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1. Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and its Lagoon
2. The Big Flood: North Sea Storm Surges
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Announcement and first call for contributions for the international
discussion meeting:
"Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and its
Lagoon: State of Knowledge 2003"
14-17 September 2003
Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K.
This scientific and technical meeting will focus on environmental challenges
for Venice and the Venice lagoon. The meeting will provide an up-to-date
synthesis of extensive interdisciplinary research undertaken to investigate
the Venice problems, many of which are applicable to and will be compared
with other coastal locations. Technical themes include: engineering
solutions to tidal flooding; physical and ecological processes;
environmental modelling (hydrodynamics, morphology and water quality); and,
global environmental change.
Registration and payment of reduced fee 14 March 2003
Abstract submission 25 April 2003
Details at http://ccru.geog.cam.ac.uk/events/venice2003
Contact: Venice 2003
Cambridge Coastal Research Unit
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 3EN U.K.
phone: +44-1223-766578
fax: +44-1223-333392
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The Big Flood: North Sea Storm Surges
An International Scientific Meeting at the Royal Society (London)
23 May 2003
First Announcement
Fifty years ago, on the night of 31 January to 1 February 1953, a storm
surge in the southern North Sea resulted in catastrophic flooding on the
coasts of England and the Netherlands, claiming over 2,000 lives. Although
sea defences were subsequently strengthened and raised in both countries,
the risk today may have increased due to sea-level rise, extensive
development in vulnerable areas, and a lack of awareness of vulnerability.
With speakers from around the North Sea basin, the Meeting's preliminary
programme includes talks on:
-Storm surge histories
-Meteorology of North Sea storms
-Storm surges in the southern North Sea
-Present condition of sea defences
-Inundation modelling of coastal floods
-Risk perception and policy
-Public health and social impacts
-Ecosystem impacts
-London's vulnerability
-Where should we be going?
Speakers will be confirmed in the Second Announcement.
Registration and fee payment by 28 April 2003.
Details at http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/curbe/floods.html#bigflood
Contact: Maria Sylvester at Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd
Unit 6, 23-25 Gwydir Street, Cambridge CB1 2LG, U.K.
phone: +44-1223-460475
fax: +44-1223-464142
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