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Critical zone science and long-term environmental observatories provide unprecedented opportunities to understand the interactions of rock, water, and life within watersheds and across networks of observatories to realize the potential of integrated earth science. Hydrology is both a key driver and reflection of the earth’s critical zone processes and state. Therefore, the CUAHSI 2014 Biennial Colloquium theme focuses on the integration of hydrological, ecological and geological information necessary to advance Critical Zone Science both across formal observatories and the wide range of research areas worldwide.
The intent of this CUAHSI 2014 Biennial Meeting is to expand the dialogue across disciplines and scales, from local to global, to best capitalize on and learn from growing observatory networks and emerging approaches in regional and global hydrologic observations and modeling. The CUAHSI Biennial meeting's unique format consists of a mix of plenary and concurrent sessions featuring all invited talks, a general water science contributed poster session, special events, and workshops. +
DFHM7 aims to promote international cooperation, communication and exchange of knowledge among researchers and practitioners. The first DFHM Conference was held in San Francisco, USA (1997) and subsequent Conferences were held in Taipei, Taiwan (2000), Davos, Switzerland (2003), Chengdu, China (2007), Padua, Italy (2011), and Tsukuba, Japan (2015).
The 7th DFHM in Golden, Colorado will provide a forum for international researchers, engineers, and policy makers to:
* Exchange ideas and transfer knowledge between scientists, engineers, and policy makers
* Promote scientific advancement of debris-flow hazards, response, and mitigation
* Promote communication related to the outstanding needs for decreasing risk from debris flows +
Dear Colleagues in Quaternary Science,
Our Organizing Committee are delighted to bring INQUA to Dublin and we would like to warmly welcome you to the 20th INQUA Congress to be held between 25th and 31st July 2019.
We all have a deep commitment to the Congress and we all want our delegates to thoroughly enjoy the stimulation of multiple scientific sessions in the purpose built Convention centre. In addition we hope you are all looking forward to the warm welcome from Dublin and the Irish people and that you enjoy the magnificent Irish scenery on the various field trips we have organized.
We are sincerely looking forward to July 2019 and to welcoming you to the INQUA Congress.
Prof. Pete Coxon MRIA FTCD +
Dear Colleagues,
Alison Duvall and I would like you to participate in an upcoming webinar from the Subduction Zones in 4D (SZ4D) Landscapes and Seascapes working group, to be held on '''June 26, 2020 at 11AM PDT'''. The SZ4D, or Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions effort is a research-community driven initiative in the U.S. to investigate the processes that underlie subduction zone hazards. An NSF-funded planning group is now working to map out a potential decadal-scale program in integrated science of subduction and seeks wide community input.
In this one-hour webinar, you will learn what SZ4D is, meet the Landscapes and Seascapes working group, and learn about our efforts to develop a vision and framework to study the impacts of great subduction zone earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on sediment generation and transport and the building and shaping of landscapes and seascapes. There will be ample time reserved for Q&A. We look forward to your suggestions, feedback, and guidance. Come join us!
Pre-Registration is required to join this webinar. You can pre-register at the following address:
'''https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkd-6qrz8qE9OfMiYN16_YXPuIkt7LLgXb'''
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
There will be an opportunity for questions during the webinar. If you like, you may also pre-submit a question for the webinar using this form, and we will try to address them during the session. There will be a recording of the webinar posted, and so if you can’t make it, we will try to leave you an answer during the webinar.
Finally, some of you may have seen my previous announcement, which was distributed by the Gilbert Club listserv a day after the first SZ4D webinar. Please accept my apologies for the late delivery of the message. If you don’t know about the SZ4D, and are interested in learning about the broad vision of the effort and how surface processes plays a role in the SZ4D, you can view the recorded webinar at:
https://www.sz4d.org/webinar1<br>
Best,<br>
Alison Duvall and George Hilley
George Hilley<br>
Department of Geological Sciences<br>
Stanford University<br>
Braun Hall, Building 320, Room 233<br>
450 Serra Mall <br>
Stanford, CA 94305-2115<br>
email: hilley@stanford.edu<br>
phone: (650) 723-2782<br>
fax: (650) 725-0979<br>
Dear Colleagues,
If you are attending GSA and interested in learning quick modeling tricks in earth surface processes using a web browser, please join our Landlab short course:
Landlab Earth Surface Modeling Toolkit: Building and Applying Models of Coupled Earth Surface Processes
When/Where: Oct. 21. 8am-5pm. Washington State Convention Center (WSCC)
Instructors: Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Christina Bandaragoda, Sai Nudurupati, Amanda Manaster; Civil and Env. Engineering, Univ. of Washington;
Cosponsor: National Science Foundation.
