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From: Ilan Kelman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 08:02 AM
Subject: Two Flood Conferences
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> Ilan
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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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