IIASA researchers will participate in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2026 conference presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more. We invite you to visit the IIASA booth in Hall X2, next to the coffee area. Take the opportunity to connect with our experts and learn more about our research and initiatives.
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The General Assembly 2026 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria and online from 3 - 8 May 2026.
The EGU General Assembly 2026 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.
The following IIASA researchers will be presenting their work at the conference:
Monday, 4 May
08:30-10:15 (CEST): Future Changes in Weather and Climate Hazards around the World
Convener: Tamara Happé| Co-conveners: Vikki Thompson, Dominik Schumacher, Yinglin Tian, Kai Kornhuber
08:30-18:00 (CEST): Towards net zero and beyond: Carbon Budgets, Overshoot, Climate (Ir)reversibility, and Carbon Removal
Convener: Andrew MacDougall | Co-conveners: Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj, Torben Koenigk, Nadine Mengis, Biqing Zhu, Norman Julius Steinert
- On-site presentation: Key Benchmarks of Global Emissions Scenarios 2025: Annual update of integrated assessment scenarios and related benchmarks for limiting global warming
Karl Scheifinger, Keywan Riahi, Leon Clarke, Daniel Huppmann, Tomoko Hasegawa, Gunnar Luderer, Chris Smith, Elmar Kriegler, Joeri Rogelj, Zebedee Nicholls, Detlef van Vuuren, Bas van Ruijven, Mark Dekker, Philipp Verpoort, Hamish Beath, and Gabriel Sher - On-site presentation: Heat-mortality impacts under 1.5°C overshoot pathways
Samuel Lüthi, Mireia Ginesta, Fabrice Lacroix, Urs Hofmann Elizondo, Tino Schneidewind, Multi-Country Multi-City Collaborative Research Network, Thomas Frölicher, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Ana Vicedo-Cabrera, and Rupert Stuart-Smith - On-site presentation: Systematic comparison of emulation techniques for regional climate under temperature overshoot scenarios
Niklas Schwind, Verena Kain, Annika Högner, Alexander Nauels, Zebedee Nicholls, Assaf Shmuel, Marco Zecchetto, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner - On-site presentation: Detecting Regional Climate Reversibility and Stabilization After Temperature Overshoot
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Annika Högner, Niklas Schwind, and Assaf Shmuel - On-site presentation: Climate overshoot legacy: Distinguishing transient biophysical change from irreversible socioeconomic loss
Edward A. Byers, Alaa Al Khourdajie, Anna Pirani, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Rupert Stuart-Smith
08:30–12:30: Extreme heat: characterization, drivers, prediction and impacts in a warming climate
Convener: Ana Casanueva | Co-conveners: Martha Marie Vogel, Cathryn Birch, Ivana Cvijanovic, Jonathan Buzan
- On-site presentation: Estimating global labor productivity losses from heat stress under a range of long-term climate scenarios Raffaela Langer, Niklas Schwind, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Kai Kornhuber
08:30-12:30 (CEST): Paludiculture, peatland management and restoration from the boreal zone to the tropics
Convener: Bärbel Tiemeyer | Co-conveners: Adam Hastie, Hanna Silvennoinen, Susan Page, Franziska Tanneberger
- On-site presentation: Restoring organic soils under agriculture: cost-effective portfolios in the context of European climate and biodiversity policies
Fanqi (Vicky) Jia, Andre Deppermann, Juraj Balkovic, Zuelclady Araujo Gutierrez, Mykola Gusti, Michael Wögerer, Alexandra Barthelmes, Amanda Palazzo, Stefan Frank, Tamás Krisztin, Sabine Fuss, and Petr Havlík
08:30–15:45 (CEST): Beyond Physical Risk: Assessing Socio-Economic Vulnerability and Actions for Climate Resilience
Convener: Sorin Cheval | Co-conveners: Shreya Some, Emma J. S. Ferranti, Francesco Bosello, Edward A. Byers
- On-site presentation: Probabilistic Assessment of Future Climate Risks and Adaptation Across European Scenarios
Lorenzo Pierini, Ann-Kathrin Petersen, Rosanne Martyr, Marina Andrijevic, Chahan Kropf, Qinhan Zhu, Yann Quilcaille, Lukas Gudmundsson, Sonia I. Seneviratne, David N. Bresch, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner - On-site presentation: Impacts of drought patterns on global and European hydropower plant shortfalls
Yixu He, Yida Sun, Jiayue Zhou, Kornhuber Kai, Vinca Adriano, Dabo Guan, and Edward Byers - Posters on site: Projecting the adaptation solution space to inform a climate-resilient Europe
Ann-Kathrin Petersen, Zachary Zeller, Marina Andrijevic, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Rosanne Martyr
08:30–12:30 (CEST): Paludiculture, peatland management and restoration from the boreal zone to the tropics
Convener: Bärbel Tiemeyer | Co-conveners: Adam Hastie, Hanna Silvennoinen, Susan Page, Franziska Tanneberger
- Oral: Restoring organic soils under agriculture: cost-effective portfolios in the context of European climate and biodiversity policies
Fanqi (Vicky) Jia, Andre Deppermann, Juraj Balkovic, Zuelclady Araujo Gutierrez, Mykola Gusti, Michael Wögerer, Alexandra Barthelmes, Amanda Palazzo, Stefan Frank, Tamás Krisztin, Sabine Fuss, and Petr Havlík
08:30-18:00 (CEST): Functional diversity in motion: ecological and evolutionary drivers of biogeochemical processes across terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric systems
Convener: Elsa Abs | Co-conveners: Giulia Mengoli, Christoph Keuschnig, Stefano Manzoni, Lisa Wingate, Elisa Bruni, Laurent Bopp
- On-site presentation: Functional diversity in motion: a general theory of eco-evolutionary change in complex ecosystems
Jaideep Joshi, Toyo Vignal, and Ulf Dieckmann - Poster on site: A parsimonious and interpretable model of plant dimensional scaling
Jaideep Joshi, Tina Garg, Florian Hofhansl, Boya Zhou, and Iain Colin Prentice
