As part of the Sino-German Mobility project “Mountain Hazards under Climate Change (MHCC)” between GFZ and IMHE (funded by DFG and NSFC), Dr. Hui Tang, Dr. Michael Dietze from section 4.6, Dr. Jens Turowski from section 4.6, and Dr. Gordon Zhou from IMHE organized the first hands-on workshop series from Wednesday 1st Dec to Friday 3rd Dec, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Berlin time; 4:00-7:00 pm Beijing Time). The topic of the first workshop was “Environmental seismology for mountain hazards”.

For the first part of the workshop, we  invited Dr. Fabian Walter from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) to a public lecture on Wednesday, 1st Dec. About 40 scientists from different institutes worldwide  joined the public lecture. For the second part of the workshop, Dr. Tang and Dr. Zhou gave two talks about the physics of debris flow and environmental seismology on day two.

About 15 students and postdocs  joined the hands-on section of the workshop to learn about seismic methods for mountain hazards. Dr. Dietze and Dr. Turowski  taught students how to install equipment, design sensor networks, process data, and locate events in hands-on sections. Ms. Sophie Lagarde and Dr. Ci-jian Yang supported us with setting up the workshop. During the final part of the workshop, students presented their research projects. We are looking forward to seeing them apply these methods in their research.