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The Utah Geological Association is proud to host the AAPG 2018 Annual Convention & Exhibition (ACE) at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Perhaps the most geologically interesting state in America, Utah will be the perfect host for this year’s ACE. Salt Lake City’s proximity to a number of pre and post show field trips will be a significant draw of geoscientists from around the world. With easy access to some of the most extraordinary rocks in the world, Salt Lake City is the ideal location to combine fundamental geology with emerging innovation and technologies.
For over 100 years AAPG has been the core of the petroleum geoscience world. Entering our 2nd century, AAPG is proud to once again bring together the best geoscientists on the planet to see the latest science and technology, both in the program and exhibition halls. +
The Western Snow Conference provides a forum for individuals and organizations to share scientific, management, and socio-political information on snow and runoff from any viewpoint and advances snow and hydrologic sciences.
The Western Snow Conference is divided into four geographic areas: North Pacific, South Pacific, North Continental, and South Continental. Administration and leadership of the Conference is carried out by a General Chair and an Executive Committee representing each of the four areas. +
The World Heritage Operational Guidelines of the United Nations Scientific, Educational, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) states that "The cultural heritage and the natural heritage are among the priceless and irreplaceable possessions, not only of each nation, but of mankind as a whole. The loss, through deterioration or disappearance, of any of these most prized possessions constitutes an impoverishment of the heritage of all the peoples in the world. Parts of that heritage, because of their exceptional qualities, can be considered to be of outstanding universal value and as such worthy of special protection against the dangers which increasingly threaten them."
However, throughout human history, natural disasters, such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, flooding, etc., have damaged or destroyed several historical sites around the world.Global changes due to human activities add a new dimension.
In the last decades, thanks to the technological development of instruments, software, and data acquisition systems, fields such as geo-environmental engineering, along with geophysical/geotechnical investigations, are providing better tools for disaster prevention of manmade buildings, which are of great importance also for historical sites.
Thus, the aim of this conference is to bring together geoscientists, engineers, seismologists, geologists, architects, and other specialists, to discuss natural disasters and their prevention, with particular emphasis on World Heritage sites. A special session will be devoted to Inca ruins, in particular those of Macchu Picchu (celebrating the 100 years anniversary of their rediscovery in 1911). +
The agenda for this meeting of the Terrestrial Working Group is two-fold. The first aim is to bring the working group up to speed on the progress that the I.F. team has made in developing methods and protocols for coupling modules, as well as to provide an overview of how to modify your own code so that it can be integrated into the CSDMS framework. The second aim is to make progress on three fronts:
# completing the process of “domain and model scoping” that we began at last year’s meeting, possibly leading to a review paper;
# identifying, developing, adding, and linking model components (including outlining methods for handling issues such as moving boundaries); and
# identifying existing data sets, and criteria for future data sets, that can be used for testing models and providing proof-of-concept applications.
The Terrestrial Working Group will meet for 2 days. +
The aim of the conference is to enhance sustainable resource by bringing together researchers, stake holders and decision makers engaged with environmental modelling, software and related topics, in order to exchange information, improve cooperation, promote interdisciplinarity and stimulate developments. +
The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from different countries to advance water resource management across the globe, particularly in light of the changes impacting water resources. This includes the impacts of climate change, population growth, land use/cover change, changing social perceptions and interests, as well as changes in the policy setting. This will consider both water quantity and quality, and focus on the hydrological aspects, as well as the connections between hydrology and other disciplines (e.g. ecology, agronomy, social science, policy research).
