Guest Lectures 2022

River room, flood room and new housing design theory to improve sustainanability and reduce flood risks

2. Juni 2022, Ebrahim Moghimi

Flood studies are based on three historical, experimental, and technological approaches related to various basic sciences, including meteorology, hydrology, geomorphology, and artificial intelligence. One of the aims of these studies is to strengthen the phenomenological nature of floods. This research contributes to the understanding of rivers in order to reduce flood risks. Accordingly, he proposes a new theory of housing design to reduce flood risks with an advanced analysis of floods, which will be discussed in this lecture. ...more


Guest Lectures 2022

What enhances learning processes between policy-makers and scientists regarding coastal risks?

23. März 2022, Ante Ivcevic

How do policy-makers interact with scientists and receive scientific information regarding coastal risks, and how do they take into account the needs of the general population? How are risk reduction
policies drafted and communicated to the general population? The central research question of my interdisciplinary research is: What enhances learning processes between policy-makers and scientists? I am addressing the complex question of decision-making by carrying out fieldwork in Morocco and Italy. ...more


Guest Lectures 2019

Hydrology, Farming and Behaviour Change: Learnings from a Co-Innovation Project

24. Mai 2019, MS Srinivasan

The talk will highlight the experiences of a hydrologist in communicating a water use efficiency message to farmers, regulators, industry professionals and researchers, using a co-innovation approach. The speaker will share his learnings from a NZ-government funded irrigation programme. ... more


Guest Lectures 2013

Geospatial Analysis and Knowledge Discovery: Complementary Perspectives using Statistical and Machine-learning Techniques

15. April 2013, Alexander Brenning

Novel analysis and prediction methods developed at the intersection between computer science and statistics have been gaining popularity in recent years in quantitative (physical  and human) geography and remote sensing. These newer approaches promise to improve predictive performances by overcoming the limitations of statistical models, and to better represent complex social and environmental processes. ... more

Development of a spatial decision support system for analyzing changes in hyrdo-meteorological risk

8. April 2013, Cees van Westen

The analysis of the effect of risk reduction planning alternatives on reducing the risk now and in the future and the support of decision makers in selecting the best alternatives is of highest relevance. Herein, Spatial Decision Support Systems SDSS are most promising. ... more


Guest Lectures 2010

Mitigating the Risk from Lahars on Ruapehu Volcano, New Zealand

29. November 2010, Harry Keys

Hazardous lahars occur about every decade on average on the active glacierised Ruapehu Volcano (2797m, winter snowline 1600-1700m) in New Zealand. It is the nation’s singly largest centre for mountain recreation, particularly skiing and snowboarding. ... more

Early Warning Systems for Natural Hazards - The Fundamentals

15. November 2010, Tad Murty

Natural hazards can be broadly grouped into three types: (A) Permanent, (B) Evanescent and (C) Episodic. A dominant feature in almost all types of geophysical data records is the so-called clustering effect. ... more


Guest Lectures 2008

Emergence and Complexity

10. November 2008, Stephan Harrison

Emergence is a characteristic of dynamic systems where the large-scale
behaviour of the system is effectively independent of the behaviour of the smallscale components of that system. Scientific attempts to unravel the complexity of complex systems have tended to follow reductionist paths ... more

Mutliple occurance regional landslide events as a formative geomorphic process

14. April 2008, Nick Preston

Mass movement can be shown to be the dominant geomorphic process in many parts of New Zealand. Of particular importance are episodes of extensive slope failure associated with intense rainfall and seismic triggers ... more

Engineering Geomorphology

21. Jannuary 2008, Roger Moore

Engineering Geomorphology is a specialist discipline of the earth sciences and its value in the commercial world has not always been recognised. The talk will illustrate several major projects where engineering geomorphology, high-quality remote sensing data ... more