COS – Interdivision Sessions

The Fruits of IYPE - Implementing Long-Term Activities of the International Year of Planet Earth (co-organized)
Convener: Werner Piller  | Co-Conveners: Wolfgang Eder , John Hess 

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Modern Climate Science Education and Communications to Students, Government Officials and to the Public (co-organized)
Convener: Oliver Dilly  | Co-Conveners: Klaus Grosfeld , Annette Ladstaetter-Weissenmayer , Gerrit Lohmann , Artemi Cerdà 

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Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions: From biogenic primary exchange to atmospheric fluxes of reactive trace gases (co-sponsored by iLEAPS) (co-organized)
Convener: Jürgen Kesselmeier  | Co-Conveners: Janne Rinne , Jörg-Peter Schnitzler 

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Biosphere-atmosphere interactions: Trends and spatio-temporal variability in biogeochemical surface fluxes (co-organized)
Convener: Paul Stoy  | Co-Conveners: Andrew Richardson , Sebastiaan Luyssaert 

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Biosphere-Atmosphere interactions: Improving measurements and models of soil respiration and its components (co-sponsored by iLEAPS) (co-organized)
Convener: Jens-Arne Subke  | Co-Conveners: Mariah Carbone , Myroslava Khomik , Paul Stoy 

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Biosphere-Atmosphere interactions: Carbon and water cycles at multiple spatial and temporal scales (co-sponsored by iLEAPS) (co-organized)
Convener: Markus Reichstein  | Co-Conveners: Andrew Richardson , Dario Papale 

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Fluid flow in continental margins (co-organized)
Convener: Christian Hensen  | Co-Conveners: Christian Berndt , Christian Bücker 

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Microbiology and geochemistry of oil, coal and shale gas reservoirs - from laboratory to reservoir scales (co-organized)
Convener: Martin Krüger  | Co-Conveners: Hans-Hermann Richnow , Ian Head , Hans-Martin Schulz 

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Solar and Geomagnetic Activity and Their Influences on the Earth's Weather and Climate (co-organized)
Convener: Sergei Avakyan  | Co-Conveners: Alan D. Aylward , Jean Lilensten 

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Chaotic and Stochastic Climate Dynamics (co-organized)
Convener: Michael Ghil  | Co-Conveners: Mickael David Chekroun , Eric Simonnet 

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Advances in Quaternary Geochronology (co-organized)
Convener: Geoff Duller  | Co-Conveners: Irka Hajdas , Thorsten Kiefer , Andreas Lang 

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EuroFORUM 2010: Achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling (co-organized)
Convener: Ruediger Stein  | Co-Conveners: Gilbert Camoin , Jochen Erbacher , Henk Brinkhuis , Ulrich Harms , Ursula Röhl 

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Volcanic Activity and the Earth System (co-organized)
Convener: Claudia Timmreck  | Co-Convener: Hans-F. Graf 

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Climate, Cryosphere and Hydrosphere in Flux (co-organized)
Convener: Reginald Muskett  | Co-Conveners: Guido Grosse , Annett Bartsch 

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Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: Current issues - future concerns (co-organized)
Convener: John Reynolds  | Co-Conveners: Christian Huggel , Duncan Quincey 

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Climate change impacts on glaciers, permafrost and related hazards (co-organized)
Convener: Christian Huggel  | Co-Conveners: Andreas Kääb , Christoph Schneider , Bruce Raup 

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Cold regions hydrology in a changing climate (co-organized)
Convener: daqing yang  | Co-Convener: Peter J. van Oevelen 

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CO2 migration from analogue and technical reservoirs with latest updates from CO2 storage pilots (co-organized)
Convener: Michael Kühn  | Co-Conveners: Claus Otto , Bert van der Meer 

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Climate change impact on economical and industrial activities (co-organized)
Convener: Sylvie Parey  | Co-Conveners: Pietro Bernardara , Markus G. Donat 

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From Sensors to Interoperable Sensor Networks (co-organized)
Convener: Denis Havlik  | Co-Conveners: Walter Schmidt , Zoheir Sabeur 

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Glacial Isostatic Adjustment: Observations and Modeling for Earth Rheology, Dynamics, and Environmental Change (co-organized)
Convener: Markku Poutanen  | Co-Conveners: Bert Vermeersen , Volker Klemann , Thomas James 

