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Making Maps to Reduce Vulnerability: does it work?

Young Researchers Soapbox Session

Clear and Present Danger

Thursday 07 - Friday 08 September, 2006. UEA
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Clear and Present Danger
Thursday 7th September 2-4pm
Venue: ZICER Exhibition and Seminar Rooms, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

A Panel Discussion relating to the perception and communication of risk associated with Natural Hazards at the BA Festival of Science 2006 (Norwich).

Aims
This session will bring together researchers with a variety of perspectives and experiences across an interesting array of natural hazards. The discussion will focus on commonalities of perspective and focus on potentially appropriate solutions. This discussion is aimed at interested members of the general public and will also feature real problems that face researchers in this field today.
Young Researchers Soapbox Session.
Thursday 7th September: 7pm -9pm
Venue: TBA

Along with poster abstracts young researchers will be invited to submit a two minute (or less) audio (visual) presentation where they summarise what they feel to be the key issues relating to ‘Volcanic Risk Reduction’. These will be played (or performed) at a Venue to be arranged. A short (and hopefully lively) debate will follow – designed to bring out common strands and themes among new researchers!
Making Maps to Reduce Vulnerability: does it work?
Friday 8th September 2006 : 9a.m. – 5pm.
Venue: ZICER Exhibition and Seminar Rooms, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

The goal of this workshop is to explore the role that maps play in mitigating and responding to volcanic eruptions and other natural hazards. In a friendly and informal atmosphere we will explore the state-of-the art in constructing and displaying geospatial information, evaluate the best means for communicating this information and take a look at lessons learned from researchers in the flood risk community in particular.

Both the morning and afternoon sessions will be a mixture of keynote talks (including Richie Robertson, co-author of the Volcanic Hazard Atlas of the Caribbean), research talks and informal discussion.

There will also be a chance to view UEA’s ‘Social Science for the Environment, Virtual Reality and Experimental Laboratories’. These state-of-the-art laboratories offer some interesting opportunities for visualisation of volcanic hazards and Andrew Lovett and Katy Appleton will demo a volcanic example.
Organising Committee
Jenni Barclay (j.barclay@uea.ac.uk)
Sian Crosweller (s.crosweller@uea.ac.uk)

Registration
In keeping with the ethos of the network we propose a low Registration Fee for those registering before the 1st of August.

Full Registration: £10.00 (including an unprecedented opportunity to sample UEA Catering at coffee and lunch).

Abstracts
All abstracts will be considered, however, oral presentations will be rather limited. There will be a long poster session around lunchtime AND we offer ‘Young Researchers’ the opportunity to have the poster printed free of charge at UEA. Fifteen abstracts will be selected for FREE poster printing (and you can take it home as a souveneir of your time in Norwich, these will be A1 Size).

These should be submitted in electronic form by 1st August 2006 to Sian Crosweller (s.crosweller@uea.ac.uk).

It is a condition of the FREE poster printing that you submit something to the Young Researchers Soapbox session! This should also be submitted to Sian at the School of Environmental Sciences, unless you prefer to ‘go live’ with your contribution.

In keeping with the running of this Workshop within the School of Environmental Sciences there will be absolutely NO free plastic bags, NO name badges (make and bring your own, but we might offer some emergency ones on recycled card), NO gratuitious bits of paper or FREE BIROS. So please bring your own.

The exciting science in this session will be in NO WAY compromised by this approach and an abstract volume will be available.

Comments and questions can be addressed to (Program to follow in August):

Jenni Barclay (j.barclay@uea.ac.uk)
Sian Crosweller (s.crosweller@uea.ac.uk)

 

  
 
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