Mastodawn

"Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response".
https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/the-arctic-institutes-2026-polar-disaster-risk-reduction-response-series-an-introduction
Edited with Jeevan Toor for The Arctic Institute. The introduction is available and the articles will appear over the next month.

#Antarctic #Antarctica #Arctic #PolarScience #PolarResearch #polar #OpenAccess #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters

The Arctic Institute's 2026 Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Series: An Introduction

The Arctic Institute's 2026 Series Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response explores risks, and solutions in changing polar regions.

The Arctic Institute - Center for Circumpolar Security Studies

Ilan Kelman May 21

For UCL's 200th birthday, the 16th UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction annual conference explores 'Cities of the future: Risks, resilience and reimagination'.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2026/jun/16th-ucl-risk-disaster-reduction-annual-conference
In person, 24 June 0900-1800, UCL's east London campus at Stratford.

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #UrbanStudies #cities #UCL

16th UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction annual conference

Marking UCL200, the 16th UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction annual conference explores 'Cities of the future: Risks, resilience and reimagination'.

Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences

ISECEE2026_Official Apr 8

⚠ Can infrastructure survive the next disaster?

At ISECEE2026, explore solutions for:
🌍 Earthquake resilience
🌊 Flood risk management
⛰ Landslide mitigation

📍 Berlin 🇩🇪
📅 Sept 14–15, 2026

👉 Be part of the solution

#ISECEE2026 #DisasterRisk #EngineeringFuture #ClimateAction

Stats and R Apr 7

🌍 EM-DAT, the world's most trusted global disaster database, maintained by UCLouvain's CRED, is at risk of shutting down after losing USAID funding.
In an era of intensifying climate extremes, reliable data are not a luxury. They are the infrastructure for informed decision-making.
I wrote a short post explaining why EM-DAT matters and how you can help by signing the open letter 👇
https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/
#OpenData #DisasterRisk #OpenScience

EM-DAT, the world's disaster memory, is at risk

EM-DAT, the global disaster database hosted by UCLouvain, faces a critical funding crisis. Learn why it matters and how to help.

Stats and R

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Apr 7

Advancing Flood Detection And Mapping - A Review Of Earth Observation Services, 3D Data Integration, And AI-Based Techniques
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17172943 <-- shared paper
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https://youtu.be/qIaw0IgtkfM?si=PzNCFQ6dqmvlpQ-D <-- shared @nasa #ARSET #tutorial / overview video (1 of 2)
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https://youtu.be/oMPSToY2xDs?si=WjypQknw3_N-A8qJ <-- shared @nasa #ARSET #tutorial / overview video (2 of 2)
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#review #EarthObservation #FloodMapping #RemoteSensing #AI #Geospatial #DisasterRisk #ClimateChange #flood #flooding #satellite #model #modeling #depth #volume #risk #hazard #evaluation #GIS #spatial #mapping #detection #3D #terrain #elevation #landscape #hydrogeomorphology #integration #satellite #emergency #response #planning #management #extremeweather #DisasterRisk #ClimateChange #GIS #spatial #mapping
@space It Up

Ilan Kelman Mar 10

"#Webinar: #Donkeys as Agents of #Drought #Resilience"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CCF4RbvWk

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #donkey #droughts #equids

Webinar: Donkeys as Agents of Drought Resilience

YouTube

Code Labs Academy Feb 21

Flood maps drive real decisions, but optical imagery is cloudy when floods hit. Our new guide shows how to train a cloud-aware #UNet in #PyTorch on #Sentinel2 data, evaluate with #IoU and Dice, and export #GIS layers for #DisasterRisk work.

Read the full article: https://codelabsacademy.com/en/blog/deep-learning-flood-risk-mapping-sentinel-2-python?source=mastodon

Flood Risk Mapping with Sentinel‑2 in Python (U‑Net)

Build a cloud‑aware U‑Net in Python to segment flood extent from Sentinel‑2, evaluate with IoU/Dice, and export GIS‑ready risk layers for response planning.

Ilan Kelman Feb 8

"Can risk be managed without measuring it?"
https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/can-risk-be-managed-without-measuring-it-0

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #Risk #RiskManagement #RiskReduction #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters

Can risk be managed without measuring it?

Many risks require measurement for management. Just not all of them.

Ilan Kelman Feb 3

Thank you to John Richardson and the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience for the review of "Disaster by Choice" https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/ajem-january-2026-disasters-are-not-natural-review-of-disasters-by-choice-how-our-actions-turn-natural-hazards-into-catastrophes

-"Disaster by Choice" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disaster-by-choice-9780198841357
-"Katastrophen aus Menschenhand" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68680-5

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #Katastrophen

AJEM January 2026 - Disasters are not natural: review of Disasters By Choice: How our Actions turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes | Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub

‘It’s just semantics’. I hear this often when the topic comes up of disasters not being natural, so why do we persist calling them natural disasters? It is more than semantics.

Ilan Kelman Jan 25

New #podcast:
#NoNaturalDisasters https://uclpress.co.uk/podcast/no-natural-disasters-professor-ilan-kelman

#disaster #disasters #DisastersAvoided #DisastersAreNotNatural #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DRM #DisasterRiskManagement #DisasterRisk #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

No Natural Disasters, featuring Professor Ilan Kelman

Professor Ilan Kelman argues that human decisions, governance failures and societal inequities determine the impact of catastrophic events.

UCL Press