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Recent advances in computational geodynamics: from mantle to surface processes (co-organized)
Convener: Boris Kaus  | Co-Conveners: Gregory Houseman , Cedric Thieulot 

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Early Earth: from deep dynamics to surface life (co-organized)
Convener: Jeroen van Hunen  | Co-Conveners: Emmanuelle J. Javaux , Martin Whitehouse , N. Arndt , Abigail Allwood 

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Gravity modelling for understanding of the solid Earth structure and dynamics (co-organized)
Convener: Mikhail Kaban  | Co-Conveners: Hans-Jürgen Götze , Gabriel Strykowski 

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Basin Dynamics (co-organized)
Convener: Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth  | Co-Conveners: Francois Roure , Christophe Basile , Virginie Gaullier 

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The strength of the continental lithosphere (co-organized)
Convener: Sara Carena  | Co-Convener: Oliver Heidbach 

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From the geologic record to mantle flow: linking deep and shallow Earth processes (co-organized)
Convener: Giampiero Iaffaldano  | Co-Conveners: Laurent Husson , Stuart Clark , Carmen Gaina 

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Two-phase dynamics of mid-ocean ridges and other systems: theory and observation (co-organized)
Convener: Richard Katz  | Co-Conveners: Nobukazu Seama , Alan Chave , Wayne C. Crawford , Chloé Michaut , Ondřej Šrámek , Douglas Wiens 

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Processes along passive margins and Links with Onshore Uplift (co-organized)
Convener: Ulrich Anton Glasmacher  | Co-Conveners: Peter Japsen , Johan M. Bonow , Hans-Peter Bunge , Hans Thybo , Robert B. Trumbull , Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth , Nicky White 

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Subduction zone dynamics: A slab's journey in the upper and lower mantle (co-organized)
Convener: Susanne Buiter  | Co-Conveners: David Dobson , Yildirim Dilek , Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen 

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Subduction zone dynamics: seismogenic zone and forearc deformation (co-organized)
Convener: Nina Kukowski  | Co-Conveners: Hans-Peter Bunge , Taras Gerya , John McCloskey , Frederik Tilmann 

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Dynamic aspects of mountain building and land surface stability: Linking field-based studies to crustal-scale models (co-organized)
Convener: Kurt Stüwe  | Co-Conveners: Deta Gasser , Kamil Ustaszewski , Christine Franke , Frank Lisker , David Gomez-Gras 

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The mantle from surface to core: integrating seismology, mineral physics, geodynamics and petrology (co-organized)
Convener: Saskia Goes  | Co-Conveners: Joya Tetreault , Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni , Juan Carlos Afonso , Jay Bass , Hans-Peter Bunge , Andrew Frassetto 

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The deep mantle, plumes, and chemical heterogeneity: structure, dynamics, and evolution (co-organized)
Convener: Stephane Labrosse  | Co-Conveners: Daniel Frost , Christine Thomas , Ulrich Hansen , John Tarduno , Anne Davaille , Paul Tackley , Albrecht Hofmann 

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Constraints on Earth's core dynamics from observation, experiments and numerical modeling (co-organized)
Convener: Mathieu Dumberry  | Co-Conveners: JULIEN AUBERT , Hagay Amit 

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Stochastic sediment transport: from measurements to morphogenesis (co-organized)
Convener: Clement NARTEAU  | Co-Conveners: Eric Lajeunesse , Jens Turowski 

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Rockfall I&II: Detachment, trajectory modelling, deposition and mitigation strategies (co-organized)
Convener: Michael Krautblatter  | Co-Conveners: Jeffrey Moore , Nick Rosser , Luuk Dorren , Frédéric Berger , Axel Volkwein 

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Sediment transport, erosion, and channel morphology (co-organized)
Convener: Jens Turowski  | Co-Conveners: Peter Molnar , P.A. Carling , John Jansen , Mike Kirkby , Joris de Vente , Tom Coulthard , Philippe Davy 

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Seafloor expression of tectonic and geomorphic processes (co-organized)
Convener: Sebastian Krastel  | Co-Conveners: Neil Mitchell , Dina Vachtman , Colin Jacobs 

