The main exhibition hall from EGU2019. Image via Selfrag.
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EGU2020: sharing landslide research online
The EGU2020 General Assembly was scheduled to run from 3 to 8 May 2020 in Vienna. It will come as a surprise to no-one that the meeting has been cancelled in light of the Covid-19 crisis. Delegates are having their registration fees refunded.
Cancellation of EGU2020 was essential and inevitable, but as the largest annual landslide conference it’s a blow to the community. To try to mitigate the impact of the loss of the meeting, the organisers have put together a plan to share the research online. This takes the form of two different elements:
1. Those scheduled to present in any form, whether an oral contribution, a poster or one of their PICO talks, will have the opportunity to upload materials on to a dedicated web site. The system opens for upload on 1 April. It will allow comments and feedback should the authors wish.
2. On the day of the scheduled sessions, EGU “will open a chat channel per scheduled session, where authors and attendees can actively discuss the presentation materials. Please note that this does not involve live presentations or streaming.”
I’ve listed the landslide hazard sessions in EGU2020 below. The times are local to Vienna:
NH3.1 Large slope instabilities: characterisation, dating, triggering, monitoring and modelling
Convener: Giovanni Crosta | Co-conveners: Federico Agliardi, Masahiro Chigira, Fabio Vittorio De Blasio
Displays
| Attendance Tue, 05 May, 08:30–10:15 | Display Tue, 05 May, 08:30–19:30
Orals
| Tue, 05 May, 14:00–18:00
NH3.2 Rockfalls, rockslides and rock avalanches
Convener: Michael Krautblatter | Co-conveners: Axel Volkwein, Anne Voigtländer, Matthew Westoby, Andreas Ewald
Displays
| Attendance Thu, 07 May, 16:15–18:00 | Display Thu, 07 May, 08:30–19:30
Orals
| Thu, 07 May, 14:00–15:45
NH3.4 Hydrological and geomorphological processes in natural and human-modified slopes and landslides
Convener: Thom Bogaard | Co-conveners: Giacomo Pepe, Massimiliano Bordoni, Stella Moreiras, Roberto Greco
Displays
| Attendance Thu, 07 May, 08:30–10:15 | Display Thu, 07 May, 08:30–19:30Orals
| Thu, 07 May, 16:15–18:00
NH3.5 Debris flows: advances on mechanics, monitoring, modelling and risk management
Convener: Marcel Hürlimann | Co-conveners: Velio Coviello, Xiaojun Guo, Roland Kaitna
Displays
| Attendance Mon, 04 May, 14:00–18:00 | Display Mon, 04 May, 08:30–19:30
Orals
| Tue, 05 May, 10:45–12:30, 14:00–18:00
NH3.7 Space and time forecasting of landslides
Convener: Filippo Catani | Co-conveners: Xuanmei Fan, Fausto Guzzetti, Binod Tiwari
Displays
| Attendance Wed, 06 May, 08:30–12:30 | Display Wed, 06 May, 08:30–19:30Hall X2
Orals
| Wed, 06 May, 14:00–18:00
NH3.8 Landslide investigation using Remote Sensing and Geophysics
Convener: Antonio Abellan | Co-conveners: Janusz Wasowski, Masahiro Chigira, Oriol Monserrat, Jan Burjanek
Displays
| Attendance Wed, 06 May, 14:00–18:00 | Display Wed, 06 May, 08:30–19:30
Orals
| Wed, 06 May, 08:30–12:30
NH3.9 Landslide monitoring: recent technologies and new perspectives
Convener: Lorenzo Solari | Co-conveners: Corey Froese, Peter Bobrowsky, Davide Bertolo, Mateja Jemec Auflič, Federico Raspini, Veronica Tofani
Displays
| Attendance Thu, 07 May, 08:30–10:15 | Display Thu, 07 May, 08:30–19:30Hall X2
Orals
| Thu, 07 May, 10:45–12:30
NH3.10 Landslide Hazard and Risk in a Changing Environment
Convener: Paola Reichenbach | Co-conveners: Andreas Günther, Mihai Micu
Displays
| Attendance Thu, 07 May, 14:00–18:00 | Display Thu, 07 May, 08:30–19:30
Orals
| Thu, 07 May, 08:30–10:15
NH3.11 Towards reliable Landslide Early Warning Systems
Convener: Luca Piciullo | Co-conveners: Stefano Luigi Gariano, Helen Reeves, Samuele Segoni
Displays
| Attendance Tue, 05 May, 10:45–12:30 | Display Tue, 05 May, 08:30–19:30
| Attendance Tue, 05 May, 14:00–15:45 | Display Tue, 05 May, 08:30–19:30
Orals
| Tue, 05 May, 08:30–10:15
NH3.12 Landslides and Soil Erosion in a Changing Climate: Analysis, Trends, Uncertainties and Adaptation Solutions
Convener: Guido Rianna | Co-conveners: Stefano Luigi Gariano, Fausto Guzzetti, Alfredo Reder, Monia Santini
PICOs
| Thu, 07 May, 10:45–12:30
Ironically, for those of us with day jobs that make attending conferences difficult at that time of year difficult, this is really helpful. I shall look forward to engaging with the EGU2020 meeting from my state of self isolation.
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.