{"id":15161,"date":"2015-05-28T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=15161"},"modified":"2015-05-27T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T07:24:49","slug":"the-12th-international-symposium-on-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/05\/28\/the-12th-international-symposium-on-landslides\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12th International Symposium on Landslides, Naples, June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/05\/15_05-ISL-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15162\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/05\/15_05-ISL-1.jpg\" alt=\"International Symposium on Landslides\" width=\"223\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isl2016.it\/\">12th International Symposium on Landslides (12 ISL)<\/a> will be held on 12-19 June 2016 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isl2016.it\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=9&amp;Itemid=102\">Royal Continental Hotel in Naples, Italy<\/a>. This is a symposium jointly organized by FedIGS, ISSMGE, ISRM, IGS, JTC1. The previous symposia were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11th in 2012 in Banff, Canada (this is the meeting at which I gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/06\/04\/landslides-and-engineered-slopes-protecting-society-through-improved-understanding\/\">opening keynote lecture<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>10th in 2008 in Xi&#8217;an China;<\/li>\n<li>9th in 2004 in Rio de Janeiro in Brasil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isl2016.it\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=27&amp;Itemid=121\">The deadline to submit abstracts is <strong>30th June 2015<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers of the meeting have selected &#8220;Experience, Theory, Practice&#8221; as the key theme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isl2016.it\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=13&amp;Itemid=106\">The symposium will focus on the following main session themes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weather-induced landslides<\/li>\n<li>Earthquake-induced landslides<\/li>\n<li>Volcanic activity and landslides<\/li>\n<li>Man-induced (I assume that this means human-induced!) landslides<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Scientific Committee is encouraging authors to submit abstracts\u00a0dealing with one or more of the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soil and rock properties<\/li>\n<li>Investigation and slope monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Mechanisms and mechanical aspects<\/li>\n<li>Analysis and modeling<\/li>\n<li>Risk analysis, assessment and management<\/li>\n<li>Control works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My view is that the International Symposium on Landslides remains the most important landslide meeting in the calendar.\u00a0 I have attended the last two, both of which have been both scientifically fascinating and hugely enjoyable.\u00a0 I strongly recommend it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th International Symposium on Landslides will be held in Naples, Italy in June 2016<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[37,144,449,36,422,868],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-2","tag-conference","tag-europe","tag-international-symposium-on-landslides","tag-italy","tag-landslides","tag-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}