This conference is part of the series of IWRM conferences organised by IAHS-ICWRS, and is also linked to the Panta Rhei Scientific Decade (2013-2022) of the IAHS. The conference will focus on a range of water resource management methodologies and issues, including:
# Integrated Water Resource Management: successes and failures
# Balancing economic, social and environmental needs and desires (UPH22)
# Managing environmental flows to maintain the ecological worth of rivers and receiving bodies (e.g. lakes, wetlands, estuaries, reefs)
# Impact of water resource management on public health
# Allowing for spatio-temporal distribution of water resources
# Improving water resource allocation, taking into consideration the breadth of potential users
# Risk-based management of water resources: handling uncertainty in model outputs
Papers related to selected questions arising the “Unsolved Problems in Hydrology” initiative and how these relate to water resource management are also invited. Particular question of interest is here question 22: What are the synergies and tradeoffs between societal goals related to water management (e.g. water-environment-energy-food-health)? +
The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists working in basic and applied science (scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, technology, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences), but also qualified practitioners, to present, compare and discuss advances in research, applications and achieved results and to design future perspectives for “applied sustainability”. This workshop stimulates high-quality papers for presentation describing original interdisciplinary research results or case studies concerning “Sustainability Performance Assessment” according to the declared topics and research fields. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register, to attend the conference and to present the paper. The conference language will be English.
'''Themes: Sustainability; applied sustainability; Ecosystem Services; Sustainable development; Sustainable and Inclusive planning'''
Topics:
* Sustainable management of natural resources (including: water management, land use and land cover changes, resource efficiency, biodiversity and ecosystem services)
* Sustainable energy (including: energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, smart energy systems, smart buildings, smart grids, energy planning)
* Sustainability and assessment tools (including: environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, life cycle assessment, corporate social responsibility)
* Sustainability and social challenges (including social inclusion, territorial cooperation, planning for resilient communities, participatory planning processes, urban environment)
* Sustainability and climate change (including strategies for mitigation and adaptation, planning for resilience)
* Sustainability and risks (including disaster risk management, disaster risk reductions, urban and regional resilience, risk assessment)
* Sustainability in urban and regional planning (applied models and principles in sample case study including local practices reports, international thematic experiences, innovations in regional and national legislations)
* Computational Sustainability (optimization societal, economic, and environmental resources, applied data mining, machine learning and spatial geo-computation)
The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists working in basic and applied science (scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, technology, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences), but also qualified practitioners, to present, compare and discuss advances in research, applications and achieved results and to design future perspectives for “applied sustainability”.
This workshop stimulates high-quality papers for presentation describing original interdisciplinary research results or case studies concerning “Sustainability Performance Assessment” according to the declared topics and research fields.
All accepted papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register, to attend the conference and to present the paper.
'''Topics''':
* Sustainable management of natural resources (including: water management, land use and land cover changes, resource efficiency, biodiversity and ecosystem services)
* Sustainable energy (including: energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, smart energy systems, smart buildings, smart grids, energy planning)
* Sustainability and assessment tools (including: environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, life cycle assessment, corporate social responsibility)
* Sustainability and social challenges (including social inclusion, territorial cooperation, planning for resilient communities, participatory planning processes, urban environment)
* Sustainability and climate change (including strategies for mitigation and adaptation, planning for resilience)
* Sustainability and risks (including disaster risk management, disaster risk reductions, urban and regional resilience, risk assessment)
* Sustainability in urban and regional planning (applied models and principles in sample case study including local practices reports, international thematic experiences, innovations in regional and national legislations)
The annual IEEE eScience conference will be held in Munich, Germany from 31st August to 4th September 2015. The objective of the eScience Conference is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, and tools.
In short, eScience promotes innovation in collaborative, computationally- or data-intensive research across all disciplines, throughout the research lifecycle.
This digital revolution has already fundamentally transformed several fields, and created specialised eScience disciplines dealing with computing-related challenges and opportunities, as demonstrated by the developments in:
* Arts, humanities (including Digital Humanities) and e-Social science
* Bioinformatics and e-Health
* Physical Sciences and Engineering
* Climate, Environmental & Earth Sciences +
The beautiful historical city of Olomouc, Czech Republic is the setting for IAMG2018, the Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Association, established in Prague. In addition to the main scientific aim of the conference, this occasion will be proudly celebrated with all those who have contributed to scientific growth of IAMG in the last decades.