10:45-15:45 (CEST): Global Nitrogen Cycle in the Earth System: Benchmarks, Budgets, Coupled Cycles and Feedbacks
Convener: Hanqin Tian | Co-conveners: Sönke Zaehle, Cheng Gong, Parvadha Suntharalingam, Philippe Ciais
- On-site presentation: Global analysis of N2O emissions from agricultural soil surfaces considering non-linearity effects for the GAINS model
Katrin Kaltenegger and Wilfried Winiwarter - On-site presentation: Global Nitrogen budget 1980-2022
Xiuming Zhang, Xin Xu, Wilfried Winiwarter, and Baojing Gu - On-site presentation: Price-based nitrogen mitigation from global croplands with uneven regional responses
Weichen Huang, Jinfeng Chang, Stefan Frank, David Leclere, Marta Kozicka, Petr Havlík, and Feng Zhou
14:00–15:45: Climate Risk Storylines and Scenarios: From physical modelling to co-production for decision-making
Convener: Martha Marie Vogel | Co-conveners: Marina Andrijevic, Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, Laurence Hawker, Emily Boyd, Theodore Shepherd, Massimiliano Pittore
- On-site presentation: Community Scenarios beyond the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: The Scenario Evolution Process
Bas van Ruijven, Kristie Ebi, Jonathan Moyer, Vanessa Schweizer, Inga Menke, Carole Green, and Marina Andrijevic - Poster on site: CMIP7-ScenarioMIP emissions set and probabilistic climate outcomes
Jarmo Kikstra, Annika Högner, Marco Zecchetto, Hamza Ahsan, Matthew Gidden, Keywan Riahi, Chris Smith, Steve Smith, and Zebedee Nicholls - Poster on site: From Narratives to Quantification: Co-Developing Stress-Test Scenarios for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
Inga Menke, Sylvia Schmidt, Edward Byers, and Qinhan Zhu
14:00–15:35 (CEST): Climate hazards and socioeconomic inequality across scales
Convener: Jeremy Eudaric | Co-conveners: Apoorva Singh, Yao LiE, Jun Rentschler
- Oral: From carbon accounting to climate accountability: Navigating a multiverse of counterfactual climates
Sarah Schöngart, Zeb Nicholls, Roman Hoffmann, Setu Pelz, Yann Quicaille, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
14:00-15:45 (CEST): Plant traits, adaptation, and biogeochemical cycles – from measurements to models
Convener: Jens Kattge | Co-conveners: Michael Bahn, Oskar Franklin, Elena Marrocchino, Christine Hatté, Lorenzo Ferroni
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Implementing innovations and technologies for multi-hazard risk assessment to achieve (impactful) disaster risk management
Convener: Timothy Tiggeloven | Co-conveners: Silvia Torresan, Cees van Westen, Christopher White, Funda Atun
- Oral: Societal implications of multi-hazards: towards place-based understanding and management
Robert Šakić Trogrlić and Marleen de Ruiter
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Enhancing science-based knowledge on forests’ capacities to mitigate climate change Convener: Francesca Giannetti | Co-conveners: Sorin Cheval, Melania Michetti, Alice Ludvig
- On-site presentation: Enhancing accessibility and understandability of forest mitigation pathways and data through an integrated science-policy interface
Kanwal Nayan Singh, Sylvia Schmidt, Sajid Ali, Rupesh Singh, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Quentin Lejeune, and Fulvio Di Fulvio
Tuesday, 5 May
08:30-15:45: Carbon Dioxide Removal in Climate Mitigation Strategies: Potentials, Limits, Measurement, and Risks
Convener: Matthew Gidden | Co-conveners: Shraddha Gupta, Ana C. Franco, Tabea Dorndorf, Nadine Mengis, Felix Schenuit, Soheil Shayegh
- On-site presentation: Towards sustainability-aware carbon dioxide removal deployment
Di Sheng, Yoga Pratama, Elina Brutschin, Sreyam Sengupta, Jan Dietrich, Keywan Riahi, Jan Steinhauser, and Oliver Fricko
08:30–12:30: Investigating Systemic Resilience to Multi-Hazards: Mechanisms, Methods, and Strategies
Convener: Liang Emlyn Yang | Co-conveners: Anqi Zhu, Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Michael Szoenyi
- Oral: Uncertainty, systemic resilience and intersectionality – developing a research agenda
John Handmer, Eva Preinfalk, Joern Birkmann, and Joanna McMillan - Oral: Advancing spatial planning for resilient urban-regional systems: Insights from the Stuttgart region
Joanna McMillan, Friedrich Hampel, Joern Birkmann, and John Handmer - Oral: Leveraging Multiple Resilience Dividend Concept for Transformative Adaptation Planning
Oscar Higuera Roa, Robert Sakic Trogrlic, Michaela Bachmann, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, and Reinhard Mechler - On-site presentation: Resilience in Transition: Temporal Dynamics, Climate Exposure, and Development Linkages of Community Flood Resilience in Nepal
Dipesh Chapagain, Romain Clercq-Roques, Stefan Velev, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Jung-Hee Hyun, Raquel Guimaraes, Adriana Keating, Anup Shrestha, and Reinhard Mechler - On-site presentation: Measuring Community Resilience to Multiple Climate Hazards: The CRMC Approach and Australian Experience
Adriana Keating and Zoe D'Arcy - On-site presentation: Re-centering the Livelihoods Framework for Understanding Systemic Resilience Pathways: A Multi-Context Evaluation using Resilience Assessment Indicators and Data
Jung Hee Hyun, Raquel Guimaraes, and Adriana Keating -
On-site presentation: Understanding systems change through resilience measurement: global evidence from repeated community flood-resilience assessments
Stefan Velev -
On-site presentation: Does the Perceived Access to Social Protection Mechanisms Strengthen Adaptive Capacity? A Global Study of Flood-Prone Communities
Raquel Guimaraes
08:30–12:25: Multi-(hazard) risk assessment and management: innovative approaches for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Convener: Robert Sakic Trogrlic | Co-conveners: Ekbal Hussain, Mirianna Budimir, Marleen de Ruiter, Silvia De Angeli, Cosmina Albulescu, Liz Olaya Calderon
