Ekbal Hussain
@ekbal.bsky.social
Hazard scientist at the British Geological Survey. I post about natural hazards, earth observation, InSAR, climate change & disaster risk. Also my cat and books I'm currently reading.
Happy to share that I've been accepted onto the @ukri.org Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Science Committee.
NERC is the UK's primary earth & env research funding agency. The committee advises on priority investment areas and policies to support the delivery of NERC's science strategy ⚒️
NERC is the UK's primary earth & env research funding agency. The committee advises on priority investment areas and policies to support the delivery of NERC's science strategy ⚒️
December 12, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Happy to share that I've been accepted onto the @ukri.org Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Science Committee.
NERC is the UK's primary earth & env research funding agency. The committee advises on priority investment areas and policies to support the delivery of NERC's science strategy ⚒️
NERC is the UK's primary earth & env research funding agency. The committee advises on priority investment areas and policies to support the delivery of NERC's science strategy ⚒️
I love coming back to Indonesia, mostly because I get to work with some wonderful people. These guys are pushing the frontiers of DRR science in one of the most geohazard-prone countries in the world.
December 3, 2024 at 8:44 AM
I love coming back to Indonesia, mostly because I get to work with some wonderful people. These guys are pushing the frontiers of DRR science in one of the most geohazard-prone countries in the world.
Fewer people are dying as a result of disasters involving natural hazards, but many more people are having their lives disrupted, according to the Sendai Framework Monitor 2024 update. 🧪⚒️
More info here: www.undrr.org/news/undrr-s...
More info here: www.undrr.org/news/undrr-s...
November 26, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Fewer people are dying as a result of disasters involving natural hazards, but many more people are having their lives disrupted, according to the Sendai Framework Monitor 2024 update. 🧪⚒️
More info here: www.undrr.org/news/undrr-s...
More info here: www.undrr.org/news/undrr-s...
🚨New paper!
The second paper from @myfaultmanu.bsky.social's PhD thesis investigates the active tectonic deformation across the Western Anatolian Extensional Province in Türkiye using Sentinel-1 derived InSAR velocities.⚒️🧪🪨🛰️
OA paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The second paper from @myfaultmanu.bsky.social's PhD thesis investigates the active tectonic deformation across the Western Anatolian Extensional Province in Türkiye using Sentinel-1 derived InSAR velocities.⚒️🧪🪨🛰️
OA paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
November 25, 2024 at 1:39 PM
🚨New paper!
The second paper from @myfaultmanu.bsky.social's PhD thesis investigates the active tectonic deformation across the Western Anatolian Extensional Province in Türkiye using Sentinel-1 derived InSAR velocities.⚒️🧪🪨🛰️
OA paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The second paper from @myfaultmanu.bsky.social's PhD thesis investigates the active tectonic deformation across the Western Anatolian Extensional Province in Türkiye using Sentinel-1 derived InSAR velocities.⚒️🧪🪨🛰️
OA paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Wasn't expecting this when I woke up this morning! ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Wasn't expecting this when I woke up this morning! ❄️
Weekends are for wholesome walks out in the countryside. I better get this out now while I'm still a bit new on here...
I LOVE trees! 🌳🌲🍃
#Naturewalk
I LOVE trees! 🌳🌲🍃
#Naturewalk
September 16, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Weekends are for wholesome walks out in the countryside. I better get this out now while I'm still a bit new on here...
I LOVE trees! 🌳🌲🍃
#Naturewalk
I LOVE trees! 🌳🌲🍃
#Naturewalk
Hello scienceski! 🧪🪨I have a spatial map of a variable, and the 95% values either side of the expected value for each pixel. It's non Gaussian.
Any thoughts/ideas on a nice way to show these values that's not just three maps of the 2.5%, expected value and the 97.5%?
Any thoughts/ideas on a nice way to show these values that's not just three maps of the 2.5%, expected value and the 97.5%?
September 12, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Hello scienceski! 🧪🪨I have a spatial map of a variable, and the 95% values either side of the expected value for each pixel. It's non Gaussian.
Any thoughts/ideas on a nice way to show these values that's not just three maps of the 2.5%, expected value and the 97.5%?
