Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
4th International Symposium
Austin, Texas
November 7 – 12, 2009

— Instructions to Poster Presenters —

Note: All oral presentations, meetings, and panel discussions take place in the Big Tex Auditorium in the Commons Center on the Pickle Research Campus of the University of Texas. This program might be subject to further modifications.

Presentation schedule includes video webcast links [PDF meeting agenda 11/5/09]

Keynote Speakers highlighted

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
Oral Sessions 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

Numbers in first column are linked to abstracts in PDF format.

Keynote Speakers highlighted

Theme 1: Submarine mass movements: triggers, mechanics and geotechnical properties
Theme 2: Submarine mass movements: case studies and hazard assessment
Theme 3: Submarine mass movements in margin construction and economic significance
Theme 4: Submarine mass movements and tsunamis

	Theme 1 Submarine mass movements: triggers, mechanics and geotechnical properties
(021)	Grozic, J.L.H.	Interplay between gas hydrates and submarine slope failure.
(029)	Kreiter, S., Moerz, T., Strasser, M., Lange, M., Schunn, W., Schlue, B.F., Otto, D., Kopf, A.	Advanced dynamic soil testing - introducing the new MARUM dynamic triaxial testing device.
(013)	Ferentinou, M., Hasiotis, T. and Sakellariou, M.G.	Clustering of geotechnical properties of marine sediments through self-organizing maps: an example from the Zakynthos Canyon—Valley system, Greece.
(016)	Garziglia, S., Sultan, N., Cattaneo, A., Ker, S., Marsset, B., Riboulot, V., Voisset, M., Adamy, J. and Unterseh, S.	Identification of shear zones and their causal mechanisms using a combination of cone penetration tests and seismic data in the Eastern Niger delta.
(014)	Förster, A., Spieß, V., Kopf, A. and Dennielou, B.	Mass wasting dynamics at the deeper slope of the Ligurian margin (Southern France).
(030)	Langford, T. and Perkins, S.	Characterization of micaceous sand for investigation of a subsea mass movement.
(063)	Zakeri, A.	Estimating drag forces on suspended and laid-on-seafloor pipelines caused by clay-rich submarine debris flow impact.
(064)	Zakeri, A., Si, G., Marr, J.D.G., and Hoeg, K.	Experimental investigation of subaqueous clay-rich debris flows, turbidity generation and sediment deposition.
(004)	Bradshaw, A.S., Tappin, D.R. and Rugg, D.	The Kinematics of a debris avalanche on the Sumatra margin.
(037)	Mazzanti, P., Bozzano, F., Avolio, M.V., Lupiano, V. and Di Gregorio, S.	3D numerical modeling of submerged and coastal landslide propagation.
(038)	Mazzanti, P., De Blasio, F.V.	Peculiar morphologies of subaqueous landslide deposits and their relationship to flow dynamics.
(036)	Masson, M.G., Wynn, R.B. and Talling, P.J.	Large landslides on passive continental margins: processes, hypotheses and outstanding questions.
(012)	Dugan, B. and Stigall, J.	Origin of overpressure and slope failure in the Ursa region, northern Gulf of Mexico.
(058)	Urgeles, R., Locat, J., Sawyer, D.E., Flemings, P.B., Dugan, B. and Binh, N.T.T.	History of pore pressure build up and slope instability in the mud-dominated sediments of Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico continental slope.
(028)	Kopf, A., Kasten, S. and Blees, J.	Geochemical evidence for groundwater-charging of slope sediments: the Nice airport 1979 landslide and tsunami revisited.
(060)	Viesca, R.C., and Rice, J.R.	Modeling slope instability as shear rupture propagation in a saturated porous medium.
Theme 1: Submarine mass movements: triggers, mechanics and geotechnical properties Theme 2: Submarine mass movements: case studies and hazard assessment Theme 3: Submarine mass movements in margin construction and economic significance Theme 4: Submarine mass movements and tsunamis
	Theme 2 Submarine mass movements: case studies and hazard assessment