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Volcano deformation, dynamics, and deep structure (co-organized)
Convener: Valerio Acocella  | Co-Conveners: Giuseppe Puglisi , Agust Gudmundsson , Thomas R. Walter 

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Large Igneous Provinces and Extinctions (co-organized)
Convener: Henrik Svensen  | Co-Convener: Linda Elkins-Tanton 

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Subduction zone devolatilization: petrology, fluid composition and flow, and tectonic implications (co-organized)
Convener: Marco Scambelluri  | Co-Conveners: Taras Gerya , James Connolly , Catherine Chauvel 

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Interplay of Magmatism, Metamorphism, and Geodynamics: A symposium in memory of Leonid L. Perchuk (co-organized)
Convener: Leonid Aranovich  | Co-Conveners: Alexei Perchuk , Oleg Safonov , Taras Gerya 

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Granitoid Magmatism and Geodynamics (co-organized)
Convener: Giampiero Poli  | Co-Conveners: Vojtech Janousek , J.D. Clemens , Jean-François Moyen 

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Nature and evolution of the lithospheric mantle - inferences on magma genesis (co-organized)
Conveners: Costanza Bonadiman , Luigi Beccaluva  | Co-Conveners: Else-Ragnhild Neumann , Marguerite Godard , Gianluca Bianchini , Ian Bastow 

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New insights into the mineralogy and petrology of the Deep Earth (co-sponsored by EMU) (co-organized)
Convener: Yingwei Fei  | Co-Conveners: Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya , Daniel Frost , Jannick Ingrin , Monika Koch-Müller , Sylvia-Monique Thomas , Richard Wirth 

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Chemistry and physics of the Earth’s surface system: from reactive transport to monitoring of the 'critical zone' (co-organized)
Convener: Jerome Gaillardet  | Co-Convener: Sigurdur Gislason 

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Soil physics and unsaturated zone hydrology: Joint visions for progress in subsurface geosciences (co-organized)
Convener: Nunzio Romano  | Co-Conveners: Artemi Cerdà , Wolfgang Durner , Philip Owens 

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Impact of climate and land use change on erosion, sediment transport and sedimentation (co-organized)
Convener: Philip Owens  | Co-Conveners: Ulrike Scherer , Markus Fuchs , Dominik Faust 

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Modelling erosion: from hillslope soil erosion to fluvial export, can we gain from each other? (co-organized)
Convener: Olivier Cerdan  | Co-Conveners: Peter Fiener , Kristof Van Oost 

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Sediment transfer and transit time across scales: tracing, budgetting and modelling (co-organized)
Convener: Marcel Van der Perk  | Co-Conveners: Katerina Michaelides , Rolf Aalto , Andreas Krein , John Quinton 

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Measuring and modelling sediment transport in small and large streams (co-organized)
Convener: Dieter Rickenmann  | Co-Conveners: Alison D. Reeves , Nicolle Mathys 

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Coasts and estuaries (co-organized)
Convener: Andreas Baas  | Co-Conveners: Hubert H.G. Savenije , Andrea Rinaldo , Marco Toffolon 

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Lakes and inland seas (co-organized)
Convener: Peter Zavialov  | Co-Convener: Jana Friedrich 

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Observational hydrology: Recent development in isotope and other tracer methods (co-organized)
Convener: Markus Weiler  | Co-Conveners: Jan Seibert , Laurent Pfister 

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Hydrology education in a changing world (co-organized)
Convener: Thorsten Wagener  | Co-Conveners: Stefan Uhlenbrook , Jan Seibert , Bellie Sivakumar 

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Precipitation: from measurement to modelling and application in catchment hydrology (co-organized)
Convener: Remko Uijlenhoet  | Co-Conveners: Alin Andrei Carsteanu , Chris Onof , Alexis Berne , Paolo Burlando , Tim Bellerby 

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Climate, water and health (co-organized)
Convener: M. Gebremichael  | Co-Conveners: Alin Andrei Carsteanu , Emmanouil Anagnostou 

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Hydrological change versus climate change (co-organized)
Convener: Tim Cohn  | Co-Conveners: Harry Lins , Manfred Mudelsee , Demetris Koutsoyiannis 

