Enhancing resilience to climate-driven geohazards through international collaboration – experience from the GEOMME partnership’s journey in research and education
- 1Natural Hazard Division, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
- 2Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Nagaoka, Japan
- 3Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
- 4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
- 5Geologic Environment Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Daejeon, South Korea
- 6Department of Geology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
The GEOMME partnership is an international initiative with partners in South Korea, Japan, and Norway aiming to enhance societal resilience to climate-driven geohazards through research and education. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway (project number 322469) and is running from 2021 to 2026. An overarching objective of GEOMME is to initiate collaborative activities which will improve the adaptive capacity of these nations to climate change through knowledge exchange and research-based education.
A unique feature of the partnership is the collaborative development and implementation of four specialized education packages, each aligned with one of the project's scientific themes: (1) understanding geohazards in a changing climate, (2) modelling geohazards at different spatial scales, (3) methodologies for monitoring and early warning, and (4) sustainable approaches to hazard and risk mitigation – including Nature-based Solutions. Each package consists of (1) an online module for wide accessibility – and to level set within the participant group prior to the in-person course, and (2) an intensive, in-person course providing experience-, practice-, and research-based learning. The target audiences are graduate students, practitioners, and researchers.
As of 2024, two education packages have been successfully developed. The first, titled “Geohazards in a Changing Climate,” focused understanding the impacts of climate change on hazards processes in the partner countries and culminated in a course in Norway in August 2022. The second, titled “Modelling Gravitational Mass Flows over Large Areas” was hosted in Niigata, Japan, in November 2023 and focused on snow avalanche and debris flow modelling, large-scale hazard mapping, and quantitative risk assessment – integrating Japan's unique context to explore both technical and social aspects of hazard and risk management.
The aim of this contribution is (1) to share the online learning resources developed by the partnership and (2) present experiences developing and implementing digital and in-person research-based teaching methodologies in an international consortium.
How to cite: Gilbert, G. L., Issler, D., Ito, Y., Nishii, R., Yamaguchi, S., Niiya, H., Tanabe, T., Kwon, T.-H., Cheon, E., Park, J.-Y., D'Amboise, C., and Vick, L.: Enhancing resilience to climate-driven geohazards through international collaboration – experience from the GEOMME partnership’s journey in research and education, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-20359, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20359, 2024.