(047)	Paull, C.K., Schlining, B., Ussler, W. III, Lundsten, E. Barry, J.P., Caress, D.W., Johnson, J. and McGann, M.	Submarine mass movements within Monterey Canyon: benthic disturbance controls on the distribution of chemosynthetic biological communities.
(001)	Ashabranner, L.B., Tripsanas, E.K. and Shipp, R.C.	Evidence for Bi-direction Flow in a Mass Transport Deposit, Santos Basin Offshore Brazil.
(005)	Bull, S. and Cartwright, J.	Small-scale insights into seismic-scale slumps: a comparison of slump features from the Waitemata Basin, New Zealand, and the Møre Basin, off-shore Norway.
(033)	Locat, J. ten Brink, U. and Chaytor, J.	The Block Composite submarine landslide, southern New England slope, U.S.A.: A morphological analysis.
(061)	Winkelmann, D., Geissler, W., Stein, R. and Niessen, F.	Post-megaslide slope stability north of Svalbard, Arctic Ocean.
(051)	Sayago-Gil, M., Long, D., Fernández-Salas, L.-M., Hitchen, K., López-González, N., Díaz-del-Río, V. and Durán-Muñoz, P.	Geomorphology of the Talismán slide (Western slope of Hatton Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean).
(046)	Owen, M., Day, S. Long, D. and Maslin, M.	Investigations on the Peach 4 debrite, a late Pleistocene mass movement on the northwest British continental margin.
(026)	Kawamura, K., Kanamatsu, T., Kinoshita, M., Saito, S., Shibata, T., Fujino, K., Misawa, A., Burmeister, K.C.	Redistribution of sediments by submarine landslides on the eastern Nankai Accretionary Prism.
(054)	Tahchi, E., Urgeles, R., Hübscher C. and Benkhelil, J.	Mass wasting at the easternmost Cyprus Arc, off Syria, eastern Mediterranean.
(043)	Nodine, M.C., Gilbert, R.G., Cheon, J.Y., Wright, S.G. and Ward, E.G.	Risk analysis for hurricane-wave induced submarine mudslides.
(023)	Hitchcock, C., Angell, M., Givler, R. and Hooper, J.	GIS-based assessment of submarine mudflow hazard offshore of the Mississippi delta, Gulf of Mexico.
(035)	Mackenzie, B., Hooper, J. and Rushton, D.	Spatial analysis of shallow slope instability incorporating an engineering geological ground model.
(018)	Geist, E.L., Parsons, T.	Estimating the empirical probability of submarine landslide occurrence.
(056)	Thomas, S., Hooper, J. and Clare, M.	Constraining geohazards to the past: impact assessment of submarine mass movements on seabed developments.
(040)	Morgan, E.C., Vanneste, M., Longva, O., Lecomte, I., McAdoo, B. and Baise, L.	Evaluating gas-generated pore pressure with seismic reflection data in a landslide-prone area: an example from Finneidfjord, Norway.
(050)	Ryan, H. F., Lee, H. J., Haeussler, P. J., Alexander, C. R., and Kayen, R. E.	Historic and paleo-submarine landslide deposits imaged beneath Port Valdez, Alaska: implications for tsunami generation in a glacial fiord.
(031)	Ledoux, G., Lajeunesse, P., Chapron, E. and St. Onge, G.	Multibeam bathymetry investigations of mass-movements in Lake Le Bourget (NW Alps, France) using a portable platform.
(057)	Turmel, D., Locat, J., Cauchon-Voyer, G., Lavoie, C., Simpkin, P., Parker, G. and Patrick Lauzière.	Morphodynamics and slope instability observations at Wabush Lake, Labrador.
(022)	Henrich, R., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Cherubini, Y., Krastel, S., Pierau, R. and Zühlsdorff, C.	Climate induced turbidity current activity in NW-African canyon systems.
(062)	Wynn, R.B., Talling, P.J., Masson, D.G., Stevenson, C.J., Cronin, B.T., Le Bas, T.P.	Investigating the timing, processes and deposits of one of the World's largest submarine gravity flows: the 'Bed 5 event' off northwest Africa.
Theme 1: Submarine mass movements: triggers, mechanics and geotechnical properties Theme 2: Submarine mass movements: case studies and hazard assessment Theme 3: Submarine mass movements in margin construction and economic significance Theme 4: Submarine mass movements and tsunamis
	Theme 3 Submarine mass movements in margin construction and economic significance
(002)	Beaubouef, R.T. and Abreu, V.	MTCs of the Brazos-Trinity Slope System; thoughts on the sequence stratigraphy of MTCs and their possible roles in shaping hydrocarbon traps.
