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The potential impending Iceland volcano eruption brings CNDS expertise into media
2023-11-20
CNDS Fellows Valentin Troll, Björn Lund and Steffi Burchardt were interviewed in different media platform about the impending volcano eruption in Iceland
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CNDS Director, Giuliano Di Baldassarre participated in the Security Research Event (SRE) organised by the European Commission
2023-10-25
CNDS Director, Giuliano Di Baldassarre was one of the invited panelists at the thematic panel on ”Natural, accidental and intentional disasters of the future: are we prepared?” that took place in Brussels, on 24-25 October 2023
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Call for Interdisciplinary Grants 2024 - Deadline 20 November 2023
2023-10-17
The call for CNDS Interdisciplinary Grant 2024 has recently opened.
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#DRRday 2023 - CNDS contributes to the study of inequality in DRR
2023-10-13
CNDS offers some insights into this year's UN International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, with a focus on inequality
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Björn Lund in the media: from earthquakes till landslides and bombs
2023-10-02
In the past few months, CNDS Fellow Björn Lund has been on the media to share his expertise on the earthquake on Morocco, as well as a landslide and a explosion in Sweden
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CNDS opens new avenues for collaboration with Tohoku University in Japan
2023-09-26
A delegation from CNDS meets with researchers from the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tokohu University to discuss directions for future collaborations
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CNDS get students involved with natural hazards at Scifest
2023-09-25
A group of CNDS early career researchers participate at Scifest, a popular science fair that takes place once a year in Uppsala, Sweden
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CNDS presents at HEPEX workshop 2023: Forecasting across spatial scales and time horizons
2023-09-14
Giuliano Di Baldassarre, CNDS Director, together with Anastasiya Shyrokaya, CNDS PhD candidate, participated in the HEPEX workshop 2023 with their presentation "Forecasting socio-hydrological extremes"
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EGU23: CNDS was represented with 19 Fellows and 27 presentations
2023-05-26
This year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU23) in Vienna had a wide CNDS representation
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The article by Elisa Savelli et al. on urban water crises and hydrological risks gains large international media attention
2023-04-18
The paper on Nature Sustainability by CNDS Fellow Elisa Savelli and colleguagues has reached more than 17,000 clicks in less than one week
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Most Downloaded Article in Geology Today for Valentin Troll and Frances Deegan
2023-04-18
CNDS Fellows Valentin Troll and Frances Deegan are co-authors of one of the most downloaded articles in Geology Today in the 12 months after publication
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Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption
2023-04-13
A new article in Nature Sustainability, cowritten by Elisa Savelli, uncovers how inequalities influence water crises and hydrological risks.
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CNDS Interdisciplinary grant 2023 has been awarded
2023-04-11
Elin Stenfors (UU) and Kenny Turesson (KaU) have been awarded funding for their interdisciplinary projects on natural hazards and disaster science
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Professor Ashok Swain reaches 500 000 followers on Twitter
2023-04-06
Ashok Swain, Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and CNDS Fellow gives an interview about his involvement in social media.
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Online Conference: Adaptation & Resilience - Ensuring the energy transition is built on resilient infrastructure
2023-03-10
Follow Malin Götema's session on 'Adaptation and resilience – Concepts and Definitions in the context of energy infrastructure' on 14 March 2023
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Björn Lund helps us understand the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
2023-02-24
"Turkey's geological position makes the country prone to earthquakes. The country is located on the so-called Anatolian Plate, which is sandwiched between three continental plates."
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Clues to where magma was stored prior to and during the 2021 eruption at La Palma
2023-02-13
CNDS Fellows Valentin Troll and Frances Deegan worked with colleagues from Cornell University (USA), and Las Palmas and Barcelona (Spain) amongst other institutions to unearth precise, microscopic clues to where magma was stored prior to and during the 2021 eruption at La Palma. The results offer scientists and government decision makers a way to better assess the risk of volcanic eruptions.
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Giuliano Di Baldassarre is interviewed on this year's Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures
2023-02-03
In his interview with Uppsala University, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, CNDS Director, tells us more about his expectations as a moderator and host of the Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures that will take place on 9 February 2023 in Uppsala.
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Call for Interdisciplinary Grants 2023 - Deadline 28 February 2023
2023-01-31
The call for CNDS Interdisciplinary Grant 2023 has been recently announced.
CNDS provides an opportunity for Early Career Scientists – PhD students and postdocs from CNDS partnering universities Uppsala University, Karlstad University and Swedish Defence University to apply for funding for interdisciplinary work within natural hazard and disaster science.
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Governments' public communication on social media during the COVD-19 pandemics
2023-01-30
CNDS' Fellows Frederike Albrecht and Helena Hermansson, inte alia, have recently published a chapter within the book Communicating a pandemic: Crisis management and Covid-19 in the Nordic countries [by B. Johansson, Ø. Ihlen, J. Lindholm, & M. Blach-Ørsten (Eds.)]
This chapter analyses how Nordic health authorities and prime ministers used social media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic from the health authorities’ Twitter communication and prime ministers’ Instagram posts.
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Why is Indonesia's volcanic eruption more dangerous than the one in Hawaii?
2023-01-24
CNDS-Fellow, Valentin Troll (Uppsala university) explained in an interview with SVT Nyheter the main causes of risk during volcanic eruptions.
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Bouncing Spallation Bombs During the 2021 La Palma Eruption, Canary Islands, Spain
2022-12-12
CNDS Fellow, Valentin Troll (Uppsala university), co-authored an article on the so-called "spallation bombs" resulted from the 2021 La Palma volcanic eruption with the aim of understanding in which ways these threats to human lives and infrastructure "ought to be accounted for in risk assessment, necessitating awareness of an increased hazard footprint on steep-sided volcanoes with ballistic activity" (Day, Troll et. al., 2022).
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CNDS Director as top 0.24% scientist in both Environmental Engineering and Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
2022-12-07
Giuliano Di Baldassarre was (again) listed among the most cited scientists according to the updated Global Citation Ranking based on Scopus data (Baas et al., 2021) for both career-long and annual citation impact - in the September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". -
Securing future water supply through sustainable management - Formas grant
2022-11-24
The project "Leap in Swedish freshwater monitoring for water supply risk mitigation", led by researchers from Lund University in collaboration with Stockholm University and with the contribution of CNDS Fellow, Johanna Mård, has been granted funding via Formas of around 16 mil. SEK.
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A climate-change attribution retrospective of some impactful weather extremes of 2021
2022-11-21
CNDS Fellow, Gabriele Messori has co-authored a paper on the attribution of climate change to some of the weather extreme events from 2021. It is shown that the extreme events the authors investigate are significantly modified in the present climate with respect to the past, because of changes in the location, persistence and/or seasonality of cyclonic/anticyclonic patterns in the sea-level pressure analogues.