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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:00:55 MET
From: Vladimir Cermak
Subject: iugg99
Circular Letter to Heat Flow Community
re: IUGG Assembly at Birmingham, July 18-30, 1999
Praha, August 6th, 1998
Dear heat flow colleagues,
on these days the Second IUGG Circular is being distributed
giving the basic information on the XXII IUGG Assembly. For those
who have not got it, please, contact the IUGG99 Secretariat,
School of Earth Sciences, University at Birmingham, Edgbaston,
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK (fax: +44 121 414 4942, e-mail:
iugg99@bham.ac.uk).
In the IUGG circular you will find all general information about
the venue, registration fee, instructions for abstract
submission, grant application rules, preliminary conference
programme and the proposed list of individual sessions.
You will realize that a new policy of the IASPEI to organize its
symposia and workshops was adopted based on an idea to create
a certain framework to link all IASPEI sessions into seven
coherent Themes. The final organization into definite topical
sessions will be made only later in response to the content,
focus and number of the individual abstracts and entirely from
submitted material.
From the seven major Themes which have been identified generally
only two are suitable to cover heat flow topics, namely ST4 and
ST6 :
ST4 Earth Structure and Geodynamics
programme group chairman : B.L.N.Kennet (Australia)
members : H.Kawakatsu (Japan), Fowler (UK), J.Mitrovica
(Canada) and V.Cermak (Czech Rep.).
The object of this theme is to stimulate further
interaction between those who determine Earth structure
and those who endeavor to provide a geodynamic
interpretation. Provisional topics include (1) Crust and
Lithosphere Structures and Their Geodynamic Interaction,
(2) Upper Mantle Structure, (3) Subduction Processes,
(4) Interrelation of Seismic Imaging and Dynamic
Modeling, (5) Boundary Layers in the Mantle, (6)
Lithosphere, (7) Large 3-D Structure of the Earth, (8)
Dynamic Models: Seismic Images, (9) Progress Towards
a Reference 3-D Earth Model, and (10) Heat Flow (shallow
vs. deep sources for surface heat flow, short-lived
thermo-hydraulic phenomena and stress field variations
in seismic active areas, thermophysical properties of
Earth materials inferred from measurements in boreholes
and in the laboratory, scaling properties and in-situ
conditions).
ST6 Physics and Chemistry of Earth Materials.
programme group chairman : R.Jeanloz (USA),
members : R.Boehler (Germany), D.Sherman (UK),
I.Jackson (Australia)
This theme is to focus on combining the seismic data
with the findings of other disciplines that fall within
the scope of the IASPEI, such as thermal physics and
combined laboratory and theoretical studies of rock
physics and chemistry. In addition to other data these
should cover the results of heat flow and laboratory
measurements of rock properties under pressure and
temperature conditions corresponding to the deep Earth
interior.
Classical heat flow studies in the last decade or so have difused
in many other disciplines and the results obtained could be
presented in a number of appropriate sessions selected from the
IUGG menu. There is no need for the IHFC to stay isolated and to
organize its own session(s) attended entirely by HF people.
Equally important is to "penetrate" into other sessions to
present heat flow contributions solving various other problems.
However, IHFC should try to have at least one its "own" session
(symposium or workshop), preferably under the ST4 theme, to meet
and to keep together to inform other HF colleagues about the
progress done.
IMPORTANT
All those who are planning to attend the IUGG99 Assembly are
asked to observe the following :
For better organization of definite topical sessions under the
Themes ST4 and ST6, please, send additional copy(ies) of your
abstract(s) also to me well before the abstract dead-line of
January 15, 1999. Adequate information about any other abstract
discussing any problem relating heat flow and submitted to any
other IUGG99 sessions would be appreciated.
Those, who want to present a paper discussing any use or
interpretation of borehole temperature data in terms of the
climate reconstruction/change, have a possibility to select from:
U2 (Global Change and Predictability), MC02 (Detection and
Attribution of Climate Change), MC03 (Sudden Climate Change),
MW03 (Development of High Resolution Climate Models).
