On Oct.26th,Prof.Tad Murty visited CEEP-BIT and gave a talk entitled“Early Warning Systems to Mitigate Loss and Damage for Sustainable Development”.Many teachers and students attended the report.

　　Prof.Tad Murty is the editor-in-Chief of Natural Hazards, an international scientific journal published by Springer in the Netherlands. He was born and got his early education in India and got his Ph.D. in Meteorology& Oceanography, University of Chicago, USA. At present, he is the adjunct professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. He is specialized in the mathematical modeling of natural hazards under climate change with applications to early warning systems. He is a consultant to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva and to the Inter-Governmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO in Paris, for more than three decades on natural hazards. Most recently, he edited the storm surge guide for the WMO. He has published about 400 peer reviewed scientific papers and about 100 other papers in proceedings of conferences, technical reports, internal departmental reports etc.