MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS

IAVCEI 2008 - GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Reykjavik - Iceland - 18th to 25th of August 2008 -

On behalf of the Icelandic earth science community we invite scientists from around the globe to participate in the 2008 IAVCEI General Assembly to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 18th to 25th of August. The main theme of the meeting will be "Understanding Volcanoes". The meeting is devoted to volcanism and volcano-tectonics in all environments, and the impact of volcanic eruptions on the surface environment and human activities. Also a variety of short intra-meeting as well as extended pre- and post-meeting field excursions under the umbrellas of Ocean island volcanism.

Contact information
For any questions regarding scientific aspects of the IAVCEI 2008 General Assembly please contact the Local Organizing Committee at iavcei@hi.is
or
IAVCEI2008 Local Organising Committee
Institute of Earth Sciences
University of Iceland
Sturlugata 7
IS-101 Reykjavík
Iceland

Bookings and all logistical arrangements are being handled by the Congress Reykjavík:
Congress Reykjavik
Engjateigi 5, 105 Reykjavik
tel: + 354-585 3900
fax: + 354-585 3901

Contact person:
Ingibjörg Hjálmfríðardóttir, imma@congress.is

 

 

Cities on Volcanoes 6 - Tenerife 2009 (Canary Islands, Spain)

November 16-20, 2009

Contact : Dr. Nemesio M. Pérez

Contact Address: Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), 38611 Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Phone: +34-922391000 Fax : +34-922391001

e-mail: nperez@iter.es

website: http://www.citiesonvolcanoes6.com

 

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE
SECOND WORKSHOP ON COLLAPSE CALDERAS, QUERÉTARO, MÉXICO OCT. 19-25, 2008

After the success of the First Workshop on Collapse Calderas held at Las Cañadas caldera, Tenerife, Spain on October, 2005, it was decided to continue to meet regularly to discuss the new advances on caldera research. The Second Workshop on Collapse Calderas will take place between October 19-25, 2008 in Mexico. The venue is close to the Pliocene Amealco caldera, about 70 km from Querétaro City, State of Queretaro, in central Mexico (about 200 km to the NW of Mexico City). The purpose of the workshop is to evaluate the present state of knowledge on collapse calderas, focusing on the reconstruction of the evolution of collapse calderas, magma storage, mobilization and eruption processes. Sessions are organized according to different research disciplines: geology, petrology, geophysics, modeling, hazard/risk management, and economic benefits. In order to achieve these objectives we wish to gather a group of scientists interested in discussing these topics. We will also carry out a 2-day field trip to the nearby Amealco and Amazcala calderas located in the central Mexican Volcanic Belt. The Workshop is being co-sponsored by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and the Grupo Volcanológico de Barcelona-CSIC (GVB-CSIC).

Call for papers, deadline and cost: We encourage the community working on calderas to submit an extended abstract to the workshop by using the web link indicated below, or send an E-mail to either of the conveners. The deadline for abstract submission is May 15, 2008. Costs are around US$900, including hotel and meals during the workshop, fieldtrips, and transportation to and from Querétaro City to the workshop's venue. The workshop is limited to 100 participants.
Graduate students are welcome to attend and limited financial assistance will be available.

Please contact at:
Web page: http://www.gvb-csic.es/CCW.htm for detailed information. Gerardo Aguirre-Díaz <mailto:ger@geociencias.unam.mx>ger@geociencias.unam.mx
Centro de Geociencias, UNAM, campus Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico Joachim Gottssmann <mailto:j.gottsmann@bristol.ac.uk
Department of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Bristol, UK

33rd International Geological Congress (IGC), to be held in Oslo, 6-14th of August 2008.

Visit the IGC webpage www.33igc.org/ to view the varied program of symposia and wide range of exciting excursions in the Nordic countries!

The congress will include the disciplinary symposia MPI-01 "General contributions to igneous petrology" and MPI-06 "Layered intrusions and the evolution of magma chambers - a tribute to J. Richard Wilson".

For those concerned about a potential clash with the IAVCEI meeting in Iceland, please note that we have received an assurance from the conference organizers that the MVP-06 session will be held on either the 13th or 14th of August.

Guest speakers at the session will provisionally include: Dr. Richard Ernst (Ernst Geosciences: large-scale tectonic framework of Large Igneous Provinces) and Dr. Carl Stevenson (University of Birmingham: New insights into granite emplacement from high resolution AMS studies).

Further details concerning, abstract submission, registration, the Geohost stipend, the IGC 2008 scientific programme, etc. may be found at http://www.33igc.org/coco/

The convenors invite your contributions to these particular symposia.

Abstracts should be submitted via the IGC webpage www.33igc.org/ before the deadline of the 29th of February 2008 at 24:00.

SRA SECOND WORLD CONGRESS ON RISK
8-11 June 2008



The submission process for your proposals for afternoon sessions and posters to be presented at the Second World Congress on Risk (SWCR) in Guadalajara , Mexico , on 8-11 June 2008 remains open . The submission process will remain open until the afternoon sessions are filled. Information on Submissions, Registration, and hotel information is available in the conference announcement on the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) website at http://www.sra.org/events_2008_world_congress.php .

Mini-Symposia Submissions:
Proposals for mini-symposia will be accepted until the SWCR afternoon program is filled. Please note that we expect to receive more proposals than available program space. We can accept sixty 90-minute sessions for the three-day conference. Acceptance decisions will be made starting in February, 2008. Proposals should be submitted electronically via the SRA World Congress website at http://www.sra.org/events_2008_world_congress.php .

Poster Presentations:

The planning committee is also encouraging participation in poster sessions that will be held in a festive environment conducive to dialogue and networking. Posters for these sessions will be selected by using criteria consistent with those used in judging the mini-symposia. The deadline for submission of abstracts for individual posters to be presented in the special poster sessions will remain open until the end of April, 2008. Poster abstracts can be submitted through the SRA website at http://www.sra.org/events_2008_world_congress.php

Workshops:

On Sunday June 8th, preceding the World Congress, SRA is pleased to offer four excellent professional development workshops. The workshops have been carefully selected to provide opportunities for those international conference participants who might be new to risk assessment and SRA as well as to those looking for additional in depth training in risk communication, dose response assessment, and risk analysis related to regulatory standards. Please see the SRA World Congress website for more detailed information about the workshops at http://www.sra.org/events_2008_world_congress.php .