- Oral: Perspectives from the global south: How to move towards truly multi-hazard early warning systems
Joy Waddell, Miguel Arestegui, Dharam Uprety, Bikram Uprety, Mirianna Budimir, Robert Sakic Trogrlic, and Marleen de Ruiter - Poster: Harnessing Global Evidence to Improve Multi-Hazard Risk Management Through Forensic Analysis
Marleen de Ruiter, Robert Sakic Trogrlic, Silvia de Angeli, Melanie Duncan, Joel Gill, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Heidi Kreibich, Christopher White, and Philip Ward - Oral: Reducing Risk Together: moving towards a more holistic approach to multi-(hazard-)risk assessment and management
Philip Ward, Robert Sakic Trogrlic and the MYRIAD-EU synthesis team - Oral: Water-related hazards and infrastructure failures: insights from a global assessment of risk mitigation practices
Elena Ridolfi, Benedetta Moccia, Marleen C. de Ruiter, Robert Sakic Trogrlic, Heidi Kreibich, Lorenzo Micheli, Andrea Ascani, Roberto Alessi, and the Water-related hazard impacts on infrastructure and mitigation case studies Research Team
08:30–10:15: Non-conventional water resources management under climate change
Convener: Elena Bresci | Co-conveners: Luis Garrote, Soufiane Taia, Chloé Nicolas-Artero, Enrico Lucca
- On-site presentation: Projections of future desalination capacity and related risks of maladaptation
Marina Andrijevic, Adriano Vinca, Edward Jones, Michele Magni, Michelle van Vliet, and Edward Byers
08:30–12:25: Multi-(hazard) risk assessment and management: innovative approaches for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Convener: Robert Sakic Trogrlic | Co-conveners: Ekbal Hussain, Mirianna Budimir, Marleen de Ruiter, Silvia De Angeli, Cosmina Albulescu, Liz Olaya Calderon
08:30–12:30: High-impact climate extremes: from physical understanding and storylines to impacts and solutions
Convener: Laura Suarez-Gutierrez | Co-conveners: Erich Fischer, Antonio Sánchez Benítez, Karin van der Wiel, Henrique Moreno Dumont Goulart
- On-site presentation: Linking Emissions from Fossil Fuel Megaprojects to Lifetime Climate Extremes Across Generations and Multi-Century Committed Change
Amaury Laridon, Wim Thiery, Rosa Pietroiusti, Chris Smith, Joeri Rogelj, Jiayi Zhang, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Inga Menke, Harry Zekollari, Lilian Schuster, Alexander Nauels, Matthew Palmer, and Jacob Schewe
10:45-15:45: From Water Sharing to Water Scarcity: Managing Depleted Aquifers, Dried Lakes, and Shrinking Glaciers in Transboundary Water Systems
Convener: Ali Torabi Haghighi | Co-conveners: Aziza BaubekovaECS, Abror Gafurov, Agnes Tahy, Juraj Parajka, Carla Catania
- On-site presentation: Crop Water Use and Future Irrigation Scenarios within a Safe Operating Space Framework in the Danube Basin
Silvia Artuso, Emilio Politti, Peter Burek, Sylvia Tramberend, Mikhail Smilovic, and Taher Kahil - On-site presentation: Projected Hydrological Changes and Trends in the Romanian district of the Lower Danube River Basin under Climate Change
Andrei Radu, Peter Burek, Marius Mătreață, and Viorel Chendeș - On-site presentation: Multivariate Drought Risk Evolution in the Danube River Basin: A Copula-Based Analysis of Duration and Severity Across Sub-Basins
Emilio Politti, Peter Burek, Carla Catania, Silvia Artuso, and Taher Kahil - Poster on site: Scenario Modelling of Future Water Balance in a Transboundary Basin: Potential and Limitations from the Tisa Pilot Basin within the Danube Water Balance Project
Máté György, Bence Decsi, Tamás Ács, Zsolt Kozma, Máté Chappon, and Peter Burek - Poster on site: Morava–Dyje floodplain forests: A comprehensive analysis of climate-driven changes in current and future water balance
Petr Pavlik, Adam Vizina, Adam Beran, and Barbora Krijt - Poster on sit: Attribution of glacier runoff to river streamflow in the Danube Basin
Peter Burek
14:00–17:55: Atmospheric Science for Action: Connecting Atmospheric Responses to Emissions, Air Quality, Climate, Health, and Environmental Justice to Motivate Policy
Convener: Omar Nawaz | Co-conveners: Karn Vohra, Zhen Qu, Aristeidis K. Georgoulias, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Guy Brasseur, Kun Qu
- On-site presentation: Equity and societal capacity for action in climate change scenarios
Marina Andrijevic -
Health benefits of climate and air pollution policies in the ASEAN region
Susanna Dedring, Thiago Brito
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On-site presentation: Integrated assessment of cost-effective air quality mitigation pathways for Uttar Pradesh, India
Parul Srivastava, Pallav Purohit, Wolfgang Schöpp, Fabian Wagner, Zbigniew Klimont, Gregor Kiesewetter, Sagnik Dey, Jostein Nygard, Ashish Tiwari, Mukesh Sharma, and Markus Amann
16:15–18:00: Understanding and assessing sea level changes: from global to local, from past to future
Convener: Alexander Nauels | Co-conveners: Aimée Slangen, Jennifer Weeks Svetlana Jevrejeva, Erwan Oulhen
- On-site presentation: Feedback-based sea level rise impact modelling for integrated assessment models with FRISIAv1.0
Lennart Ramme, Benjamin Blanz, Christopher Wells, Tony Wong, Cecilie Mauritzen, William Schoenberg, Chris Smith, and Chao Li - Poster on site: Assessing emulated multi-century global mean sea level projections - the Sea Level Emulator Intercomparison Project (SLEIP)
Alexander Nauels, Tessa Möller, Victor Couplet, Robert E. Kopp, Praveen Kumar, Matthias Mengel, Gregory Munday, Zebedee R. J. Nicholls, Matthew D. Palmer, Lennart Ramme, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Chris Smith, Jennifer H. Weeks, and Tony E. Wong
Wednesday, 6 May
08:30-15:45 (CEST): Advancing Justice and Social Science Integration in Climate Modeling
Convener: Mel George | Co-conveners: Caroline Zimm, Anjali Sharma, Kian Mintz-Woo, Setu Pelz, Kavita Surana, Mengye Zhu
- On-site presentation: Advancing representations of justice and the social sciences in climate mitigation futures
