Rapid Sea level change
a Caspian perspective

September 8-17 2007, Gelendzhik, Russia
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Dating Caspian Sea Level Change project description

Abstracts 2003 meeting in Moscow and Astrakhan, Russian Federation are not available online

Abstracts 2004 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan here

Abstracts 2005 meeting in Rasht, Iran here

Abstracts 2006 meeting in Aktau, Kazakhstan here

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Aktau 2006

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photos here

 

Welcome

The IGCP project 481 CASPAGE (Dating Caspian Sea Level Change) aims unite scientists interested in establishing a precise Caspian sea-level curve for the recent geological past. This can help us in understanding the pace of global change in the northern hemisphere in the past, and to improve prediction of future Caspian sea-level change and its environmental consequences. The first three meetings were held in Moscow/Astrakhan, Russia (2003), Baku, Azerbaijan (2004) and Rasht, Islamic Republic of Iran (2005). The project is coordinated by Prof. Salomon Kroonenberg (Delft, the Netherlands) and Prof. Suzanne Leroy (Brunel University, UK). You can find the project programme, conference abstracts, mission reports and photogalleries on our website www.caspage.citg.tudelft.nl.

Joint meeting of

  • IGCP 481 Dating Caspian Sea Level Change (link)
  • IGCP 490 The role of Holocene environmental catastrophes in human history (link)
  • ICSU project Dark nature - rapid natural change and human responses (link)
  • IGCP 521 Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor during the last 30 ky: sea levle change and juman adaption (link)

Objectives

Sea level change is one of the most pervasive environmental processes that have affected humanity in the past and will continue to do so in the future. This meeting aims to discuss natural and man-made causes and consequences of sea-level change, at a site which has experienced rapid sea-level change at a rate a hundred times that of global eustasy during the last century: the Caspian Sea.
 

News:

The 5th IGCP-481 meeting and field trip is scheduled for September 8-17, 2007, in Russia (Gelendzhik) a joint conference with IGCP-521

First circular and forms for the Plenary meeting are posted here:

Instructions for Abstract Submission

First Circular

Application Form

Registration Form

Hotel Reservation Form

Abstract submission closes May 31, 2007