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Stochastics in hydrometeorological processes: from point to global spatial scales and from minute to climatic time scales (co-organized)
Convener: Demetris Koutsoyiannis  | Co-Conveners: Ezio Todini , Alin Andrei Carsteanu , Salvatore Grimaldi 

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Flash floods: Observations, modelling, forecasting and impacts (co-organized)
Conveners: Marco Borga , Colin Price  | Co-Conveners: Jan Szolgay , Rolf Weingartner , Giuseppe Tito Aronica , Günter Blöschl 

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Towards practical applications in ensemble hydro-meteorological forecasting (co-organized)
Convener: Yi He  | Co-Conveners: Florian Pappenberger , Albrecht Weerts , Jutta Thielen-del Pozo , Michael Bruen , Maria-Helena Ramos 

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Stable Isotopes in Atmospheric Research (co-organized)
Convener: Ralf Koppmann  | Co-Conveners: Astrid Kiendler-Scharr , Thomas Röckmann 

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Stable isotopes as tool in (paleo-)climate studies (co-organized)
Convener: Pier De Groot  | Co-Conveners: Martin Werner , Attila Demény , Luigi Dallai 

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From large to small scales for potential fields - tools and models? (co-organized)
Convener: Mohamed Hamoudi  | Co-Convener: Aude Chambodut 

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Rock Physics and Natural Hazards (co-organized)
Convener: Sergio Vinciguerra  | Co-Conveners: Philip Benson , Dan Faulkner , Georg Dresen , Luigi Burlini 

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The physical and mechanical properties of porous carbonate rocks (co-organized)
Convener: Michael Heap  | Co-Conveners: Patrick Baud , Fabrizio Balsamo , Jérôme Fortin 

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Scaling and localization during brittle rock failure (co-organized)
Convener: Philip Meredith  | Co-Convener: Fabrizio Balsamo 

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Diversity in planetary magnetism and dynamos (co-organized)
Convener: Doris Breuer  | Co-Convener: Johannes Wicht 

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Elastic and Inelastic Properties under in situ High P-T Conditions (co-organized)
Convener: David Dobson  | Co-Convener: Hans J. Mueller 

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Lightning: physics, detection and atmospheric effects (co-organized)
Convener: Hans D. Betz  | Co-Conveners: Karen Aplin , Colin Price , Yoav Yair , Serge Soula 

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Flood risk and uncertainty (co-organized)
Convener: Giuseppe Tito Aronica  | Co-Conveners: Heiko Apel , Guy J.-P. Schumann 

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Assessment of Weather-related Risk on Agricultural Production and Agribusiness (co-organized)
Convener: Ana Maria Tarquis  | Co-Conveners: Nicolas R. Dalezios , Mikhail Semenov , Fernando Burgaz , Antonio Saa 

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Extreme events induced by extreme weather and climate change: Evaluation and forecasting of disaster risk and proactive planning (co-organized)
Convener: Athanasios Loukas  | Co-Conveners: Maria-Carmen Llasat , Uwe Ulbrich 

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Hazardous volcanic flows associated with eruptions and landslides (co-organized)
Convener: Benjamin van Wyk de Vries  | Co-Conveners: Helene Massol , Antonio Costa , Micol Todesco , Marcel Hürlimann , Alexander Belousov , Oleg Melnik 

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Earthquake Risk and Loss Estimates: New Directions (co-organized)
Convener: Max Wyss  | Co-Convener: Jochen Zschau 

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Seismic hazard evaluation, precursory phenomena and reliability of prediction (co-organized)
Convener: Michael E. Contadakis  | Co-Conveners: Pier Francesco Biagi , Jochen Zschau 

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Seismo electro-magnetic phenomena and earthquakes precursors (co-organized)
Convener: Pier Francesco Biagi  | Co-Conveners: Masashi Hayakawa , Oleg Molchanov 

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Deformation processes and accompanying mechanical and electromagnetic phenomena, for rocks and other materials, from the laboratory to the geophysical scale (co-organized)
Convener: Konstantinos Eftaxias  | Co-Conveners: Costantin Nomicos , Qinghua Huang 

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Wildfires, Weather and Climate (co-organized)
Convener: Mário Pereira  | Co-Conveners: Ricardo Trigo , Mike Wotton 

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Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires: models, theory, and reality (co-organized)
Convener: Rosa Lasaponara  | Co-Conveners: Luciano Telesca , Donald McKenzie 

