Conference Programme
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Day 1: Tuesday 16th September
From 08:30: Registration opens at Cloth Hall Court
9:15 - 10:45: PGR/ECR Forum
9:15 - 12:00: Exec Committee meeting
Refreshment Break
11:00-12:00 Professional Geomorphologists workshop. 'Soil to sea thinking: the emerging strategic application of geomorphology.' Join the committee for professional geomorphology for a discussion about the changing role of geomorphology in the UK, and how our approach to applying it is evolving.
Lunch
Talk Session 1
13:00: Conference opening and welcome.
13:15: Chorley Award - Sophie Horton. The consequence of tectonism on marine terrace preservation, and the importance of contemporary process.
13:45: Jon Tunnicliffe - Cyclone-Driven Sediment Flux and Floodplain Response in Tairawhiti, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
14:00: Carolyn Cload - Effects of flow history on bifurcation stability.
14:15: Christopher Keylock - Geomorphological fluid dynamics: Why small-scale processes matter.
14:30: Rebecca Hodge - The impact of cohesive material on gravel entrainment.
14:45: Edwin Baynes - Carbonate bedrock channel erosion dynamics inhibit weathering effect on bedrock erodibility.
Refreshment break
Talk Session 2
15:30: Hywel Griffiths - The processes and poetry of river potholes: reflections on communicating geomorphology.
15:45: Josephine Westlake - A new assessment of flood risk in York over the last 6000 years using instrumental, historical and palaeo flood records.
16:00: Martin Dawson - Progressing for the Future: The First Quarter of the 21st Century in Fluvial Geomorphology.
16:15: Meet the Fellows.
17.30-18.30: Frost Reception- Merchants Hall- and poster session
Day 2: Wednesday 17th September
08:30-09:00: Refreshments
Talk Session 3. (Chair: Josh Wolstenholme)
09:00: Kirkby Award: Wren Raming: Limits to Knickzone Retreat and Bedrock River Incision on the Hawaiian Islands
09:30: Matthew Morris - Seeing through Nature’s Complexity to Understand Landscape Evolution.
09:45: Peter Downs: Simulating coarse fluvial sediment transport under climate change.
10:00: Jingtao Lai - Glacially driven drainage divide migration and landscape response times in glaciated mountain ranges.
10:15: Stefan Baternay - Tectonics, Climate, and Time: What Slope Asymmetry Reveals about Earth and Mars.
Refreshment break
Talk Session 4
11:00: Sweeting Award - Sophie Snowball. The role of geomorphology in historic landfill waste and coastal pollution
11:15: Adam Wright - Glaciofluvial Geomorphology on Mars: The Hydrological Evolution of a Valley System in Northwestern Arabia Terra.
11:30-12:00: Poster lightning talks
Lunch & Poster Session
13:45-14:30: Linton Award - Dave Thomas. Accumulation, organisation, dispersal and timing: A few things we have learned in the last 50 years about dryland aeolian landscape geomorphology (and some significant uncertainties).
Cuchlaine King Symposium
14:30-15:00: Andres Payo Garcia: Numerical predictions of how Earth surface processes and landforms might evolve over the next half century.
Refreshment break
15:30: Lizzie Dingle: What controls the timescale of glacial legacy in postglacial landscapes?
16:00: Irina Overeem: Glacial pace? Not quite — these icy landscapes are now changing in real time.
17:30 Self-Guided walk
18:00: Conference dinner: Royal Armouries. Food served from 19:00.
Day 3: Thursday 18th September
08:30-09:00: Refreshments
Talk Session 5
09:00: Warwick Award - Lisa Mol - Geomorphology in war zones: current challenge.
09:30: Manudeo Singh: Rapid rewetting is rapidly degrading some of the world’s dryland.
09:45: Janet Hooke: Dynamics and patterns of morphological change in dryland channels of southeast Spain; is a desertification signal evident?
10:00: Grigorios Vasilopoulos - The role of Artisanal Small-scale Mining on the dispersal of contaminated sediment.
10:15: Haris Lateef - Decade-Long Impacts of Mining-Related Dam Failures on Sediment Transport and Water Quality in the Doce River: A Multitemporal Remote Sensing Analysis
Refreshment break
Talk session 6 (Chair: Scott Watson)
11:00: David Evans: Glacitectonic bedrock rafts, rubble terrain and substrate groove ploughing – the erosive impact of ice sheets on soft and deeply weathered bedrock terrain
11:15: David Milledge: Automated Landslide Mapping for Emergency Response and Scientific Research.
11:30: Suryodoy Ghoshal - Co-seismic Landslides as Drivers of Landscape Evolution: A Process-Based Modelling Approach.
11:45: Varyl Thorndycraft: Sonic Geomorphology
Lunch & BSG annual meeting
Talk session 7 (Chair: Beth Mroz)
14:00: Angela Gurnell: When and how do beavers change river form and dynamics?
14:15: Josh Ahmed: Oxbow lakes as preferential pathways
14:30: Adam Hartley: Quantifying the impacts of rewilding on hydrological extremes (floods and droughts)
14:45: Pei Xue: Geomorphological controls on riverflow sensitivity
15:00-15:30: Closing remarks and departure