***************************************************************************************************** From: Bill McGuire <w.mcguire@xxxxxxxxx> ***************************************************************************************************** The UCL Johnston-Lavis Colloquium 2009 CLIMATE FORCING OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL HAZARDS 15 - 17 September 2009 at University College London The conference will address relationships between past and contemporary climate change and the triggering of hazardous geological and geomorphological phenomena. The meeting is supported by the UK Met Office, the British Geological Survey, the British Antarctic Survey and UCL and Oxford Universities*. Scientific Committee: *Richard Betts (Met Office), Chris Kilburn (UCL), Mark Masline (UCL), Bill McGuire (UCL), David Pyle (Oxford), John Smellie (BAS), David Tappin (BGS) S1. Past climate change and geological and geomorphological hazards Addresses past climate change triggering, adjustment and modulation of hazardous surface and crustal processes, including volcanic and seismic activity, submarine and sub-aerial landslides, tsunamis, glacial outburst floods and gas-hydrate destabilisation. S2. Feedback effects and climate modification Addresses feedback relationships between changing climate and surface and crustal responses, including effects of volcanic aerosols, methane ‘burps’, large-scale ice-sheet loss and changes in erosion and weathering processes. S3. Short time-scale drivers of geological and geomorphological hazards Addresses environmental processes and mechanisms with the potential to trigger geological and geomorphological hazards at short time-scales, which may also have implications for climate modulation of hazardous Earth processes at longer time scales. Examples include tidal, meteorological and ocean loading effects on volcanism and seismicity. S4. Climate change forcing of geological and geomorphological hazards Addresses potentially hazardous impacts and implications of contemporary and future climate change, particularly in relation to rises in global sea level and ocean temperature, ice melting and unloading at high latitudes and altitudes, and changing hydrological regimes. Early-bird registration and abstract deadline: 6 July 2009 Further information and registration form at http://www.abuhrc.org <http://www.abuhrc.org/> ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