(003)	Boyd, R., Keene, J., Hubble, T, Gardner, J., Glenn, K., Ruming, K., Exxon, N. and the crews of Southern Surveyor 20/2006 and 12/2008.	Southeast Australia: a Cenozoic continental margin dominated by mass transport.
(006)	Camerlenghi, A., Urgeles, R. and Fantoni, L.	A data base on submarine landslides of the Mediterranean Sea.
(008)	Cattaneo, A., Babonneau, N., Dan, G., Déverchère, J., Domzig. A., Gaullier, V., Lepillier, B., Mercier de Lépinay, B., Nouguès, A., Strzerzynski, P., Sultan, N. and Yelles, K.	Submarine slides along the Algerian margin: a review of their occurrence and potential link with tectonic structures.
(010)	Dan, G., Sultan N., Cattaneo A., Déverchère J. and Yelles K.	Submarine landslides on the Algerian margin (Algiers area): morphology, lithology and sedimentary processes.
(044)	Nouguès, A. Sultan, N., Cattaneo, A., Dan, G., Yelles, K. and the PRISME (2007) team.	Detailed analysis of a submarine landslide (SAR-27) in the deep basin offshore Algiers (Western Mediterranean).
(015)	Frey-Martinez, J.	3D seismic interpretation of mass transport deposits: implications for basin analysis and geohazard evaluation.
(017)	Gaullier, V., Loncke, L., Droz, V., Basile, C., Maillard, A., Patriat, M., Roest, W.R., Loubrieu, B., Folens, L. and Carol, F.	Slope instability on the French Guiana transform margin from swath-bathymetry and 3.5 kHz echograms.
(052)	Silva, C. G., Araújo, E., Reis, A.T., Perovano, R., Gorini, C., Vendeville, B.C. and Albuquerque, N.	Megaslides in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, Brazilian equatorial margin.
(049)	Romero-Otero, G.A., Slatt, R.M. and Pirmez, C.	Detached and shelf-attached mass transport deposits on the Magdalena deepwater fan.
(045)	Olson, H.C., Damuth, J.E.	Character, distribution and timing of latest Quaternary mass-transport deposits in Texas-Louisiana intraslope basins based on high-resolution (3.5 kHz) seismic facies and piston cores.
(053)	Smith, B.M., Deptuck, M.E. and Kendell, K.	Upper Cretaceous mass transport systems above the Wyandot Formation chalk, offshore Nova Scotia.
(024)	Huppertz, T.J., Piper, D.J.W., Mosher, D.C., Jenner, K.A.	The significance of mass transport deposits for the evolution of a proglacial continental slope.
(007)	Campbell, D.C., Mosher, D.C.	Middle to Late Miocene slope failure and the generation of a regional unconformity beneath the western Scotian Slope, eastern Canada.
(019)	Giles, M.K, Mosher, D.C., Piper, D.J.W. and Wach, G.D.	Mass transport processes on the southwestern Newfoundland Slope.
Theme 1: Submarine mass movements: triggers, mechanics and geotechnical properties Theme 2: Submarine mass movements: case studies and hazard assessment Theme 3: Submarine mass movements in margin construction and economic significance Theme 4: Submarine mass movements and tsunamis
	Theme 4 Submarine mass movements and tsunamis
(055)	Tappin, D.	Mass transport events and their tsunamigenic hazard.
(034)	Lynett, P.	Hydrodynamic Modeling of tsunamis generated by submarine landslides: generation, propagation, and shoreline impact.
(020)	Gisler, G., Weaver, R.P. and Gittings, M.L.	Calculations of tsunamis from submarine landslides.
(039)	Mohammed, F. And Fritz, H.M.	Experiments on tsunamis generated by 3d granular landslides.
(011)	Di Roberto, A., Rosi, M., Bertagnini, A., Marani, M.P., Gamberi, F.	Distal turbidites and tsunamigenic landslides of Stromboli volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy).
(041)	Moscardelli, L., Hornbach, M. and Wood, L.	Tsunamigenic risks associated with mass transport complexes in offshore Trinidad and Venezuela.
(009)	Chaytor, J.D., Twichell, D.C., Lynett, P. and Geist, E.L.	Distribution and tsunamigenic potential of submarine landslides in the Gulf of Mexico.
(048)	Poncet, R., Campbell, D.C., Dias, F., Locat, J. and Mosher, D.C.	A study of the tsunami effects of two landslides in the St. Lawrence estuary.
(042)	Mosher, D.C., Xu, Z., and Shimeld, J.	The Pliocene Shelburne mass-movement and consequent tsunami, western Scotian Slope.