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
- P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Kamchatka Seismological Department of Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The scope of the workshop:
- Historical Catalogues and Databases
- Seismo-tectonics of Tsunami
- Numerical and Analytical Models of Local Tsunami Behavior
- Combination of Local Tsunamis with other Dangerous Oceanic Phenomena
- Mitigation and Counter-measures
- Risk Assessment
- Recent Local Tsunamis
- Tsunami Geology and Paleotsunamis
- Tsunami Measurement and Data Analysis
- Landslides and Other Sources
- 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
Visa Requirements
All pre registered participants and accompanying persons who are not Russian citizens will receive official invitations in order to obtain a visas.
Social Program
- Ice-breaker reception (free for registered participants and accompanying persons)
- Workshop Dinner ($20)
- Paratunka hot springs ($10)
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):
- Khalaktirka beach and Kotelnoe lake (bus; free for registered participants and accompanying persons)
- Mouth of Zupanovo river - Kronotsky bay (helicopter, $100)
- Mouth of Vahil’ - Osernaya river (helicopter, $100)
We also suggest a few “non-tsunami” field trips:
- Avacha volcano climbing (personal equipment required: tracking shoes, waterproof warm wear ($10)
- Valley of Geysers (helicopter, $100)
- 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.
Workshop Co-conveners:
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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
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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.
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