Shonali Pachauri and the Coauthor - On-site presentation: Translating the Legal Expectation of Highest Possible Ambition in Scenario Study Design
Julia Schönfeld, Hamish Beath, Setu Pelz, and Joeri Rogelj - On-site presentation: Sharing emissions and removals for meeting the Paris Agreement through a distributive and corrective justice lens
Mingyu Li, Rui Wang, Xinzhu Zheng, Can Wang, and Joeri Rogelj -
On-site presentation: Integrating Societal Dynamics into Financial Pathways for Decarbonization
David Leoncio Hehl, Alexandre C. Koberle, William Schoenberg, Hannah Prawitz, Ryan Yi Wei Tan, and Sibel Eker
08:30-15:45 (CEST): Terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change: integrating experiments, ecosystem observations, and models to understand carbon, nutrient, and water cycling
Convener: Teresa Gimeno | Co-conveners: Kevin Van Sundert, Benjamin Stocker, Cheng Gong
- On-site presentation: Amazon forest's carbon sink strength depends on plant nutrient efficiency at the root-soil interface
Nathielly P. Martins, Lucia Fuchslueger, Laynara F. Lugli, Anja Rammig, Iain P. Hartley, Richard J. Norby, Florian Hofhansl, and Carlos A. Quesada and the AmazonFACE team
08:30–10:15 (CEST): Measuring climate adaptation: from processes and outputs to outcomes and impacts
Convener: Oscar Higuera Roa | Co-conveners: Fernando J. Díaz López, Christian Kind, Nuria Hernandez-Mora, Jaroslav Mysiak
- Poster: on site: Mismatch between household flood preparedness and objective flood risk in the Netherlands
Sofia Badini, Anna Lou Abatayo, and Andries Richter - Poster: Towards a Framework for Measuring Adaptation Effectiveness and Resilience Using Outcome Indicators
Corinna Zeitfogel and the UNDERPIN team
10:45–12:30: Strengthening Policy Through Science: Insights from the interface
Convener: David Gallego-Torres | Co-conveners: Marie G. P. Cavitte, Maria Vittoria Gargiulo, Andrew Russell, Sebastian Wetterich
- Poster on site: From co-developed EU compound shocks to policy options: reviewing impacts for stress testing and resilience
Sylvia Schmidt and Inga Menke
10:45-12:30 (CEST): Invited to interview? Prepare for success with job applications and interviews in industry and academia
Convener: Hazel Gibson | Co-conveners: Simon Clark, Lion Huijers
10:45-15:45 (CEST): Participatory and Integrated Approaches for Climate-Resilient Cities: Citizen Science and Adaptation–Mitigation Interdependencies
Convener: Gerid Hager | Co-conveners: Mattia Federico Leone, Marianne Bügelmayer-Blaschek, Nuria Castell, Dilek Fraisl, Jan Peters-Anders, Inian Moorthy
- On-site presentation: Capturing street-level heat: Citizen-based high-frequency observations of urban microclimates
Martin Hofer, Inian Moorthy, Todd Harwell, Gerid Hager, and Giorgos Tsilimanis - On-site presentation: BADAG(Building-stock Advanced Dynamic Applying Geospatial) Framework : High-Resolution Gridded Estimation of Future Building Stock
Yohan Choi, Chan Park, and Alessio Mastrucci - Poster on site: Citizen Science Pathways to Climate-Resilient and Inclusive Cities in Urban ReLeaf
Todd Harwell, Gerid Hager, Inian Moorthy, Ilia Christantoni, Bárbara Coelho, Johanna Dörre, Nora Gāgane, Johanna Hartley-Zels, Albin Hunia, Sabīne Skudra, Dimitra Tsakanika, and Esther van Leeuwen
14:00–18:00 (CEST): Advancing Multidimensional Energy Transitions: Modelling Renewables, Just Transition for Coal Regions, and Real Zero Policy Pathways
Convener: Zarrar Khan | Co-conveners: Bjarnhéðinn Guðlaugsson, Thomas Kempka, Alicja Szmigiel, Mingyu Li, Marcin Lutyński, David C. Finger
- On-site presentation: No room for backsliding: Assessing the ambition floor of the COP28 agreement
Alaa Al Khourdajie, Yiyi Ju, Measrainsey Meng, Gaurav Ganti, Shotaro Mori, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, Matthew Gidden, Siddharth Joshi, Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi, Joeri Rogelj, and Carl Schleussner - On-site presentation: Managing Overshoot Through Collective Carbon Debt Drawdown
Setu Pelz, Oliver Fricko, Keywan Riahi, Shonali Pachauri, Elina Brutschin, Joeri Rogelj, Volker Krey, Injy Johnstone, Adriano Vinca, Carl Schleussner, Jarmo Kikstra, and Matthew Gidden
14:00–18:00 (CEST): Compound weather and climate events
Convener: Yang Chen | Co-conveners: Emanuele Bevacqua, Pauline Rivoire, Wiebke Jäger, Michele Ronco
- On-site presentation: Compound extreme events in a warming climate: Implications for climate change adaptation and mitigation
Sonia I. Seneviratne, Fulden Batibeniz, Bianca Biess, Sarah Schöngart, Dominik Schumacher, Victoria Bauer, Lukas Gudmundsson, Mathias Hauser, Martin Hirschi, Yann Quilcaille, Svenja Seeber, and Michael Windisch
14:00-15:45 (CEST): Water resources policy and management - balancing the water, food, energy and environment nexus for sustainable and resilient water systems under global change
Convenor: Taher Kahil | Co-conveners: Timothy Foster, Hector Macian-Sorribes, Elham Sedighi, Andrea Castelletti
- On-site presentation: Beyond the Tap: The Value of Alternative Water Sources for Climate Adaptation
Ruslana Palatnik, Dor Friedman, Julia Sirota, Orna Raviv, Ramiro Parrado, Mordechai Shechter, Taher Kahil, and Francesco Bosello - On-site presentation: Mapping Groundwater Irrigation Potential and Energy Requirements for Food Security Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Nageen Ayesha Rameez, Sudatta Ray, and Giacomo Falchetta - On-site presentation: Economics of groundwater sustainability: Modeling Incentives for Groundwater-Fed Irrigation in West Africa
Julian Joseph, Giulia Zane, William Quarmine, Moctar Dembélé, and Taher Kahil
14:00-18:00 (CEST): Present and future global vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks from observations and models
Convener: Lucia Sophie Layritz | Co-conveners: Ana Bastos, Viola Heinrich, Thomas Pugh, Martin Thurner
