"Change cannot be avoided. Change provides the opportunity for
innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity."
- Keshavan Nair
Introduction
Mankind is facing changes of unknown magnitude and speed in the 21st century. We are just beginning to grasp the magnitude of our impact on the environment and the related risks for our societies – and the whole globe.
This century will be a century of changes – of changing environments. We have a choice to partly control these changes by our present actions; and to estimate and prepare for / adapt to these global changes. As more scientific evidence accumulates about the magnitude and speed of past environmental changes from sedimentary histories and sediment archives we can learn to manage present and future changes. This century must be a century of concerted research and actions in order to control and adapt to environmental, economical and social changes – involving scientists from all disciplines – in particular water-related and earth surface processes sciences.
On behalf of the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE) we would like to invite you to Christchurch in December 2008.
- To share your knowledge about “Sediment dynamics in changing environments”.
- To inspire and to be inspired to study Erosion and Sediment Dynamics.
- To work together for a better future.
Scientific Contributions and Proceedings Publication
The Proceedings of the Symposium will be pre-published as an IAHS ‘Red Book’. The price of the volume will be included in the registration fee and a copy of the Red Book will be provided to each participant.
Participants wishing to contribute a paper should submit an abstract in English (maximum 500 words). After reviewing the abstracts, papers of 8-10 pages length will be invited for publication in the ‘Red Book’.
Registration Information
On-line registration is now open and available.
As well provided in the registration area is general information regarding New Zealand, Christchurch and the University.
Venue and Social Programme
The Symposium will be hosted at University of Canterbury campus. The University of Canterbury is located in the heart of the Christchurch suburb of Ilam, located approximately 4 kilometres west of the City Centre. There are excellent facilities nearby and direct bus transport linkages to the city centre. A wide range of accommodation options exist nearby to meet most budgets.
The mid-symposium field trip will take us to the gravel bed rivers of the Canterbury Plains which act as a conveyor belt transporting sediment out of the uplifting Southern Alps into the Pacific Ocean. We will also visit the Canterbury coastline and observe the intense coastal erosion and transport happening in that area. Several evening events will be included in the conference programme, including an Ice-Breaker reception and a Conference Dinner.
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