Event Summary
Description
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 4:30pm onwards
Room: Auditorio Bernardo Quintana
- Can earthquakes be predicted?
- The North Anatolian Fault
- Pyroclastic Flow Hazard
- Lahar Impact
- Ichiro and the Wave (Ichiro y la ola)
- A Glowing Cloud
- People of the Forest: Orang Rimba (La gente del bosque: Orang Rimba)
- The Humble Mobile Toilet
- Nevado de Ruiz: Memorias de 1985
- Sudan Seed Money
- SRI Training
- Flatline
- Everything that you must know before you buy or rent a house in a seismic zone
- Sandy Anniversary on Staten Island
- Reality Capture for Emergency Response
- Good Practice in Public Investments in the Context of Climate Change in Peru
- Word Impact
- Coconut Zen
Total Runtime: 98 Minutes
Film Synopses
Can earthquakes be predicted?
Submitted by: Marcial Contreras
A series of illustrations ask and answer basic question related to earthquake prediction, what is true and what is just a myth. (01:42)
Production team: Eduardo Reinoso (ERN), Eva Lobaton, Laura Reinoso (ERN), Marcial Contreras (ERN)
https://ern-mx.com/cloud/index.php/s/G60P8ZfCRsaN7Ax (p/w ERN)
The North Anatolian Fault
Submitted by: Johanna Ickert
Istanbul has one of the highest seismic vulnerabilities in the world due to its proximity to the North Anatolian Fault. This short animated film portraits Olcay, an early career geoscientist, who developed a passion for earthquake science and its communication to the public. (03:57)
Production team: Director: Johanna Ickert; Contributing Researchers: Prof. Iain Stewart, Dr. David Fernández-Blanco, Johanna Ickert; Motion Graphics: Andrew Berry; Sound design: Philipp Nespital; Speaker: Marianne Graffam; Acknowledgement: This film and the associated doctoral research were generously funded as part of the Marie Curie Integrated Training Network on ‘Anatolian pLateau climatE and Tectonic hazards’ (ALErT).
https://youtu.be/zDhldLzIIBg (Turkish)
https://youtu.be/y6IxyLe0PKw (English)
Pyroclastic Flow Hazard
Submitted by Sarah Brown on behalf of the VolFilm Project
This film has been produced through the VolFilm Partnership. It describes the hazard that volcanoes generate called pyroclastic flows. Find out what they are, how quickly they move and the properties they have that make them so dangerous and deadly.
VolFilm is funded through the Challenge Fund: a partnership between the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). (02:58)
Production team: Sarah Brown (University of Bristol), Steve Sparks (University of Bristol), Anna Hicks (British Geological Survey), Jenni Barclay (University of East Anglia), Aspect Films (UK)
Lahar Impact
Submitted by Sarah Brown on behalf of the VolFilm Project
This film has been produced through the VolFilm Partnership. It describes the impacts of lahars. Find out what they can do to property, people and the environment when they occur. Learn how to avoid these impacts.
VolFilm is funded through the Challenge Fund: a partnership between the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). (03:10)
Production team: Sarah Brown (University of Bristol), Steve Sparks (University of Bristol), Anna Hicks (British Geological Survey), Jenni Barclay (University of East Anglia), Aspect Films (UK)
Ichiro and the Wave (Ichiro y la ola)
Submitted by: Issac Kerlow
Ichiro was fishing near the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck his boat. Stranded on an island during the devastation he wondered if he would ever see his family again. (10:30)
Production team: Issac Kerlow, Art+Media Group, Earth Observatory of Singapore
A Glowing Cloud
Submitted by Anna Hicks on behalf of the VolFilm Project
This experiential film documents peoples’ experiences of the volcanic phenomena called Pyroclastic Flows – glowing clouds of hot rock, gas and ash which hurtle down the slopes of volcanoes at high speeds – destroying everything in their path. We hear first-hand accounts from people who witnessed these incredible events during the eruptions of Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat and Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador.
VolFilm is funded through the Challenge Fund: a partnership between the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). This film was also made with support from the ‘Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas’ project. (06:41)
Production team: Anna Hicks (British Geological Survey), Teresa Armijos (University of East Anglia), Jenni Barclay (University of East Anglia), Lambda Films (UK)
People of the Forest: Orang Rimba (La gente del bosque: Orang Rimba)
Submitted by: Issac Kerlow
The ancestral forests of the nomadic Orang Rimba have vanished. In the short span of three decades oil palm plantations have replaced much of the tropical peatland rain forests in Jambi, Indonesia. The People of the Forest, Orang Rimba in their dialect, have nowhere to go. (14:12)
Production team: Issac Kerlow, Art+Media Group, Earth Observatory of Singapore
Not currently available for public viewing.