- On-site presentation: Climate Controls on Canopy Turnover: The Role of Atmospheric Demand and Hydrological Legacies in an Amazonian Lowland Forest
Katrin Fleischer, Juliëtte Bleichrodt, Florian Hofhansl, Amanda Damasceno, Iokanam Pereira, Lucia Fuchslueger, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, Nathielly P. Martins, Izabela F. Aleixo, Laynara F. Lugli, Ana Caroline Miron, and Sabrina Garcia and the AmazonFACE team
14:00-18:00 (CEST): Water quality and clean water availability modeling under current conditions and future global change scenarios
Convener: Albert Nkwasa | Co-conveners: Michelle van Vliet, Miriam Glendell, Rohini Kumar, Ann van Griensven
- On-site presentation: Mapping hotspots for future water pollution in Africa using SDG indicator 6.3.2
Maria Theresa Nakkazi, Albert Nkwasa, Jose Tera Orsini, and Ann van Griensven - Poster on site: Critical water quality limits for aquatic freshwater biodiversity
Albert Nkwasa, Maria Theresa Nakkazi, Kyle J. Brumm, Ann van Griensven, and Taher Kahil - Posters on site: Event-scale nutrient transport revealed by integrated runoff monitoring and time-lapse imagery
Giulia Mancini, Chiara Iavarone, Raffaele Pelorosso, Albert Nkwasa, Alessio Patriarca, Fabio Recanatesi, and Maria Nicolina Ripa
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Games for Geoscience
Convener: Christopher Skinner | Co-conveners: Rolf Hut, Elizabeth Lewis, Lisa Gallagher, Maria Elena Orduna Alegria
- PICO: Hotspot Earth: a climate action game
Jan Steinhauser, Doris Vollgruber, Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum, Monika Mayer, and Harald Rieder
Thursday, 7 May
08:30–12:25: The dynamics of the large-scale atmospheric circulation in past, present and future climate
Convener: Hilla Afargan Gerstman | Co-conveners: Orli Lachmy, Robert Jnglin Wills, Michael Byrne
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On-site presentation: Double Jet circulation regimes and their association with Western European Heatwaves in present and future climates
Shutong Liu, Yinglin Tian, and Kai Kornhuber
08:30-12:30: Early Warning Systems (EWS): From Science to Action for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction
Convener: Kelley De Polt | Co-conveners: Timothy Tiggeloven, Md. Rezuanul Islam, Samira Pfeiffer, Robert Sakic Trogrlic
- On-site presentation: ANTICIPATE COST Action: extended-range multi-hazard predictions and early warnings
Christopher White, Pauline Rivoire, Owen Walpole, Alexandre Ramos, Martin Wegmann, Ana Russo, Ilias Pechlivanidis, Hannah Bloomfield, Morten Larsen, Joanne Robbins, Marcello Arosio, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Marleen de Ruiter, Silvia De Angeli, Fiachra O'Loughlin, Daniela Domeisen, Nico Caltabiano, Andreia Ribeiro, and Stanislav Hronček
08:30-15:45: Advances in physical climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors
Convener: Kai Kornhuber | Co-conveners: Matthew Priestley, Alessio Ciullo, Hannah Bloomfield, Natalie Lord
- On-site presentation: Flexible climate impact emulation of thermoelectric power plant cooling constraints and buildings energy demand in integrated assessment modelling.
Vignesh Raghunathan, Adriano Vinca, Edward Byers, and Volker Krey
08:30-9:40: When Murphy’s Law Meets Climate Hazards – Cascading Risks and Unprepared Futures
Convener: Elias Symeonakis | Co-conveners: Ana Bastos, Antonella Peresan
Speakers:
- Yasemin Aktas, University College London, United Kingdom
- Nadejda Komendantova, IIASA, Austria
08:30–12:30: Open session on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Convener: Zoltán Erdős | Co-conveners: Fabian Wagner, Olli Varis, Maija Taka, Elizabeth Petrie
08:30–12:30: Modeling agricultural systems under global change
Convener: Christoph Müller | Co-conveners: Elena De Petrillo, Christian Folberth, Oleksandr Mialyk, Han Su
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On-site presentation: The Financial Toll of Climate-Induced Crop Losses
Corey Lesk, Yi-Ling Hwong, and Kai Kornhuber
08:30–12:25: Attributing climate change, extreme events, and their impacts: quantifying contributions from external forcing, internal climate variability, and/or other drivers
Convener: Aglae Jezequel | Co-conveners: Robin Noyelle, Paula Romanovska, Rupert Stuart-Smith, Sebastian Sippel
- On-site presentation: Systematic Attribution of Heatwaves to the Emissions of Carbon Majors
Yann Quilcaille, Lukas Gudmundsson, Dominik L. Schumacher, Thomas Gasser, Richard Heede, Corina Heri, Quentin Lejeune, Shruti Nath, Philippe Naveau, Wim Thiery, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne
08:30–12:25: Advances in physical climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors
Convener: Kai Kornhuber | Co-conveners: Matthew Priestley, Alessio Ciullo, Hannah Bloomfield, Natalie Lord
08:30–12:30: Modeling agricultural systems under global change
Convener: Christoph Müller | Co-conveners: Elena De Petrillo, Christian Folberth, Oleksandr Mialyk, Han Su
10:45–12:30: Dynamics of Climate Risk in the Anthropocene: Integrating Hazards, Exposure and Vulnerability
Convener: Matthias Schlögl | Co-conveners: Sophie L. Buijs, Gemma Cremen, Sven Fuchs, Margreth Keiler, Nicole van Maanen, Alexandre Pereira Santos
- Spreading the risk, sharing the burden – Economy-wide and distributional impacts of flood risk financing under climate and socioeconomic change
Eva Preinfalk, Gabriel Bachner, and Nina Knittel - On-site presentation: Global quantification of subnational vulnerability drivers of human impacts from extreme weather events Emily Theokritoff, Friederike Otto, Joeri Rogelj, and Ralf Toumi
10:45–12:30: Nature-based Solutions for climate change adaptation
Convener: Pierre-Antoine Versini | Co-conveners: Amy Oen, Kristina Potočki, Natalia Rodriguez-Ramirez, Nejc Bezak
- Poster: Cost-benefit analysis of protection forests and their ecosystem services: a Scoping review