The leading topic of the conference is “Tools for Data Analysis in Geosciences”. Accordingly, for IAMG2018 any contributions regarding the applications of mathematics, statistics, computer science and informatics in solving problems of geosciences are welcome. Concrete sessions covering the broad thematic range will be established based on post-stratification of the received contributions and/or conveners of the sessions. The conference aims in particular at providing opportunities for students and young scientists to engage with some of the best geosciences minds in the world.
The conference site is the Faculty of Science of the Palacký University, modern well-equipped building and with all facilities of the nearby university campus. Surrounded by open green space (Rosarium of the Botanic Garden is just in front of the Faculty building), this is the perfect place to share experience and expertise. Within walking distance from the IAMG 2018 venue, the Old Town of Olomouc mirrors a thousand years of European history.
An important aim of the Conference will be the stirring of social life: as we all know, networking is an important aspect of any conference. We have reserved the entire Clarion Conference Hotel (http://www.clarioncongresshotelolomouc.com/en/) for IAMG2018 participants to stay there. Considering that rooms in the Clarion may not be sufficient, rooms are reserved in two slightly cheaper hotels nearby one tram line away. Moreover, the city of Olomouc will be presented in a varied cultural program and geological field trip(s) at low cost are organized so everyone can consider joining them. Last, but not least, a social trip to Prague is organized, the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic where IAMG was established during the tumultuous summer of 1968.
Looking forward to welcome you in Olomouc in September 2018!
Karel Hron, Ondřej Bábek
IAMG2018 Chairs
The conference aims to gather scientists working in small experimental catchments, foster communication and collaboration, share information on new monitoring technologies, analysis techniques, and recent scientific findings, and ultimately promote advancements in catchment hydrology. The conference includes the following themes, with a specific focus on small catchments:
* New hydrological and ecohydrological monitoring techniques;
* Advances in hydrological and ecohydrological modelling;
* Environmental tracers in hydrological and ecohydrological studies;
* Hydrological and ecohydrological processes understanding in arid and humid catchments;
* Hydrological and hydrometeorological extremes;
* Erosion and sediment transport;
* Field work failures and unexpected behaviors;
* Open session on general catchment hydrology.
There will be a contest for the best oral presentation and the best poster for early career scientists. The prizes include waived fees for manuscript submissions to the open-access journals Hydrology and Earth System Sciences and Journal of Agricultural Engineering as well as Italian/Elban delicacy. A guided field excursion interesting for hydrological, naturalistic, and environmental reasons will be available to all participants.
The conference will take place in the Elba Island, the biggest of the Tuscan Archipelago (Italy), home to the largest marine park in Europe, and worldwide known for its crystal clear water, granite rocks, and for harboring Napoleon during his exile.
The deadline for abstract submission is 31 March 2020. +
The conference is covering session in:
* Biogeosciences
* Earth Surface Processes
* Geodesy
* Hydrology
* Solid Earth
* CSAFM
* Joint
See the website for more information.
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The conference programme addresses recent research in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere continuum centered around soils over all spatial scales, time scales, and elements - from processes to prediction +
The conference will focus on the current state of Global Water resource challenges, future pathways and scenarios, and different technological, institutional solutions to accelerate the implementation of water-related Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda targets without leaving no one behind.
* Address the unfolding global water crisis, as evidenced by issues as increased water scarcity, widespread water pollution, and rapid declines in freshwater biodiversity.
* Explore different innovative frameworks, approaches, methods to determine the potential of natural and human-made infrastructure investment, and their complementarities to achieve sustainable solutions enhancing water security and resilience of the socio-ecological system.
* Discuss resiliency and risks related to water resource arising from, for example, water quality, extreme precipitation, urban flooding.
* Explore the capacity of notions of risk to be embedded within the SDG process and what are the requirements for integrated and adaptive risk governance to deal with interconnectedness during SDG implementation?
