Bryan Lovell Meeting 2016 - Water, hazards and risk: Managing uncertainty in a changing world

The Geological Society are pleased to announce the first of their new series of flagship conferences, the Bryan Lovell Meetings.

This is a new style of interdisciplinary meeting aimed at bringing together expertise from a wide range of professions and specialisms to contribute to the understanding of societal challenges and how science can help address them. This meeting brings together the Society’s chosen scientific themes for 2016 (Year of Water) and 2017 (Year of Risk) through a wide-ranging programme that will promote cross-fertilisation of ideas and information across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The meeting will focus on the geoscientific aspects of water and risk and how they intersect in the context of societal challenges such as environmental change and water-related geohazards, including flooding, tsunami, sinkholes and mudflows. It will also address human and economic impacts, communication, perception and awareness-raising around these issues, in the UK and globally.

An important aspect of the meeting will be to explore case studies and to consider what insights and understanding can be shared across sectors and applications.

Conference themes

• Managing uncertainty and water-related geohazards in the geological realm including groundwater flooding, gravity flows, sinkholes and tsunami
• Water and environmental change: improving understanding, resilience and communication of the risks, including those related to climate change (drought, sea-level change, flooding, glacier retreat, ocean acidification), waste disposal and groundwater contamination
• Improving perception, awareness and effective communication of the risks posed by water-related geohazards
• Risks posed by water-related geohazards to people and society, including water security, risk to corporate and personal capital, engineering of the subsurface, ongoing urbanisation and the water-energy nexus

Registration

You can either register online for this conference at http://bit.ly/2e8DW6l, or you complete the PDF registration form, and return it to the Conference Office.

IES Members are entitled to a £50 discount on full price tickets. To secure this discount, select 'Other Societies Member' in the 'Your status' drop-down list on the booking page, and write 'IES' in the 'Fellowship Number' box.

Further details for the event can be found at: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Lovell16