Anyhow, to keep together it is recommended to preferably
choose the symposium MC02. Most of what we are doing relates
to detection and attribution, and an aimed "massive" contribution
from our side may have a desirable impact on the proxy
community.
Please note : for administrative and informative purposes there
will be an open IHFC Business Meeting as usually.
Sincerely Yours
Vladimir Cermak
IHFC Chairman
P.S. Please, note that during the
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San
Francisco, December 6-10, 1998 a special session will be
organized, which is definitely of prime interest to many
of us. It is a session (T04) honoring Art Lachenbruch
for his long career in geothermics.
"The session honors Art Lachenbruch's many definitive
contributions to understanding Earth's thermal budget
and their implications for active tectonics, climate
change, and surface processes. Lachenbruch's seminal
studies on permafrost are not only elegant and
physically appealing but their thermal implications led
to the abandonment of plans to bury the Trans-Alaska
pipeline beneath the surface. His many studies of
surface heat flux in the western United States clearly
elucidated the role of thermal regime in active tectonic
deformation. He was one of the first to recognize and
exploit the near surface temperature profile in the
Arctic to bound global climate change in the Holocene."
Abstracts can be submitted electronically at the AGU Web
site at http://www.agu.org The deadline for electronic
submittal is September 2.
Vladimir Cermak
Geophysical Institute, Czech Acad.Sci.
141-31 Praha 4
phone +420-2-764539
fax +420-2-71761549 NEW!!!
March 18, 1998
Dear heat flow colleagues,
dear IGCP 428 participants,
I am happy to inform you that I have just got an official letter
from the UNESCO secretariat in Paris informing me that our joint
project proposal "Past Climate Change Inferred from the Analyses
of he Underground Temperature Field" prepared for the IGCP
programme was granted for period 1998-2002 as the IGCP project
no.428. The proposal was evaluated as "good" with medium funding
for the 1998. I want to thank to all who contributed during the
preparation by their suggestions and comments. Now, we have
seriously think how to contribute to the proposed activities to
obtain best results. Of course, the project is open and all other
interested colleagues, who have not yet responded are welcome to
join.
Our activities in 1998 will be funded by altogether USD 7000,
which means USD 3000 from the IUGS budget and USD 4000 from the
UNESCO budget (two separate accounts are to be observed). These
sums are to be used exclusively for travel and/or subsidence
costs of participants in 1998 meetings or conferences sponsored
by the project.
All payments are to be done through the IUGS Treasurer and the
necessary documents are to be submitted to the UNESCO Secretariat
by project leaders, providing following information : 1) the date
and venue (place) of the meeting(s) 2) the workplan (programme)
of the meeting(s) 3) names, institution and country of the
participants to be given financial support 4) the data needed for
money transfer (bank account number, etc.)
It is very IMPORTANT, that the above information must be
delivered to the UNESCO secretariat at least two months before
the intended use of funds. In addition, it is equally important
to seek any additional sources to cover all other expenses
related to other relevant meetings and participation and, of
course, to the research activities themselves. I hope that the
participation in the IGCP 428 project may help many of you to
apply and to obtain funding from other national or international
grant agencies. The IGCP project can well serve as a cover
project of much broader international cooperation to guarantee
smaller-scale or local projects. I shall be happy to distribute
necessary confirmation or verbal support if needed.
In some countries, the participation in the IGCP may be an
adventage when applying for travel support from the local
committees and agencies, such as NSF, ILP, IUGS etc. (e.g.USA,
Canada and probably other). Inform your national representatives
in time.
