Tsunamis and Storm Surges: Introduction to Coastal Disasters
Waseda University is offering a six-part open online course conducted in English and available around the world. This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is now available on the edX platform and open to university students, high school students and others around the world.
The course introduces current coastal disaster research and damage mitigation engineering to young people in order to raise awareness and share scientific analysis of disasters such as the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.