[New member] Oct 2025: Taiki Asakura has joined as a RA, welcome to our group!
[New member] Sep 2025: Hamamah Sadiqa has joined as a RA, welcome to our group!
[News] Aug 2025: Attended 22nd Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) in Singapore and gave two talks including one invited presentation.
[News] July 2025: Our recently published article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has been featured by the The University of Tokyo! [English ] [Japanese]
[News] June 2025: Htut Naing Thwin (RA) presented our work on Remote sensing-based Impact Assessment of Tropical Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar at 50th JSCE Ocean Development Symposium, Nagoya, Japan
[News] May 2025: Presented two of our recent works at Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2025, Chiba, Japan
[News] May 2025: Tropical Cyclone Risk Dynamics in Bangladesh has been featured on UNDRR PreventionWeb.
[Paper] May 2025: A comprehensive framework "Multi-Dimensional Risk Ranking of Historical Tropical Cyclones" has been published in the flagship magazine Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).
[News] May 2025: Promoted to Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo.
[News] April 2025: Presented our work at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria.
[News] April 2025: Our work "Assessing Storm Surge Multiscenarios Based on Ensemble Tropical Cyclone Forecasting" received recognition from Wiley for having one of the top 10% most-viewed papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere in 2023.
[Pre-print] Feb 2025: Our long-awaited paper-"Beyond Single Hazard Framework: Multi-Hazard Worst Case Scenarios from Ensemble Tropical Cyclone Forecasts"-with the researchers from the Meteorological Research Institute, JMA is out on EarthArxiv!
[Paper] Jan 2025: Solo authored work on "Tropical Cyclones in Bangladesh: Retrospective Analysis of Storm Information, Disaster Statistics, and Preparedness" published in Environmental Research Communications.
[News] Nov 2024: Our proposed sessions at AOGS2025 have been accepted and abstract submission is open now. Please consider submitting your work relevant to the following sessions by 18 Feb 2025:
[IG48] Next-Gen Early Warning for All: Innovations in AI, Big Data Analytics, and Data Science Solutions for Vulnerable Communities.
[HS49] Flood and Drought Hazards: Investigating Drivers, Interactions, Impacts, and Adaptation Strategies in Past and Future Contexts.
[News] November 2024: Attended 6th WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR6), Tokyo, Japan.
[News] October 2024: Presented our recent work at the 2nd International Symposium on Weather Controllability 2024, Tokyo, Japan.
[News] September 2024: Presented our recent work at the 38th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE2024), Rome, Italy.
[News] July 2024: Presented two of our recent works at The 9th Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Open Science Conference, Water and Climate, Hokkaido, Japan.
[News] May 2024: Presented three of our recent works including one invited talk at Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2024, Chiba, Japan
[News] May 2024: Collaborative research work with researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology has been initiated.
[Achievement] April 2024: Md. Rezuanul Islam, Project Researcher from the University of Tokyo is recently awarded a Research Grant for the project titled "Factors Influencing Extreme Sea Level Events in East Asian Coastal Metropolises: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers"
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Grant amount: 1.5 million JPY
Project period: 2024/4 - 2025/3
[News] Dec 2023: Attended and presented (oral and poster) two of our recent works at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, California, US.
[Paper] Dec 2023: JST-Moonshot Project work "Assessing Storm Surge Multiscenarios Based on Ensemble Tropical Cyclone Forecasting" by Islam, M. R. et al. published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
[News] Aug 2023: Attended and presented our recent work at the International Symposium on Theory of Weather Controllability, Kobe, Japan.
[Paper] Aug 2023: First research article "Does mean sea level trend mask historical storm surge trend: Evidence from tropical cyclones affecting Japan since 1980" from the JSPS-funded project by Islam, M. R. et al. published in Environmental Research Letters.
[News] Aug 2023: Attended and presented (oral) two of our recent works at the 20th Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore.
[Achievement] April 2023: Md. Rezuanul Islam, Project Researcher from the University of Tokyo is recently awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 2023) for the project titled "Unraveling the Compound Effect from Storm Surge and Mean Sea Level Change in Asian Megacities"
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Grant amount: 4.3 million JPY
Project period: 2023/4 - 2026/3