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6 May 2010
Forthcoming meeting at the Royal Geographical Society: Natural disasters: how can we improve?
The RGS will host a meeting on 25th May entitled: “Natural disasters: how can we improve?” Chair: Martin Bell, UNICEF Ambassador for Humanitarian Emergencies Speakers: Dame Barbara Stocking, CEO Oxfam GBCameron Sinclair, Founder of Architecture for Humanity Date: 25 May 2010, 7pmLocation: Royal Geographical Society, LondonTickets: £10, £7 (RGS-IBG members)Details: www.21stCenturyChallenges.org
27 July 2009
Landslide sessions as the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco
The annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has long been the meeting of choice of the geoscience community, although these days it is being challenged by its European equivalent (the European Geosciences Union). The meeting this year is expected to attract about 16,000 earth and environmental scientists (I bet you didn’t realise there were that many…).A frustration for the surface process and natural hazards communities has been …
14 December 2008
Landslide sessions at EGU in 2009
Around this time of the year I always start to turn my attention to the European Geociences Union meeting in April. This is a huge get-together of earth scientists from around the world (last year >8,500 people attended). One of the largest divisions is “Natural Hazards”, and the landslide section, of which I am the secretary, is the biggest single part of NH. Next year (2009) the meeting will be …
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.
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