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Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium - Prague (Czech Republic), September 2015
From: "domenico-doronzo@xxxxxxxxx" <domenico-doronzo@xxxxxxxxx>Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium - Prague (Czech Republic), September 2015
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Dear colleagues
This is to advertise the 'Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium' held in Prague (Czech Republic), September 2015. As the title states, it would be a great opportunity for presentations and discussions of any Earth Sciences topics, with an eye to the environmental problem integrating not only different investigation approaches, but also different topics to each other (thus conjugating Earth Sciences, Engineering, Physics, etc...). In particular, it is to highlight the following session 'Environmental impact on infrastructures':
''Environmental and geological processes, as well as man-made occurrences with an environmental impact, can greatly interact with infrastructures. Such processes span from subaerial to subaqueous, and involve the transport of fluids (water, gas) and solids (sediment, powder), impacting the infrastructures they encounter on the way. By infrastructures we mean any built (and generally inhabited) environment and its exposed value that can be impacted by any of these processes, which are: sand and dust storms, snow avalanches, volcanic ashes, tsunami waves, pollutant and powder emissions, debris avalanches, floods and lahars, gas and petroleum leakages, controlled demolitions, and nuclear wastes. All of these events, which can generate from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and disasters of various origins both natural and man-made, can severely damage infrastructures like buildings, bridges, airplanes, highways, railways, and natural architectures, among others. In this session, we aim at presenting and discussing the state of the art and future perspectives of the environmental impact of the abovementioned processes on infrastructures. Multidisciplinary contributions that integrate different approaches, such as modeling, observations, and experiments, are of particular interest when characterizing the associated hazards, and quantifying the eventual risks at the border of earth sciences and engineering. Such a debate can also be of interest for public administrators, and private investors working in areas where it may happen that a given impact triggers a secondary one, amplifying the damage.''
http://www.mess-earth.org/
There will be the opportunity to publish not only your abstract, but also regular papers on a special issue (see also http://www.mess-earth.org/committee.html)
Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further informations. Many thanks for your interest, and best regards
Dr. Domenico Doronzo (Polytechnic School of Bari, Italy, domenico-doronzo@xxxxxxxxx) and co-conveners
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