catastrophs

  • Fire Database

    • Project lead: Harald Vacik
    • Institute of Silviculture, BOKU University
    • Address: Peter-Jordan-Str. 82, 1190 Wien
    • Telephone: +43-1-47654-91318
    • Topic: Plants, Weather, Disasters, Economy, Land use
    • Activity: photography, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://fire.boku.ac.at/firedb/en/
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    Since 2008, the Institute of Silviculture at BOKU University, Vienna, has been analyzing the occurrence, distribution, causes and characteristics of forest fires in Austria as part of various research projects. The data series spans several decades and includes around 8000 fires, of which around 7000 are forest fires. The last 20 years are the best documented. The Institute of Silviculture has created the web GIS platform “Fire Database”, which is freely accessible and allows interested...

  • Update Social

    Update Social
    • Project lead: Patricia Stark / Moritz König
    • Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
    • Address: Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz
    • Topic: Health, Disasters, Politics, Economy, Media, Language
    • Activity: identifying, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, translating, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://updatesocial.org
    With your ideas towards a innovative social sector for all Our society is facing numerous social challenges and the public administration, charities & social service providers, civil society and (social) enterprises are already working to solve them. In the face of increasingly complex challenges, there is a need for more collaboration and dialogue across sectors. Together we can achieve more! UpdateSocial is designed to provide the framework for collaboration!In all sectors of our...

  • United by Crisis?

    United by Crisis?
    • Project lead: Jakob Maurer
    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (Zentrum für Museale Sammlungswissenschaften)
    • Address: c/o Landessammlungen Niederösterreich, Schloss Asparn/Zaya, Schlossgasse 1, A-2151 Asparn/Zaya
    • Topic: History, Disasters, Land use, Culture
    • Activity: measuring, counting, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.united-by-crisis.at/en/
    Participate in archaeological field surveys and/or in cleaning, documenting & interpreting archaeological finds.A transdisciplinary look at the early Neolithic communities in the Schletz settlement clusterThe project aims to explore the surroundings of the famous Neolithic settlement of Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria). Numerous human remains suggest a violent attack on this site in the Late Linear Pottery Culture, approx. 7.000 years ago. Due to its size and earthworks...

  • Documentation of historical floods in Lower Austria prior to instrumental hydrographic records

    The picture shows flooded houses in the parish of Kilb.
    • Project lead: Gertrud Haidvogl
    • Institute of Hydrobiology and Water Management, BOKU University
    • Address: Gregor-Mendelstraße 33, 1180 Wien
    • Telephone: 01 47654/81204
    • Topic: Weather, History, Disasters, Land use, Water
    • Activity: measuring, photography, identifying, locating, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    In this project, citizen scientists are researching material on historical floods along the Danube tributaries in Lower Austria prior to 1960. This information is intended to help expand existing water level data and improve our understanding of flooding.  What are the aims of the project? One of the project’s objectives is to collect and analyse information on historical floods on the Danube’s tributaries in Lower Austria from...