Session Convener:
Dr. Hans-Balder Havenith
Professor, Liege University, Belgium
Email: [email protected]
Session Coordinators: Vipin Kumar, Jeevan Kafle
Session Description
Understanding the complexity of geohazard chains in high mountain regions, considering variable influences of climatic and seismic inputs over different scales of time and space. Using related outcomes for hazard calculation with numerical and spatial analysis tools.
Aim of the Session
Within this session any geoscientists and engineers working on multiple geohazards in mountain region shall meet to discuss about the connectivity between those hazards and related trigger processes. Of special interest is the short- to long-term influence of both seismic and climatic events on glacial environments and deep valleys. Focus would be on the presentation of new numerical tools and spatial analyses supporting the assessment of complex hazard process chains, combining, e.g., calculation of natural dam and high rock slope stability, simulation of dam breaching and mass movement impacts on lakes, of related hydrological consequences as well as of glacial lake outburst floods. The communication of such complex hazard simulation outcomes requires advanced visualisation tools and the session will therefore be open for the presentation of hazard simulation in- and outputs in eXtended Reality environments. The session conveners will provide the necessary hardware for the presentation of mountain hazard elements in immersive virtual environments, which may also be used in conference workshops to allow other conference members to ‘dive’ into those environments.