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Fire in the Earth System: Impacts and Feedbacks (co-organized)
Convener: Allan Spessa  | Co-Conveners: Johannes Kaiser , Jose Gomez-Dans 

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Heavy-metal contamination of water, air, soil, and foodcrops (co-organized)
Convener: Jennifer A. Holden  | Co-Conveners: Bruce D. Malamud , Loretta Li , Konstantinos Kostarelos 

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Geomorphology and Hazards in Karst Areas (co-organized)
Convener: Mario Parise  | Co-Conveners: Jo De Waele , Francisco Gutierrez , Lukas Plan 

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Developing Future Approaches to Climate and Geo-hazard Risk Assessment: Relating Disaster Risk Reduction and Risk Transfer (co-organized)
Conveners: Rashmin Gunasekera , Matthew Foote  | Co-Conveners: Marc Wüest , Robert Muir-Wood , Anselm Smolka 

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Natural Hazards Education and Communications to Students, Government Officials, and the Public (co-organized)
Convener: Bruce D. Malamud  | Co-Conveners: Yoav Yair , Oded Katz , Giorgio Boni , Maria-Carmen Llasat 

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Soft Computing Techniques in Geosciences (co-organized)
Convener: Isik Yilmaz  | Co-Conveners: Candan Gokceoglu , Biswajeet Pradhan , Ebru Akcapinar Sezer 

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ENSO: Dynamics, Predictability and Modelling (co-organized)
Convener: Eric Guilyardi  | Co-Conveners: Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda , A. Fedorov , Andrew Wittenberg 

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Nonlinear Dynamics of the Atmosphere, Ocean and the Climate System (co-organized)
Convener: Stefano Pierini  | Co-Conveners: Eric Simonnet , Klaus Dethloff , Christoph C. Raible 

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Scales and scaling in surface and subsurface hydrology (co-organized)
Convener: João de Lima  | Co-Conveners: Witold Krajewski , Marco Marani 

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Complexity and nonlinearity in soils (co-organized)
Convener: Ana Maria Tarquis  | Co-Conveners: Edith Perrier , R M Lark , Ruth E Falconer 

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ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - calibration and validation activities and first results (co-organized)
Convener: Susanne Mecklenburg  | Co-Conveners: Yann Kerr , Catherine Bouzinac , Steven Delwart , Jordi Font 

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Global and regional sea level changes and their impacts in coastal oceans (co-organized)
Convener: Anny Cazenave  | Co-Conveners: Jens Schröter , Nicole Lenôtre , Philip Woodworth , Svetlana Jevrejeva , Hans von Storch , Aslak Grinsted 

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Gravity Waves (co-organized)
Convener: Riwal Plougonven  | Co-Conveners: Ulrich Achatz , Erich Becker , Chantal Staquet 

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Planetary Plasma Physics (co-organized)
Convener: Esa Kallio  | Co-Convener: Cesar Bertucci 

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Electrodynamics of induced magnetospheres (co-organized)
Convener: Hermann Opgenoorth  | Co-Conveners: Mark Lester , Philippe Garnier 

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Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions (co-organized)
Convener: Patrick Galopeau  | Co-Convener: Mohammed Y. Boudjada 

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Experiments, Simulations and Numerical modeling in planetology (co-organized)
Conveners: Luigi Colangeli , Sandra Schumacher  | Co-Conveners: Derek W. G. Sears , Karsten Seiferlin , Ruth Ziethe 

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Habitability in the Solar System: Mars, early Earth, and the outer Solar System (co-organized)
Convener: Frances Westall  | Co-Conveners: Jorge L. Vago , Helmut Lammer , Marc Chaussidon , François Raulin , Olga Prieto-Ballesteros 

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Volcanism, Tectonics and Faulting in the Solar System (co-organized)
Convener: Thomas Platz  | Co-Conveners: Matteo Massironi , Graziella Caprarelli , Paul Byrne , Pascal Allemand , Harald Hiesinger , Thomas R. Walter 

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Observing the European plate: Sensor networks and data infrastructures (co-organized)
Convener: Massimo Cocco  | Co-Conveners: Wim Spakman , Jochen Zschau , Torild van Eck , Josep Gallart 

