Name: SynCom Workshop - Early Warning
Start: 2022-09-13T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-13T21:30:00+02:00
Location: University of Potsdam

- Plenary: Welcome and introduction
  
  Convener: Prof. Christian Kuhlicke (UFZ)
  - 1
    
    Welcome by Marie Heidenreich
    
    Introducing the new Head of the SynCom Office
    
    Speaker: Marie Heidenreich (SynCom)
  - 2
    Introduction to the SynCom project “Early Warning for Natural Hazards”
    
    Identify knowledge, methods and tools within the POF Program “Changing Earth” relevant for development and improvement of early warning systems (EWS) – low hanging fruits for transfer (portfolio building).
    
    Map existing early warning structures for different hazards, key operational services and institutions, potential needs and links to our portfolio (landscape mapping)
    
    Agree on follow-up activities: dialog with operational services/institutions, follow-up stakeholder workshops, transfer activities (roadmap)
    
    Speaker: Prof. Christian Kuhlicke (UFZ)
  - 3
    
    EWS for severe weather events
    
    Speaker: Prof. Peter Knippertz (KIT)
  - 4
    
    EWS for floods
    
    Speakers: Dr Daniel Caviedes Voullieme (FZJ), Dr Sergiy Vorogushyn (GFZ)
  - 5
    
    EWS for droughts and low flows
    
    Speaker: Prof. Sabine Attinger (UFZ)
  - 6
    
    EWS for earthquake / volcano / tsunami
    
    Speaker: Prof. Fabrice Cotton (GFZ)
- 10:20
  
  Coffee Break
- Geohazards: Room S23
  
  earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis
  
  Conveners: Dr Andrey Babeyko (GFZ), Prof. Fabrice Cotton (GFZ)
- Hydro-meteorological hazards I: Room S21
  
  heavy rains (convective & frontal), hail, pluvial, fluvial and flash floods, debris flow
  
  Conveners: Dr Daniel Caviedes Voullieme (FZJ), Prof. Peter Knippertz (KIT), Dr Sergiy Vorogushyn (GFZ)
- Hydro-meteorological hazards II: Room S22
  
  heat waves, droughts, low flows
  
  Conveners: Prof. Joaquim Pinto (KIT), Prof. Sabine Attinger (UFZ)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch Break
- 7
  
  Plenary: Success stories
  
  Tsunami Early Warning - a success story?
  
  Speaker: Prof. Jörn Lauterjung (GFZ)
- 8
  
  Plenary
  
  Storyline approach to quantification and communication of natural hazard risk
  
  Speaker: Prof. Ted Shepherd (FZJ & University of Reading, UK)
- 15:00
  
  Coffee break
- 9
  Plenary discussion
  - a) Presentations of Breakout Session Outcomes
    
    Speakers: Prof. Fabrice Cotton (GFZ), Prof. Christian Kuhlicke (UFZ)
  - b) Discussion of the Roadmap: next steps, responsible people
    
    Speakers: Prof. Fabrice Cotton (GFZ), Prof. Christian Kuhlicke (UFZ)
- 18:00
  
  Dinner
  
  Get together at PIAZZA TOSCANA
  Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 177
  14482 Potsdam

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