AGU 2025 Session NH026 – Call for Abstracts

[Y. C. Ethan Yang]

Dear all,
(Apologies for cross-posting)

If you are planning to attend AGU this year, please consider submitting an abstract to our session:

NH026 – Interdisciplinary Advances in Catastrophe Modeling and Disaster Resilience: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice
(See session abstract below)

This session is convened by Benjamin Felzer (Primary Convener), with James Doss-Gollin, Avantika Gori, and myself serving as Co-Conveners.

We are pleased to announce two confirmed invited speakers:

• Phil Klotzbach (Colorado State University)

• Greg Characklis (University of North Carolina)

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Ethan

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NH026 – Interdisciplinary Advances in Catastrophe Modeling and Disaster Resilience: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice

Climate change and growing exposure drive increases in the frequency and impact of natural hazards, emphasizing the need for accurate, ethical, and actionable catastrophe models. This session seeks to foster a deeper understanding of how catastrophe models can inform decision-making and enhance resilience at multiple scales, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches that integrate geophysical, hydrological, and socio-technical systems. We invite contributions that develop or apply rigorous modeling or data analysis techniques to assess hazard frequency, exposure, vulnerability, and cascading impacts. Relevant methodologies include probabilistic hazard and risk modeling, multi-hazard frameworks, stochastic simulations, high-resolution numerical models, hazard assessments at multiple spatial scales, and machine learning applications grounded in physical process understanding. Submissions that explore ethical, equity, and policy-relevant dimensions of catastrophe modeling, especially when grounded in robust and open scientific methods, are particularly encouraged. This includes work on insurance equity, infrastructure resilience, risk communication, and community-based approaches to resilience metrics.

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Y. C. Ethan Yang, Ph.D. GISP 

Complex Adaptive Water Systems (CAWS) Research Group

Class of '61 Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Associate Director, Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Phone: +1-610-758-5685; Email: yey...@lehigh.edu