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Active Seismic studies of the Crust (co-organized)
Convener: Pekka Heikkinen  | Co-Convener: Marek Grad 

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The deep Earth: Looking down into the Mantle and core. (co-organized)
Convener: Jaroslava Plomerova  | Co-Conveners: John Woodhouse , Rainer Kind 

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Fault zone processes from (integrated) geophysical imaging (co-organized)
Convener: CharLotte Krawczyk  | Co-Conveners: Patrick Musmann , Stella Pytharouli , James Kirkpatrick 

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Earthquake Source Rupture Models, Slip Distribution Studies, and Nucleation and Growth of Fault Systems (co-organized)
Convener: Georg Rümpker 

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Research and Development in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring (co-organized)
Convener: Andreas Becker  | Co-Conveners: David BROWN , Charles Estabrook , Martin Kalinowski , Lars Ceranna , Karl Koch 

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The Mediterranean: A complex tectonic boundary (co-organized)
Convener: Luis Matias  | Co-Convener: Nevio Zitellini 

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The 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Mohorovicic Discontinuity: Its geophysical and petrological characteristics (co-organized)
Convener: Dennis Brown  | Co-Conveners: David Snyder , David Eaton 

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Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warnings (co-organized)
Convener: Jochen Zschau  | Co-Convener: Stefano Tinti 

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Time-dependent earthquake processes and seismic hazard: physics and statistics (co-organized)
Convener: Sebastian Hainzl  | Co-Conveners: Massimo Cocco , Gert Zöller , Ian Main 

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Multidisciplinary Constraints on the Lithospheric Structure, Evolution, and Mantle Processes (co-organized)
Convener: Irina Artemieva  | Co-Conveners: Valentin Mikhailov , Tim Wright , Yuri Fialko 

CO2 sequestration geophysics and predictive modelling (co-organized)
Convener: Stefan Buske  | Co-Conveners: Christopher Juhlin , Thomas Kempka 

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An interdisciplinary approach to Oceanic Anoxic Events – data, models, and modern “analogues” (co-sponsored by IAS) (co-organized)
Convener: Christian März  | Co-Convener: Sandra Arndt 

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New, original and successful ideas for teaching Earth Sciences (co-organized)
Convener: Artemi Cerdà  | Co-Conveners: Jose Reyes Ruiz-Gallardo , Vlad Constantin Manea , Zoe Robinson , Jose Damian Ruiz Sinoga , Stéphane Follain , Jordi Diaz Cusí , Wolfgang Rabbel 

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Theory and simulations of solar system plasmas (co-organized)
Convener: Gérard Belmont  | Co-Conveners: Jörg Büchner , Manfred Leubner 

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Space Weather and its Effects on Terrestrial and Geo-Space Environments: Science and Applications (co-organized)
Convener: Norma Crosby  | Co-Convener: Mirela Voiculescu 

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Best practices for education and outreach in Solar-Terrestrial sciences (co-organized)
Convener: Sini Merikallio  | Co-Convener: Minna Palmroth 

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Coupling topography, surface erosion and tectonics (co-organized)
Convener: Sierd Cloetingh  | Co-Convener: Michael Ellis 

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Topography Evolution of Europe: Uplift, Subsidence and Sea Level Change (Topo-Europe) (co-organized)
Convener: Sierd Cloetingh  | Co-Conveners: Sean Willett , Paola Campus 

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Eurasian Climate and Tectonics (co-organized)
Convener: Guillaume Dupont-Nivet  | Co-Conveners: Peter van der Beek , Hemmo Abels 

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Geodynamics of the Alps - from deep-seated to surface processes (co-organized)
Convener: Claudio Rosenberg  | Co-Conveners: Christian Sue , Romain Bousquet , Marco Giovanni Malusà 

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The Alpine-Himalayan orogeny: from the Mediterranean to SE Asia (co-organized)
Convener: Alastair Robertson  | Co-Conveners: Laurent Jolivet , Claudio Faccenna , Rob Govers , Bernhard Fügenschuh , Paolo Ballato , Angela Landgraf , Cengiz Yildirim , Taylor Schildgen , Franz Neubauer , Yunpeng Dong , Yongjiang Liu 

