27 March 2020

EGU2020: sharing landslide research online

Posted by Dave Petley

EGU2020 won't look like this

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.