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