Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Geological Society of America

21 May 2020 Susan Conway

We’re pleased to announce that the IAG and the Geological Society of America have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which establishes our aim to work together in cooperation and friendship to further their shared aims of promoting the geological sciences and supporting geosciences professions.

The IAG will identify GSA as one of its Associated Societies, and as such will promote GSA’s mission and activities. Similarly, GSA will identify IAG as one of its Associated Societies, and as such will promote IAG’s mission and activities.

We aim to extend the benefits of members to both organizations, exchange information on key programs and initiatives, expand membership of both organizations through possible joint programs, organize joint meetings/sessions and share additional educational opportunities, professional services, and student programs.

Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales

13 May 2020 Susan Conway

The latest addition to the IAG-endorsed series “World Geomorphological Landscapes” is now out! “Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales”, edited jointly by Andrew Goudie and Piotr Migoń, is available via https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030389567 It is more than 600 pages long and contains overviews of long-term landform evolution, rock-relief relationships, Quaternary and the human impact, followed by 27 regional studies covering characteristic geomorphological landscapes, from coasts and flatlands to formerly glaciated mountains. The volume is dedicated to the first President of the IAG, Professor Denys Brunsden, with a special foreword from Mauro Soldati, the current IAG President. This volume is no. 19 in the successful series launched at the occasion of the International Conference on Geomorphology in Paris in 2013.

Landscapes Live – a new online geomorphology seminar series

12 May 2020 Susan Conway

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

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Postponed: IAG Regional Conference on Geomorphology, Mashad Iran

6 May 2020 Susan Conway

The IAG Executive Committee has been following the ongoing pandemic situation closely and together with the local organising committee has made the difficult decision to postpone the IAG Regional Conference on Geomorphology, which was planned to be held in Mashhad, Iran, in October 2020. Hoping for an improvement in the situation towards the beginning of next year, and in consensus with the local organizers, who are carefully evaluating all the logistic and scientific requirements of a successful meeting, we have decided to postpone RCG Mashhad to the spring of 2021. We will closely monitor the evolution of the pandemic, and, according to the official health recommendations and future scenarios, we will decide upon the most suitable period, which will be communicated to you during summer 2020.

We hope that this message finds you and all your loved ones safe and well during these tense and challenging times. As all international scientific communities, we are currently facing a lot of uncertainties induced by the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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