A group of 14 students from the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of Tsinghua University, China, led by Associate Professor Yifei CUI, visited ICHARM on July 29. The visit was part of their international study trip to learn more about floods and geohazards in Japan. ICHARM welcomed them by providing lectures with Q&A sessions, as well as a research facility tour.
Before the lectures, Associate Professor Cui briefly spoke about his research on geohazard mitigation and early warning systems. The series of lectures started with an ICHARM researcher providing an overview of various activities at ICHARM, followed by others covering a wide range of topics, including “Prediction models of water-related disaster risks: progress, challenges, and future direction,” “Prediction of water, sediment, and driftwood runoff during extreme events using the Rainfall-Sediment-Runoff (RSR) model,” and “Development of CLVDAS-based drought monitoring system.” At each Q&A session, Chinese students asked many questions. The interaction was particularly active after the presentation on hazard prediction using the RSR model, which indicated their high interest in floods and geohazards.
Then, the students took a facility tour of the Earth Structure Laboratory and listened to laboratory staff explaining their experiments and equipment.
ICHARM will continue to contribute to society by providing information on our efforts to reduce water-related disaster risks to a wide range of people in Japan and abroad whenever the opportunity arises.
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