4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 From: Gert Lube <G.Lube@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Kia ora koutou A summer school on 'Gravity Currents in the Environment' will be held in Udine, northern Italy, next May 26th to 30th, convened by Eckart Meiburg (Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara) and Ben Kneller (Geosciences, University of Aberdeen). It is an interdisciplinary course sponsored by Centre International des Sciences Mechanique and International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, but with a sedimentological bias. It should be of interest especially (but not exclusively) to all early career researchers (PhDs, post-docs, young staff) with an interest in turbidity currents, pyroclastic density currents, snow avalanches, submarine landslides, internal waves, and thermo-haline currents, amongst others. It will be available either in person or remotely, and for those attending in person there will be a one-day field trip to Palaeocene turbidites and mass transport deposits of the Julian Basin. The summer school will cover the following topics: Introduction to gravity-driven currents in the ocean; Dense currents: Topography and roughness I; Dense currents: Topography and roughness II; Buoyant currents I; Buoyant currents II. (lectures held by Claudia Cenedese - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA) Introduction to powder snow avalanches; Dense avalanches and flow instabilities I; Dense avalanches and flow instabilities II; Powder snow avalanches and mixed avalanche. (lectures held by Jim McElwaine - DWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA) Gravity currents: Introduction and numerical simulations; Interaction of gravity currents with solid obstacles; Double-diffusive sedimentation from river plumes; Grain-resolving simulations of particle-laden flows. (lectures held by Eckart Meiburg - University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Turbidity currents in reservoirs, lakes and oceans; Some gravity flows on land: debris flows, lava flows, dense gases haboobs and volcanic plumes; Gravity flows in water: submarine landslides, sewage outfall, river plumes; Recap of field trip. (lectures held by Benjamin Kneller - University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) Introduction to pyroclastic density currents; Pyroclastic density currents: Conceptual models and multiphase framework; Turbulent multiphase flow in pyroclastic density currents: Hazards I; Turbulent multiphase flow in pyroclastic density currents: Hazards II; Cheating friction: Runout of pyroclastic and related granular-fluid flows. (lectures held by Gert Lube - Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) Introduction to internal waves I; Introduction to internal waves II; Gravity currents in two-layer fluids; Gravity currents in uniformly stratified fluids; Particle-bearing gravity currents in stratified fluid. (lectures held by Bruce Sutherland - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) Updates on the programme will be posted on the CISM website https://cism.it/en/news/preliminary-programme-2025/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cism.it/en/news/preliminary-programme-2025/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!ZziYtFg7_ufoxzLyjIeVgb-ccHGW-RNAT1d-Kaktrqd_DNkxK3_5OzHIp5dEJXBMyMrlTJMskfj0x-TqLHHhHbA-yw$>, where you can already find a description of the organisation and venue. We hope to see some of you there. Please also bring this to the attention of anyone whom you feel may be interested. 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 ------------------------------
