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7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOMORPHOLOGY
Ancient Landscapes – Modern Perspectives
Melbourne, Australia, July 6-11, 2009
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IAG/AIG GRANTS have been awarded to 13 outstanding Young Geomorphologists selected among 33 eligible candidates (out of 44 applications) from i) less-favoured countries worldwide (with a Purchasing Power Parity below 13,000 international dollars, according to the World Development Indicators database, World Bank); ii) countries of south-east Asia and Oceania.
The IAG/AIG grants have been awarded to (alphabetical order):
- Shahrazad ABU GHAZLEH (Jordan)
- Biswajit BERA (India)
- Mohammad BHUIYAN (Bangladesh)
- José BUSNELLI (Argentina)
- Bianca CARVALHO VIEIRA (Brasil)
- Alastair CLEMENT (New Zealand)
- Muh Aris MARFAI (Indonesia)
- Saima SIDDIQUI (Pakistan)
- Janneli Lea SORIA (Philippines)
- Danang SRI HADMOKO (Indonesia)
- Xianyan WANG (China)
- Dilya WOODWARD (Kazakhstan)
- Jibin XUE (China)
Prof. Mauro Soldati
IAG/AIG Training Officer
The International Association of Geomorphologists and the Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group invite all geomorphologists and others interested in geomorphology to participate in the 7th International Conference on Geomorphology. The Conference will provide an opportunity to discuss the latest research across all branches of geomorpohology and to experience some of our fascinating antipodean landscapes.
The 7th International Conference on Geomorphology (ANZIAG) will be held in Melbourne in July 2009 with the theme 'Ancient Landscapes - Modern perspectives.' For the first time in history, this Conference will be held in the Southern Hemisphere, on an ancient piece of Gondwanaland. The conference provides a venue for geomorphologists working in all branches of discipline to present their work, to hear the work of others and to interact with colleagues from around the globe.
more ... visit ICG Website
The Science of Scenery
How geomorphology can help Asia cope with its environmental challenges
by David Higgitt - the IAG/AIG Public Relations Officer
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Geomorphology can be regarded as the 'science of scenery'. It seeks to explain how landscapes develop over time, the operation of earth surface processes such as erosion, landsliding and river flows, and the interactions between these processes and the landscape ... The link between scientific research and environmental policy, however, is far from automatic. One of the key themes of
the conference [Regional Conference on Geomorphology in Kota Kinabalu, 2007 - ed.] was 'Communicating Geomorphology', which explored how field scientists can integrate their research with a wider body of knowledge about the environment, discuss ideas with stakeholders and explain the significance of their research findings to a wider audience.
Read the whole paper published by ASIANGEOgraphic
2nd International Symposium & Field Workshop on Living with Landscapes
Adaptation with Coasts and Arid Lands
Marsa Matruh and Siwa, Egypt, November 1-5, 2009
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Definitions of Man's methods of integration within various landscapes should help our understanding of the interactive nature of the relationship between geomorphology and human activities. Of particular interest here are investigations of coastal and desert regions, with their geomorphic processes and strong relationships to Global Environmental Change. While continually offering mankind a variety of unique goods and services, Oases, as micro-geo-systems, are very sensitive to Global change.
more ... visit Siwa 2009 Website
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Intensive course on Geodiversity and Geological Heritage Assessment
Braga, Portugal, September 9-13, 2009
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The course is addressed to PhD and Master students working on Geoconservation topics and particularly on geosites inventory and assessment. The IAG/AIG GRANT of 500 (five-hundred) euros has been awarded to Irene Maria BOLLATI (Italy).
more ... Course Website
AIGeo Conference in honour of the IAG/AIG Past-President Mario Panizza
The role of geomorphology in land management
Modena & Alta Badia (Dolomites), Italy, September 13-18, 2009
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The Conference will foresee thematic sessions. Beside traditional topics of physical geography and
geomorphology, specific sessions will deal with the main research themes of Prof. Mario Panizza:
- Geomorphology applied to land management and valorisation,
- Mountain geomorphology,
- Cultural geomorphology,
- Geomorphological mapping,
- Morphotectonics.
more ... Thrid Circular, Registration Form, Suggested hotels, Call for IAG/AIG Grants, Conference Website
4th Session of the IAG Working Group on Geomorphological Hazards (IAGEOMHAZ) & International Workshop on Geomorphological Hazards
Hotel Sea View, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India, September 24-25, 2009
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This international workshop has been designed to discuss all pros and corns of
the geomorphological hazards with special attention on Coastal
Geomorphology and Hazards. After the technical sessions an intensive field
workshop will be organized on such hazards along some selected spots of
Tamil Nadu coast. It will apply the paradigm of giving equal attention to
coastal process and the associated geomorphological hazards response to
coastal evolution in a wide variety of coastal systems. To justify why it is
important to conserve geomorphologically important parts of our coast and
continue to make in developing our understanding of coastal
geomorphological processes.
more ... 1st Circular
Irasema ALCANTARA-AYALA (Mexico), Sunil Kumar DE (India), Mohamed T.BENAZZOUZ (Algeria) invite you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Geomorphological Hazards
Achim BEYLICH (Norway) invites you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments, SEDIBUD
Andrzej KOSTRZEWSKI (Poland) invites you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Small Catchments
Denes LOCZY (Hungary) invites you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Human Impact on the Landscape (HILS)
Larrisa NAYLOR and Wayne STEPHENSON (Australia) invite you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Rock Coast Geomorphology; ...more...
Paolo PARON (Kenya) invites you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Applied Geomorphological Mapping
Lothar SCHROTT (Germany) invites you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Geomorphology and Earth System Science
Olav SLAYMAKER (Canada) invites you to join the IAG/AIG Working Group on Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Milos STANKOVIANSKY (Slovakia) invites you to join the IAG/AIG Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric Regional Working Group
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Special issue of Quaternary International |
A special issue of QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL (volume 175, December 2007) on
Geomorphic processes and Palaeoclimatology in Deserts (edited by Xiaoping Yang,
Andrew Goudie and Norm Catto) has just appeared. It arises from papers
presented at the Sixth Internatioanl Conference on Geomorphology which took
place in Zaragoza in 2005, and is a contruibution from the IAG Working Group
on 'Intercation between aeolian, fluvial, and lacustrine processes in arid
regions.
more...
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The definition of the Quaternary
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The status of the Quaternary is not yet decided. Its base may be assigned as the base of the Gelasian and extend the base of the Pleistocene to 2.6 Ma.
Quaternary is a formal chronostratigraphic unit recommended by joint ICS-INQUA taskforce (2005) and ICS.
Read more on the ICS Website. For more dicussion look for 33th International Geological Congress at Oslo, Norway, on August 6-14, 2008.
more...
Flash: Quaternary geologists win timescale vote from Nature, June 4,2009
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