Programme

Friday 2nd September 2022

08.00 – 08.30

Registration 

08.30 – 08.50

Welcome and Conference Opening

08.50 – 10.30

08.50 – 09.30                     Keynote - GiovanniDe Cesare

Sedimentation of a high Alpine hydropower reservoir under climate change: what will disappear first, the glacier or the reservoir?

09.30 – 10.10                     Keynote - Pete Talling

Directly Measuring Submarine Turbidity Currents in Action: New insights into their composition and internal structure, triggers and frequency, behaviour, morphodynamics and origin of deposits

10.10 - 10.30                     Jingping Xu

Tortoises or Hares – Characterizing the Turbidity Currents Observed in Manila Trench, South China Sea

10.30 – 11.00

Coffee

11.00 – 13.00

11.00 – 11.40                     Keynote- Wei Hu

Like a giant flood of peanut butter: the intrinsic mobility of very dense grain flows

11.40 – 12.00                     Hui Chen

Depositional characteristics and formation mechanisms of deep-water canyon and fan systems along the northern South China Sea margin

12.00 – 12.20                     Roberto Gwiazda

Going with the flow: tracking turbidity currents along the seafloor with man-made motion-recording boulders

12.20 - 12.40                     Eve Lundsten

One of North America’s largest pockmark fields offshore Big Sur, California is maintained over time by intermittent, non-channelized gravity flow events

12.40 – 13.00                     Peng Chen

Microplastics in the land-detached Whittard Canyon: Origin, Processes and Significance

13:00 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.40

14.00 – 14.20                     Octavio Sequeiros

Direct trigger mechanisms of turbidity currents by tropical cyclones. Insights from two decades in the Philippines submarine canyons.

14.20 – 14.40                     Carlos Pirmez

On the formation of bedforms by turbidity currents in submarine canyons: insights from the field, experimental and numerical models

14.40 – 15.00                     Mike Clare

Land-detached submarine canyons are more active than you think they are...

15.00 – 15.40                     Keynote- Tom Gill

Haboobs - their nature and outstanding research questions

15.40 – 16.10

Coffee

16:10 – 17.30

16.10 – 16.50                     Keynote- Gert Lube

Density Currents, but, Pyroclastic - an overview of what we should know, what we think we know, what we do know, and what we do not know about PDCs

16.50 – 17.10                     Eric Breard

 Investigating ambient fluid entrainment in gravity currents: implications for the runout of dilute pyroclastic density currents

17.10 – 17.30                     Revital Bookman

Micropaleontological characteristics of turbidites in the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea): Insights from sediment cores and flume experiments

Saturday 3rd September 2022

08.00 – 08.30

Registration desk open

08.30 – 10.30

08.30 – 09.10                     Jim McElwaine

The Dynamics of Avalanches

09.10 – 09.30                     Betty Sovilla

Experimental evidence of pulsing activity in powder snow avalanches at the Vallée de la Sionne test site

09.30 - 10.10                     Zhiguo He

Dynamics of gravity currents released from two-layer stratified locks

10.10 – 10.30                     Dongrui Han

Propagation, mixing, and turbulence characteristics of saline and turbidity currents over rough and permeable/impermeable beds.

10:30 – 11.00

Coffee

11.00 – 13.00

11.00 – 11.20                     Jingyao Chen

Experimental Study of a 3-D Obstacle Effect on Velocity Structure of Continuous-Inflow Density Currents

11.20 – 11.40                     Edward Keavney

Velocity structure of unconfined gravity currents interacting with frontally confining slopes.

11.40 – 12.20                     Keyote - Eckart Meiburg

Turbidity Currents: The Roles of a Moving Source and of Cohesive Sediment

12.20 - 12.40                     Yue Li

Simulation of non-uniform sediment transport and the resultant grain size stratigraphy due to turbidity currents

12.40 – 13.00                     Thomas Halsey

Depth-averaged approaches to subaqueous turbidity currents

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.40

14.00 – 14.20                     Gaetano Porcile

On the importance of sediment sorting for the development of self-accelerating turbidity currents

14.20 – 14.40                     Sivaramakrishnan Balachandar

A comprehensive understanding of the structure and dynamics of channelized turbidity currents

14.40 – 15.00                     Edward Skevington

Explaining turbidity current run-out with models that capture vertical structure and levee overspill

15.00 – 15.40                     Keynote - Bernhard Vowinckel

Rheology of mobile sediment beds: effects of contact and cohesion

15.40 – 16.10

Coffee

16.10 – 17.30

16.10 – 16.50                    Keynote - Elisabeth Guazzelli

Rheology of dense granular suspensions: from Newtonian to Bagnoldian rheology

16.50 – 17.10                     Sojiro Fukada

Turbidity currents are not rivers and the implication for autosuspension

17.10 – 17.30                     Karina Ruschel

Analysis of gravity current simulations in a basin with different entrance conditions

Sunday 4th September 2022

08.00 – 08.30

Registration desk open

08.30 – 10.30

08.30 – 08.50                     Jaco Baas

Effect of biological polymers on mobility and runout distance of cohesive and non-cohesive sediment gravity flows

08.50 – 09.10                     Mingxuan Tan

Hybrid event bed characteristics and its role in high-frequency facies change of the Upper Triassic submarine fan in the West Qinling area of NE Tibetan Plateau

09.10 – 09.30                     Xiwu Luan

Deep-water sedimentation controlled by interaction between bottom current and gravity flow: A case study of Rovuma Basin, East Africa

09.30 - 09.50                     Wenwen Ge

Petrological Characteristics and Sedimentary Environment of the Upper Ordovician Pingliang Formation in the Southwestern Margin of Ordos Basin

09.50 – 10.10                     Miwa Yokokawa

Grain-size distribution of cyclic steps constructed by surge-turbidity currents: experimental study

10.10 – 10.30                     Elena Bastanion

Novel Physical Modelling of the Interaction Between Turbidity and Contour Currents Under the Effect of Coriolis Force in a straight channel

10.30 – 11.00

Coffee

11.00 – 13.00

11.00 – 11.20                     Euan Soutter

Interactions between internal tides and turbidity currents: insights from direct measurements and the stratigraphic record

11.20 – 11.40                     Frank Peel

Don’t stir my Guinness! Long distance transport of dense silt-dominant submarine gravity flows: the battle between Guinness waves and turbulent mixing in flows sustained by hindered settling

11.40 – 12.00                     Herbert Huppert

Exploring the use of granular flows for energy storage in arid regions

12.00 - 12.20                     Hajime Naruse

Uncertainty estimation of the flow conditions of particulate gravity currents reconstructed by deep neural network

12.20- 13.00                      Keynote- Andy Woods

New experiments on the process of sedimentation in particle laden flows

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.40

14.00 – 14.20                     William Arnott

Ripples and their natural predilection for deep-sea levees

14.20 – 14.40                     Max Bouwmeester

Stratigraphic indicators of bypassing gravity currents interacting with unstable submarine slopes

14.40 – 15.00                     William Taylor

Formation and distribution of mixed sand-mud transitional flow bedforms in submarine slope settings: core and outcrop examples

from the Laingsburg depocentre, South Africa.

15.00 – 15.20                     Jungang Pang

Depositional processes and products of a deep-lacustrine turbidite fan: the Triassic Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China)

15.20 – 15.40                     Anna Filipek

Palynofacies analysis as a tool for gravity currents deposits recognition in monotonous fine-grained series

15.40 - 15.45

Conference close