The Humble Mobile Toilet
Submitted by: Erika Vargas
In Uttarakhand, disaster recovery road construction sites have had difficulty drawing women workers due to lack of facilities like toilets for women. To attend to nature calls, the female laborers had to risk steep slopes, exposure to passing traffic and unsafe forest areas. The Uttarakhand Disaster Recovery Project team persuaded the contractors to provide mobile latrines to the workers on site. The social, health and environment value of the mobile latrine was immense. It helped tackle the immediate sanitation & hygiene problem, reducing risks to water borne diseases and parasitic infections. With the facility of toilets for women at construction sites, the almost low percentage of female work force at road sites changed to approximately 20% women, eagerly wanting to come to work changing the socio-economic profile in these areas through women participation. This opened opportunity for women to contribute towards household income thereby increasing financial independence. (05:20)
Production team: SAR DRM and Social Teams, World Bank / Sujata Kumar, Wide Angle Films for the World Bank (not present at conference)
Nevado de Ruiz: Memorias de 1985
Submitted by: Anna Hicks on behalf of the ‘Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas’ (STREVA) project.
The November 13 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia produced a powerful explosion. This melted the volcano’s icecap, sending a wall of mud, rock and debris powering down the volcano’s slopes. This ‘avalanche’ killed 23,000 people, many woken from sleep only seconds before it hit. The harrowing imagery from this eruption sent shockwaves around the world, but 30 years on, it becomes easy to forget. Many people live far from the volcano in the lush plains and valleys, but they were inundated during that event.
The STREVA project, in collaboration with Lambda Films and Servicio Geological Colombiano, have produced three short films to convey events according to those affected by the tragedy, how people live with the volcano today, and answering the most important questions the population has about living with volcanic risk. We did not want to use the savage imagery of the time to shock people into remembering, instead we have used the stories told by the survivors today to emphasise the key moments, and the important messages of risk. These films are made for the people at risk from eruptions of Nevado del Ruiz, but the messages will resonate with people living alongside volcanoes elsewhere in Colombia, and around the world. (07:36)
Production team: Anna Hicks (British Geological Survey), Teresa Armijos (University of East Anglia), Jenni Barclay (University of East Anglia), Lambda Films (UK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVz6ACZQa8&list=PLiS3_A16hqqHWdtqVde4AHFmuzBRS4fZE
Sudan Seed Money
Submitted by Bob Alexander on behalf of IFAD
Rural women are often the poorest people in Sudanese communities, and they have few opportunities to improve their lives. Now a micro-finance scheme is giving rural women access to loans to start businesses, transforming them from subsistence farmers to entrepreneurs – and giving them decision-making roles in their families and communities. (04:37)
Production team: IFAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLNm7EnHW8
SRI Training
Submitted by Bob Alexander on behalf of IFAD
Vulnerable rural smallholder farmers want to be able to sustainably produce crops for food and income but can’t afford expensive external inputs. And people are reluctant to adopt new methods to improve yields until they are convinced from results that a new method is better. Farmer to farmer training of SRI methods is helping to encourage improved yields with less inputs. Associations are formed to enhance coordination of implementation. The success of these associations encourages more farmers to join and adopt these methods. The video generally explains this implementation through precise but context-specific transplanting of nursery-grown young seedlings, controlled irrigation and drainage during regular weeding of low amounts of water, and coordination to enable all of this to be done effectively. Rice yields more than doubled in Madagascar using local varieties despite considerably less investment in inputs and despite small land plots. After training and replication in an area of Rwanda, people’s living conditions have improved substantially such that it is now a site to which others such as farmers in Burundi have come to learn how to apply these practices in their local contexts. (09:18)
Production team: IFAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=549&v=Np5CtSPaVto
Flatline
Submitted by: Supriya Krishnan
Flatline traces the journey of a cardiogram as the metaphor for the life of a system that must resist external disruptions to maintain continuity. Presented in a hand drawn, stop motion style; it represents the cyclical risks to a system, where it must evolve from just resisting and to actually enabling itself to face risks. The cardiogram works as a choreography of a group of ‘menials’ who keep its pattern stable. Popularly, the system is ‘tricked’ into continuity by the ‘false hero’ – the pacemaker (e.g. the government, defense infrastructure) or a protective haze that claims to keep everything in order .The failure of this pacemaker leads to a cascading disruption of the system. What the cardiogram knows is that is it only as strong as the strength of the weakest menial. How can the menials find their strength? (04:00)
Production team: Lets Talk About Water 2017 (TU Delft, The Netherlands+ UNESCO IHE_ AMS Institute Amsterdam)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtO2nsjTXo&t=8s
Everything that you must know before you buy or rent a house in a seismic zone
Submitted by: Marcial Contreras
A short guide for those interested in buying a property in a seismic zone. What to ask and what to look for in a building. (03:00)
Production team: Eduardo Reinoso (ERN), Eva Lobaton, Laura Reinoso (ERN), Marcial Contreras (ERN).
