The Second Joint IGCP 588/INQUA 1001 Meeting in Bangkok
28th November 2011 (Monday) – 3rd December 2011 (Saturday)
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Organising committee: Kruawun Jankaew (CU), Adam Switzer (EOS),
Benjamin Horton (U.Penn), Fengling Yu (EOS), Chris Gouramanis (EOS),
Yongqiang Zong (HKU), and Craig Sloss (QUT)
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Introduction
Changes in relative sea level, coastal evolution and extreme events such as storms and tsunami are of local and global interest, which hinder individual well-being and intensify/enhance environmental degradation. An increased public awareness of predicted future sea-level rise combined with recent devastating extreme events has placed significant socioeconomic relevance on the understanding of human-land-ocean interaction and coastal dynamics.
The 2nd joint meeting of the IGCP 588 and INQUA in Bangkok aims to showcase research project that will assist in assessing human interactions, coastal dynamics and vulnerability at different timescales. This will be facilitated through two days of oral and poster conference presentations and three fieldtrips. A pre conference cultural field trip to the temples of Bangkok, a conference field trip to the Drowned Chao Phraya River Delta followed by an optional fieldtrip to southern Thailand to view tsunami impacts, reconstruction efforts and palaeotsunami deposits at Khao Lak, and Phra Thong Island, Phang Nga Province.
The home of the conference is Bangkok. The city was founded in 1782 by the first monarch of the present Chakri dynasty. It is now the country’s spiritual, cultural, diplomatic, commercial and educational hub. It covers an area of more than 1,500 km2 and is home to more than 10 million people. Bangkok offers to visitors not only the cosmopolitan amenities they would expect from other big cities, but also a unique treasure trove of cultural attractions. Thailand, in the heart of Southeast Asia, was never colonized and thus kept its unique culture and heritage intact.