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2018 International Symposium on “Progress of Research on Natural Hazards in Snowy Areas”

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Poster                 

Organized by Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recover, Niigata University, Japan

Venue
4th floor of the Art Hotel Niigata Station, Niigata City
Date and Time
10:00 – 15:00 on Saturday, March 3, 2018 (9:30 – Registration)
PROGRAMME
2018 International Symposium on Progress of Research on Natural Hazards in Snowy Areas
10:00 – 10:10
Opening address
SESSION 1: SNOW- AND ICE-RELATED MULTIPLE PHENOMENA AND HAZARDS
10:10 – 10:30
Sento Nakai (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience)“Recent progress of the research on snowfall observation and snow and ice-related disaster prediction at NIED.”
10:30 – 10:50
Andrew Whitaker (Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University) "Frequency and magnitude of rain-on-snow (ROS) floods for a mountain basin in northern Niigata Prefecture”
10:50 – 11:20
Alejandro Dussaillant (University of Aysen, Chile)“Natural Hazards in Chilean Patagonia: Calbuco Volcano Lahars and Cachet2 Lake Outburst Floods”
11:20 – 11:30
Tea break
SESSION 2: VOLCANO – SNOW/ICE INTERACTIONS
11:30 – 12:00
Alison Graettinger (Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri- Kansas City) “Fire and Ice: Volcanic eruptions into Ice and snow”
12:00 – 12:20
Kae Tsunematsu (Mount Fuji Research Institute, Yamanashi Prefectural Government) “The dynamics and numerical models for avalanches and lahars on volcanoes”
12:20 – 13:30
Lunch
SESSION 3: CASCADING AND MULTIPLE HAZARDS IN SNOWY AREAS: PROCESS AND MITIGATION
13:30 – 14:00
Roy Sidle (Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) “Evaluating hydrogeomorphic processes in catchments: influence on severe surface erosion and landslide initiation”
14:00 – 14:20
Kyoko Kataoka (Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery, Niigata University) “Lahars and volcano-snow multi-hazards at seasonally snow-clad volcanoes”
14:20 – 14:40
Takeo Fukui (Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Natural Science Sector, UNESCO, France) “UNESCO’s contribution to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) including hazards in snowy areas”
14:40 – 14:55
Discussion
14:55 – 15:00
Closing address