For this year I was thinking to support G.Buntebarth^s meeting in
Bad Honnef on "Microtemperature signals of the Earth^s crust"
(March 1998) and Y.Popov^s conference on "The Earth^s thermal
field and related research methods" in Moscow (May 1998). Both
these meetings are partly oriented on "climate x borehole"
studies and fit well our project. Unfortunately for Buntebarth it
is too late, and Popov is exactly two month ahead. I have
immidiately contacted Popov and he got four names of participants
who may be eligible to be supported : Zui (Belarus), Demezhko and
Dorofeeva (Russia) and Pollack (USA). The fifth colleague to be
supported so far is I.M.Kutasov (Israel).
If it can be managed to support these colleagues we shall still
have about USD 3000-4000 available for supporting either other
participants or colleagues wishing to attend this one or other
meeting(s) related to the project topic. Please, let me know your
ideas, comments and proposals. However, I have to stress that the
IGCP rules for funding the participation are relatively strict
and it is clear that the recepient^s presentation with later
publication of a contributing paper is requested. The
acknowledgement of the IGCP funding is obligatory, as well as the
use of the IGCP logo. The corresponding
meeting/workshop/conference is to be officially sponsored by the
IGCP.
For your information, this year there is the 9th Global Warming
Conference at Hong Kong in June, which can be a suitable meeting
for several colleagues from Asia. However, in this case it may be
too late and I am not quite sure what will be the reaction of the
organizers to such sponsoring.
I would appreciate to know other meetings which can be sponsored.
For the next year we have time to think about having some small
scale workshop which can be easily sponsored by the IGCP 428
project. Colleagues S.Veliciu from Romania and A.Correia from
Portugal both recently expressed their wish to organize
a workshop and we may have also neeting in Prague. In addition,
we can have a project group meeting during the IUGG Assembly at
Birmingham, UK (July 1999), or during the European Geophysical
Society Assembly at Den Haag, Netherlands (April 1999). To use
the Birmingham Assembly seems to be most probable at the moment.
Anyhow, consider that the total sum of money is rather limited
and from the IGCP project only certain contribution can be given
to each participant rather than to cover all his/her expenses.
Preference is to be given always to younger colleagues and to
those from developping countries. Presentation of the original
results is a matter of self-evidence.
This letter is being sent to more than 150 colleagues. Here
I have listed those who have responded to the original
initiative, to confirm their participation.
For further practical organization of cooperation, please, let me
know now more by a concrete proposal how you want to contribute
to the proposed programme in either topic related to the
paleoclimate reconstruction based on the interpretation of the
inverted temperature logs: theoretical modelling, application of
various techniques to the measured temperature profiles,
comparison of the "geothermal" reconstruction and long-term
meteorlogical series, proxy data, contributiong to the soil-air
temperature coupling, etc. etc. Especially all experimental
T(z)-data obtained from boreholes specially drilled/measured for
such purpose are welcomed and we should organize exchange of such
records for multiple interpretation.
Another key task for the next future is to established a working
contacts with paleoclimatologists in your countries and work
jointly on the cross-calibration of the instrumental and proxy
records. We have to make maximum profit of the existing
information of any kind (such as tree rings, coral growth,
pollen, sediments, ice-core, isotopes, etc.) as well as the
long-term meteorological series of air and soil temperatures to
calibrate our ground surface temperature histories inverted from
the subsurface temperature profiles.
Looking forward for a fruitful cooperation and your response
Sincerely Yours
Vladimir Cermak
signed also for H.N.Pollack and Ch.Clauser
Project Proposers
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Enclosure
IGCP 428 participants (as listed on November 1997)
with their e-mail addresses
(Please, check the e-mail addresses and correct !!)
AL Alfred Frasheri nfra@inima.al
DZ Kedaid Fatima-Zohra N.A.