Abstract:
Landlab is a python-based modeling environment for building numerical models of earth surface processes (https://landlab.github.io/#/). This day-long short course will introduce Landlab and provide hands-on experience to participants with the aim that they will be able to use Landlab in teaching and research upon completing the course. First, we will use Landlab as a watershed analysis tool for mapping hydrologic and geomorphic fluxes. Second, existing coupled models will be introduced and explored, including models for whole landscape evolution, ecohydrology, sediment transport, landslide risk, and flood routing. Participants will run Landlab on their laptops or on CUAHSI’s HydroShare (http://secure-web.cisco.com/1FVZXqu4a7BewMkooC5dcRlKUJriZREwtWXZ9wYp_0MpjLfwoqwAzTuqokc1PO9ksZxf0KTIRzTW0rRLLLvqyY1FKJazTH7XxbmVZYi75BTb0ze5uPAEVhMZgBWVVmcSf-daMay2MHsJa7v4_ZyothYFLEntuKWb_eeZpxgtHrGxZqOuEmQ0iqFpc78P7ylOIVh8XTNPEM7djRM8_pKPV2KVQSZLgBxOcgDBVPLntXZ0MWm_ct0dcSMoGz8uFU8wGUXzGgCl-WS__vkMbKTjr6-yXa3d9c_dEHygYYdYoMFGucZHHaeDIbFfydIHh-8hDWU5qVuMEj8tBOEmEBZjRqlMnkNjHLowJ2hbiBmg4yerK1_R-ZXeu7hHz9XE2IAT0tdkVWM9BdXU5XLzLcOr-dEfFG5qv-2vhpGGgZPi-p9VQ0SWYTvl7X8ekTzRLkplDE4NhariI2U83AvXq9FtZSQ/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hydroshare.org) using a web browser.
Registration:
http://community.geosociety.org/gsa2017/attendeeinfo/registration +
Dear Colleagues,
You may have noticed that the 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) is fast approaching. This event will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July 2015. As chairman of the Local Organising Committee IUGG 2015, and on behalf of the entire Czech Geosciences community, I cordially invite you to attend this once-in-a-lifetime scientific and social event.<br>
IUGG holds its general assembly every four years and Prague is proud to be the only city to host this event for the second time. In 1927, Prague hosted the third IUGG General Assembly of 300 participants.<br>
Since then, the IUGG has made admirable breakthroughs in all aspects of Earth Sciences. Currently, IUGG is a composite of eight semi-autonomous associations covering various physical, chemical, mathematical, and environmental disciplines. Concurrently, Prague has flourished in the last two decades and become an affordable destination with high quality services. Prague ranks the 5th most visited city in Europe with over 4 million tourists annually. The Prague Congress Centre, located near the city centre, offers an optimal solution for this event and presents an ideal site for the 5000+ expected conference participants from around the world. Important information about Prague can be found here.<br>
While attending scientific lectures and partaking in discussions with your colleagues in Prague, you can benefit from this unique city, which is recognised for its cultural and culinary selection. We are here to make your stay in Prague unforgettable through a wide selection of scientific trips and guided tours. The Science Program Committee has prepared the road map for the scientific program and determined its basic features. At present, union symposia are well defined in terms of conveners. Their descriptions are available here. Lists of solicited speakers of individual symposia are in an advanced phase of preparation. A complete scientific program will be ready in July when the registration and abstract submission tools will also be available.
Please mark IUGG 2015 in your calendars - the scientific meeting of the upcoming year.
