The IAG is glad to promote the 2nd Women in Geomorphology Workshop that will take place on 8th of March, 2022! This event, organised by the Hellenic Committee for Geomorphology and Environment – the Greek National Scientific Member of the IAG – is inspired by the International Women’s Day. The detailed programme can be found here.

Find more information, or register on the website of the Hellenic Committee for Geomorphology and Environment: https://geomorphologyhelle.wixsite.com/geomorphology/registration?lang=en.

The Chilean Geomorphology Society – the IAG NSM for Chile – is organising a cycle of virtual talks on Geomorphology, covering a wide variety of subjects. The talks are given in Spanish, and are posted on Youtube thereafter and English subtitles can be applied.

The talks you can already find on Youtube are:

• April 22  Extreme hydrogeomorphological events in Patagonia Aysen (Alejandro Dussaillant). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79X_oNPOwug&t=1619s
• May 19  Geomorphological controls of the supergene enrichment of porphyry copper deposits (Rodrigo Riquelme). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ctxdbKpgI&t=2032s
• June 17  What is the impact of climatic variations on a coupled mountain-piedmont system? Results of an experimental approach (Valeria Zabala). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsIOdrbtGWU
• July 15  Role of alluvial floods in the geochemistry of fluvial sediments in rivers impacted by mining in the Atacama Desert (German Aguilar). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEUy_d2KSV4&t=9s
• August 19  Glacial history of northern Patagonia during the Last Glacial Completion (Rodrigo Soteres). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcMXBm-dp5w
• September 16  Glacial geomorphology and geochronology of central Chile from the last 20 ka to the present (Hans Fernández). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuozmuLPP2c

The last talk of the cycle will be:

• October 14  Storm erosion detected using coherence-InSAR in the Atacama Desert (Albert Cabré).

The IAG is pleased to promote the Second GeoNorth and GeoNor Conference – the National Scientific Members of IAG from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This will be held as a virtual conference, on September 30th – October 1st 2021. International scientists that carry out geomorphological research in the Nordic countries, and scientists from other disciplines from the Nordic countries with interest in geomorphology are invited to participate to this virtual conference. This will include invited key lectures, scientific presentations, a session with video presentations from field works, extended scientific discussions, a networking session for early-career scientists, and GeoNorth & GeoNor business meetings.

To register, send an email to achim.beylich@geofieldlab.com before September 1st, together with your scientific abstract, and information if you wish to show a video presentation of your field work activities. Abstracts should not exceed two pages long, should not include figures, tables and references, and should be sent as Word files. All accepted abstracts will be published in a conference volume. The registration fees are 250 NOK (24.20 €) for senior participants and 100 NOK (~ 9.70 €) for PhD and Master students – to be paid by September 15th. Further information will be sent to registered participants. Find the first circular of the conference here.

During the International Geomorphology Week 2021 (March 1-5), the CIVIS organised courses on the wide topic of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology, under the auspices of the IAG. You can find the recording of the courses here, and details about the content of the courses here. A wide range of topics is covered, such as Holocene sea level changes, territorial planning, or long-term coastal landslides, and it is free!

The IAG has provided its auspices for the second cycle of four lectures to be given online by Dr. Jorge Rabassa (in Spanish), in addition to the Auspices provided by our NSM – the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies (AACyG). The lectures will show aspects of the geology, geomorphology, paleoclimatology and paleoenvironment of Patagonia and other regions of Argentina, with a full talk dedicated to the planet Mars. Talks will be 45min long, followed by 15min of questions from the audience. They will be given online, in Spanish, on Thursdays 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th of June, from 7pm to 9pm (GMT+3).

Find the corresponding flyer here. More information at idee@fundacionbariloche.org.ar. The link to the registration form can be found here. Cost: AR$550/US$8 (one talk), AR$2000/US$30 (full cycle). Note that professors, lecturers, CONICET researchers, and members of RAGF, AACYG and IAG will have a 50% discount. Funds will be to the benefit of the Fundación Bariloche.

The IAG is happy to promote the event hosted by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the Promoting Geodiversity Workshop – funded by Research England’s Strategic Priorities Fund allocation to the University of Oxford.
This event takes place in the process of approval of the International Geodiversity Day by UNESCO. With an international panel of speakers, the ways we can use such a Day to promote public and private engagement will be explored. Presentations will represent a range of topics including education, outreach projects, citizen science, geoscience careers, or geohazard risk awareness.
The workshop will be held online on April 16th, 2pm (UTC+1). Register for free here: https://www.geodiversityday.org/outcomes.

Together with Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies (AACyG) the IAG is providing its auspices for a cycle of four lectures given in Spanish by Dr. Jorge Rabassa. This cycle of lectures will present different aspects of the geological, geomorphological, paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental characteristics of regions of Argentina. Talks will be 45min long, followed by 15min of questions from the audience. They will be given in Spanish, every Thursday from 7pm to 9pm (GMT+3).