Any thoughts/ideas on a nice way to show these values that's not just three maps of the 2.5%, expected value and the 97.5%?
🚨New paper
This work began with fruitful discussions over COVID lockdowns.
Our findings underscore the need for integrated multi-hazard-risk strategies to enhance urban resilience, especially in growing cities with dynamic exposure & vulnerability 🧪🪨
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This work began with fruitful discussions over COVID lockdowns.
Our findings underscore the need for integrated multi-hazard-risk strategies to enhance urban resilience, especially in growing cities with dynamic exposure & vulnerability 🧪🪨
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
September 4, 2024 at 8:20 AM
🚨New paper
This work began with fruitful discussions over COVID lockdowns.
Our findings underscore the need for integrated multi-hazard-risk strategies to enhance urban resilience, especially in growing cities with dynamic exposure & vulnerability 🧪🪨
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This work began with fruitful discussions over COVID lockdowns.
Our findings underscore the need for integrated multi-hazard-risk strategies to enhance urban resilience, especially in growing cities with dynamic exposure & vulnerability 🧪🪨
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I love this mural on a house in the Meadows very near my home. To me it's a message of how our individual actions can collectively add up to something positive and meaningful.
#climateaction
#climateaction
August 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM
I love this mural on a house in the Meadows very near my home. To me it's a message of how our individual actions can collectively add up to something positive and meaningful.
#climateaction
#climateaction
Yesterday we welcomed Prof. Khairul Munadi, the Indonesian Education & Cultural Attaché, and members of the embassy team to the British Geological Survey.
We discussed strengthening BGS–Indonesia scientific partnerships on geohazards, mineral resources and geothermal energy. Lots to follow up on!
We discussed strengthening BGS–Indonesia scientific partnerships on geohazards, mineral resources and geothermal energy. Lots to follow up on!
August 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Yesterday we welcomed Prof. Khairul Munadi, the Indonesian Education & Cultural Attaché, and members of the embassy team to the British Geological Survey.
We discussed strengthening BGS–Indonesia scientific partnerships on geohazards, mineral resources and geothermal energy. Lots to follow up on!
We discussed strengthening BGS–Indonesia scientific partnerships on geohazards, mineral resources and geothermal energy. Lots to follow up on!
I love August. It's when I get most of my own research done. Over the past couple of weeks I picked up some code I started writing this time last year, and I finally got it to work!
The predicted ground shaking from a M7.4 earthquake on a complex network of strike-slip & thrust faults in Indonesia.
The predicted ground shaking from a M7.4 earthquake on a complex network of strike-slip & thrust faults in Indonesia.
August 14, 2024 at 9:20 AM
I love August. It's when I get most of my own research done. Over the past couple of weeks I picked up some code I started writing this time last year, and I finally got it to work!
The predicted ground shaking from a M7.4 earthquake on a complex network of strike-slip & thrust faults in Indonesia.
The predicted ground shaking from a M7.4 earthquake on a complex network of strike-slip & thrust faults in Indonesia.
The world has now bounced back from a drop in global life expectancy in 2020 due to COVID-19.
July 15, 2024 at 1:31 PM
The world has now bounced back from a drop in global life expectancy in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Child mortality rates are still falling. This is one of humanity’s greatest achievements.
Since 1980, global rates have fallen by three-quarters — from almost 12% to less than 3%.
Progress continues in Africa and Asia, where most child deaths occur.
Since 1980, global rates have fallen by three-quarters — from almost 12% to less than 3%.
Progress continues in Africa and Asia, where most child deaths occur.
July 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Child mortality rates are still falling. This is one of humanity’s greatest achievements.
Since 1980, global rates have fallen by three-quarters — from almost 12% to less than 3%.
Progress continues in Africa and Asia, where most child deaths occur.
Since 1980, global rates have fallen by three-quarters — from almost 12% to less than 3%.
Progress continues in Africa and Asia, where most child deaths occur.
India is now the world’s most populous country, overtaking China in 2023.
The UN estimates that China’s population is now about to decline due to low fertility rates over a long period of time.
But India also has fertility rates below the “replacement rate” now, so population growth is slowing.
The UN estimates that China’s population is now about to decline due to low fertility rates over a long period of time.
But India also has fertility rates below the “replacement rate” now, so population growth is slowing.
