JSPS London : Upcoming JSPS Event: Contourites and Ocean Hazards: Slope Instability and Tsunami Genesis

Upcoming

JSPS Event: Contourites and Ocean Hazards: Slope Instability and Tsunami Genesis

09 May 2023

June 2^nd 2023

The Lyell Centre, Heriot Watt University

A special seminar supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme will be held in association with the 4^th Deep Water Circulation Research Conference (4DWC). Topics presented at the 4DWC at the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University (24-26^th May 2023) will be reprised for discussion at this seminar. The seminar will be held both in-person and online. We look to promote scientific advance in this important area of environmental science and to foster Japan-UK research collaboration.

Facilitated by Professor Dorrik Stow (Heriot Watt, Edinburgh) and Dr Naohisa Nishida (Gakugei Tokyo University, Japan)

For enrolment, in-person and online participation, and further information, please contact: d.stow@hw.ac.uk or nishidan@u-gakugei.ac.jp

Participation

Conference: For the 4^th Deepwater Circulation Research Conference (4DWC), the main programme can be found here

There will be a special workshop (Friday 26^th May) on the JSPS Seminar topic Contourites and Ocean Hazards:, Slope Instability and Tsunami Genesis

Seminar: The UK-Japan special seminar Contourites and Ocean Hazards:, Slope Instability and Tsunami Genesis directly follows 4DWC and will be held at the Lyell Centre, Heriot Watt University, on 2^nd June 2023

Speakers: both in-person and online contributions

Confirmed: UK – Stow, Nicholson, Smillie, Dodd, Duarte (agreed); Japan – Nishida, Tsukada, Takehara, Kawamura (JSPS delegates). Others with discussion contributions from 4DWC to be decided.

Open to further participation (especially online) – please contact: d.stow@hw.ac.uk or nishidan@u-gakugei.ac.jp

ECR/PhD participation: Takehara and Yui (Japan), Brackenridge, Duarte, Balmer and Pan (UK); others will be drawn from 4DWC participation and online contributions.

Number of participants: 4DWC conference 60-80 (20-30 PhD/ECR); Japan-UK seminar 15-25 (depending on online contributions.

Provisional seminar topics:

Specialised technical topics reprised from 4DWC, including Pacific margin ocean circulation; seafloor morphology; shelf to slope sediment transfer; slope instability and submarine slides; tsunami-genesis cause and consequence; Pacific rim contourites; ancient contourites on land.
Publication planning from seminar, conference and other collaboration.
PhD/ECR training and exchange opportunities.
Development of joint research proposals for submission to both UK and Japanese funding bodies.
Advance planning for the 5^th DWC that could be hosted in Japan (in 2026/27).