Past Events - 2020


Research
Casualties of flood disasters during the recent three years in Japan
Seeing is believing - A practice task for a Ph.D. student has developed into globalscale research on sediment transport -
Numerical study on tidal currents and bed morphology in Sittaung river estuary, Myanmar
E-learning training course framework applied in West African countries under the “Water disaster platform to enhance climate resilience in Africa (WADiRE-Africa)” project
Myanmar-Agriculture Development Support Project: Technical Support in Flood Simulation for Downstream Areas of the Swa Chaung Dam
Use of “Collection of Critical Situations during Flood Emergency Response”
ICHARM holds the 65th R&D Seminar
Training & Education
January 7-9 and February 25-28, 2020
Educational Program Updates
February 12 and 14, 2020
The 13th ICHARM Follow-up Seminar was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 12 and 14, 2020.
Updates on the daily life of master’s students: What DMP students are feeling and tackling amid the COVID-19 outbreak
June 16, 2020
ICHARM provided e-learning lectures to Indonesia Defense University
September, 2020
Educational program updates
October - December, 2020
Educational program updates
Information Networking
January 12-16, 2020
100th AMS Annual Meeting 2020 in Boston, USA
January 27-28, 2020
ADBI-ICHARM Policy Dialogue Water-related Disaster Resilience under Climate Change
ICHARM’s contribution to the international network activities under the COVID-19 pandemic
August 20, 2020
Contribution to the International Online Conference to Address Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) under the COVID-19 Pandemic
December 9, December 1-2, 2020
ICHARM holds the ICHARM Webinar 2020 -Interaction with Students and Young Researchers
Typhoon Committee
October 22, December 1-2, 2020
Typhoon Committee 9th meeting of working group on hydrology and 15th integrated workshop on the WEB
Awards
January 14, 2020
Director KOIKE Toshio
Jointly received the 2019 SCAT Chairman's Award with Prof. KITSUREGAWA Masaru of the University of Tokyo, the director general of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), and some other researchers.
September 15, 2020
Research Specialist Robin Kumar Biswas, Research and Training Advisor EGASHIRA Shinji and Research Specialist HARADA Daisuke
the Best Paper Award for their paper at Asia and Pacific Regional Division of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR-APD), presented in the 22nd IAHRAPD Congress in Sapporo, Japan (online).
November 4, 2020
Director KOIKE Toshio
ICHARM Executive Director KOIKE Toshio was given the 2020 GEO Individual Excellence Award
Special Event
February 13, 2020
Revised agreement on ICHARM between the government of Japan and UNESCO has been signed
June 2, 2020
4th ICHARM Governing Board Meeting was held
Publication of Collection of Critical Situations during Flood Emergency Response (Main Content: local government response and Appendix: local government response under COVID-19)
ICHARM’s efforts for addressing flood disasters considering the prevention of COVID-19 infection
Toward the establishment of research, education, and international networking in a new-normal era
Use of Collection of Critical Situations during Flood Emergency Response (Appendix: local government response under COVID-19)
Collaboration between the IDRIS disaster information sharing system and the BOSS-SHIFT disaster response support system
ICHARM’s contribution to international communities on flood disaster risk reduction considering the prevention of COVID-19 infection
August 25 and 27, 2020
Briefing session on a trial experiment of the "Support System on Countermeasures for Severe Flood Damage under the Risk of COVID-19"
Science Council of Japan recommends the promotion of disaster resilience and sustainability
Local Practices
 
IFI
February 13, 2020
Fourth Plenary Session of the Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters under IFI in Sri Lanka
February 26, 2020
“Orientation seminar on climate change adaptation” held in Surakarta City, Indonesia
Public Relations
 
Field Survey
February 25-26, 2020
Fourth Field Survey in the Sittaung River of Myanmar to Investigate Riverbanks and Coastal Erosion
July 16-18, 2020
Field survey of the July 2020 torrential rain disaster