Dear IUFRO Division 8 The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to 15th March 2016 regards Alexia Stokes 8.03.00 - NATURAL HAZARDS AND RISK MANAGEMENT Dear Colleague *4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOIL BIO- AND ECO-ENGINEERING: THE USE OF VEGETATION TO IMPROVE SLOPE STABILITY* ** The University of Sydney invites you to register for the 4th International Conference on Soil Bio- and Eco-engineering: The Use of Vegetation to Improve Slope Stability. We are pleased to annouce the following keynote speakers and talks: *Prof. Mark Adams *University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia /TBA / *A/Prof Ian Rutherfurd* University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia /"Assumed resistance: the role of vegetation roots on the resistance of river banks to fluvial scour" /*Dr Massimiliano Schwarz* Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland /"Ro ot reinforcement calculations: from single root to root system" /*Prof. Roy Sidle *University of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia /"Effects of Vegetation Management on Slope Stability"/ *Dr Andrew Simon *Cardno, Oxford, Mississippi /"Role of Riparian Vegetation in Fluvial Geomorphology" /Please click here <http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/soil/keynote.shtml> for more information on keynote presentations. *Date *Monday 11 - Thursday 14 July, 2016 *Venue *The University of Sydney Camperdown Campus Sydney, Australia *RSVP *Earlybird registration closes on 1 May 2016 *REGISTER <https://events.sydney.edu.au/office2/getdemo.ei?id=20543&s=_4300YO72P>* * DECLINE <https://events.sydney.edu.au/office2/getdemo.ei?id=20543&s=_3YO0ROSS9> *Please click here <http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/soil/index.shtml> for more information on the conference programme and the submission of abstracts. *ENQUIRIES **T* +61 2 9114 1425 *E* samantha.clarke(a)sydney.edu.au <mailto:samantha.clarke@sydney.edu.au> To make sure you continue to see our emails in the future, please add events.rsvp(a)sydney.edu.au <mailto:events.rsvp@sydney.edu.au> to your address book or safe senders list. Disclaimer <http://sydney.edu.au/disclaimer.shtml> | Privacy statement <http://sydney.edu.au/privacy.shtml> | University of Sydney <http://sydney.edu.au/> | Unsubscribe <http://sydney.edu.au/alumni/unsubscribe.php>