Deep-water deposits continue to provide major reservoir targets for oil and gas exploration around the world as well as presenting a series of challenges within developing and producing fields. Considerable effort has been devoted to the understanding of these deposits both in terms of reservoir architecture and quality across the academic-industry interface.
Progress has been made in understanding of whole-system source-to-sink relationships and controls, the mechanics of erosional and depositional processes, and the fine-scale architecture of the resultant deposits. Allied to this progress has been the advancement in characterisation techniques/technologies, which has impacted upon workflows and the ability to analyse uncored as well as cored intervals at a greater level of refinement. +
Design your own professional development opportunity at the first annual Earth Educators' Rendezvous. Capitalize on the experience of your colleagues in a wide range of fields at a variety of workshops, present and discuss your own findings, and network with others engaged in improving undergraduate Earth education. Events will include workshops, oral and poster sessions, plenary talks, and working groups. The meeting will bring together activities that support faculty in improving their courses, departments or programs; in increasing their overall impact of Earth education; and in building a collective capacity to use and conduct education research. +
Discover new science in the hundreds of sessions, trips, courses, and events. GSA is where geoscience professionals come to get engaged, get educated, get inspired, and enjoy each moment. +
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the geodynamics community in a small workshop setting in the beautiful mountain town of Breckenridge, Colorado, from August 4-7, 2025. Join us to discuss cross-cutting science and the next generation vision towards the understanding of large and small-scale Earth systems as we explore themes in Computational Geodynamics and Society, Space, the Machine, Community, Scales, and Hardware.
The meeting includes pre-workshop tutorials featuring community codes ASPECT, PyLith, Rayleigh, and the SPECFEM family including the new SPECFEM++. Or you can learn more about best practices in open source software by taking the tutorial Crafting Quality Software.
Are you an early career scientist? Travel support is available when submitting an abstract. Don't miss the early career reception Monday evening August 4 after the tutorials.
Visit the meeting website to see our exciting lineup of speakers.
Deadlines:
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 2025
Lodging: July 4, 2025
Registration: July 4, 2025
Late Registration: July 18, 2025 +
Dr. Changsheng Chen, principal architect of FVCOM, from the Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Laboratory, University of Massachusetts will be summarizing the present status of FVCOM and future plans. Users are invited to talk about their experiences in presentations and posters and share tools developed for input and output of FVCOM applications. This workshop is open to all FVCOM users and developers as well as interested parties.
'''Abstract Submission for the 2015 FVCOM User’s Workshop:'''<br>
The deadline for submitting an abstract for the FVCOM User’s Group Meeting is Aug 31, 2015. Attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts on topics related to the FVCOM model and include FVCOM developments, applications, model comparisons and tools for pre and post processing.
Should there be more talks than the schedule permits, we will ask some people to present their work in a poster. Priority for talks will be given to the earlier abstracts received. If you prefer to present a
poster, please make that clear. Posters should fit within a space of 102x102 cm (40x40 in).
Please send title and abstract to susan.haigh@dfo-mpo.gc.ca and include the following information:
* Abstract title
* Abstract
* Authors and their affiliations (indicate presenting author)
* Contact name
* Contact email
More details will follow shortly regarding registration and accommodations. Any questions can be directed to Susan Haigh (susan.haigh@dfo-mpo.gc.ca, 1-506-292-0036) or Sheila Gidney (Sheila.gidney@dfo-mpo.gc.ca, 1-506-529-5866). +
Dr. Doug Oldenburg is presenting the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2017 Distinguished Instructor Short Course on Geophysical Electromagnetics: Fundamentals and Applications on January 30th at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. The course will introduce the fundamentals of EM geophysical techniques and cover applications across mining, oil and gas, geotechnical, water, and environmental industries. +
During a flood, a few hours can make all the difference between a disaster and a near disaster. The Flood Control 2015 integrated forecasting systems ensure that better information reaches the right place more quickly. This not only increases safety, but also limits damage and the number of victims. What is more, the day-to-day management of water systems is significantly improved.
