Showing posts with label Geological Oceanography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geological Oceanography. Show all posts

Monday, December 22, 2014

8th International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contamined Sediments

Conference Highlights
Monday, January 12


·         10 Short Courses
·         Exhibits open, Welcome Reception, Group 1 Poster Display
·         Plenary Session, with feature speaker Anthony C. Janetos (Boston University), “The National Climate Change Assessment: Climate Change Impacts in the United States and Beyond.”
Tuesday-Thursday, January 13-15
·         Nearly 500 platform talks and poster presentations scheduled in 51 breakout sessions 
·         4 panel discussions
·         70+ exhibitors
·         Student Mixer
·         Multiple networking opportunities: daily continental breakfasts, lunches, and poster receptions.
·         Closing Roundtable Forum—“The Billion-Dollar Question: Can Urban Master Planning Help Resolve the Cost/Benefit Impasse at Large Contaminated Sediment Sites?”
See the Daily Schedule for a quick, 2-page overview of the sessions and panels scheduled each day. The Technical Program lists the title, authors, and scheduled speaker for each presentation and the scope and panelists for each panel.
The technical program was developed after an extensive, multi-level review by the Program Committee and the session chairs of more than 500 abstracts received in response to the Call for Abstracts.

 


Further information here

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Newcastle, NSW, Australia


International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, Pacific Grove, California, USA

In 1994, the Geological Society of America hosted the Penrose Conference, “From the Inside and the Outside: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of the Earth Sciences.” The focus of that meeting was on how practicing scientists (“insiders”) and professional historians (“outsiders”) approached research in our field. Twenty years later, it is fitting to ask where we stand presently on fundamental questions about scholarly inquiry into the development of the geosciences...