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 |