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September-October eNews
Reducing Risk, Strengthening Resilience
COP26 Policy Report on Adaptation and Resilience in ASEAN

A report led by scientists from EOS and the University of Glasgow published ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) highlighted the need for ASEAN to boost resilience. They presented a range of disaster risk reduction strategies and recommendations for the region, whose population is at risk of natural hazards that are further compounded by climate change.

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A New Way to Measure the Benefits of Natural Solutions for Reducing Disaster Risk

A team led by EOS scientists has developed a framework to measure the benefits of forests on reducing flood risk, addressing the longstanding challenge of gauging the impacts of nature-based solutions on disaster risk reduction.

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Surviving Sea-Level Rise

Did you know that Antarctica has enough water to raise sea levels by 65 metres? A commentary in The Straits Times by EOS Director Benjamin Horton to mark World News Day outlines the threat of rising sea levels to Asia and what we can do to survive sea-level rise.

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Tectonics Research
Unraveling Myanmar’s Underground Structure to Better Prepare for Future Geohazards

EOS scientists and their collaborators proposed a new 3D velocity model of Myanmar. It enables scientists to gain insight into the subsurface structure down to a depth of 80 kilometres and can help prepare for future earthquakes.

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An Overlooked Hazard can Cause Damage Weeks after an Earthquake Strikes

Following the 1992 magnitude-7.6 Chi-Chi earthquake, buildings were found balancing precariously on slopes that were once horizontal. A recent study highlights the hazards posed by tilting of the Earth’s surface caused by the process of folding and suggests ways to minimise damage.

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EOS in the Media
CNA Correspondent - S1: The Great Thaw aired on CNA.
 
World News Day: Scientists dig deep to study Singapore's rising sea levels published in The Straits Times.

Gauging benefits of natural ecosystems in fighting floods published in The Straits Times.

First islandwide survey to uncover what lies beneath Singapore and its earthquake risk published in The Straits Times.

NTU team looking into storing of CO2 underground published in The Straits Times.

Explainer: Geothermal power may become a new source of energy in S’pore soon. How will such energy be harnessed? published in Today.

Are Southeast Asian nations meeting their climate commitments? published in Deutsche Welle.
 
EOS-ASE Seminar Series
Reimaging 100 Years of Marine Ecology - the Mixoplankton Paradigm

Changes to our understanding of protist plankton over the last decade have culminated in the recent proposal of the term “mixoplankton”. In her seminar, Dr Aditee Mitra of Cardiff University talks about her journey of discovery which led her to the mixoplankton paradigm.

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Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk: A Global Study

Public perceptions of climate risk are critical to climate action as they shape individual and collective behaviour and influence the decisions of governments and firms. Dr Olivia Jensen from the NUS Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk presents the findings of a study of public risk perceptions at the global level employing a survey of more than 140,000 people with nationally representative samples from 140 countries conducted in 2019.

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On the Diversity of Seismic Signals Associated with Submarine Eruptions

In this seminar, Dr Lise Retailleau from the Piton de la Fournaise Observatory presents analyses of the different types of seismicity to obtain clues about the mechanisms of the Mayotte volcanic system and its evolution.

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Upcoming Seminars

2 Nov: Assistant Professor Wei ShengjiEarth Observatory of Singapore
9 Nov: Professor Charles Elachi, Caltech 
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Selected Publications
Asia’s looming Black Elephant events published in Communications Earth and Environment.

Sedimentary evidence for a period of rapid environmental change in the Yangtze River Delta, China around 150 years ago published in Continental Shelf Research.

A Unified Framework for Earthquake Sequences and the Growth of Geological Structure in Fold-Thrust Belts published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

Adjoint‐state traveltime tomography for azimuthally anisotropic media and insight into the crustal structure of central California near Parkfield published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing of Multi-decadal to Centennial Scale Variability of Sea Surface Temperature in the South China Sea published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction: A probabilistic modeling framework published in One Earth.

A further source of Tokyo earthquakes and Pacific Ocean tsunamis published in Nature Geoscience.

Eruptive style controls the formation of silicon hexafluoride salts on volcanic ash: The case of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland published in Chemical Geology.

The Millennium Eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7 published in Bulletin of Volcanology.

A petrological and conceptual model of Mayon volcano (Philippines) as an example of an open-vent volcano published in Bulletin of Volcanology.
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