AUS Hu Shengbiao geosh@popeye.latrobe.edu.au
B Jeffrey Poort jpoort@vub.ac.be
BG Klara Boyadgieva vlad@geology.acad.bg
Simeon Kostyanev skost@staff.mgu.bg
BR Valiya Hamza hamza@on.br
CDN Hugo Beltrami hugo@stfx.ca
Alan M.Jessop jessopa@cadvision.com
Trevor Lewis lewis@pgc.emr.ca
Jacek Majorowicz majorowi@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Arkady Pilchin pilchin@sprint.ca
RC Naisheng Li nsli@ms.qdio.ac.cn
Yaolin Shi shiy@sun.ihep.ac.cn
Nianqiao Fang fangnianqiao@sky.cugb.edu.cn
CZ Rudolf Brazdil brazdil@porthos.geogr.muni.cz
Vladimir Cermak cermak@ig.cas.cz
Jan Safanda jsa@ig.cas.cz
Petr Stulc ps@ig.cas.cz
EG Gad El-Qady gad@mine.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Abbas Mohamed abbas-mohamed.abbas@geo.uni-
giessen.de
abbasma@frcu.eun.eg
ES Argo Joeleht argo.joeleht@ut.ee
FIN Ilmo Kukkonen ilmo.kukkonen@gsf.fi
Jarkko Jokinen jarkko.jokinen@gsf.fi
D Guenter Buntebarth guenter.buntebarth@tu-clausthal.de
Christoph Clauser c.clauser@bgr.de
Andrea Forster for@gfz-potsdam.de
Christian Oelsner cow@coffee.geophysik.tu-freiberg.de
Helmut Wilhelm wilhelm@gpiwapl.physik.uni-
karlsruhe.de
H Luizi Bodri bodri@gis.elte.hu
IL Lev Eppelbaum lev@jupiter1.tau.ac.il
Izzy Kutasov israel@eng.tau.ac.il
kutasov@mailexcite.com
I Enrico Barbier barbier@iirg.pi.cnr.it
Ettoree Salusti ettore.salusti@roma1.infn.it
Massimo Verdoya verdoya@mbox.dister.unige.it
J Toshiyasu Nagao nagao@scc.u-tokai.ac.jp
MA Abdelkrim Rimi N.A.
NZ Peter Whiteford p.whiteford@wnp.ac.nz
P Antonio Correia correia@uevora.pt
R Crisan Demetrescu crisan@geodin.ro
Serban Veliciu veliciu@igr.ro
RUS V.N.Deviatkin, V.V.An root@ikz.tyumen.su
T.Balobayev lans@imzran.yacc.yakutia.su
D.Yu.Demezhko ddem@igeoph.mplik.ru
V.Dmitriev dmitriev@cs.msu.su
Raissa Dorofeeva drf@cora.irkutsk.su
A.Duchkov duch@uiggm.nsc.ru
Inessa Golovanova root@giras.bashkiria.su
Galina V.Selezniova root@giras.bashkiria.su
Alexey Kiryukhin kiryuhin@volcan.kamchatka.su
Oleg Negrov vsegei@mail.wplus.net
Vjatcheslav Pimenov vpp@minas.rosmail.com
Yuri Popov yupopov@mgga-sec.msk.ru
A.Zhamaletdinov zham@ksc-gi.murmansk.su
SI Dusan Rajver iggg@uni-lj.si
E Manel Fernandez mfernandez@ija.csic.es
S Sten-Ake Elming sael@sb.luth.se
CH Ladislaus Rybach rybach@geo.phys.ethz.ch
Thomas Kohl kohl@geo.phys.ethz.ch
TR Tugrul Tokgoz tugrul@mtabim.mta.gov.tr
Simsek ukam@naim.jeo.hun.edu.tr
U Roman Kutas igpnamu.kiev.ua!root@realy.ua.net
A.Polutranco udgri@icmp.lviv.ua
GB Kerry Gallagher k.l.galagher@ic.ac.uk
USA David Chapman dchapman@mines.utah.edu
William D.Gosnold gosnold@badlands.nodak.edu
Bill Schmidt wischmidt@badlands.nodak.edu
Robert Harris rharris@rsmas.miami.edu
Shaopeng Huang shaopeng@geo.lsa.umich.edu
Henry N.Pollack hpollack@umich.edu
Vladimir Cermak
Geophysical Institute, Czech Acad.Sci.