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Ophiolites, blueschists and mélanges in convergent margin tectonics (co-organized)
Convener: Yildirim Dilek  | Co-Conveners: Manuel Pubellier , Philippe Agard , Andrea Festa , Gian Andrea Pini 

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Caribbean and South American subduction zones: subduction processes and resulting tectonics, seismogenesis and fore-arc evolution (co-organized)
Convener: Boris Marcaillou  | Co-Conveners: Paola Vannucchi , Jean-Yves Collot , Alfred Hirn , Alcinoe Calahorrano , Ernst Flueh 

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One year after the Abruzzo 2009 earthquake (co-organized)
Convener: Fabrizio Storti  | Co-Conveners: Sergio Vinciguerra , Ramon Carbonell 

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Earthquake Geology (co-organized)
Convener: Riccardo Caputo  | Co-Conveners: Alexandros Chatzipetros , Claudia Trepmann , Michel Bestmann 

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Large continental faults and related earthquake cycle: short vs long term slip rate and their role in continental deformation (co-organized)
Convener: Mustapha Meghraoui  | Co-Convener: Jean-Mathieu Nocquet 

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Crustal faulting and deformation processes observed by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) (co-organized)
Convener: Manoochehr Shirzaei  | Co-Conveners: Thomas R. Walter , Riccardo Lanari 

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Seismotectonics of the Marmara Sea region (co-organized)
Convener: Oliver Heidbach  | Co-Conveners: Mustafa Aktar , Marco Bohnhoff , Kuvvet Atakan 

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Unresolved problems in plate tectonics: kinematic reconstructions, plate driving forces, and plate boundary interactions (co-organized)
Convener: Carlo Doglioni  | Co-Conveners: Jason Phipps Morgan , Claudio Faccenna 

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Stable isotope analysis by optical spectrometry – view from the manufacturers side (co-organized)
Convener: Pier De Groot  | Co-Conveners: Aaron Van Pelt , Eric Crosson , Douglas Baer 

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An Introduction to Time-Series Analysis for the Investigation of Natural Hazards (co-organized)
Convener: Robin Crockett 

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Mechanics, structure and evolution of fault zones (co-organized)
Convener: Renaud Toussaint  | Co-Conveners: Fabrizio Agosta , Cristiano Collettini , Giulio Di Toro , Robert Holdsworth , Karen Mair , Andre Niemeijer , Francois Renard , Steven Smith , Emanuele Tondi 

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Land-climate interactions from models and observations: Implications from past to future climate (co-sponsored by iLEAPS) (co-organized)
Convener: Bart van den Hurk  | Co-Conveners: Sonia Seneviratne , Philippe Ciais 

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Understanding and forecasting of volcanic hazards and risks: paradigms and progress (co-organized)
Convener: Warner Marzocchi  | Co-Conveners: Paolo Gasparini , Gordon Woo 

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Continental rifting: mechanisms of deformation, sedimentation, and magmatism (co-organized)
Convener: Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic  | Co-Conveners: Richard Corfield , Laurent Geoffroy , Ulrich Anton Glasmacher , Matthias Hinderer , Suzon JAMMES , Sylvie Leroy , Graham Leslie , Dieter Mertz , Georg Rümpker , Timothy Reston , Alastair Robertson , Cecile Robin 

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The evolution of structures in the crust: insights from analogue and numerical modeling (co-organized)
Convener: Guido Schreurs  | Co-Conveners: Susanne Buiter , Marcel Frehner , Stefan Markus Schmalholz 

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Mountain Risks and integrated multi-risk analysis: predictions, management and governance - in context of climate and societal change (co-organized)
Convener: Thom Bogaard  | Co-Conveners: Stefan Schneiderbauer , Sylvia Wanczura , Jean-Philippe Malet , Stefan Greiving 

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Erosion, land degradation and terrestrial carbon cycling (co-organized)
Convener: Nikolaus J. Kuhn  | Co-Conveners: Rolf Aalto , Thomas Hoffmann , Andreas Lang , Timothy Quine , Martin Evans , Erik Cammeraat , Maria Martínez-Mena , Artemi Cerdà 

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Large Magnitude Earthquakes and Tsunami Activity in 2010: Views on The Haiti and Chile Events (co-organized)
Conveners: Mourad Bezzeghoud , Ramon Carbonell , Stefano Tinti 

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