Annual Conference

Natural Disasters in Small Communities: How Can We Help?

When & Where:

The conference will be held on Saturday, March 29th & Sunday, March 30th, 2008, at the Ramada Hotel & Conference Center contiguously located to UB North Campus at 2402 North Forest Road, Getzville, NY 14068. All technical sessions will be held at this location.

Meeting Format:

This conference is the first of its kind for the Center for GeoHazards Studies and will draw participants from all over the country. Speakers will include experts from various areas of science, mathematics, engineering and other fields. Presentations will be in single-session format, with time allotted for lively group discussions.

Each conference day will include two "sessions" in which speakers in each session will make short presentations on their topic areas. Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes for the presentation and questions from the audience. In addition, each conference day will offer "keynote presentations" by experts in the field. Keynote speakers will deliver a 25 minute presentation, followed by 5 minutes for questions and answers and discussion.

Presenters must submit their abstracts (abstract forms available online by late fall 2007) by February 28, 2008. Abstracts will be available on CD at the conference.

We plan to submit manuscripts from this conference as a special volume of a scientific journal devoted to hazards (such as "Natural Hazards"). At the conference, we will provide details about submission deadlines and other information regarding the special issue.