MONDAY June 20: Room 129 (Michael J. Auerbach Auditorium) – School of Science and Math building
0800-0900 Registration
0900-0930 Opening Session Welcome by ICMG Committee
Session I: ENVIRONMENTAL and CLIMATE IMPLICATIONS for MILITARY OPERATIONS
Session Chair: Peter Guth
0930-0950 Smit Characterizing Military Impacts on the Environment: The Military Environmental Impact Matrix
0950-1010 Read The Security Implications of Climate Change in Africa
1010-1040 Galgano Climate and Land Degradation Impacts on Pastoralist-Farmer Violent Conflicts in Darfur, Sudan
1040-1100 Guerreiro An Analysis of Fog in the European Airports: The Military Perspective
1100-1130 Break
1130-1150 Hartshorn Testing a Model for Remotely Predicting Degraded Visual Environment or Dust Induced Brownout Conditions
1150-1210 McDonald Testing Soil Landform Mapping to Remotely Predict Locations Capable of Generating Degraded Visual Environments
1210-1230 Sabol Optimal Imaging and Environmental Conditions for Thermal Detection of Surface Targets
1230-1400 Box Lunch: CofC Campus
Session II: MILITARY GEOSCIENCE: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTS
Session Chair: Hennie Smit
1400-1420 Huscher The Trenches at Regniéville: Ernst Jünger’s Geology Excerpt from In Stahlgewittern
1420-1440 Le Roux The Radon Exposure in Military Bunkers in Saldanha Bay, South Africa
1440-1500 Wisian Geothermal Energy for Base Energy Independence; Fixing a Critical Vulnerability
1500-1520 Bulmer The Environmental and Socio-Cultural Impact of Islamic State Use of Sinkholes and Caves as Mass Graves in Syria and Iraq
1520-1630 Poster Viewing Session
1800-2000 Dinner: Francis Marion Hotel Ballroom