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Second Announcement
The International Workshop

"LOCAL TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION"

(in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1952 Great Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami)

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia, September 10 - 15, 2002

Organized jointly by the IUGG Tsunami Commission (IUGG/TC) and the International Co-ordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (UNESCO/IOC/ICG/ITSU)

Local Organizers

The scope of the workshop:

  1. Historical Catalogues and Databases
  2. Seismo-tectonics of Tsunami
  3. Numerical and Analytical Models of Local Tsunami Behavior
  4. Combination of Local Tsunamis with other Dangerous Oceanic Phenomena
  5. Mitigation and Counter-measures
  6. Risk Assessment
  7. Recent Local Tsunamis
  8. Tsunami Geology and Paleotsunamis
  9. Tsunami Measurement and Data Analysis
  10. Landslides and Other Sources
  11. 1952 Great Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami

The final deadline for pre-registration and abstract submission is 30 Apr 2002.

International Programme Committee

 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
 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)
 Boyko Ranguelov (Bulgaria)

Local Organising Committee

 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
 Aleksandr Vikulin

Travel to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Visa Requirements

All pre registered participants and accompanying persons who are not Russian citizens will receive official invitations in order to obtain a visas.

Accommodation in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Social Program

Field Trips

During Field Trips, participants will be acquainted with tsunami manifestation sites on the Pacific coast of Kamchatka and the most interesting geological sections showing key marker tephra layers and a tsunami deposits from prehistorical and historical events (including tsunami 1952 Kamchatka tsunami deposits).

Notice please!
All the Field Trips are one day trips. Helicopter trips are strongly depended on the very changeable Kamchatka weather. It is recommended for all participants who wish to take part in helicopter trips and volcano climbing to have warm waterproof wear (and footwear).

Provisional places to be visited (east coast of Kamchatka):

  1. Khalaktirka beach and Kotelnoe lake (bus; free for registered participants and accompanying persons)
  2. Mouth of Zupanovo river - Kronotsky bay (helicopter, $100)
  3. Mouth of Vahil’ - Osernaya river (helicopter, $100)

    Field trips map

    We also suggest a few “non-tsunami” field trips:

  4. Avacha volcano climbing (personal equipment required: tracking shoes, waterproof warm wear ($10)

       

  5. Valley of Geysers (helicopter, $100)

           

  6. Karimsky volcano; eruption is under way now (helicopter, $100)

           

Workshop Proceedings

The selected papers will be published in the Proceedings volumes in English and Russian. Manuscripts (in English up to 10 pages including black & white figures, 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman 12) should be submitted electronically not later than 30 Sep 2002.
Guidelines for authors will be available later.

All information.


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Workshop Co-conveners:


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
Design & programming: Sergey Kolesov ©2002.