Second circular (http://landslide.jp)

5th International Symposium on Submarine MassMovements and Their Consequences(http://landslide.jp)
Symposium: 24th (Mon) - 26th (Wed), October 2011
Field excursions: 23rd (Sun) and 27th (Thu)–28th (Fri), October 2011
Kyoto University
The 5th International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and TheirConsequences will be held on 24th - 26th, October 2011, in Kyoto, Japan. Field
excursions will be organized on 23rd and 27th - 28th October to visit recent active
landslide and impressive fossil outcrops of submarine mass movements (see details
below). This symposium is part of the International Geoscience Programme IGCP-585,
also known as E-MARSHAL project (http://www.igcp585.org), a joint endeavor ofUNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences. The main objective of thisevent is to bring a world-wide perspective of submarine mass movements and theirconsequences by assembling state-of-the-art contributions from international
researchers of academic institutions and the offshore industry, and to stimulate theresearch in Asian countries. This symposium provides full coverage of the scientific andengineering aspects of this type of marine and coastal geo-hazards.
(A) Conference Themes:
1. Submarine landslides in active margins vs. passive margins
2. Geologic and tectonic controls on submarine landslides
3. Sequential stratigraphic significance of submarine landslides
4. Impact of mass transport deposits and slope failure on offshore operations
5. Seismic activity related to submarine landslides
6. Landslide tsunamis
7. Significance of gas hydrates in submarine slope failure8. New tools for investigation of submarine slope failures and ocean drilling
9. Geotechnical investigation of submarine slopes
10. Risk and hazard assessment of submarine landslides
11. Relevance of climate change in submarine slope instability
12. Analogue and numerical modeling approaches of submarine mass movements(B) Keynote Speakers:
Opening Keynote Speech:
Kyoji Sassa (Executive Director of International Consortium on Landslides)
Introductory note on IGCP585:
Roger Urgeles (Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC))
Thematic keynotes:
Brandon Dugan (Rice University, USA)
Andrew Lin (National Central University , Taiwan)
Farrokh Nadim (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Norway)
Gian Andrea Pini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Kenji Satake (University of Tokyo, Japan)(alphabetical order)(C) Venue and Dates:
Shiran Kaikan Yamauchi Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPANSymposium: 24th (Mon) - 26th (Wed), October 2011
Field excursions: 23rd (Sun) and 27th (Thu)–28th (Fri), October 2011(D) Symposium schedule
23rd (Sun): Pre-field excursion and icebreaker,
24th (Mon): Registration, morning and evening sessions and keynote speeches,
25th (Tue): Registration, morning and evening sessions and keynote speeches,
26th (Fri): Registration, morning and evening sessions and keynote speeches,(There will be a social dinner during the symposium, during which the best poster andthe best paper will be awarded)
27th (Sat)-28th (Sun): Post-field excursion(E) Official language:
English(F) Field Excursions (http://www.landslide.jp/field.shtml):(1) Pre-field excursion, One day field trip to Active Landslides in Osaka (23 October,2011)
Tentative schedule: 8:00 Participants meet at JR Kyoto Station. 8:30 Depart Kyoto
Station by bus, 11:00-15:00 Lunch and Field observation, 17:30 Arrive Kyoto
Fee: ~6000 yen(2) Post-field excursion, Two day field trip to Pleistocene Submarine Landslides in theBoso Region (27-28 October, 2011)
Tentative schedule:
27 Oct. 8:00 Participants meet at JR Kyoto Station, 8:30 Depart the Kyoto station ofShinkansen (Super express train), 11:00 Arrive at the Tokyo station and drive to Boso bybus, Lunch, 13:00-17:00 Field observation (Stop 1: Submarine landslide associated withearthquake-induced liquefied sediment flow; Stop 2: chaotic rock body apparently dueto methane explosion), 17:30 arrive at Hotel.
28 Oct. End of the field trip. The bus will stop at Haneda International Airport and JR
Tokyo station around noon (about 2 hours to Narita International Airport by shuttle busor train, about 1 hour flight or ~3 hours by Shinkansen to Kansai International Airport,.
Transportation fee from Haneda Airport or Tokyo station to Narita, Kansai or any otherdestination is not included in the field trip fee.
Fee: ~35000 yen
Further field trip details will be announced on the conference website(http://landslide.jp) later.
(G) Registration

Until 1 April, 2011, Early bird 55,000 Jpn yen (student 25,000 yen)
After 1 April, 2011, Regular fee 65,000 Jpn yen (student 30,000 yen)
The registration system will be soon set up on our website (http://landslide.jp).
The registration fee includes an icebreaker, an official dinner party, lunch meals, coffee
breaks and the Springer book.
Cancellation policy
50% refund on registration fees on all cancellations made before 15 May, 2011
(cancellations will still receive the book with the conference articles). Please, foradditional questions contact info@landslide.jp
Student support
We are planning to establish a series of grants for students and participants fromdeveloping countries to attend the conference. Grant information will be soon
displayed on our website and will also be sent to symposium participants as soon as it
becomes available.
Accommodation
There are many hotels in Kyoto from 5000 yen to 50000 yen. Additional hotel
information will be soon displayed on our website (http://landslide.jp).
Entry Visa
If you need an invitation letter for visa application, please contact us(info@landslide.jp) and we will get back to you with a customized letter.
(H) Abstract submission:
Please visit <http://landslide.jp> and submit your less than 300 words abstract by
14th, October 2010. Authors should suggest the name of 4 potential reviewers thathave agreed to review their papers in advance.
Authors of abstracts submitted before this deadline have the possibility to submit afull-paper manuscript for a book published by Springer (see below), following the threesuccessful earlier volumes. Abstracts that do not intend to submit a full paper may doso until September 1st 2011.
(I) Conference Publication:
For this symposium, a book will be published by Springer as the fourth volume of thesuccessful publication series ‘Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences’.
This book contains peer reviewed papers submitted in advance of the conference, andwill be distributed to the conference participants upon registration. The two previous
volumes are indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge.
For a glimpse of the third volume, please visit:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/j1wp66/(J) Climate and Travel Information
See http://www.kyoto.travel/(K) Important dates:•14 Oct. 2010: Deadline for abstract submission (with intention to submit a fullpaper). Authors suggest the name of 4 potential reviewers that have agreed toreview the paper in advance.