* Discussions on existing global integrated modelling, role of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data as well as expansion of the role of Earth observations in monitoring and assessment of SDGs.
* How long ‘business as usual’ scenario can be continued for the global water system before we reach a tipping point where even path-breaking action cannot reverse any of the negative trends ?
* How can a water target at global and regional scale be defined considering the inherent links between biophysical and socio ecological process in relation to W-E-F Security and their transgression prevented?
* Focus on the aesthetic, cultural and historical knowledge of water and its role in nature and society. The conference will also address other connected issues related to water, for instance, poverty, nutrition, health, education, gender equality and productivity.
* Explore how can we leverage systematic knowledge and know-how, together with innovative, collective practices around water as both resource and symbol?
* Address different ways to integrate gender issues into different policymaking and decision- making that will enable women to have an effective “voice” and engage in meaningful participation.
The difficulties in directly monitoring traction processes - bedload and mass movements - have prompted research into surrogate monitoring technologies, among which acoustic methods (geophones, hydrophones, ADCPs) are presently most developed, as demonstrated in the 2007 International Bedload Surrogate Monitoring Workshop held in Minneapolis. Since then it is apparent that acoustic techniques have been further developed with increasing interesting results in seismics. Hence, the objectives of this workshop are to (1) present first-hand principles of acoustics and seismics, (2) discuss first-hand signal processing techniques relevant to surrogate monitoring of bedload and mass movements, (3) consider calibration issues, and (4) describe monitoring methods that have been recently developed or improved. Workshop topics will encompass surrogate monitoring of bedload transport (river and coastal), debris flows, snow avalanches, landslides and rock avalanches with acoustic and seismic devices. Invited and submitted presentations will concentrate on research using acoustic and some relevant seismic methods. +
The fact that persistent spatial organization in catchments exists inspired many scientists to speculate whether this is a manifestation of self-reinforcing co-development due to an underlying organizing principle. Spatial organization of catchments manifests through different fingerprints and affects different processes:
* Hillslope scale spatial organization of soil types manifests in a typical arrangement of soil types along the topographic gradient. This is of key importance for overland flow, sediment yields, water availability for evaporation and temporal stability of soil moisture patterns.
* Spatially organized variability at the pedon scale (within a soil type) is reflected in a spatial correlation of soil hydraulic properties, which translates into spatially correlated storage and recharge.
* Soils and unconsolidated rock are veined with connected networks of preferential flow paths either created by biota (worms, rodents, roots) or by abiotic processes (shrinkage cracks, pipes, rills). Activated preferential flow networks allow for high mass flows even at small driving gradients and thus dominate export and redistribution of water and matter across many scales.
Jim Dooge was to our knowledge the first hydrologist who realized that spatial organization alongside with stochastic heterogeneity leads to complex hydrological behavior at intermediate scales (5-250 km2). Dooge argued that these are systems of organized complexity; being already too large and heterogeneous to be treated in a reductionist deterministic manner, but yet too small for characterizing their behavior using first and second order statistics. The latter is possible at larger scales of organized simplicity. Despite great progress made since Dooge’s pioneering work in hillslope hydrology and the conceptualization of organized simplicity, we feel still pretty “naked” at the intermediate scale of organized complexity. There is little agreement neither on how fieldwork-based understanding should be reflected in catchment models to improve hydrological predictions, nor on how an appropriate model structure should look like, nor on what the controls are that determine the emergent behavior.
The first Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC) convened in 1947, and the first Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) convened in 1998. Because these two conferences had similar and overlapping content and participants, organizers combined them into a single highly successful joint conference for the first time in 2006. The second and third SEDHYD conferences followed in 2010 and 2015. As a result of all these conferences, 3,000 papers have been published through the conference proceedings, which are available at https://acwi.gov/sos/pubs/index.html
The SEDHYD 2019 Conference again brings together federal and non-federal scientists, engineers, and managers from various natural resources disciplines. Papers include recent accomplishments in research and technical developments in the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of sedimentation. Papers also describe the development and use of numerical models addressing issues of water quality and quantity, and sediment erosion, transport, and deposition. The conference uses mixed formats, including formal presentations, poster sessions, mini-workshops and model demonstrations. Organizers also plan a competition for the best student paper.