Elsa Meisburger, Anna Scolobig, Markus Stoffel, JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer, Juliette Martin, Julia Aguilera, and Elias Huland - Modeling Climate Impacts on Agroforestry-Based Coffee Production of Small Growers in Mexico
Christian Folberth, Nikolay Khabarov, Rastislav Skalsky, Charlotte E. Gonzalez-Abraham, and Valeria Javalera Rincon
10:45–12:30: AI for Weather and Climate: Opportunities and Challenges
Convener: Sebastian Engelke | Co-conveners: Erich Fischer, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Tim Whittaker
- On-site presentation: A review of spatially explicit climate emulators for enhancing modelling agility
Sarah Schöngart, Lukas Gudmunsson, Chris Womack, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Sonia Seneviratne
10:45–12:30: Bridging the gap between climate science and legal practice: informing laws and litigation
Convener: Inga Menke | Co-conveners: Noah Walker-Crawford, Emily Theokritof, Annika Högner, Rosa Pietroiusti
- On-site presentation: Tracking and attributing losses and damages from extreme weather events globally
Emily Theokritoff, Nathan Sparks, Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, Clair Barnes, Friederike Otto, Joeri Rogelj, and Ralf Toumi - On-site presentation: Navigating Source Attribution Methods for Linking Individual Actors to Climate Change
Yann Quilcaille, Christopher W. Callahan, Nils Hohmuth, Samuel Lüthi, L. Delta Merner, Friederike E. L. Otto, Carly A. Phillips, Joeri Rogelj, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Sarah Schöngart, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Peter Stott, Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Emily Theokritoff, Wim Thiery, and Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera - On-site presentation: A counterfactual emissions scenarios database for end-to-end climate impact attribution
Annika Högner, Zebedee Nicholls, Jarmo Kikstra, Alexander Nauels, Sarah Schöngart, Marco Zecchetto, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner - On-site presentation: Linking Emissions from Fossil Fuel Megaprojects to Lifetime Climate Impacts Across Generations: a Framework for Climate Litigation
Amaury Laridon, Wim Thiery, Rosa Pietroiusti, Chris Smith, Joeri Rogelj, Jiayi Zhang, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Inga Menke, Harry Zekollari, Lilian Schuster, Alexander Nauels, Matthew Palmer, and Jacob Schewe - On-site presentation: Towards a more robust and flexible approach to assess intergenerational inequity in exposure to climate extremes and impacts
Quentin Lejeune, Rosa Pietroiusti, Amaury Laridon, Niklas Schwind, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Wim Thiery - On-site presentation: Evidence for corporate climate accountability: Integrating science, law, and policy
Julien O. Beaulieu, Emily Theokritoff, Yann Quilcaille, Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Sabine Fuss, Robin D. Lamboll, Georgia Ray, Joana Setzer, Noah Walker-Crawford, Thom Wetzer, and Joeri Rogelj
14:00-15:45: Resource exploration via geo(bio)chemical processes - the life cylce of pyrite as one example
Convener: Michael Kühn | Co-conveners: Antonio Randazzo, Giulio Bini, Martina Cascone, Marta Kalabová, Joseph Michael Magnall, Daniel Smrzka
- Poster on site: Reduced nitrate degradation in groundwater and its consequences – model-based assessment
Carsten Hansen and Michael Kühn - Poster on site: Pyrite oxidation impacts radionuclide migration in clay rock - thermodynamically, kinetically or not at all?
Michael Kühn and Theresa Hennig - Poster on site: Pyrite oxidation and its implications for flooding of heterogeneous lignite mine dumps: a reactive transport modelling study
Tobias Schnepper, Michael Kühn, and Thomas Kempka
14:00-15:45: Understanding and predicting the impact of climate variability on hydrological regimes and extremes
Convener: Bastien Dieppois | Co-conveners: Emma Ford, Yves Tramblay, Amulya Chevuturi, Samuel Jonson Sutanto, Vincent Ogembo, Albert Nkwasa
- Posters on site: Identifying hotspots for the emergence of unprecedented precipitation extremes in Sub-Saharan Africa under climate change
Stanley Oramah, Bastien Dieppois, Job Ekolu, Charles Onyutha, Gabriel Stecher, Albert Nkwasa, Serigne Bassirou Diop, Yves Tramblay, Benjamin Sultan, Jessica Northey, and Marco van de Wiel
14:00–15:45: Learning to fly: Inviting diverse Early Career Perspectives on Research Challenges
Convener: Ignacio Aguirre | Co-conveners: Angela Che Ing Tang, Moctar Dembélé, Konstantinos Papoulakos, Shubham Goswami
- Poster: Shaping tomorrow’s science: Empowering ECRs to make research projects flourish
Kelley De Polt, Julius Schlumberger, Judith Claassen, Timothy Tiggeloven, Sophie Buijs, Marleen de Ruiter, Maria Vittoria Gargiulo, Joel Gill, Naveen Ragu Ramalingam, Núria Pantaleoni Reluy, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, and Philip Ward
14:00–15:40: Population health in a changing climate: past and ongoing impacts, adaptation and future risks
Convener: Elena Raffetti | Co-conveners: Antonio Gasparrini, Gabriele Messori
- On-site presentation: Closing the Cooling Gap Could Halve Global Heat-related Health and Economic Losses
Bo Yang, Xiao-Chen Yuan, Edward Byers, Giacomo Falchetta, Marina Andrijevic, and Yi-Ming Wei
14:00–15:45: Advances in Understanding Solar Radiation Modification Technologies and their Impact on the Earth System
Convener: Colleen Golja | Co-conveners: Alistair Duffey, Matthew Henry
- On-site presentation: Beyond best-case SRM: Scenarios for a messy reality
Benjamin Sanderson, Susanne Baur, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Glen Peters, Shivika Mittal, Marit Sandstad, Steffen Kallbekken, Chris Smith, Sabine Fuss, Bas Van Ruijven, Rosie Fisher, Joeri Rogelj, Roland Seferian, Bjørn Samset, Norman Steinert, Laurent Terray, and Jan Fuglestvedt - Poster on site: Not All 1.5°C Worlds Are Equal: Mitigation versus Solar Radiation Modification
