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Local Organizers
Background
Destructive effects of many tsunamis are confined to areas within about one hour of the initial propagation time (that is, within a few hundred km of their source). These tsunamis are classified as local, as opposed to regional and Pacific-wide tsunamis whose destructive effects can be well outside (up to 10 thousand km) their area of origin. In all main Pacific tsunamigenic regions, the majority of tsunami-related casualties and property damage come from local tsunamis. Very short travel time increases the local tsunami hazard. It is therefore an important challenge for the research community and decision makers to identify ways for reducing losses of lives and property damage from the local tsunamis.
Two international tsunami workshops have recently been held in Russia ("Tsunami Mitigation and Risk Assessment," Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy,1996, and "Tsunami Risk Assessment Beyond 2000: Theory, Practice and Plans," Moscow, 2000). Success of these two meetings as well as recommendations of the XVIII Session of UNESCO/IOC/ICG/ITSU inspire us to convene another international tsunami workshop in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. Being one of the most active seismic and tsunami-prone areas in the Pacific, and having long tsunami records and interesting environmental features, Kamchatka is an appropriate place for members of the international tsunami community to come and discuss the problems of local tsunamis.
Workshop purpose
To consider state-of-the-art of the local tsunami problem and to discuss fundamental and applied studies directed toward reduction of local tsunami hazard. The final product of the workshop will be recommendations on local tsunami warning and mitigation.
The scope of the workshop will cover the following basic items:
Student session
In order to facilitate participation in the workshop of young scientists (up to age 30) a separate session will be arranged. Young scientists are invited to make their oral presentations concerning all aspects of the tsunami problem.
Sergey Lappo (Russia) - chairman of the International Programme Committee
Joanne (Jody) Bourgeois (U.S.A.) - vice-chairman of the International Programme Committee
Mikhail Mashkovstsev (Russia) - governor of Kamchatka
Fumihiko Imamura (Japan)
Gerassimos Papadopoulos (Greece)
Costas Synolakis (U.S.A.)
Kenji Satake (Japan)
Francois Schindele (France)
Sergey Fedotov (Russia)
Evgeny Gordeev (Russia)
Viacheslav Gusiakov (Russia)
Boris Ivanov (Russia)
Boris Levin (Russia)
Efim Pelinovsky (Russia)
Yuri Shokin (Russia)
Oleg Starovoit (Russia)
Iouri Oliounine (IOC/UNESCO) Evgeny Gordeev - chair of the Local Organising Committee
Mikhail Nosov - vice-chair of the Local Organising Committee
Leonid Chubarov
Tatiana Pinegina
Vadim Saltykov
Elena Sasorova
Olga Yakovenko
Aziz Aliskerov Dr. Joanne (Jody) Bourgeois (U.S.A.) Dr. Mikhail Nosov (Russia)Registration Fee (to be paid on site)
Language
The official languages of the Conference are English and Russian.
Participants who wish to give a presentation are required to complete an pre-registration form and submit an abstract. We invite pre-registration and abstract submission on the internet.
The pre-registration and abstract submission forms are now available for electronic submission.
The final deadline for pre-registration and abstract submission is 30 Apr 2002.
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Dr. Joanne (Jody) Bourgeois (U.S.A.) Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Box 351310, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, U.S.A. Tel: 1(206) 685-2443 Fax: 1(206) 543-0489 | Dr. Mikhail Nosov (Russia) Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia Tel: 7(095) 939-3698 Fax: 7(095) 124-8713 |
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Design & programming: Sergey Kolesov ©2002. | |