Resilience to Nature's Challenges’ Post

Our hazard warnings expert extraordinaire Dr Sally Potter recently gave a keynote presentation at the Natural Hazards Research Australia conference. Sally is a global expert on impact-based forecasts and warnings. These types of warnings are triggered by potential impacts such as disrupting traffic or power, rather than the magnitude of a hazard, such as wind speed or rainfall intensity. There is huge scope to make these warnings tailored to your personal circumstances. In her talk (summarised in the article below ⬇) Sally explored what this future might look like. “You’re sitting at your kitchen bench and your device alerts you that in 3 days a cyclone is going to come and hit your area.” “But it doesn’t stop there, it also says that the flooding is potentially going to cut off your road, it might have a link to a shopping list for you to approve that gives you all the supplies that it knows you’re running low on because it’s talking to your smart fridge. “And it can give you targeted information about your particular house because maybe it knows your location, your material and the design of your house.” There's lots of work to be done before we could access an app or similar that could connect multiple data points to provide us with this specific information. But wouldn't this be cool? Sally has left GNS Science to set up her own consultancy, helping agencies develop impact-based warnings. Thank you Sally for your leadership in this space - we wish you all the best for the future! 🖐

Personalised warnings might be around the corner for those at risk of fire, flood and more

Personalised warnings might be around the corner for those at risk of fire, flood and more

cosmosmagazine.com

Dr Sally Potter

Canary Innovation Ltd | Transforming the communication of forecasts and warnings for natural hazards

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Thank you team! It has been amazing working with the Resilience to Nature's Challenges programme over the past 5 years.

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