Grotte Glaciali: 2° Workshop internazionale in Slovacchia dall’8 al 12 maggio 2006

Anche se l’articolo in inglese non trova corrispondenza sul web in Italiano, preme ricordare che ci sono moltissimi italiani tra i relatori provenienti dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “Ardito Desio” dell’Università degli studi di Milano e dal Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e del Territorio dell’Università degli Studi di Milano.

Ecco tutta la notizia in inglese, maggiori informazioni sul sito dell’Università per gli studenti… ma la versione in italiano, non l’ho trovata… http://users.unimi.it/icecaves/IWIC-II/ 

2nd International Workshop on Ice Caves
IWIC-II
Demänovská dolina, Slovak Republic
May 8 – 12, 2006
All correspondence: IWIC_II@unimi.it
This page contains the most updated news about the Workshop.

 

 The second circular is now available

first circular

Please fill in registration form and send it to IWIC_II@unimi.it if you are interested in the workshop!
March 15, 2006
Dear Colleagues

As decided in 2004 during IWIC-I in Romania, we are pleased to invite you to the second edition of International Workshop on Ice Caves in Slovakia.
IWIC-II will focus on “ice caves” in the meaning of rock-hosted caves containing perennial ice and snow deposits.
The day following to the contributions oral and poster presentation sessions there will be some field excursions to the Dobsinska Ice Cave and Demanovska Ice Cave two of the most spectacular ice caves in the world, and we are organizing also excursions to the Demanovska Cave of Liberty, Duca collapsed doline, Ochtinska Aragonite Cave, Silicka ladnica Ice Cave and Gombasecka Cave.
We are making preliminary arrangements for the accommodation in Demänovská dolina one of the most well-known tourist centres in Slovakia. We will be able to accommodate senior researchers participating, but also PhD and diploma students. We hope that you, too, will bring some of your students along.
In the following we are going to give you some details about the planned Workshop. We are preparing some entertainment for you, you can be sure that your stay will never be boring!
English will be the IWIC-II official language.
Sincerely yours,
RNDr. Pavel Bella
Prof. Alfredo Bini
Prof. Valter Maggi
Aims of the workshop:
IWIC are workshops entirely devoted to ice caves research. We wish to offer a place to point out the state of art, to discuss ongoing research efforts, to boost international cooperation. We would like to explore the interest for future research projects.
Furthermore, IWIC are an ideal opportunity to widen the availability among the interested audience of important research results formerly published only in non-English papers.

We welcome contributions related to any aspect of ice cave research, and particularly:
Ice caves climatology and the relations between hypogean and epigean environments
Morphology and mass balances of cave ice deposits
Stratigraphy and internal structure of hypogean ice deposits
Ice sampling methods
Cave ice crystal fabric
Chemical and isotopical studies on cave ice and its fluid inclusions
Applications of radiometric methods
Palynology, dendrochronology and other biology-related studies applied to ice caves research.

IWIC-II is organized under the auspices of UIS-GLACKIPR – the Glacial Caves and Karst in Polar and High Mountain Regions of the International Union of Speleology.

Organizing Committee:
Chairman:
Ing. Jozef Hlavác (Director of Slovak Caves Administration)

Members:
RNDr. Pavel Bella, PhD.(Slovak Caves Administration, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovak Republic)
Prof. Alfredo Bini (Earth Sciences Department “Ardito Desio”, University of Milano, Italy)
Ing. Peter Gažík (Slovak Caves Administration, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovak Republic)
Ing. Jozef Hlavác (Slovak Caves Administration, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovak Republic)
Dr. Jacek Piasecki (Institute of Geography & Regional Development, Wroclaw University, Poland)
Prof. Valter Maggi (Environmental Sciences Department, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
RNDr. Ján Zelinka (Slovak Caves Administration, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovak Republic)

Secretariat:
Dott. Stefano Turri (Earth Sciences Department “Ardito Desio”, University of Milano, Italy)

All correspondence: IWIC_II@unimi.it

Host Institute:

Slovak Caves Administration, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

Duration of Workshop:
May 8 – 12, 2006
Conference Place and Accommodation:
Scientific meeting will take place at the congress hall of Hotel Repiská in Demänovská dolina.
Accommodation will be provided in:

Hotel Repiská
032 51 Demänovská dolina,
Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovak Republic
tel.:+421 44 5591 526, 5591 576
fax: +421 44 5591 527
e-mail: repiska@repiska.sk
web site: www.repiska.sk

Conference Costs:
Pre-workshop excursion:
Number of registered participants: 46 persons
The pre-workshop excursion fee makes 5 EUR, it will be payable at the registration, travel and refreshment during excursion included.
Workshop:
The workshop fee for full participants will be 80 EUR, for accompanying persons 60 EUR and for students 50 EUR, payable at the registration. The fee includes: organizational costs, travel, refreshment and lunch during the whole-day excursion to the Dobsina Ice Cave, refreshment during coffee-breaks, preparation and print of abstracts and papers proceedings including postage for sending to participants, renting of conference room, poster panels.
Post-workshop excursion:
Number of registered participants: 40persons
The post-workshop excursion fee makes 20 EUR, including travel, refreshment and lunch.
Board and accommodation:
Board and accommodation is booked in the Repiska Hotel and will be paid individually. For accommodation, 52 double room and 3 apartments are available. The price for one bed and night (in case the whole room is engaged) is 14 EUR. The price for only one person in double room is 21 EUR per night. The price for the apartment is 83 EUR per night.
Full board is 13.5 EUR, half board is 8.5 EUR, breakfast is 3.5 EUR.

