Kelley De Polt

📊 Mapping Risk Pathways — community call to action
🗓️ Feb 18, 2026 | 16:00 CET

This Risk-KAN community event focuses on methods to detect and measure cascading impacts, helping strengthen resilience beyond primary hazards.

👉 More details & registration at cmcc-it.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We encourage submissions addressing the following key themes and sharing of lessons from successes and failures:
💡 Early warning and anticipatory action
💡 Impact-based approaches
💡 Technological innovations
💡 Risk communication and community engagement
💡 Data integration and system interoperability

This session is convened together with Timothy Tiggeloven, Md. Rezuanul Islam Fahim, Samira Pfeiffer, and
@drrobertsakic.bsky.social

⏰ Don’t miss the final opportunity to submit an abstract to our session:
Early Warning Systems (EWS): From Science to Action for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (ITS4.24 / NH13.8) ⏰

Submit here: www.egu26.eu/session/57636

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#EGU2026 #EarlyWarningSystems #DisasterRiskReduction

New paper from our group in @globalchangebio.bsky.social!

We show regional emergence of water-related browning in a greening world. This is based on multiple water-related variables, and consistent gridded data covering 1982-2021.

Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Image description: Group of girls smiling at the camera in front of a presentation slide, with text reading: ''Division Blogs: Natural Hazards, How can we encourage and empower Early Career Researchers? Reflections on a short course held at EGU 2025"

In this blog post, the @nh.egu.eu shares a #recap about a short course held during the #EGU25: “Best Practices for Early Career Researcher (ECR) Engagement and Empowerment in Research Projects”, designed and led by Early Career Researchers (ECRs).

👀 Continue reading here: egu.eu/2G5NWS

Exciting news from the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg (@uni-freiburg.de)! 🌲🌳

Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster:

1️⃣ Modeling Coordinator
2️⃣ Scientific Programmer

Find details below 👇

We encourage submissions addressing the following key themes and sharing of lessons from successes and failures:
💡 Early warning and anticipatory action
💡 Impact-based approaches
💡 Technological innovations
💡 Risk communication and community engagement
💡 Data integration and system interoperability

This session invites contributions from a wide range of disciplines and sectors involved with the full spectrum of EWS development and implementation, including but not limited to natural hazards science, atmospheric and hydrologic research, social sciences, and disaster management practice.

This session is convened together with Timothy Tiggeloven, Md. Rezuanul Islam Fahim, Samira Pfeiffer, and @drrobertsakic.bsky.social

🌍📢 EGU 2026 abstract submission is open 📢🌍

We’re proud to introduce our session “Early Warning Systems (EWS): From Science to Action for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction”!

Find out more and submit abstracts here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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Citation:
Schlumberger J, De Polt K, Claassen JN et al. Empowering ECRs to make research projects flourish: lessons from a European research project [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Open Res Europe 2025, 5:312 (doi.org/10.12688/ope...)

A huge shout out to our co-authors Judith Claassen, Timothy Tiggeloven, Sophie Buijs, @marleenderuiter.bsky.social, Maria Vittoria Gargiulo, Joel Gill, Núria Pantaleoni Reluy, @drrobertsakic.bsky.social, and @philipward.bsky.social for their insights and support that made this work possible!

Achieved through involvement of ECRs in project management, organization of events, and initiatives to foster networks. Three key enabling factors for creating an empowering environment were identified, aiming to encourage projects and funding institutions to further build on these practices.

Co-led by Julius Schlumberger and myself, this perspective examines how the EU Horizon 2020 project MYRIAD-EU integrated Early Career Researcher (ECR) empowerment into its framework.

Our preprint is now live and open for discussion on Open Research Europe!

Empowering ECRs to Make Research Projects Flourish: Lessons from a European Research Project

Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.12688/ope...

New paper from our group in Environmental Research Communications!

🌳We emphasise the importance of short vegetation in urban cooling and highlight the overestimation of cooling effects when assessments rely solely on land surface temperature.

Read more at: doi.org/10.1088/2515...

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Sinikka Paulus (@spaulus.bsky.social) ! 🎓

This past September, Sinikka successfully defended her PhD thesis titled:

"A Novel Framework for Assessing the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Soil Water Vapor Adsorption Using a Global Observation Network"!

💡We particularly would like to highlight the Special Technical Session: “Innovative Frontiers in Multi(-Hazard)-risk Assessment and Disaster Risk Management”, led by Timothy Tiggeloven, co-convened together with @dmferrario.bsky.social, Michele Ronco, and Silvia Torresan.

📢 Call for Abstracts - ICONREM 2026 📢

Abstract submission is now open for the 4th International Conference on Resilience, Multi-Risk Assessment and Monitoring, taking place 16-19 June 2026 in Florence, Italy.

📌 Submit your abstract: www.iconrem.it/contribution...
⏰ Deadline: 30 October 2025

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Chunhui Zhan! 🎓

This past Monday, Chunhui successfully defended her PhD thesis titled:

"The Effect of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on the Terrestrial Carbon and Water Cycle"!

Many thanks also to supervisors, collaborators, and colleagues who supported and contributed to this work:
René Orth (@hydrorth-lab.bsky.social), @philipward.bsky.social, @marleenderuiter.bsky.social, Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, Ekaterina Bogdanovich

Related manuscripts:
Quantifying impact-relevant heatwave durations: doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Official heat warnings miss situations with a detectable societal heat response in European countries: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

How Can We Redefine Natural Hazards Through Societal and Health Responses? In this video, KELLEY DE POLT argues for a more integrated understanding of natural hazards by linking extreme heat events with societal interest and public

💡 I had the opportunity to speak with LATEST THINKING (lt.org) about ongoing work throughout my PhD that incorporates societal and health responses into natural hazard risk assessments.

👉 Full interview available here: doi.org/10.21036/LTP...

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez! 🎓

This past July, Melissa successfully defended her PhD thesis titled:

"Exploring the potential of land surface information to improve subseasonal temperature forecast skills."
A huge congratulations on this achievement!

We’ve just launched the Risk‑KAN Starter Pack! A curated toolkit to kickstart collaboration, insight, and impact at the intersection of emergent risks, climate change & disaster resilience 🌍 And stay informed on all the events organized by our Working Group leads.

Take a look: go.bsky.app/SpGzhJJ

Open Call for Risk KAN Steering Committee Members

Open call for new Steering Committee Members at @riskkan.bsky.social.

We invite experts in relevant fields to self-nominate for the next term: www.risk-kan.org/about-riskka...

Find out more at www.risk-kan.org and feel free to reach out in case of questions!

@iiasa.ac.at @climate.columbia.edu

Das war ein großer Spass! Fast einen ganzen Tag Ideen zu Fragen der planetaren Gesundheit gewälzt - DANKE ❤️ Markus Reichstein @ellisunitjena.bsky.social und Team, @robertboehm.bsky.social und Geko Team des @ipb.bsky.social

#planetaryhealth #behavioralscience #climate #health #sciencebsky

Really enjoyed the opportunity to contribute to this very interesting manuscript!

🌳☀️☁️

If you're working on heatwaves through the land surface or atmospheric lens, I highly recommend giving it a read! Lots of great insights on importance of drivers regionally and at different timescales.

Happening NOW!

Come check out Sinikka Paulus' poster "Assessing the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Soil Water Vapor Adsorption Using a Global Observation Network" 💧🌍

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#EGU25