NH12B:
Industry Perspectives on Natural Hazards and Disaser Science: Research Needs  and Opportunities

Submit an Abstract to this Session Please know the abstract submission deadline has passed. There are no exceptions to this deadline and no new abstracts can be submitted.
You can still search the program to see your colleague�s abstract submissions as well as the sessions submitted for the 2016 Fall Meeting. The final program will be released in early October.
Please note: this session is being considered for an alternate session format. Please be aware that if your abstracted is accepted in this session, your abstract may be scheduled as a panel discussion or lightning poster presentation. For more information please visit the following link: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/alternate-session-formats/.


Session ID#: 13595

Session Description:
A panel discussion is proposed to discuss what industry perceives as the key issues and opportunities related to natural hazards and data science. We propose to assemble a panel from the insurance, consulting, data science, emergency management,  and public sector agencies that cover a broad spectrum of technical and applied activity related to natural hazards and disasters to provide context as to the current challenges they face. The moderator will facilitate the discussion towards an identification of research needs and challenges, and possible academic and industry engagement to develop new initiatives. We anticipate two panels, and the development of a summary that will be published in EOS.
Primary Convener:  Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Conveners:  Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India and Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, AGW, Karlsruhe, Germany
Chairs:  Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, AGW, Karlsruhe, Germany and Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India
OSPA Liaison:  Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1902 Community modeling frameworks [INFORMATICS]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4307 Methods [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Narrowing the Insurance Protection Gap: The important role of Natural Hazards Research (Invited) (201050)
Vijay Manghnani, Analytical Imaging and Geophysics, Boulder, CO, United States
Increasing losses caused by natural disasters: what are the drivers, how is the insurance industry affected, what has to be done? (Invited) (171501)
Peter Hoppe, Munich Re, Munich, Germany
Financail Disaster Risk Mangement Solutions for Life Systems Infrastructure in Low and Middle Income Countries (Invited) (173754)
Jerry R Skees, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
Achieving Business Resilience in a Climate of Change (Invited) (139045)
Louis Gritzo, FM Global Research, Norwood, MA, United States

See more of: Natural Hazards