More information at idee@fundacionbariloche.org.ar. The link to the registration form can be found here. Cost: AR$550/US$8 (one talk), AR$2000/US$30 (full cycle).

The IAG are pleased to announce (and provide their auspices for) a one-day conference organised by the Hellenic Committee on Geomorphology and Environment of the Geological Society of Greece, entitled “The role of Geomorphology in Modern Society. The conference will be held online on December 16th, 2020. Abstracts are welcome until 30th November, please see further details at the dedicated website:

https://geomorphologyhelle.wixsite.com/geomorphology/imerida-epitropis-gewmorfologias?lang=en

The IAG was pleased to provide its auspices for the first GeoNorth-GeoNor Conference, which was held virtually from 1st to 2nd October 2020. The theme was “Geomorphology and Geomorphological Research in the Nordic Countries” and the book of abstracts can be found here. The conference had varied and exciting science talks and the IAG was pleased that its president and one of the vice-presidents were among the attendees (and are grateful for being given some time to talk about the IAG).

GeoNor and GeoNorth were formally established one year ago as National Members of the IAG. GeoNor is the Geomorphological Research Group of Norway – Geomorfologisk Forsknings Gruppe i Norge and GeoNorth is the Nordic Network of National Geomorphology Groups from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden IAG (new Nordic Regional Group).

Future meetings are planned to be in person to include fieldtrips and we are sure that this will be the first of a long-running and growing series of meetings. We are confident that these fledgling NSMs will foster collaborations between their geomorphologists and those in the wider IAG network.

We are pleased to promote a series of free webinars being produced by our sister organisation the Geological Society of America.

The current scheduled webinars in this series are detailed below.

Using Google Earth for Remote Teaching, Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 11 a.m. MDT

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8305975126473363213

About this Webinar:

Google Earth is a powerful, but easy-to-use platform for virtually exploring natural features around the globe. The capability to create and share custom content for Google Earth has resulted in an abundance of presentations, exercises, and virtual field trips that are available to educators. This webinar will help you integrate Google Earth into remote Earth science courses by providing background on the tool and examples of its use in geoscience classes.

In addition to the regular webinar overviewing Google Earth’s options, capabilities, and use cases, the presenters will do a follow up hands-on session two days later that will give participants a chance to work through some Google Earth activities themselves in a mentored (virtual) setting. This is a great opportunity to learn to use Google Earth the way your students would use it.

Presenters:

Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University

Andrew Laskowski, Montana State University

Using Gigapan for Remote Teaching, Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 11 a.m. MDT

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3427553084728968459

About this Webinar

Gigapixel panoramas are high resolution 2D images that combine ‘zoomed out’ context with the power of ‘zoomed in’ details. Applied to teaching geology remotely, they are valuable web-based tools for exploring geoscience concepts with students at scales ranging from the landscape to the outcrop to hand samples, to thin sections, to SEM. GigaPans can be embedded in webpages or desktop-based Google Earth KML tours as elements in virtual field experiences, potentially gaining power when combined with DEMs, 3D models of outcrops or samples, 360° spherical photos, or video. They can also be used as ‘virtual samples’ in times when student access to samples is limited. This webinar will cover the technical side of producing your own GigaPan images via two hardware/software packages as well as how to deploy extant CC-licensed GigaPans in your own remote teaching and outreach.

Presenters:

Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus

Jennifer Piatek, Central Connecticut State University

Using Virtual Landscapes for Remote Teaching, Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 11 a.m. MDT

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6837257389718161163

About this Webinar:

The Virtual Landscapes Project (https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/virtual-landscapes/) uses the Unity 3D game engine to create screen based simulations of real and imagined landscapes, and interactive 3D block models of geologic and topographic maps.  It aims to enhance the training students receive in geological field and map skills, and to develop 3D visualization skills. This webinar demonstrates how virtual landscapes can be used in the online geoscience classroom to recreate aspects of geologic mapping training and augment understanding of how rock units are represented on geologic maps.

In addition to the regular webinar looking at the uses of the Virtual Landscapes, the presenters will do a follow up hands-on session two days later that will give participants a chance to explore the different virtual landscapes and their potential uses for themselves in a mentored (virtual) setting.  This is a great opportunity to explore the Virtual Landscapes the way your students would experience them.

Presenters:

Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds

Mark Helper, University of Texas at Austin

The IAG are happy to support a new initiative that has sprung from the unfortunate global pandemic – a new series of geomorphology seminars that will be streamed online every Thursday at 15:00 CEST and is open to all! For more details see the organisers’ website:

Landscapes Live

We are pleased to provide auspices for the Geomorphometry 2020 conference which will be held in Perugia, Italy from 22nd to 26th June 2020. Pre-registration is already open here and the organisers are encouraging workshop proposals until 8th January 2020. The IAG Urban Geomophology working group is already involved!

The IAG are pleased to provide their auspices for the 4th International Symposium of Living with Landscapes which will be held in Dahab Egypt from 1st to 5th November 2020. Registration and abstract submission are open at the website, here. The deadline for submitting abstracts will be 10th May 2020 and for final registration payment 10th September 2020. Please find further details in the first circular, here.

