GLOCOPH-PHADMA International Conference

PaleoHydrology: Ancient Disasters, Modern Applications (GLOCOPH-PHADMA) International Conference

You are all kindly invited to our mid-term general conference between 9-14th June 2025 at the University of Bonn, Germany. There will be two full days of oral presentations, with topics ranging from floods and droughts in the Quaternary record, to historical flood records and discharge reconstructions, fluvial geoarchaeology, hydrological and atmospheric perspectives on extreme floods, applied palaeohydrology, fluvial sedimentology and geomorphology, and advances in palaeohydrological proxies.

There will be a 3-day field trip during which we will visit the Ahr Valley (site of the catastrophic 2021 flood), the Moselle valley, the Tulla river corrections in the Upper Rhine valley, and historical flood markers along the Main river.

The deadline for registration is 31st March 2025.

More information on the meeting and the field trips

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