Delta and Estuarine Risk and Resilience in changing climate session success at EGU2023

Dr Indrajit Pal and Dr Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Hub members from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) conducted a Living Deltas Hub-oriented session at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023 in Vienna, Austria. The session NH11.3 Delta and Estuarine Risk and Resilience in changing climate, was also convened onsite and online by Jens Ehn (University of Manitoba, Canada) and Mohammad Heidarzadeh (online) (University of Bath, UK).

The session contributed a number interesting oral presentations and poster sessions both onsite in person and online with a total of nineteen oral presentations and ten poster presentations. Presentations covered various topics on delta socio-ecological system issues, livelihoods and resilience, biogeochemistry, geophysical modelling, and many more.

The EGU General Assembly 2023 is one of the largest platforms with over 18,000 scientists and scholars in attendance across the globe, so was a great opportunity for disseminating Hub knowledge.

A surprise meeting!

Dr Indrajit Pal and Dr Anirban Mukhopadhyay meet Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Living Deltas Hub member and distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine (UCI) during EGU 2023 General Assembly.

Audience listening

The audience listening to one of the many oral presentations

Arriving at EGU

Dr Anirban Mukhopadhyay and Dr Indrajit Pal outside the General Assembly.

Research poster

Hub researcher Jinghua Jiang with her research poster.

Getting ready to present

Teh team prepare to begin the oral presentations

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Posters and presentations from the Living Deltas Hub included:

Presentations:

• Assessing vulnerability and risk to livelihoods in river deltas socio-ecological systems: alignment of the GDRI with global frameworks’ indicators

• Consecutive hazards and adaptive capacity of individuals – a gender-sensitive study in the Indian Sundarban delta

Posters (onsite):

• Evaluating the feasibility and performance of Nature-based Solutions in Can Tho, Vietnam

• Development of a Coupled Human And Natural Systems (CHANS) Modelling Approach for flood risk assessment and management

• Calibrating a 2D high-performance hydrodynamic model for fluvial process modelling along the Mekong River