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Regional Conference on Geomorphology Landslides, Floods and Global Environmental Change in Mountain Regions
Brasov, Romania, 15-25 September 2008
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The Conference will promote exchange of studies and methods for the investigation of landslides, floods and associated geomorphic processes in connection with different effects of global environmental changes.
more... 1st Circular & 2nd Circular
Important deadlines:
- May 30, 2008 - reduced registration
- May, 30, 2008 - abstract submission
The International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG/AIG) offers 3 grants of 500 (five hundred) Euros each for YOUNG GEOMORPHOLOGISTS (under 35 yrs old) world-wide (except Romania) who are willing to take part in the IAG/AIG Regional Conference on Geomorphology (Brasov, Romania, 15-26 September 2008).
For more information please contact:
Mauro Soldati, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Largo S. Eufemia 19, 41100 Modena, Italy,
e-mail
Submit application form before 30 may 2008
more... Call for grants - PDF or Call for grants - DOC
13th Belgium, France, Italy, Romania Geomorphological Meeting Landscape Evolution & GeoArchaeology
Porto Heli, Greece, June 18-21, 2008
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Recent developments in geomorphology, micromorphology, sedimentology, climatology, dating and estimations of potential global climatic and sea level changes combined with the archaeological findings, provide the basis for an approximate reconstruction of landscapes and paleoenvironments.
more... 1st Circular, Conference Website
The Geographical Dimensions of Disasters
Tunis, Tunisia, 12-15 August 2008
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IAG Working Group on Geomorphological Hazards, IAGeomhaz, welcome contributions on topics concerning: Earth's surface processes, hazards, risk, vulnerability, and disasters ranging from local to regional scales.
more... Announcement
International Symposium
The Role of Geomorphology in Environmental Management
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, August 25-29, 2008
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The symposium will discuss many aspects of geomorphological studies related to the environment and the topics of this meeting will include:
- Neo-tectonic and volcanic geomorphology
- Global climate changes and geomorphology
- Geomorphological hazard
- Human impact on geomorphic systems
- Geomorphology for earthquake mitigation
- Geomorphosites and natural heritage
- Soil geomorphology
- Geomorphology and landuse planning
more... Call for papers
2nd meeting of the IAG/AIG Working Groups Human Impact on the Landscape (HILS) and Geomorphological Hazards (IAGeomhaz)
Bochum, Germany, 8-12 September 2008
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The IAG/AIG Working Groups Human Impact on the Landscape (HILS) and Geomorphological Hazards (IAGeomhaz) would like to welcome you to Bochum! The 2nd meeting of the HILS and IAGeomhaz working groups is being held at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany, from 8th to 12th September 2008. We now extend an invitation for the preliminary registration and submission of abstract titles for either poster or oral paper presentations
more... Website
International Seminar on Small Catchments - 1st Meeting of the IAG/AIG Working Group on smallCATCHMENTS
Miedzyzdroje, Poland, 21-23 April 2008
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Seminar on Small Catchments, was held at the Environmental Monitoring Station on Biala Gora (White Mountain) near Miedzyzdroje in north-western Poland on Wolin Island. The meeting was devoted to the following problems:
- organisation of a measuring system,
- methodology of small catchment monitoring, and
- analysis of results and research programmes.
...more... IAG/AIG WG smallCATCHMENTS & Proceedings
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Irasema ALCANTARA-AYALA (Mexico), Sunil Kumar DE (India), Mohamed T.BENAZZOUZ (Algeria) invite you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Geomorphological Hazards
Achim BEYLICH (Norway) invites you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments, SEDIBUD; ...more... about first meeting
Andrzej KOSTRZEWSKI (Poland) invites you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Small Catchments
Denes LOCZY (Hungary) invites you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Human Impact on the Landscape (HILS); ...more...: website, 1st Meeting, 2nd Meeting
Larrisa NAYLOR and Wayne STEPHENSON (Australia) invite you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Rock Coast Geomorphology; ...more...
Paolo PARON (Kenya) invites you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Applied Geomorphological Mapping
Lothar SCHROTT (Germany) invites you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Geomorphology and Earth System Science; ...more...
Olav SLAYMAKER (Canada) invites you to join the new IAG/AIG Working Group on Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Milos STANKOVIANSKY (Slovakia) invites you to join the new 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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Geodiversity of polar landforms - online |
The Association of Polish Geomorpholigsts announces free online edition of publication 'Geodiversity of polar landforms' [(2007), A.Kostrzewski and Zb.Zwolinski (Eds.), Landform Analysis, vol. 5, p. 220.] available through the APG website after Regional Conference on Geomorphology, Lonyearbyen, Spitsbergen, August 1-5, 2007.
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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.
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NEW BOOKS from IAG/AIG Publication Series
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Thanks to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the book – Concepts and Modelling in Geomorphology: International Perspectives, Edited by I.S.Evans, R.Dikau, E.Tokunaga, H.Ohmori and M.Hirano is now freely available on-line in the Terrapub e-library. Hard-bound copies can also be purchased for $100 from Terrapub at: 2003 Sansei Jiyugaoka Haimu, 5-27-19 Okusawa Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0083, Japan, fax: +81-3-3718-4406, email: kono@terrapub.co.jp
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A Photographic Atlas of Rock Breakdown Features in Geomorphic
Environments - online |
The IAG/AIG' Working Group on Planetary Geomorphology announces free online edition of publication 'A Photographic Atlas of Rock Breakdown Features in Geomorphic Environments' [(2007), Bourke, M.C and Viles, H.A. (Eds.), Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, p. 79.] available through the Planetary Science Institute
bookshop portal
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