Vorsitzende der Sitzung
Forum 1 - On Today's Relevance of Oceanic Volcanology
- Julie Belo (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)
- Morelia Urlaub (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)
- Tom Kwasnitschka
- Samuel Mitchell
- Philipp Brandl
Beschreibung
Where do we stand in terms of other research topics such as global warming or micro plastics? What does this mean in terms of funding and available infrastructure. Should we lobby more?
This contribution is an attempt to distill some useful lessons from the author’s research in three different small island developing states or SIDS (Cape Verde, Papua New Guinea and Dominica), and from the author’s conversations with research collaborators and others in those states.
In all three states, young volcanic islands are the summits of large active volcanoes whose lower flanks...
I am representing Mitiga Solutions, an insurtech company that provides catastrophe models for the insurance sector for a range of atmospheric and geophysical hazards. Events like the recent Hunga Tonga eruption and incurred damages raise questions regarding our capabilities to model the risks associated with submarine/oceanic eruptions. Let's discuss the state-of-the-art, what is left to be...