerland: a retrospective and outlook Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Katrin Schneeberger Katrin Schneeberger Director of the Federal Office for the Environment, Chair of the Steering Committee on Intervention in Natural Hazards |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Communication & Visualization I: Effective and Useful Communication and Visualization of Natural Hazards Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Franziska Angly Chair: Michèle Marti Effective Communication and Visualization of Natural Hazard Warnings, Including Communication of Uncertainties Session II will take place on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, Lecture Hall S003. Integrating Probabilistic Flood Impact Forecasting into Early Warning Systems: A Web-Based Visualization Tool From Information to Action: Standardizing and Harmonizing Warnings in Germany's Natural Hazards Portal for Effective Public Communication “Social Verification” as a Means to Close the Cycle of End-toend Warning Communication MeteoSwiss App and Natural Hazards: Opportunities and Challenges |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Communication & Visualization II: Effective and Useful Communication and Visualization of Natural Hazards Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Franziska Angly Chair: Michèle Marti Effective Communication and Visualization of Natural Hazard Warnings, Including Communication of Uncertainties
Session I will take place on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, from 9:30 am to 10:30 am, Lecture Hall S003.
Connecting Warning with Decision and Action: the Challenges of Communication for Risk Information Management Making Warnings More Effective with Tailored Messages: A Case Study of Switzerland Seismic Risk Communication in Europe: a Scoping Review We do Not Always Know Better: the Importance of Evaluating Communication Efforts |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Impact Forecasts II: Closing The Circle: From Data to Hazard Warnings, Impact Forecasts, and the Verification Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Gabriela Grisel Espejo Gutierrez Chair: Firdewsa Zukanovic Chair: Evelyn Mühlhofer Chair: Irina Mahlstein From Meteorological Forecasts to Impact-Based Warnings: Challenges and Interdisciplinary Synergies (organized by young researchers and dedicated to young researchers) Further Sessions will be:
Towards Objective Warning Verification At MeteoSwiss SAFE – Snow Avalanche Forecast Editor for integration of avalanche model predictions Automatization and Innovation in the Production of Severe Weather Warnings – Insights from MeteoSwiss |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Impact Forecasts III: Closing The Circle: From Data to Hazard Warnings, Impact Forecasts, and the Verification Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Gabriela Grisel Espejo Gutierrez Chair: Firdewsa Zukanovic Chair: Evelyn Mühlhofer Chair: Irina Mahlstein From Meteorological Forecasts to Impact-Based Warnings: Challenges and Interdisciplinary Synergies (organized by young researchers and dedicated to young researchers) Further Sessions will be:
DeepWaive: Probabilistic 2D Flood Forecasts using a Generalized Hybrid Model User-centred Evaluation of Cold Wave Forecasts for Disaster Risk Reduction in Lesotho Flood Forecasting, Preparedness and Early Warning case studies from South East Asia |
| 5:15pm - 5:45pm |
Keynote T. Röösli & A. Pache: Early Warning Systems for UN Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Thomas Röösli Chair: Alicia Pache Thomas Röösli (MeteoSwiss, Weather4UN Project) Isabelle Bey (Head of the Western Regional Center of the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss) Alicia Pache (Weather4UN Project Coordinator, MeteoSwiss) |
| Date: Thursday, 30/Jan/2025 | |
| 8:45am - 9:15am |
Keynote Georg Gartner: The relevance of cartography in the context of natural hazards and risks Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Georg Gartner Georg Gartner (TU Vienna, ICA President), |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Keynote and Farewell: *Open to the public* Keynote Talk from Leonardo Milano on 'Using science to enable anticipatory humanitarian action' and Farewell Location: Lecture Hall S003 Chair: Leonardo Milano Chair: Christophe Lienert Chair: Horst Kremers Chair: Andreas Paul Zischg Chair: David N. Bresch Open to the public
Using Science to Enable Anticipatory Humanitarian Action |