EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 2003

Key Note & Medal Lectures

Further Key Note Lectures

 

Monday, 07 April 2003
Time Venue Speaker Chairperson
19:30-20:30 IRIS European Commissions - DG Research
J. Dent: Mitigation of Climate Induced Natural Hazards (focus on floods) in Europe
A. Becker: Integration approach for model supported river basin management in a European context
D. Lettenmaier: US research dealing with climate change impacts on hydrological extremes
R. Lawford: US research to improve river basin management and water cycle research
A. Ghazi
19:30-20:30 Apollon EGS Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture
K. Polzin: Explorations of Ocean Mixing: Small Scales with Big Implications
D. Webb
19:30-20:30 Hermes P. Eagleson: Darwinian Expression of Vegetation Form and Function P. O'Kane
19:30-20:30 Athena EUG Arthur Holmes Medal Lecture
C. Langmuir: A New Upper Mantle Composition and the Origin of Mantle Heterogeneity
J. Ludden

 

Tuesday, 08 April 2003
Time Venue Speaker Chairperson
19:30-20:30 IRIS European Commissions - DG Research
D. Viegas: Forest Fire research in Europe
P.L. Andrews: Wildland Fire research in USA
P.Y. Le Traon: The European contribution to GODAE
J. Miller: Some US R&D contributions to improve global oceanographic forecasting
A. Ghazi
19:30-20:30 Apollon EUG Honorary Fellow Lecture
C. Jaupart: Physical Controls on Volcanic Eruptions: Challenges for the Future
M. Coleman
19:30-20:30 Hermes EGS Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal Lecture
P. Westbroek: The evolution of limestone, from the Archean to the Recent
J.-P. Gattuso
19:30-20:30 Athena AGU Langbein Lecture
T. Dunne: River Restoration as a Challenge to Hydrological Science
L. Smith
19:30-20:30 R3 EUG Outstanding Young Scientist Award Talks
Y. Najman: The sediment record of orogenesis: an example from the Himalaya
A. Oganov: Quantum Geophysics: What can Quantum Mechanics Tell us About the Deep Earth?
J. Ludden
19:30-20:30 R4 BGA/RAS Bullerwell Lecture
J.M. Kendall: Tectonics of the lowermost mantle
P. Young

 

Thursday, 10 April 2003
Time Venue Speaker Chairperson
19:30-20:30 IRIS EGS Vening Meinesz Medal Lecture
V. Dehant: Nutations of the Earth and Mars
A. Cazenave 
19:30-20:30 Apollon AGU Rachel Carson Lecture
J. McKenzie: The Search for Life within the Subseafloor Ocean: A Journey to "The Edge of the Sea"
M. J. McPhaden
19:30-20:30 Hermes EGS John Dalton Medal Lecture
S. Sivapalan: Predictions in Ungauged Basins: Vehicle for Advancing a New Hydrologic Theory at the Basin Scale
G. Bloeschl
19:30-20:30 Athena EUG Alfred Wegener Medal Lecture
X. Le Pichon: The North Anatolian Fault And Its Westward Propagation
J. Ludden

 

Friday, 11 April 2003
Time Venue Speaker Chairperson
19:30-20:30 IRIS    
19:30-20:30 Apollon    
19:30-20:30 Hermes EGS David Bates Medal Lecture
E. Grün: Dust Astronomy
Y. Langevin
19:30-20:30 Athena EGS Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Lecture
U. Frisch: Back to the primordial universe by a monge-ampere-kantorovich mass transportation method
J. Kurths
       

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