Yi Ling Hwong, Assaf Shmuel, Alexander Nauels, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
14:00–18:00: Building Bridges: Art-Science Collaborations for a Sustainable Future
Convener: Michael Lazar | Co-conveners: Tiziana Lanza, Stefania Amici, Giuliana D'Addezio
- Poster on site: Knowing Otherwise: Art-Science Practices and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Filipa Reis, Adriano Vinca, and Karen Cortéz
16:15–18:00: Bridging the gap: climate science, risk models and renewable energy research
Convener: Giacomo Falchetta | Co-conveners: Ashwin K Seshadri, Caroline Zimm, Anasuya Gangopadhyay, Jasper Verschuur
- On-site presentation: Modeling policies for the EU building stock decarbonization at sub-national resolution
Enrico Cofler, Francesco Colelli, Giacomo Falchetta, and Massimo Tavoni - On-site presentation: Under the Magnifying Glass: multi-scale climate impacts on renewable energy supply and demand in Europe
Yann Yasser Haddad, Luna Bloin-Wibe, Pauline Seubert, Massimiliano Zappa, Petra Sieber, Lukas Gudmundsson, and Sonia I. Seneviratne -
On-site presentation: A counterfactual emissions scenarios database for end-to-end climate impact attribution
Annika Högner, Zebedee Nicholls, Jarmo Kikstra, Alexander Nauels, Sarah Schöngart, Marco Zecchetto, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
16:15–18:00: Climate Variability vs. Forced Change: Insights from Large Ensemble Climate Model Simulations and Climate Emulators
Convener: Aneesh Sundaresan | Co-conveners: Alexia Karwat, Debashis Paul, Pengfei Lin, Yukiko Imada
- On-site presentation: Climate mitigation benefits emerge within a decade
Assaf Shmuel, Niklas Schwind, Kai Kornhuber, Ron Milo, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner - On-site presentation: Modelling multi-scale regional variability with causal networks
Annika Högner, Niklas Schwind, Verena Kain, Alexander Nauels, Zebedee Nicholls, Marco Zecchetto, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
16:15–18:00: Co-Creating Climate Services: Linking Essential Variables with Actionable Decision Support
Convener: Anca Hienola | Co-conveners: Anca Anghelea, Tomohiro Oda, Theresia Bilola, Federico Drago, Matti Heikkurinen, Gregor Feig
- On-site presentation: A climate impact taxonomy operationalizing IPCC physical driver and risk concepts
Michaela Werning, Edward Byers, Marina Andrijevic, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Seth Monteith, Laura Aldrete Lopez, Valentin Lemaire, Elin Matsumae, Adelle Thomas, and Alexander Nauels
16:15–18:00: Earth resilience in the Anthropocene: from tipping points to planetary boundaries and human-Earth system interactions
Convener: Jonathan Donges | Co-conveners: David Armstrong McKay, Levke Caesar, Axel Eriksson, Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Nico Wunderling
- On-site presentation: The role of climate impacts in Transition Pathways in an Integrated Assessment Model: interdependencies and nonlinearities
Muralidhar Adakudlu, Cecilie Mauritzen, Christopher Wells, Benjamin Blanz, William Alexander Schoenberg, Alexander Köberle, Beniamino Callegari, Janner Brier, Lennart Ramme, Jefferson Rajah, Andreas Nicolaidis Lindqvist, Axel Eriksson, and Chris Smith - Poster on site: Positive tipping cascades in the power system driven by adoption of grid-scale batteries
Áron Dénes Hartvig, David Leoncio Hehl, Ryan Yi Wei Tan, and Sibel Eker
16:15-18:00: Large-scale groundwater
Convener: Robert Reinecke | Co-conveners: Fanny Sarrazin, Sebastian Gnann, Sara Nazari
- Poster on site: Climate-driven groundwater recharge decline as a potential accelerant of geogenic salinisation in Brandenburg: A regional-scale 3D hydrogeological modelling study
Elena Chabab, Michael Kühn, and Thomas Kempka - Poster on site: Multi-model assessment of uncertainties in continental groundwater vulnerability and pollution risk mapping in Africa
Dor Fridman, Rebekah Hinton, Sara Nazari, Silvia Artuso, Barbara Willaarts, and Taher Kahil
Friday, 8 May
08:30-10:15 (CEST): Coupled human water systems: advances in socio-hydrological and hydro-social research
Convener: Britta Höllermann | Co-conveners: Shinichiro Nakamura, Sofie Annys, Marlies H Barendrecht
- On-site presentation: Source matters: spatial modelling of drinking water sources and vulnerabilities in LMICs
Rebekah Hinton, Dor Fridman, Barbara Willaarts, and Taher Kahil
08:30–12:25 (CEST): Earth radiation budget, radiative forcing and climate change
Convener: Martin Wild | Co-conveners: Jörg Trentmann, Maria Z. Hakuba, Paul Stackhouse
- On-site presentation: The Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7
Chris Smith, Ryan Kramer, and Timothy Andrews - On-site presentation: Assessment of forcing changes across CMIP eras using reduced-complexity climate models
Magali Verkerk, Thomas Aubry, Chris Smith, Vaishali Naik, Paul Durack, and Chris Wells and the CMIP Climate forcings Task Team
10:45–12:30 (CEST): The Climate Model Hierarchy: Bridging simulation, understanding and application
Convener: Reyk Börner | Co-conveners: Alejandro Romero Prieto, Oliver Mehling, Norman Julius Steinert, Bahar Emirzade, Rebecca Varney, Ann Kristin Klose
- On-site presentation: Cascaded score-based emulation of Earth system models for impact evaluation with SCALES-MESH
Verena Kain, Niklas Schwind, Annika Högner, Assaf Shmuel, Alexander Nauels, Zebedee Nicholls, Marco Zecchetto, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner - On-site presentation: Combining emulators and demographics: Building a flexible toolkit for lifetime exposure assessments
Quentin Lejeune, Rosa Pietroiusti, Amaury Laridon, Niklas Schwind, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Wim Thiery - Poster on site: Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3: protocol and preliminary results