•15 Nov. 2010: Notification of acceptance (or rejection) of abstract and thenames of reviewers confirmed by editors•15 Nov. 2010 - 01 Apr. 2011: Author’s working period (see below for author’sresponsibility in this period).

•01 Apr. 2011: Author's deadline of final (corrected) papers submitted to editorswith revision notes (must be accompanied by an early bird registration).
Reviewers obligatorily appear on the acknowledgments. Author’s preferenceon Oral/Poster presentations*.

•01 Sep. 2011: Final deadline for Poster abstract submission (no full-papersubmission) *.

*Authors of full-papers have preference in presenting their work orally
Authors' responsibility during the working period (15 Nov. 2010 - 01 Apr. 2011):

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Production of full-paper manuscript•Manuscript submission to reviewers and editors, no later than 15 Feb.

•Receive solicited corrections and signed forms from reviewers, no later than 15Mar. Authors must report this to the editors.

•Appropriate revision works after reviewer’s comments•Submission of revised manuscript (with reviewers’ notes and forms) to theeditors, no later than 01 Apr.

(L) For additional information contact:
info@landslide.jp(M) Organizing committee:
Yasuhiro YAMADA (Chair; Kyoto University),
Kiichiro KAWAMURA (Secretary; Fukada Geological Institute)
Juichiro ASHI (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo)
Ken IKEHARA (AIST, Geological Survey of Japan),
Katsumi KAMEMURA (Fukada Geological Institute)Toshiya KANAMATSU (JAMSTEC)
Arito SAKAGUCHI (JAMSTEC)
Shinji SASSA (Port and Airport Research Institute)
Takae TAKAGI (Fukada Geological Institute)Takeshi TSUJI (Kyoto University),
Koji YAMAMOTO (JOGMEC)
Yuzuru YAMAMOTO (JAMSTEC)International Advisory board:
Roger URGELES (Institute of Marine Sciences (CISC), Spain)
David MOSHER (Natural Resources Canada - Geological Survey of Canada, Canada)
Jason CHAYTOR (USGS - Woods Hole, USA)
Michael STRASSER (MARUM, Bremen University, Germany)
Jacques LOCAT (Laval University, Canada)

Norio OYAGI (Fukada Geological Institute, Japan)
Kyoji SASSA (Kyoto University, Japan)
Symposium Supporters:
IGCP project 585

International Union of Geological Sciences

UNESCO

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program- Management International (IODP-MI)

Geological Society of Japan (Co-hosting)Society of Exploration Geophysicists of JapanThe Japanese Geotechnical SocietyJapan Association for Quaternary Research

The Sedimentological Society of Japan

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Japan Society of Engineering GeologyJapan Society for Active Fault Studies

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The Japan Landslide SocietySeismological Society of Japan

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Japan Society of Civil EngineersJapanese Committee for Rock Mechanics
Further announcements on the symposium will be circulated via the website<http://landslide.jp>. Contact address is “info@landslide.jp”.

Invitation Message from IGCP-585 Chairs,
Dear colleagues,

IGCP-511 to IGCP-585

The very successful IGCP project 511 (Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences) has ended
and IGCP project 585(E-MARSHAL: Earth’s continental MARgins: aSsessing the geoHazard fromsubmarine Landslides) has begun. Project 585 will continue to support submarine landslide researchand October, 24 to 26, 2011 will mark the occasion of the 5th “International Symposium on Submarine
Mass Movements and Their Consequences”. The four previous successful events in Nice (France), Oslo(Norway), Santorini Is. (Greece) and Austin, TX (USA) were organized in the frame of project IGCP-511
and this year will represent the passage to the recently funded IGCP-585, supported by International
Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO). During the five years of Project 511, the “submarine landslides” community
grew both in terms of origin of affiliates and themes being challenged. In 2011, the “InternationalSymposium on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences” moves to Kyoto (Japan) andwithout a doubt this will further enlarge the size of this forum and our community. The conference will
include various themes in relation to submarine landslides, such as process understanding, gas hydrates,
earthquakes, new tools and techniques, hazard and risk estimation and relation to climate change thatwill be led by keynote lectures from the most prominent scientists in our community. In addition we will
have our panel debates in various “hot topics” of submarine landslide research. We expect this willcontribute to significant knowledge transfer in the various themes proposed by the conference. We also
hope that this will be an important opportunity for exciting new ventures in “Submarine LandslidesResearch”.

We hope to meet you all in Kyoto!

IGCP-585 chairs
Roger Urgeles, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
David Mosher, GSC, Halifax, Canada
Jason Chaytor, USGS, Woods Hole, USA
Michael Strasser, MARUM, Bremen, Germany