This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings. The blog is written on a personal basis by Dave Petley, who is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

This blog is a personal project that does not seek to represent Durham University.

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

5th Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards

Thanks to Rick Guthrie for pointing out in a comment another interesting Canadian conference on natural hazards.  This is the 5th Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards, also known as Geohazards 5, which will be held in Kelowna, British Columbia on 15th to 17th May 2011.  

The call for abstracts closes on 29th October, and includes papers on the following:
  • Seismic hazards
  • Flooding and natural dams
  • Landslides
  • Quantitative risk assessment 
  • Snow and rock avalanches
  • Technology and geohazards - monitoring and remote sensing
  • Geohazards in a changing climate
  • Tsunamis 
  • Early warning & response
  • Urban hazards and policy development
  • Volcanoes 
Details are available at the conference website:
http://www.geohazards5.ca/program.php?lang=en

With sesveral landslide sessions at the AGU Fall meeting in December,  multiple landslide sessions at the EGU General Assembly in April, Geohazarads 5 in May, and Slope Stability 2011 in September the next 12 months look excellent for landslide meetings.  Further out, we have the 11th International Symposium on Landslides in May 2012. 

See you there!
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Sergio Sepulveda said...

Dave,

You may add to the list the 2nd World Landslide Forum in Rome, October 3-9 2011, http://www.wlf2.org/

4:38 pm, October 19, 2010

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