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Submittal of manuscripts for peer review January 15, 2007
Notification of acceptance of manuscripts May 31, 2007
Submittal of final manuscripts July 15, 2007
Discount for registration July 31, 2007 |
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All papers submitted to the Conference are expected to address timely issues on natural hazards caused by debris flows, debris avalanches, mudflows, lahars, hyperconcentrated flows, debris floods, and the like. Topics of interest in technical sessions include, but are not limited to , such as |
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This Conference will be the 4th one in a series of the International Conferences on Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment (henceforth called the DFHM Conference). The first three DFHM Conferences were held in 1997 at San Francisco, in 2000 at Taipei, and in 2003 at Davos. They provided successfully a forum for debris-flow researchers in the international community to exchange ideas on how to cope with debris-flow hazards. The major themes of the former DFHM Conferences were exchange of knowledge and technology transfer. Aiming at such very same objective and themes is the 4th DFHM Conference to be held in 2007 at Chengdu, China. The attendance of the DFHM Conference increased substantially in the Davos Meeting, which attracted more than 200 participants from 19 countries, as reflected on its Proceedings (published in 2003 by Millpress in 2 volumes, 1335 pages, containing 113 peer-reviewed papers on a variety of topics, ranging from debris-flow mechanics to debris-flow hazards prediction and assessment). The 4th DFHM Conference is anticipated to attract a host of participants as many as, if not more than, in the 3rd DFHM Conference. We plan to arrange two optional field trips as part of the conference program in the 4th DFHM Conference: One will be a 4-day pre-conference field trip to Jiuzhaigou Valley (one of the World Natural Heritage sites), where visitors can see some counter-debris-flow structures built behind the natural beauty of the Valley, and the other a 3-day post-conference field trip to the Dongchuan Debris Flow Observation and Research Station in Jiangjiagou Valley (known worldwide as a natural laboratory of debris-flow experiments), where visitors can observe all the stages of debris-flow behavior from initiation to termination if a debris flow occurs during the field trip. |
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