Upcoming Meetings

  UPCOMING COMLAND MEETINGS & FIELD TRIPS
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  1.     A COMLAND Business meeting may be convened (to be confirmed during the Symposium). 
  2.     All enquiries should be directed to the Symposium Organisers as shown in the Symposium website:   8ISGE@csiro.au
 
  • South Africa:  South African Association of Geomorphologists (SAAG) Conference and field trip. 12-18 September 2019.  Proposed COMLAND session.  Eastern Cape region of South Africa.  Hosted by the University of Fort Hare.  First and Second Circulars.
 
  • Slovenia:  Thematic IGU Conference with special COMLAND Session.  24-26 September 2019,  University of Primorska in the town of Koper at the Slovenian (Adriatic) coast.  Theme:  "Transformation of Traditional Cultural Landscapes".  FIRST CIRCULAR (EN) contains information on venue, important dates, excursions, scientific and organising committee.  (FIRST CIRCULAR - FR). 
    1. All information about the conference can be found on the following web page: http://lucc.zrc-sazu.si/Koper2019.aspx
    2. Details on GRANTS.   
    3. Abstract submission has started.  The electronic application form can be reached here: http://lucc.zrc-sazu.si/Koper2019/AbstractSubmission.aspx
    4. When submitting the abstract author will have to choose the “Topic”.  COMLAND has proposed two topics: a) Past and present land degradation in the Mediterranean and other environments and b) Land management practices and global change; but also some of the other topics may cover land degradation issues.  There has been no formal alignment of IGU commissions with conference topic titles in order to encourage people in different IGU commissions to interact as much as possible.
    5. A COMLAND Meeting will be scheduled during the conference.
    6. The Registration form will be available from 1 April 2019.  EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES 15 MAY 2019.
    7. Conference participants may take part in a two-day post-conference excursion to south-eastern Slovenia from 27th to 28th September (organised by the IGU Commission on Land Use and Land Cover Change).
    8. Researchers are invited to "spread the word" on this event amongst other COMLANDers and professional colleagues who might be interested in this event.

  • Turkey:  34th International Geographical Congress - Istanbul (17-21 August 2020) with (proposed) special COMLAND session.  The Conference web page (above) has a link to the 2nd Announcement.  Further information on COMLAND's involvement will be posted soon.







OTHER EVENTS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGISTS EVENTS
INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION EVENTS
COMLAND SUPPORTED EVENTS
  • Israel:  Proposed Conference on Fire Effect on Soils (Jan/Feb 2019)



















Please contact the Chair of COMLAND (Andrea Vacca) or the Secretary (Owen Graham) if members of COMLAND are proposing any field trips / meetings.