StormCon: The North American Surface Water Quality Conference and Exposition—Orlando, Florida: August 3-7, 2008.
StormCon provides the latest stormwater program management, best management practices (BMPs) performance case studies, research, technology, and services in an educational training setting for those involved in surface-water quality. The conference is attended by thousands of stormwater management professionals.
stevedg@forester.net
http://www.StormCon.com
Homeland Defense Journal Training Conference: The Future of Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Telework Conference—Washington, D.C.: August 6-7, 2008.
This Conference will bring together government officials, business continuity planners, emergency responders, security personnel, and the private sector to address developing a COOP and telework plan. Agency progress and goals, teleworking benefits and issues, and the future of COOP and telework planning also will be discussed.
customerservice@homelanddefensejournal.com
http://www.coopteleworkconference.com
Next-Generation Business Continuity: Moving from Disaster Recovery to Constant Availability—Washington, D.C.: August 13, 2008.
This half-day seminar will highlight strategies and new technologies for the resiliency, protection, and constant availability of information technology services. Discussions will shed light on ways to synchronize data and disaster recovery processes with next-generation technology. Government and industry speakers will provide insight into ways comprehensive business continuity plans have replaced data and disaster recovery.
http://www.gtsi.com/cms/events/tls/default.aspx?ShopperID=
Seismic Risk 2008—Earthquakes in Northwestern Europe—Liège, Belgium: September 11-12, 2008.
This colloquium is an opportunity for seismologists, engineers, and architects to discuss topics such as the potential for significant seismic events to occur in Europe, the direct effect such an event would have on building stock, and the associated socio-economic impacts. Specific problems in low- to moderate-risk seismic regions will be examined.
Seismic-risk@misc.ulg.ac.be
http://www.argenco.ulg.ac.be/seismic-risk-2008.php
European Geosciences Union Topical Conference Series: 10th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms —Nicosia, Cyprus: September 22-24, 2008.
The objective of the 2008 Conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the present state of Mediterranean storm knowledge and advances needed in related research and application disciplines—including the nature and physical processes of these events; expected changes relating to climate change; advanced observation techniques, monitoring and forecasting; relationships to coupled surface processes and effects (with particular emphasis on floods and landslides); and socio-economical implications.
plinius10@cs.ucy.ac.cy
http://meetings.copernicus.org/plinius10/
Reducing Firefighter Deaths and Injuries: Changes in Concept, Policy, and Practice—Fairfax, Virginia: September 22 to October 3, 2008.
This two-week online symposium focuses on the high rate of firefighter deaths and injuries. The free symposium will feature papers from a broad range of experts, including physicians, safety trainers in non-fire occupations, city managers, fire officials from countries with lower death/injury rates, university researchers, leading U.S. fire chiefs, and labor officials.
https://www.riskinstitute.org/peri/content/view/288/73/
Ninth Workshop on Three-Dimensional Modeling of Seismic Waves Generation, Propagation, and Their Inversion—Miramare–Treiste, Italy : September 22 to October 4, 2008.
The workshop will provide training in advanced research and design methodology in fundamental earth evolution and dynamics. Training also will be available for numerous applied problems, such as prospecting mineral resources, estimating and mitigating possible seismic hazards, developing tsunami warning systems, and others. These methodologies are based on a deep understanding of the physics of seismic wave generation by natural and artificial sources and the propagation of these waves through complicated earth structures.
smrl965@ictp.it
http://cdsagenda5.ictp.it/full_display.php?email=0&ida=a07174
Third Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay: Science, Hazard, Engineering, and Risk—Hayward, California: October 22-24, 2008.
This conference aims to unify information developed since the 1992 conference on earthquake hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area and make it public. Activities and publications will capitalize on the interest in earthquake hazards and risk that has been generated by the 140th anniversary of the 1868 Hayward Fault earthquake. In addition to technical sessions, the conference will include a public forum, field trips, and tutorials for educators.
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/news/eastbayconference.htm
Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2008)—Sliema, Malta: October 26-31, 2008.
The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2008) continues an event series covering a broad spectrum of systems- and network-related topics. This conference covers fundamentals of wireless, high speed, sensor, mobile, and ad hoc networks; security and policy-based systems; and education systems. Topics target design, implementation, testing, use, tools, and lessons learned for these networks and systems.
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICSNC08.html
Children and the Law: International Approaches to Children and Their Vulnerabilities—Prato, Italy: September 7-10, 2009.
This international conference will bring together practitioners, policy contributors, advocates and researchers from welfare, criminology, law, policing, health, and mental health to examine the vulnerabilities of children and young people and the ways systems that respond to those at risk should be reshaped to better protect their rights and interests.
katy.symmons@med.monash.edu.au
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/socialwork/conference09/