https://ern-mx.com/cloud/index.php/s/G60P8ZfCRsaN7Ax (p/w ERN)
Sandy Anniversary on Staten Island
Submitted by: Clarisa Diaz
For the fifth anniversary of Sandy, WNYC’s Clarisa Diaz published a story exploring why so many people remained in harm’s way during the storm. One key issue was the design of warning systems to communicate information to residents. On Midland Beach of Staten Island, 11 out of 44 people in NYC died during Sandy. Yet local networks to spread the word about storm warnings and hazards remains a need. Through those interviewed for the story, Diaz coordinated local organizations, IDEO, Parsons School of Design and Columbia University to work together to organize a workshop to propel community storm preparation forward. (01:30)
Production team: Author/Designer: Clarisa Diaz, Video Producer: Jordan Schulkin, Editor: Rhyne Piggott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvQzuCpMiU
Reality Capture for Emergency Response
Submitted by: Marcial Contreras
We present the use of reality capture, a laser based surveying technique, in combination with comprehensive risk evaluations, to inform the emergency response and reconstruction after catastrophic events. (04:20)
Production team: Marco Vidali (Rizoma), Marcial Contreras (ERN), Pablo Lezama (Rizoma), Elias Tavera (ERN)
https://ern-mx.com/cloud/index.php/s/G60P8ZfCRsaN7Ax (p/w ERN)
Good Practice in Public Investments in the Context of Climate Change in Peru
Submitted by: Juliane Dammann
Infrastructure which is more resilient to the effects of climate change maximizes the lifespan of the investment, guarantees the provision of public services and ensures the sustainability of a country’s development. The project ‘Public Investment and Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin America (IPACC II)’ is undertaken by the governments of Peru, Colombia and Brasil with support from the German development cooperation implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The project promotes the exchange of experiences in order to generate knowledge and learning opportunities. (05:05)
Production team: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, with funds provided by the International Climate Initiative (IKI)
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqlexipfveg
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03-pC9ILac
Word Impact
Submitted by: Ryan Vachon
Hurricanes, droughts and flooding are weather and climate hazards. These events carry great forces, and potential for devastating outcomes. Preparedness, embodied by the field of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), can reduce the risk to horrific outcomes. Unfortunately, too many times DRR programming plays second fiddle to hazard management through response and recovery. This is objectionable when community, homes, jobs and loved ones are at stake. Word Impact is a short film highlighting this situation and Dr. Mickey Glantz’s effort to break DRR free of this gridlock. His command of words informs and empowers government officials to take strident steps towards a safer future. The work of devoted and witty individuals, such as Mickey, empower decision makers with the value of preparedness in reducing community risk to natural events. (06:51)
Production team: Ryan W. Vachon of The Consortium for Capacity Building Represented at the conference by associate producer, Fernando Briones-Gamboa
Coconut Zen
Submitted by: Tony Mellen
This film is about “steppin’ around the puddles” in order to “find our coconut zen”. The puddles are the metaphor for the many and varied small challenges that we face as practitioners; especially in highly vulnerable locations such as the Marshall Islands. “Coconut Zen” is the metaphor for the resilience and psycho-social calm that is necessary for all practitioners; local and expatriate alike; to operate within and succeed within such high risk environments. (03:48)
Production team: The Sea Gypsies aboard the expedition vessel Infinity together with “Coconut Zen” a small local band in Majuro, Marshall Islands