June 17-19, 2013
22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Risk Analysis
Society for Risk Analysis Europe
Trondheim, Norway
Cost and Registration: $879, open until filled
This conference will discuss societal risks from natural and industrial hazards, malicious attacks, financial breakdown, and epidemics. Topics include risk regulation and communication, stakeholder involvement, vulnerability and resilience in complex systems, organizational resilience, natural and technological hazard risk analysis, health and security threats, and complex decision making.
July 2-5, 2013
Geographic Information Forum 2013
University of Salzburg
Salzburg, Germany
Cost and Registration: $379 before May 25, open until filled
This forum will present GIS research with a focus on technology transfer. Topics include landslide susceptibility mapping, spatial modeling of climatic water balance indices, heat-related mortality in micro-urban heat islands, evacuating tsunami inundation zones, identifying and collecting geographical information with smartphones, and crime and hurricanes in Louisiana.
August 21-23, 2013
International Conference on Biodefense and Natural Disasters
OMICS Group
Orlando, Florida
Cost and Registration: $799 before May 29, open until filled
This conference will present new research in biological and environmental science. Topics include biological weapons, nuclear disasters, biodefense and emerging infectious diseases, applied biodefense research and technology, environmental hazards and natural disasters management, and catastrophic modeling.
August 27-29, 2013
Fourth International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
Society for Risk Analysis and Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
Cost and Registration: $551, open until filled
This conference will discuss decision making systems for risk analysis and crisis response. Topics include natural disasters and catastrophic accidents, public health, threats to social safety, debt crisis, terrorism, emergency risk, food safety, critical infrastructure protection, and experimental riskology.
August 27-31, 2013
International Conference on Geomorphology
International Association of Geomorphologists
Paris, France
Cost and Registration: $695, open until filled
This conference will present new research on landforms and the processes that shape them. Topics include human impacts on landscapes, geomorphic hazards, risk management and climate change, landslide risk assessment methods, mountain geomorphology, extreme events, and an assessment of volcanic landforms, processes, and hazards.
September 2-5, 2013
AFAC13 Conference
Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council and Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
Melbourne, Australia
Cost and Registration: $1,495 before June 28, open until filled
This conference will promote partnerships that result in long-term community resilience. Topics include large-scale flood management through community engagement, maintaining effective teamwork during large-scale events, identifying under-prepared residents in the wildland urban interface, long-term and ongoing impacts of disasters, and the changing future of emergency management.