Contributed Papers:
All the participants are invited to send full papers to IWIC_II@unimi.it, zelinka@ssj.sk, caves@ssj.sk, or deliver at the registration.
The Workshop language is English, and full papers should be set up as follows:
The full papers written in Microsoft Word for PC should be formatted for paper A4, doubled-spaced, 2 cm margins. Full papers should have the following structure:
Title: the title of full paper should be centred (not justified) and in bold type size Time New Roman 11. Caps on first word and proper nouns only.
Author(s):List the authors, separated by a space from the title. Type size Time New Roman 10. Last name and abbreviation of name and address(es).
Affiliation(s): should be listed according to the numbers added in superscript after the authors name. Type size for affiliation is Time New Roman 9. All the lines of the author block should be centred. Leave one blank line after the authors block.
Abstract: brief characterization of paper up to 500 words
Key words: maximum 5 words
Text: should not exceed 10 pages (23.000 characters) of Times New Roman. Text must be justified. SI unit should be used. No footnotes, tables, figures, maps, or bibliographic references or acknowledgements should be included in the text.
Pictures, tables, annexes: should be delivered in separate files, with clear marking for placing in the text if required. Otherwise they can be placed at the end of full paper.
References: use your standard reference setting
Length of oral presentation is 15 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion. Data and overhead projectors are available.

Posters:

will be presented in the form of panel discussion.
Maximum poster dimension: 90 x 120 cm (width x height).

Papers and posters will be published in the workshop proceedings in the second half of 2006.
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Programme:
Monday, May 8, 2006
Pre-workshop excursion
09.00 – 17.00 whole-day excursion
Karst of the Demanovska Valley, Demanovska Cave of Liberty (light is not necessary), lunch in the Repiska Hotel (paid individually, approx. 6 EUR), Demanovska Ice Cave
19.00 – 20.00 dinner
20.00 – 21.30 speleological presentations

Tuesday, May 9, 2006
09.00 – 09.15 workshop opening
09.15 – 12.30 papers
12.30 – 13.30 lunch
14.00 – 15.30 papers
16.00 – 18.00 moderated discussion – ice cave climatology
18.00 – 18.30 posters
19.00 – 20.00 dinner

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
09.00 – 15.00 whole-day excursion
Dobsinska Ice Cave- World Heritage (possibility of visiting non-iced parts of the cave – helmet and light are necessary), Duca collapsed doline and ice cave, lunch in the Ladova Restaurant
16.30 – 18.00 visit Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Caving, Liptovsky Mikulas
19.00 dinner
20.00 – 21.30 speleological presentations (Film: Argaracan – cave with the ice)

Thursday, May 11, 2006
09.00 – 12.30 papers
12.30 – 13.30 lunch
14.00 – 15.40 papers
16.10 – 17.45 moderated discussion – ice cave glaciology
18.00 dinner and closing ceremony

Friday, May 12, 2006
Post-workshop excursion
09.00 – 18.00 whole-day excursion to the Slovak Karst National Park
Ochtinska Aragonite Cave, Silicka ladnica Ice Cave, Gombasecka Cave (Localities in World Heritage List), lunch in the Kras Hotel (Roznava)
19.00 dinner

Participation form:
If you are interested in the workshop, please fill in the attached registration form and send it as soon as possible to the workshop secretariat: IWIC_II@unimi.it

How to get to Repiská Hotel in Demänovská dolina:
By plane: closest international airports – Vienna, Bratislava, Košice
By train: IC train Vienna – Bratislava – Liptovský Mikuláš, Košice – Liptovský Mikuláš (check schedule at www.cp.sk /odkial=from, kam=to, datum=date, cas=time)
By car: E50 to Liptovský Mikuláš, local road from highway exit to Demänovská Dolina, hotel Repiská
Local transport by bus: from railway and bus station local bus from Liptovský Mikuláš to Demänovská Dolina – Jasná, get off at Demänovská jaskyna slobody (Cave of Liberty)
Special transport: If you announce your arrival time in advance, the organizers will arrange transport from the Liptovský Mikuláš train/bus station to the workshop place by car with label IWIC II. For transport announcements use e-mail caves@ssj.sk
 
Timelines:

… April 30, 2006 – Third circular with final program.
… May 8 – 12, 2006 – Deadline for full papers
… May 8 – 12, 2006 – IWIC-II

 

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