Report on Romanian Young Geomorphologists Day 2018 – 1st Edition

Romanian Young Geomorphologists Day 2018 – 1st Edition, held at Faculty of Geography, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 13th July 2018

The first edition of Romanian Young Geomorphologists Day was held on Friday, 13th of July 2018, at the Faculty of Geography, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, under the organization of the Romanian Association of Geomorphologists and the auspices of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG). A total number of 25 participants from the Romanian Academy, University of Bucharest, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Babeș-Bolyai University and Gheorghe Lazăr High School (Cluj-Napoca) attended this event. During the official opening, Dr. Mihai Micu (President of the Romanian Association of Geomorphologists, IAG Secretary General) gave an overview on the support provided by the International Association of Geomorphologists for the organization of such events, at both national level as well as at the international one, an International Day of the Young Geomorphologists being among the priorities of the IAG’s Training Programme. The opening was followed by two sessions of oral presentations gave by Romanian young geomorphologists, with focus on modern research methods applied for the analysis of various geomorphological processes such as SAR remote sensing techniques, reconstruction of paleoriver systems, landslide mapping and investigation, glaciation and deglaciation reconstruction, dendrogeomorphic reconstructions. In the week before the event, a Summer School entitled Dendrochronology applied in natural hazards assessment was organized by the team of Laboratory of Dendrochronology from the Faculty of Geography, Babeș-Bolyai University. The participants discussed their results as an extended oral presentation during the second session of the Romanian Young Geomorphologists Day. The concluding discussions emphasized the role of such meetings to be held yearly as a necessity for the young geomorphologists career development; the perspectives of organizing the next editions of the Romanian Young Geomorphologists Day during the Romanian National Symposium on Geomorphology was unanimously acknowledged.

Nicușor Necula  (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași), Flaviu Meseșan  (Babeș-Bolyai University), Laurențiu Țuțuianu (University of Bucharest)