Alejandro Romero-Prieto, Marit Sandstad, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Zebedee R. J. Nicholls, Norman J. Steinert, Thomas Gasser, Camilla Mathison, Jarmo Kikstra, Thomas J. Aubry, Katsumasa Tanaka, Konstantin Weber, and Chris Smith - Poster on site: Coupled ESM-IAM Emulator: Exploring Uncertainties in Temperature Target Pathways
Katsumasa Tanaka, Xiong Weiwei, Myles Allen, Michelle Cain, Stuart Jenkins, Camilla Mathison, Vikas Patel, Chris Smith, and Kaoru Tachiiri
10:45–12:30: Human-Water Feedbacks
Convener: Heidi Kreibich | Co-conveners: Anne Van Loon, Saket Pande, Tobias Krueger, Melissa Haeffner
- On-site presentation: Escalating lifetime water deficit for younger generations
Inne Vanderkelen, Édouard L. Davin, Jessica Keune, Diego G. Miralles, Yoshihide Wada, Hannes Müller Schmied, Simon Gosling, Yadu Pokhrel, Yusuke Satoh, Naota Hanasaki, Peter Burek, Sebastian Ostberg, Luke Grant, Sabin Taranu, Matthias Mengel, Jan Volkholz, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Wim Thiery
10:45-18:00 (CEST): Recent advancements in estimating global, continental and regional scale water balance components
Convener: Tina Trautmann | Co-conveners: Franziska Clerc-Schwarzenbach, Peter Burek, Ehsan Modiri, Maike Schumacher
10:45-18:00 (CEST): Bridging natural and social sciences to study societal responses to extreme weather events
Convener: Simona Meiler | Co-conveners: Viktoria Cologna, Sandra Zimmermann, Roman Hoffmann, Alessia Matano, Tesse de Boer, Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho
- On-site presentation: Understanding Flood Preparedness and Risk Perception After Extreme Events: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Italy
Serena Ceola, Irene Palazzoli, Chiara Puglisi, Chiara Binelli, and Raya Muttarak - On-site presentation: Assessing Societal Response to Extreme Temperature Shocks
Steffen Lohrey, Giacomo Falchetta, and Kai Kornhuber - Poster on site: Intensifying Flood Extent and Human Displacement Risk Across Africa
Ho-Minh-Tam Nguyen, Roman Hoffmann, Timothy Foreman, Hongtak Lee, Abubaker Omer, Dai Yamazaki, and Hyungjun Kim - Poster: Quantifying global and regional food crises through cascade modeling of supply fragmentation
Pavel Kiparisov and Christian Folberth
12:45–13:45 CEST: Resilience under interconnected hazards: multi- and systemic-risk perspectives (by invitation only)
Organized by Robert Sakic Trogrlic | Co-organized by: Marleen de Ruiter, Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
14:00-15:45 (CEST): Learning from model differences and other good modelling practices – where are we today and where to tomorrow?
Convener: Diana Spieler | Co-conveners: Rosanna Lane, Anneli Guthke, Zhenyu Wang, Helen Baron, Wouter Knoben
- On-site presentation: Comparing Hydrological Models in Configuration and Trajectory Space
Mikhail Smilovic
14:00–15:45 (CEST): The Beat of the Water Cycle: Measuring and Attributing Changes in Water Fluxes and Storage, Climate Feedbacks, and Management Impacts Across Scales
Convener: Shraddhanand Shukla | Co-conveners: Ben Livneh, Peter Greve, Brunella Bonaccorso, Jessica Keune, Nunziarita Palazzolo, Sara Cerasoli
14:00–18:00 (CEST): Bridging natural and social sciences to study societal responses to extreme weather events
Convener: Simona Meiler | Co-conveners: Viktoria Cologna, Sandra Zimmermann, Roman Hoffmann, Alessia Matano, Tesse de Boer, Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho
14:00–15:45 (CEST): Advancing the integration of citizens' and stakeholders’ knowledge in disaster risk management and reduction
Convener: Alexandre Pereira Santos | Co-conveners: Silvia De Angeli, Janne Parviainen, Antonella Peresan
- Oral: Social Media, Risk Communication, and Public Engagement During the 2023 Turkey–Syria Earthquakes: Insights from Facebook Posts
Abraham Yosipof, Or Elroy, Antonella Peresan, and Nadejda Komendantova - Virtual presentation: The Persuasion Paradox: How Expertise and Linguistics Shape Climate Communication
Chayasmita Deka, Or Elroy, Nadejda Komendantova, and Abraham Yosipof
14:55–15:05 (CEST): Remote Sensing for forest applications
Convener: Markus Hollaus | Co-conveners: Eva Lindberg, Christian Ginzler, Mattia Balestra, Xinlian Liang
- On-site presentation: Tree-Quest: A Citizen Science App for Collecting Single-Tree Attributes
Florian Hofhansl, Milutin Milenković, Rudi Weinacker, Tobias Sturn, Santosh Karanam, Ivelina Georgieva, Benjamin Wild, Norbert Pfeifer, Markus Hollaus, Luca Zappa, Viktor J. Bruckman, Ian Mccallum, and Steffen Fritz
Representatives from our NMO countries:
Monday, 04 May, 09:45–09:55 (CEST): Spatio-temporal transitions of disaster vulnerability in Nepal
Anup Shrestha, Josias Láng-Ritter, Dipesh Chapagain, Maija Taka, and Olli Varis
Tuesday, 05 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST): Energy, Resources and the Environment - Open session
Convener: Giorgia Stasi | Co-convener: Viktor J. Bruckman
Thursday, 07 May, 08:30–12:30 (CEST): Open session on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Convener: Zoltán Erdős | Co-conveners: Fabian Wagner, Olli Varis, Maija Taka, Elizabeth Petrie
© Geologische Kartierung in extremen Umgebungen © Christine Asch, BGR
The Austrian Academy of Sciences, represented by Professor Dr. Christian Köberl, cordially invites you to the ÖAW-EGU Lecture „Von der Tiefsee bis zum Mars – Geologische Kartierung unter extremen Bedingungen“ by Christine Asch, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Hannover).
As part of the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the EGU are jointly organizing a public event that addresses current and interesting topics in geosciences. This year's public lecture is dedicated to geological mapping in extreme environments.
The event (in German) will take place on Tuesday, May 5, 2025, 18:00 at the Ceremonial Hall of the Academy, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.
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