GCRI Session at the 2019 Society for Risk Analysis Meeting

GCRI is hosting a session on Global Catastrophic Risks at the 2019 meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in Arlington, VA. SRA is the leading professional society for all types of risk. SRA brings together researchers from many disciplines as well as...

July Newsletter: Asteroid-Nuclear Risk Analysis

Dear friends, One reason it is important to analyze the global catastrophic risks quantitatively is that some decisions involve tradeoffs between them. An action may reduce one risk while increasing another. It’s important to know whether the decrease in the one...

May Newsletter: Call for Advisees & Collaborators

Dear friends, I’m pleased to announce that GCRI has recently launched an open call for advisees and collaborators. If you are interested in working with GCRI, or if you would simply like some advice from us on how you can get involved in global catastrophic risk, then...

Open Call for Advisees and Collaborators, May 2019

GCRI is currently welcoming inquiries from people who are interested in seeking our advice and/or collaborating with us on projects. At this time we are holding a preliminary, informal, open call for people at all career points interested in working on any aspect of...

Violent Conflict Risk in Planetary Defense Decisions

GCRI Executive Director Seth Baum gave a talk titled “Accounting For Violent Conflict Risk In Planetary Defense Decisions” at the 2019 International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, D.C. Baum’s talk looked at...