Current flood protection is primarily concerned with strong dikes. But the greatest gain lies in making the total system smarter: the dike, the decision-maker, and their environment. Flood Control 2015 integrates these three aspects in advanced forecasting- and decision-supporting systems. But we also use new sensors that provide information 24/7. Flood protection therefore becomes more transparent, quicker, better. And the cost of managing water systems falls markedly at the same time.
“A really substantial improvement in operational flood protection worldwide. That is the mission of Flood Control 2015.” +
During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia), public initiatives (e.g. Open data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Bing Maps, etc.) produced an overabundance of spatial data, which, in many cases, does not help the efficiency of decision processes. The increase of geographical data availability has not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. The inclusion of spatial simulation techniques in recent GIS software favoured the diffusion of these methods, but in several cases led to the mechanism based on which buttons have to pressed without having geography or processes in mind. Spatial modelling, analytical techniques and geographical analyses are therefore required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels, with a clear identification of the geographical information needed and reference scale to adopt. Old geographical issues can find an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are developing, challenging the researchers for new solutions. This Conference aims at contributing to the development of new techniques and methods to improve the process of knowledge acquisition. +
During the past forty years of spacecraft exploration of the solar system, geomorphology has become an extraterrestrial science. Spacecraft missions to other planetary bodies continue to provide surface data at unprecedented resolutions, which in some cases are higher than the resolution of data for Earth. Several countries have recent, ongoing, or planned missions to investigate the surface of the moon. Cameras in orbit around Mars are providing images at a variety of wavelengths with coverage over significant proportions of the planet at resolutions down to meters per pixel. The MESSENGER mission in orbit at Mercury is returning data of novel tectonic and volcanic morphologies. And in the outer solar system, instruments on the Cassini spacecraft are showing that, despite their exotic materials, Titan and other Saturnian satellites have Earth-like surface morphologies. Myriad other missions to other terrestrial planetary bodies are also planned or ongoing.
By providing for substantial investigation of and trenchant comparison among the landforms of geologic bodies in our solar system, these data represent a new era in geomorphology.
The 2014 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS) will support new scientific collaborations between and discoveries by the terrestrial and planetary geomorphology communities through presentation of planetary geomorphologic features and their terrestrial analogs. Investigations using spacecraft data, terrestrial field work, numerical modeling, and experimental results will be presented. The symposium will feature invited oral presentations highlighting comparisons between terrestrial and extraterrestrial processes and landscapes. Poster contributions are also welcome. +
ESPIn is a 2 time 3-day immersive training experience for 25 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and/or early career faculty at the CSDMS Integration Facility at the University of Colorado in Boulder. ESPIn is designed to allow participants to make advances on critical earth surface processes research questions by teaching cyberinfrastructure skills. ESPIn will offer virtually hands-on training in numerical modeling, best programming practices, open source software development, collaborative coding and version control systems, Landlab and pymt, High Performance Computing and model uncertainty quantification.
See https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn2020 for more information. +
EarthCube welcomes project participants, new PIs, and all other interested parties to the 2017 All Hands Meeting (AHM) June 7-9, 2017 in Seattle, WA. Since the first All Hands Meeting in 2014, the meeting has been a critical opportunity to make connections, communicate advances, and help plan the future of EarthCube.
The 2017 EarthCube All-Hands Meeting, “Making Connections & Moving Forward,” aims to bridge the disciplinary divide between and among geoscientists and computer scientists by exploring the gaps in current implementations and finding where communications can be strengthened to foster adoption and discovery of resources.
The program will focus on domain researchers, while supporting discussions by technical and data science researchers. Our goal is to help researchers assimilate the new Technical Architecture Plan, and move toward the implementation of EarthCube technologies within existing research frameworks. There will be Plenary & Domain Talks, Breakout Sessions, Poster Sessions, and special morning sessions for new members: EarthCube 101 and Workbench 101. The "101" sessions are new events for 2017 All Hands Meeting and will provide newcomers to EarthCube background on the mission, structure, and goals of EarthCube.
