“1st Workshop on Projection and Mitigation of Mega-Geo-Disasters under Changing Climate” Finished Successfully

“1st Workshop on Projection and Mitigation of Mega-Geo-Disasters under Changing Climate” was held at Akama Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal on 14-15, Mar. 2024.

You can see the overview and purpose of workshop here.

This workshop was composed of Inaugural Session, Keynote Session, Panel Discussion, and Parallel Session. There were four Keynote Session through the workshop, and 11 keynote speech (30 min) and five presentation (15 min) were delivered in total.

For Panel Discussion held on the first day, we invited the following guests as panelists: Dr. Shrestha, Dr. Karmakar, and Prof. Dr. Tyagi (former directors of meteorological agency from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh); and Prof. Dr. Yasunari.

Prof. Dr. Yasunari was the President of GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment (GAME project), a pioneer in Asian hydroclimatological project, and also he is the former Director-General of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN).

Parallel Session were composed of six general sessions, and 30 presentations were given in total.

Tribhuvan University and Kagawa University are particularly cooperating in geology and climatology, so this workshop was planned with Mega-Geo Disasters as the theme. However, on the day of workshop, it revealed the importance of collaboration across these fields.

Many of the presentations were tied to not only unique phenomenon of these field but also global issues such as climate change and adaptation to it. There was a Cross-Over between common and unique. Also, experienced researchers and young researchers in the process of obtaining PhD came together. It was a generation Cross-Over and ideal meeting to develop young researchers.

Based on the characteristic of southern periphery of Tibetan plateau, Cross-Over between mountains and plains, from the top of Himalayas to low-lying area of Bengal plains, was also important and we will be able to learn from both adaptation.
geology-climatology, between solid and gas; however it raised an essential issue associated with the properties of Asian monsoon, which mountain erosion caused by active geological activity associated with active orogeny, and vast plains created by active deposit are changing its situation based on climate change.

The participants gathered from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, China, and the U.S. and treated phenomenon from turbulent flow to climate and tectonic scale. We also offline – online On this Cross-Over, we helped and learned each other.
The impressive dinner left an specific situation of South Asia because the workshop was held in Ramadan month and we all shared the joy at dinner.

We successfully improved awareness of Asian climate change research projects, such as AsiaPEX and built AsiaPEX as a program. The workshop also stimulated activities of SAMA (South Asian Meteorological Association), a South Asian climate research framework, in Bangladesh and Nepal.

We successfully impressed young researchers in Japan and South Asia with the existence of Core-to-Core program and support from Japan. Some people recommend that we summarize this workshop in a special journal because the research presentations covered a wide range of issues.