RIMMA2025 International Conference on Forecasting, Preparedness, Warning, and Response
University of Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
Information and warnings are decisive elements in integrated risk management. Warnings increase preparedness and are one of the organizational measures (along with forecasts, and emergency planning) to respond to hazards and risks. (Near-)Real-time data and warnings need to be available, accessible, communicable, and understandable, and must be issued and distributed according to the needs of various target groups. User-centered impact-based warnings aim at complementing meteorological forecasts with impact forecasts. This requires a dedicated collaboration between meteorological services, warning services, and user groups.
Visualization, communication and information management are crucial for effective forecasting, nowcasting, and warning systems and thus are the key to better disaster prevention and management. Cartography, and visualization in general, offers various means for this: Today’s maps are (almost entirely) digital: web-based, interactive, and updated in real-time. However, visualization of spatiotemporal data streams and impact-based warnings do not only comprise maps, but also full Geoinformation-Systems including digital twins and multi-media (text, images, virtual reality, storytelling).
This conference aims at bringing together several disciplines and expertise ranging from meteorological services, warning services, disaster and risk managers, and intervention forces to cartography, visualization, and communication experts. The conference aims at:
- Identifying gaps and challenges in the application of novel technologies,
- building bridges between research and practice,
- enabling operational synergies across the different phases of integrated disaster management (from monitoring, forecasting, and warning to early action, preparedness, response, and recovery),
- sharing of best practices, as well as providing room for discussion of methodological problems in risk modelling and visualization, including resilience analytics and improvements,
- explore cartographic visualization of complex spatiotemporal data as a means for improving forecasts, warnings, and early actions,
- creating synergies between forecasting, response, and impact,
- fostering cross-organizational information management, especially aiming at turning data streams and impact forecasts into decisions, workflows, and actions,
- define a roadmap for future improvements in the domains of (cartographic) visualization and communication for risk information management.
Important dates
30 April, 2024: Registration opened
30 June, 2024: Submission of session proposals
31 August, 2024: Submission of abstracts and full papers
30 October, 2024: Confirmation of acceptance of abstract or full paper
1 December, 2024: Submission of final abstract or full paper
8 January, 2025: Registration closes
28-30 January, 2025: Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland
31 January, 2025: Scientific excursion to Jungfraujoch
Contact
In case of questions, inquiries, requests, please contact us by email rimma2025.oeschger@unibe.ch