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Programme

(*) Speaker or title to be confirmed

4/9/2013
08:00-08:30	*Registration*
	Session 1: Acoustic principles and signal processing
08:30-09:15	Keynote speaker	Peter Thorne (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Observatory, UK)	The acoustics of colliding bodies and its use in monitoring bedload.
09:15-10:00	Keynote speaker	Cedric Gervaise (Grenoble National Politechnic Institute, Grenoble, France)	Signal processing to describe marine and river soundscapes: analogies and differences, application to long term monitoring.
10:00-10:45	Coffee break		-
10:45-11:30	Keynote speaker	Colin Rennie (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)	Principles and calibration of active acoustics for bedload measurement.
11:30-12:15	Keynote speaker	Arnaud Burtin (GFZ, Potsdam, Germany)	Seismic monitoring of surface processes in a debris-flow catchment.
12:15-13:15	Lunch break		-
	Session 2: Bedload transport monitoring I
13:15-13:45	Invited talk	Thomas Geay (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)	Hydrophone-based passive acoustic bedload monitoring in large gravel bed rivers.
13:45-14:15	Invited talk	Dieter Rickenmann (Swiss Fed. Res. Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland)	Calibration of Swiss plate geophones for bedload transport measurements.
14:15-14:45	Invited talk	Takahisha Mizuyama (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)	Calibration of hydrophone (pipe geophone) in Japan.
14:45-15:30	Coffee break		-
	Session 3: Debris flow /landslide monitoring I
15:30-16:00	Invited talk	Gernot Michlmayr and Dany Or (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)	Acoustic emissions during shearing of geologic granular media - sources and mechanisms.
16:00-16:30	Invited talk	Johannes Hübl (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)	Infrasound from debris flows and debris floods.
16:30-17:00	Invited talk	Franziska Dammeier ( ETH Zurich, Switzerland )	Seismic signal analysis of rockslide events in the Swiss Alps.
17:00-18:45	Poster Session A
19:00	*Social dinner*

5/9/2013
	*Session 4: Bedload transport monitoring II*
08:30-09:00	Invited talk	Rob Hilldale (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Technical service center, Denver CO, USA)	Calibration of bed load impact sensors on the Elwha River.
09:00-09:30	Invited talk	Helmut Habersack (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)	The role of geophones in bedload transport monitoring in a large gravel bed river.
09:30-10:00	Invited talk	Carlos Wyss (Swiss Fed. Res. Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland)	Estimating bedload grain size from the Swiss plate geophone system.
10:00-10:30	Invited talk	Johnathan Laronne (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)	The response of different geophones to bedload transport.
10:30-11:15	Coffee break		-
	*Session 5: Debris flow /landslide monitoring II*
11:15-11:45	Invited talk	Brian McArdell (Swiss Fed. Res. Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland)	Velocity profile estimates for debris flows using an array of geophones: experience from the Illgraben catchment, Switzerland.
11:45-12:15	Invited talk	Scott McCoy (CIRES Denver, CO/ MIT Cambridge, MA, USA)	Signal analysis from in situ force plates: A means to quantify basal impact forces generated by debris flows at Chalk Cliffs, Colorado, USA.
12:15-13:15	Lunch break		-
	*Session 6: Bedload transport monitoring III*
13:15-13:45	Invited talk	Geir Vatne (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)	Bedload monitoring using pit tags and acceleration sensors – challenges and benefits.
13:45-14:15	Invited talk	Patrick Meunier (Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris) *()**	Propagation of seismic signal due to geomorphologic events. *()**
14:15-14:45	Invited talk	Danica Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)	Empirical and analytical interpretations of bedload generated acoustic waves on the Chijiawan River, Taiwan.
14:45-15:30	Coffee break		-
	*Session 7: Snow avalanche monitoring*
15:30-16:00	Invited talk	Emma Surinach (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)	What can seismo-acoustic signals generated by a snow avalanche tell us?
16:00-16:30	Invited talk	Alec Van Herwijnen (WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland)	Monitoring of snow avalanche activity in alpine start zones with a geophone array.
16:30-18:00	Poster Session B

6/9/2013
Field trip 1:	*Erlenbach /Alptal (near Zurich, CH) with bedload transport and geophone measurements*.

7/9/2013
Field trip 2:	*Illgraben (near Sion, CH) with debris-flow monitoring installations.*

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