[iris-bulk] AGU special session on Geohazards

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Dear colleagues -

We would like to draw your attention to the following, highly  
relevant, special session planned for the upcoming Fall AGU Meeting,  
to be held in San Francisco, December 15-19, 2008.  Abstract  
submission deadline in September 10, 2008, at 2359 UTM.  For more  
information, please visit: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/

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AGU Special Session Announcement:

U25: Integrated Geohazards along Continental Margins and Plate  
Boundary Zones

An ancillary but significant product of investigations along  
continental margins and plate boundary zones (e.g., through the NSF  
MARGINS Program, ODP/IODP, and related programs) has been a broader,  
highly integrated understanding of the scientific causes and resulting  
impacts of geohazards.  Examples include, but are not limited to, (1)  
rheologic and structural controls on plate boundary seismogenesis and  
tsunamigenesis; (2) stratigraphic, chemical, and geomechanical factors  
that promote weakening and failure; (3) climatic, tectonic, and  
anthropogenic influences on rates of sediment erosion, transport and  
deposition, and impacts on our coastlines, and (4) explosive  
volcanism, and the role of magma composition and volatile flux in  
eruptive behavior.  Although geologic settings may differ, they share  
many common processes and conditions that contribute to hazardous  
phenomena; therefore a broad, cross-disciplinary discussion could  
benefit many scientific communities.  To foster these discussions, we  
solicit contributions that address the wide range of margin-related  
geologic hazards, their causes, and their consequences.  Field,  
laboratory, and numerical studies are welcome.

Conveners:
Julia Morgan (Rice University)
Brandon Dugan (Rice University)
Eli Silver (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Cindy Ebinger (University of Rochester)
Susan Bilek (New Mexico Institute of Technology)


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