141-31 Praha 4
phone +420-2-764539
fax +420-2-71761549 NEW!!!
From ilmo.kukkonen@gsf.fi Fri Sep 18 10:08:45 1998
Subject: EUG-10
Preliminary information on a special session on radiogenic heat production:
"Geophysical, geochemical and geological aspects of radiogenic heat
production in the lithosphere"
To be held at the EUG 10 Conference, European Union of Geosciences,
Strasbourg, France, March 28-April 1, 1999
Conveners: I.T. Kukkonen (Espoo), L. Rybach (Zuerich), F. Bea (Granada)
Dear Colleague,
We would like to inform you of a particular session which will be arranged
in the EUG 10 Conference of the European Union of Geosciences during March
28 - April 1, 1999. The session which we shall convene will focus on the
radiogenic heat production, and all its geophysical, geological and
geochemical aspects. Our point in this early warning is to provide the
potential participants some time to process their data and results before
the conference. Our goal is not only to arrange a good session but also
produce a proceedings volume with research articles on topics of heat
production.
Radiogenic heat production is a critical parameter influencing the past and
present evolution of our planet, convection in the mantle, lithospheric
thermal regime and the whole geothermal picture of the Earth. In our view
it's time to arrange a multidiscliplinary session on all geoscientific
aspects of radiogenic heat production, and the EUG conference in Strasbourg
provides a marvellous opportunity to realize such a meeting.
The session focuses on different aspects of radiogenic heat production in
the crust and mantle. We call for contributions on :
* Regional compilations of heat production data
* Petrophysical relationships between heat production and other
petrophysical parameters
* Relationships between heat flow density and heat production rate
* Vertical variation of heat producing elements in the lithosphere
* Thermal lithosphere models and heat production
* Geochemical modelling of U, Th and K differentiation in the lithosphere
* Mineralogical studies of heat producing elements
* Heat producing elements in metamorphic processes
* Heat production rates in exposed or xenolithic middle and lower crustal
rocks
* New developments in determination of heat production rates in rocks
* Airborne gamma ray techniques in heat production surveys
* Any other topic within heat production studies
We would be grateful for preliminary information of your interest and
possibilities of participating in the session. Unfortunately, no economic
support will be available through us to cover the expenses of the
participants.
The second circular of EUG-10 will be released on September 15, 1998. The
deadline for the submission of abstracts is November 1, 1998. For detailed
information on the conference arrangements and the second circular, please
take a look at the www-pages of EUG (http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/EUG) or
contact EUG directly: EUG Office, EOST, 5 rue Rene Descartes, 67084
Strasbourg cedex, France, tel. 33 (0)88 45 01 91 or 33 (0)3 88 41 63 93,
fax 33 (0)3 88 60 38 87, e-mail eug@eost.u-strasbg.fr.
Dr. Ilmo T. Kukkonen
Geological Survey of Finland
P.O. Box 96
FIN-02151 Espoo
Finland
e-mail ilmo.kukkonen@gsf.fi
Prof. Ladsi Rybach
Institute of Geophysics
ETH Hönggerberg
CH-8093 Zurich
Switzerland
e-mail rybach@geo.phys.ethz.ch
Prof. Fernando Bea
Dept. Mineralogia y Petrologia
Univ. Granada
18002 Granada
Spain
e-mail fbea@goliat.ugr.es
Dr. Ilmo T. Kukkonen
Geological Survey of Finland
Mail address: P.O. Box 96, FIN-02151 Espoo, Finland
Street address: Betonimiehenkuja 4, Espoo
e-mail ilmo.kukkonen@gsf.fi
tel. +358-205 50 2270
fax +358-205 50 12
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