2017 is the year EarthCube begins implementation, and we hope you will join us in Seattle for this critical All Hands Meeting. Early registration, and more information, will be made available in just a few short weeks, so stay tuned! +
EarthCube welcomes project participants, new PIs, early career researchers and scientists, and all other interested parties to the 2019 EarthCube Annual Meeting to be held on June 12-14, 2019 in Denver, Colorado at the Hilton Denver City Center. The meeting begins on Wednesday morning and ends on Friday after lunch.
Since the first Annual Meeting (formerly known as the EarthCube All Hands Meeting) in 2014, the event has been a critical opportunity to make connections, communicate advances, and help plan the future of EarthCube. The 2019 EarthCube Annual Meeting - "Science in Action" - focuses on how the program's projects and developing infrastructure can benefit end users in the EarthCube and larger scientific communities. Highlights will feature presentations and demonstrations of a new suite of geoscience tools called GeoCODES, which is an evolution of Project 418. The GeoCODES platform is a combination of the three current subawards under management from ESSO. These include:
* The Project 419 Software System Upgrade Project
* The EarthCube Resource Registry; and
* The Project 418 Graphical User Interface.
Additionally, there will be presentations from new funded projects, and keynote addresses from leading members of the scientific community. With so many exciting developments to be shared in 2019, we hope you will join us in Denver! +
Environmental modellers increasingly require practical and robust approaches for model development and evaluation. The Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann jointly with the University of Adelaide (Australia) is presenting a short course on several major themes within hydrological modelling, with the aim of providing some key background of the subject and overviewing recent developments. The summer school will include a 1-day field trip to several experimental catchments in Luxembourg, which will then form part of the modelling exercises. The course will cover the following themes:
* Hydrological model building
* Robust numerical techniques for model implementation
* Intro into Bayesian inference for model calibration and uncertainty analysis
* Fieldwork to inform model development ("dialogue between modeller and experimentalist")
* Model evaluation and hypothesis testing, primarily for catchment-scale models
The course is suitable for researchers (mainly PhD students but also masters and postdocs) in the field of hydrology and broader environmental sciences with interest in the workshop themes (but without a strong existing background) +
Every new day brings with it fresh evidence of the environmental assault on our planet arising from increased pressures on our natural resources and the need for new measures to mitigate and adapt to these pressures. Climate science, for example, has shown the strong linkage between steadily increasing CO2 levels, global warming and the increased incidence of extreme events. Competition for surface and groundwaters is intensifying with effects on water quality and dependent ecosystems. Our planet and the environment in which we live is becoming more complex and uncertainties about how to manage are pervasive. These challenges call for deeper understanding and representation of the interconnectedness of our environmental resources and the ecosystem services they provide. It also calls for new paradigms and bolder visions in the tools we use to guide our decisions and how we engage interest groups and the wider community to promote trust, and integrate and share our knowledge.
With these evident challenges how can researchers, engineers and scientists become more effective in the work that they do and improve the design and effective application of the decision tools that we need to synthesize and analyze the various data that these tools require? These are exciting times for innovation in both information and social media technologies - how do we capitalize on this innovation and incorporate it in our day-to-day work?
The year 2014 heralds our return to the US for our 8th International Congress and San Diego, a recognized national incubator of biotechnology and one of the most sought-after places to live on the planet with its stunning beaches, access to the high desert and home to world-famous research institutes and institutions of higher learning. There is something for everyone in this effervescent city and we are confident you will leave with happy memories of your time here.
As always, the aim of the meeting is to foster discussion and the interchange of challenges, solutions, ideas, new methods and techniques, in environmental modelling and software. To this end we will continue some of the innovations of iEMSs 2012 in our commitment to young professionals and conduct the meeting in an environmentally friendly manner to the extent possible. California is acknowledged as an environmental and clean energy innovator in the US and it is fitting that a conference devoted to improving the management of planetary environmental resources should set a good example.
The congress will take place at the Crown Plaza Hotel, a well appointed modern facility off Hotel Circle Drive, conveniently located close to downtown and the airport, a few miles from Seaworld and San Diego's famous beaches.
Your Conference Conveners are Dan Ames from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and Nigel Quinn from Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California ably supported by a number of individuals on the Organizing Committees.