July 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
India is now the world’s most populous country, overtaking China in 2023.
The UN estimates that China’s population is now about to decline due to low fertility rates over a long period of time.
But India also has fertility rates below the “replacement rate” now, so population growth is slowing.
The UN estimates that China’s population is now about to decline due to low fertility rates over a long period of time.
But India also has fertility rates below the “replacement rate” now, so population growth is slowing.
Most of the population growth in the coming decades will come from Africa.
By the end of the century, more than 8 in 10 people on the planet will live in Africa or Asia.
By the end of the century, more than 8 in 10 people on the planet will live in Africa or Asia.
July 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Most of the population growth in the coming decades will come from Africa.
By the end of the century, more than 8 in 10 people on the planet will live in Africa or Asia.
By the end of the century, more than 8 in 10 people on the planet will live in Africa or Asia.
The world has already passed “peak child”: the year when the global number of children reached its highest level.
The world reached this peak for under-5s in 2017 and under-15s in 2021.
The world reached this peak for under-5s in 2017 and under-15s in 2021.
July 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The world has already passed “peak child”: the year when the global number of children reached its highest level.
The world reached this peak for under-5s in 2017 and under-15s in 2021.
The world reached this peak for under-5s in 2017 and under-15s in 2021.
In many countries, fertility rates are now below the “replacement rate”.
That’s the rate at which population size remains constant from generation to generation.
This is around 2.1 children per woman in developed countries and slightly higher in lower-income ones.
That’s the rate at which population size remains constant from generation to generation.
This is around 2.1 children per woman in developed countries and slightly higher in lower-income ones.
July 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
In many countries, fertility rates are now below the “replacement rate”.
That’s the rate at which population size remains constant from generation to generation.
This is around 2.1 children per woman in developed countries and slightly higher in lower-income ones.
That’s the rate at which population size remains constant from generation to generation.
This is around 2.1 children per woman in developed countries and slightly higher in lower-income ones.
The global population is expected to peak, then decline, by the end of the century, largely due to a sustained, long-term decline in fertility rates worldwide.
Fertility rates measure the average number of children per woman.
Globally, they have more than halved since 1950.
Fertility rates measure the average number of children per woman.
Globally, they have more than halved since 1950.
July 15, 2024 at 1:28 PM
The global population is expected to peak, then decline, by the end of the century, largely due to a sustained, long-term decline in fertility rates worldwide.
Fertility rates measure the average number of children per woman.
Globally, they have more than halved since 1950.
Fertility rates measure the average number of children per woman.
Globally, they have more than halved since 1950.
Global population growth peaked in the 1960s and has slowed since then. Rates have more than halved.
The UN expects this decline to continue, with the global population shrinking towards the end of the century.
The UN expects this decline to continue, with the global population shrinking towards the end of the century.
July 15, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Global population growth peaked in the 1960s and has slowed since then. Rates have more than halved.
The UN expects this decline to continue, with the global population shrinking towards the end of the century.
The UN expects this decline to continue, with the global population shrinking towards the end of the century.
The UN now projects that the global population will peak in the early 2080s at around 10.3 billion people.
This is a couple of years earlier than it projected in its 2022 edition.
This is a couple of years earlier than it projected in its 2022 edition.
July 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM
The UN now projects that the global population will peak in the early 2080s at around 10.3 billion people.
This is a couple of years earlier than it projected in its 2022 edition.
This is a couple of years earlier than it projected in its 2022 edition.
I've been struggling to get going on here. My social media inertia is big!
Anyway, I'm returning home energised with fantastic examples of impact-driven research from the Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World conference. It was so good to (re)connect with the multi-hazards community again!
Anyway, I'm returning home energised with fantastic examples of impact-driven research from the Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World conference. It was so good to (re)connect with the multi-hazards community again!
June 14, 2024 at 6:20 PM
I've been struggling to get going on here. My social media inertia is big!
Anyway, I'm returning home energised with fantastic examples of impact-driven research from the Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World conference. It was so good to (re)connect with the multi-hazards community again!
Anyway, I'm returning home energised with fantastic examples of impact-driven research from the Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World conference. It was so good to (re)connect with the multi-hazards community again!
December 29, 2023 at 9:04 PM