Dear Colleague,
 
It is with great pleasure that I am writing to invite you to Cyprus next September for the ESERA2013 Conference. The abstract submission platform is now open. Please visit http://www.esera2013.org.cy/proposal-submissions/ to submit proposals for oral or interactive poster presentations, symposia or ICT demonstrations and workshops. We invite both empirical and theoretical proposals. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31 January 2013. Please note that it will not be possible to provide an extension to this deadline.
 
Please note that before you can submit a proposal or register for the conference, you will need a valid ESERA username and password.  If you are a current or past ESERA member, you can obtain your ESERA username and password by going to the ESERA.org login reminder page and entering the email address that you used during your ESERA membership registration. If you do not have an active or expired ESERA membership account, then you can register as a temporary member on the ESERA.org website which does not entail any fee; the temporary account allows you to submit your abstract and be included as an author or participant in proposals, however on approval of a proposal, you will need to upgrade to an active ESERA member and be registered for the ESERA 2013 Conference, otherwise your details will be removed from the proposal and will not be included in the abstract that will appear in the Conference Programme and Book of Abstracts.

When submitting a proposal you will also need to ensure that your email address is up-to-date in the ESERA members’ database and that you will not be using multiple email addresses when interacting with the on-line conference system. If you are submitting a symposium, you will need to ensure that the email address entered for each participant (i.e. authors, chairpersons, organizers, discussants) matches the email address they have entered in the ESERA database. Consequently, in order to submit a symposium, each one of the participants of the symposium should be an active conference participant with a registered ESERA login/password. In order to submit the symposium you will need the registered email for all the symposium participants. The email address will be used to retrieve the participants’ details from the ESERA members’ database.
 
You can register for an ESERA account or edit your details in the ESERA members’ database at any time via the new ESERA website. Please follow the directions on the site.
 
The detailed call for proposals can be downloaded from: http://www.esera2013.org.cy/media/documents/ESERA_2013_Call_for_Papers_17Oct2012.pdf
 
If you have any questions or concerns about your ESERA login or the ESERA2013 conference, please do not hesitate to contact the ESERA 2013 Secretariat at info@esera2013.org.cy
 
On behalf of the International Scientific Committee I would like to invite you to participate in making ESERA 2013 a productive and memorable experience for science education researchers around the globe.
 
Warm regards
 
Z. C. Zacharia
ESERA 2013 Conference Manager

Dear Colleagues, 

we would like to bring the following EGU session (Wien, April 07-12, 2013) to your attention and encourage all of you to submit an abstract:

"Earthquake Geology: methodological aspects and case studies" (TS8.2/SM2.7)
(see rationale at the end of the message)

Remind that deadline for Abstract Submission is January 9, but the deadline for Support Application is next November 30. Please pass this along to anyone who may be interested and feel free to contact us.
More information is available at: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2013

Thanks for your time and looking forward to meeting you in Wien.

Riccardo and Spyros

rcaputo@unife.it
pavlides@geo.auth.gr


Earthquake Geology:
Geological Sciences represent a crucial perspective for investigating past earthquakes and possibly predicting (middle-long term) future ones. Indeed, many moderate to strong crustal events produce direct and permanent effects on the earth surface (i.e. morphogenic earthquakes) and therefore "earthquake geologists" can recognise, describe, measure, analyse and interpret all these linear and/or areal features from superficial-shallow investigations. Geological Sciences can investigate both single-event effects (even several years after they were formed) as well as the cumulative ones. 
Geological investigations of past earthquakes is also of primary importance for seismic hazard assessment, which requires the interplay of different disciplines and expertises. For example, geological studies can provide crucial information for regions where instrumental seismic records or detailed historical accounts are not available, but that generated destructive earthquakes in the past and may generate similar events in the future. Geological approaches to the investigation of past earthquakes are fundamental to contribute to determine or to infer important parameters for seismic hazard assessment, including the maximum expected magnitude, the return period for a given magnitude and the mean slip-rate. 
In this session, we welcome contributions focusing on all methodological aspects and different approaches used by the geological community to investigate active faults. Both theoretical issues and case studies describing and critically discussing any geological aspect of earthquakes and seismogenic faults are expected. We look forward to a lively and cross-disciplinary programme that will bring together a broad range of expertises to discuss on the crucial contribution of Geological Sciences to the investigation of earthquakes and to seismic hazard assessment