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RIL glacial hazards activities

• Professor John M. Reynolds has presented invited keynote lectures at a number of international scientific conferences:
  • Glacial hazards and downstream effects of climate change on high mountain glaciers. High mountain glaciers and challenges caused by climate change, 8-10^th June 2009, Tromsø, Norway, Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • GLOF hazards in Bhutan and the management of glacial lakes in high mountain environments. High mountain glaciers and challenges caused by climate change, 8-10^th June 2009, Tromsø, Norway, Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Criteria for glacial hazard assessment. Glacier hazards, Permafrost hazards, and GLOFs in mountain areas: processes, assessment, prevention, mitigation. 10-13^th November 2009, GAPHAZ Workshop, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria (see our news item for more details).
  • Managing glacial hazards in a changing climate. International Glaciological Conference VICC 2010, Ice and climate change: a view from the South, Valdivia, Chile, 1-3^rd February 2010. CECS, Valdivia, Chile (see our news item for more details).
  • Assessing and managing glacial hazards in a changing climate. Regional climate risk resilience workshop: fostering resilience to remote geo-hazards, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 1-2^nd June 2010 (see our news item for more details).
• He acted as a co-convenor for a session on glacial hazards at the European Geosciences Union assembly in Vienna, 6-7^th May 2010.
• He is acting as co-ordinator to revise guidelines on glacial hazard assessment and management following the GAPHAZ workshop in Vienna, in November 2009.
• Professor Reynolds has been invited to present additional keynote talks at the following meetings:
  • 'Engineering mitigation measures for managing glacial hazards in the Cordillera Blanca' at a 3-day workshop in Carhuaz, Cordillera Blanca, Peru, on Managing Glacial Hazards in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 14-16^th July 2010. The meeting is being hosted by the Local Government of Carhuaz.
  • 'Glacier hazards and climate change', one of two keynote lectures at the meeting on Glacier hazards under accelerated change and climate uncertainty: impacts on population, infrastructure and ecosystems, and lessons for Patagonia, Santiago, Chile, 6-7^th September, and to participate in fieldwork in Patagonia afterwards.
  • 'New challenges in managing glacial hazards in a changing climate' at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting, 19-20^th November, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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