The IAG are pleased to provide their auspices for the 36th International Geological Congress on 2-8 March 2020 in Delhi, India. We draw your attention to the field trips in the programme which should be booked on registering: https://www.36igc.org/all-field-trips.

Of particular interest to geomorphologists are:

Trip #5.NER005: Unfolding of Quaternary History and Associated Geoarchaeological Remains of Tripura, Northeastern India

Trip #9.ER005: The Teesta Chronicle: Tectonics – Climate and Human-Landscape Dynamics flier

Trip #11.ER008: Landslide failure mechanisms, hazard and risk scenarios in Darjeeling Himalayas

Trip #32.WR004: Thar Desert: its Evolution and Geoheritage

Trip #48.NR010: Ladakh- an archive for Quaternary landscape, climate and neotectonics

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is open for the International Society for Aeolian Research Conference to held under the IAG auspices in Swakopmund, Namibia from 12th to 17th July 2020. https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/events/icar2020/index.html

The biennial conference draws together delegates from across the globe researching the processes of and phenomena associated with the erosion, transport, deposition and effects of windblown sediment and landforms on Earth and other planetary bodies. Recent conferences have been held in Bordeaux (2018), Mildura (2016), and Lanzhou (2014).

ICAR 2020 will cover a broad spectrum of research topics in aeolian science and will include the following sessions:

1. Mechanics and processes of aeolian sediment transport

Convenors: Cheryl McKenna-Neuman; Ian Walker; Andreas Baas

1. Sand dune dynamics and processes

Convenors: Patrick Hesp; Clement Narteau; Lu Ping

1. Dust emission, transport, deposition and effects

Convenors: Martina Klose; Richard Reynolds; James King

1. Aeolian palaeoenvironments

Convenors: Kathryn Fitzimmons; David Thomas; Paul Hesse

1. Anthropogenic interactions with aeolian systems

Convenors: John Leys; Nick Webb; Johannah von Holdt

1. Planetary aeolian systems

Convenors: Ryan Ewing; Philippe Claudin; Lori Fenton

Participation is encouraged from a wide scientific base to include current research in modelling, laboratory and fieldwork environments. Register your interest on the website to receive direct updates about the conference over the coming months: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/events/icar2020/interest.html

Important dates:

October 2019: call for abstracts

January 2020: deadline for abstract submission, registration opens

February 2020: selection of abstracts for presentation

April 2020: registration closes

12^th July 2020: ICAR 2020 begins!

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at: icar2020@ouce.ox.ac.uk

The organising committee

Giles Wiggs (Oxford, UK)

Joanna Nield (Southampton, UK)

Matthew Baddock (Loughborough, UK)

Frank Eckardt (Cape Town, SA)

Greg Okin (UCLA, USA)

Martin Hipondoka (UNAM, Namibia)

The first circular is available here for the 31st Annual Conference of the Indian Institute of Geomorphologists (IGI) on Applications of Geospatial Technology in Geomorphology and Environment will be held 12-14 November, 2019 at the University of North Bengal in India.

Important Dates

Early Bird Registration Closes 30th September, 2019
Abstracts Submission by 30th September, 2019
Acceptance Notification 15th October, 2019
Full Paper Submission 31st October, 2019

For updates see the IGI website: www.indiageomorph.org

The IAG is providing its auspices for the 16th East Eurasia International Workshop on Present Earth Surface Processes and Long-term Environmental Changes in East Eurasia to be held at the Library Conference Hall of National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar on 16-20 September 2019.

The purpose of the Workshop is to exchange modern and historical environmental information in East Asia region for clarifying “Present Earth Surface Processes and Long-term Environmental Changes in East Eurasia” for the better understanding of Earth landscape and climate evolution.The 16th East Eurasia International Workshop aims to provide a forum for accessing to the most up-to-date and authoritative research from Quaternary geology, sedimentology, geography, geomorphology and environmental sciences.

The submission deadline for abstracts is 15th July 2019 and the registration fees are 500 US$.

Please find details in the second circular here.

The IAG is providing its auspices for the 16th East Eurasia International Workshop on Present Earth Surface Processes and Long-term Environmental Changes in East Eurasia to be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 16-20 September 2019.

The purpose of the Workshop is to exchange modern and historical environmental information in East Asia region for clarifying “Present Earth Surface Processes and Long-term Environmental Changes in East Eurasia” for the better understanding of Earth landscape and climate evolution.The 16th East Eurasia International Workshop aims to provide a forum for accessing to the most up-to-date and authoritative research from Quaternary geology, sedimentology, geography, geomorphology and environmental sciences.

Please find a copy of the first circular here.

The IAG is proud to provide auspices for the 4th in the World’s Large Rivers Conference Series: the International Conference on the Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers to be held in Moscow on August 10-13th 2020. For more information see the dedicated website: http://worldslargerivers.boku.ac.at/wlr/