Local Organizers

• P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
• Kamchatka Seismological Department of Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The scope of the workshop:

1. Historical Catalogues and Databases
2. Seismo-tectonics of Tsunami
3. Numerical and Analytical Models of Local Tsunami Behavior
4. Combination of Local Tsunamis with other Dangerous Oceanic Phenomena
5. Mitigation and Counter-measures
6. Risk Assessment
7. Recent Local Tsunamis
8. Tsunami Geology and Paleotsunamis
9. Tsunami Measurement and Data Analysis
10. Landslides and Other Sources
11. 1952 Great Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami

The final deadline for pre-registration and abstract submission is 30 Apr 2002.

International Programme Committee

 Sergey Lappo (Russia) - chairman of the International Programme Committee

 Joanne (Jody) Bourgeois (U.S.A.) - vice-chairman of the International Programme Committee

 Mikhail Mashkovstsev (Russia) - governor of Kamchatka

 Gerassimos Papadopoulos (Greece)

 Costas Synolakis (U.S.A.)

 Kenji Satake (Japan)

 Francois Schindele (France)

 Sergey Fedotov (Russia)

 Evgeny Gordeev (Russia)

 Viacheslav Gusiakov (Russia)

 Boris Ivanov (Russia)

 Boris Levin (Russia)

 Efim Pelinovsky (Russia)

 Yuri Shokin (Russia)

 Oleg Starovoit (Russia)

 Iouri Oliounine (IOC/UNESCO)

 Boyko Ranguelov (Bulgaria)

Local Organising Committee

 Evgeny Gordeev - chair of the Local Organising Committee

 Mikhail Nosov - vice-chair of the Local Organising Committee

 Leonid Chubarov

 Tatiana Pinegina

 Vadim Saltykov

 Elena Sasorova

 Olga Yakovenko

 Aziz Aliskerov

 Aleksandr Vikulin

Travel to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Visa Requirements

Accommodation in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Social Program

• Ice-breaker reception (free for registered participants and accompanying persons)
• Workshop Dinner ($20)
• Paratunka hot springs ($10)

Field Trips

During Field Trips, participants will be acquainted with tsunami manifestation sites on the Pacific coast of Kamchatka and the most interesting geological sections showing key marker tephra layers and a tsunami deposits from prehistorical and historical events (including tsunami 1952 Kamchatka tsunami deposits).

Notice please!
All the Field Trips are one day trips. Helicopter trips are strongly depended on the very changeable Kamchatka weather. It is recommended for all participants who wish to take part in helicopter trips and volcano climbing to have warm waterproof wear (and footwear).

Provisional places to be visited (east coast of Kamchatka):

1. Khalaktirka beach and Kotelnoe lake (bus; free for registered participants and accompanying persons)
2. Mouth of Zupanovo river - Kronotsky bay (helicopter, $100)
3. Mouth of Vahil’ - Osernaya river (helicopter, $100)

   
   

   We also suggest a few “non-tsunami” field trips:
   

4. Avacha volcano climbing (personal equipment required: tracking shoes, waterproof warm wear ($10)

      

5. Valley of Geysers (helicopter, $100)

          

6. Karimsky volcano; eruption is under way now (helicopter, $100)

          

Workshop Proceedings

All information.

• 1'st Announcement
• Accomodation
• 2'st Announcement
• Travel to Petropavlovsk
• Visas to Russia
• Workshop program
• Workshop proceedings

		Main		Information		Pre-registration & abstract submission		Database search		Administration

Workshop Co-conveners:
Dr. Joanne (Jody) Bourgeois (U.S.A.) Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Box 351310, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, U.S.A. Tel: 1(206) 685-2443  Fax: 1(206) 543-0489	Dr. Mikhail Nosov (Russia) Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia Tel: 7(095) 939-3698  Fax: 7(095) 124-8713
Design & programming: Sergey Kolesov ©2002.