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Aerial photo of 2025 Los Angeles Fire/Lily Oglesby

Photo credit: Airplane view looking north towards Palisades fire, Los Angeles, on January 12th, 2025 around 09:30am / Lily Oglesby, undergrad student of Astrophysics and Data Science at the University of California, Berkeley

Delta workshop participants

On behalf of our interdisciplinary team (Christopher Ansell, Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Marta C. Gonzalez, Louise Comfort, Ann Keller, Clara Larson, Lian Plass, AICP) at the UC Berkeley Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM) we are thrilled to finish the year with a great discussion at the Berkeley Delta Workshop on Compound Hazards and Cascading Disasters. The workshop was organized as part of a National Science Foundation Planning Grant that we were recently awarded (https://lnkd.in/gr7gzYfK).

This workshop is our first milestone to a new exciting journey for CCRM that will open new perspectives to improve our understanding and management of catastrophic risk. More coming in spring semester. Stay tuned!

Thanks to all our partners representing FEMA (Mark Wingate, Adam Klein, Michael Bishop COR RPG CFM, Xing Liu), US Army Corps of Engineers (Jason Needham), Cal OES (Robyn Fennig, CFM, Matt Munoz, MPA), California Department of Water Resources (Michael Mierzwa, Ricardo Pineda), the California State Association of Counties (Catherine Freeman), River Partners (John Cain), geospatial experts (Phil Beilin), a range of academics across California (Jay Lund, Brett Milligan, Todd R LaPorte, howard foster, John Radke, Paul Schulman, Emery Roe, Stephen Collier) and our brilliant grad students (Gabriela Paredes Vega, Minho Kim, Noelle (Nola) C.).

Workshop attendees

An international meeting held at the Berkeley City Club on October 23-25, 2024 to celebrate 40 years of HRO research. Click to see a slideshow.

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