'''Conference Theme:''' Improving Resiliency and Sustainability of Watershed Resources and Infrastructure +
The first Gordon Research Conference on "Ocean global change biology" was created due to a growing awareness that our ability to predict biological responses to anthropogenic alteration of the oceanic environment demands that we address the interactive effects between distinct changing environmental factors. In the last decade our research community has primarily focused on the biological effects of changes to individual ocean properties, such as pH (ocean acidification) or temperature (sea surface warming). This GRC will bring these distinct but related research threads together by adopting a holistic approach to two pressing research questions - "How will ocean biota respond to multiple concurrent alterations of their environment?", and "How will their cumulative responses affect ocean productivity, biodiversity and biogeochemistry?".
The geographical distributions, biodiversity, physiological performance, and evolutionary success of marine organisms are determined by a complex matrix of environmental conditions, most of which are in rapid flux in today’s oceans. Assemblages of marine organisms ranging from bacteria and phytoplankton to coral reefs, kelp forests, and pelagic top predators can be directly or indirectly influenced by feedbacks between changing pH, carbon dioxide concentrations, temperature, irradiance, nutrient and trace element supply, turbulence, and biotic factors such as novel competitive and trophic interactions. Thus, anthropogenic alteration of this matrix of conditions at a rate unprecedented in the last 300 million years strongly influences both the input of energy into ocean ecosystems, and the resulting structure and function of marine food webs. This new GRC will bring together for the first time a sufficiently wide range of perspectives and skills to tackle the complex and pressing issue of how concurrent changes in ocean chemistry and climate will impact marine organisms in the coming decades. We aim to bring together all of the interdisciplinary research communities studying aspects of biological responses to a broadly changing ocean environment, from experimentalists to modelers and from new students to senior investigators.
The first ever ISGE in the southern hemisphere
The 8th International Symposium on Gully Erosion will be held in Townsville QLD, Australia on 21-27 July 2019. Come to the world's largest and friendliest conference on gully erosion!
Symposium Themes:
* Gully erosion processes under climate and landuse forcing
* Experimental and measurement techniques
* Modelling, assessment and prediction
* Management and prevention including biophysical, social and economic aspects
Call for Abstracts is open – closing on 22 March. Abstracts are rolling in – share your work today!
'''Keynote Speakers announced!''' We are excited to announce two leading researchers as Keynote Speakers in Townsville – Matthias Vanmaercke (Belgium) and Estela Nadal-Romero (Spain). Matthias' recent research has focused on modelling gully erosion rates at regional and continental scales. Estela has focused on the interactions between hydrology, vegetation and erosion in gully and badland environments. Both these areas are critical to advancing understanding of gully erosion behaviour and management.
The Program includes two field trips to established gully research and remediation sites. Social functions will include a behind the scenes tour of the ReefHQ aquarium and turtle hospital, and pre and post-conference activities.
Registration is open (https://events.csiro.au/Events/2018/February/12/8th-International-Symposium-on-Gully-Erosion) – earlybird rates available until 3 May (save $140!)
Free Registration is available on application to a limited number of delegates from economically disadvantaged countries
A number of Government and industry organisations alike have thrown their support behind the event by becoming sponsors listed below, and sponsorship opportunities are still available.
Please share this announcement with interested colleagues and encourage them to submit an Abstract! Contact us at 8ISGE@csiro.au.
With Best Regards<br>
Scott Wilkinson<br>
Chair, 8th ISGE Organising Committee
The focus of the conference is to address the global dimensions of water system changes due to anthropogenic as well as natural influences.
The conference will provide the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows, and land use change. It will help to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, related institutional and technological innovations and identify in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management.
Participants from all continents and dealing with various water-related problems are expected to attend this conference. +
