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X Symposium ProGEO 2021

X International ProGEO Symposium

Building connections for global geoconservation
A fully online free event
7-10th June 2021
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Scientific Programme

This programme only shows oral presentations and the main events of the symposium. 92 ePosters will be available for viewing at any time during the symposium.

Monday, June 7, 2021
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Thursday, June 10, 2021
 
June 7th
9:30 to 10:00 Opening ceremony
10:00 to 11:00 Plenary Conference
Asier Hilario
President of the IUGS International Commission on Geoheritage

Geological heritage and UNESCO Global Geoparks: Memory of the Earth, future for the people.
12:30 to 14:20 Scientific Session I - Geotourism, UG Geoparks and local development
12:30 Session chairwoman: Lesley Dunlop

Northumbria University (United Kingdom)

12:35 Geosites – Geoparks in Greece: the management of Geoheritage as a tool for sustainable development and alternative tourism

Moraiti Evgenia, Barsaki Vasiliki and Zananiri Irene

12:50 Can the rocks actually sing? : A case study about a complete learning experience on the thematic trail “Music of Nature” in Hateg Country UNESCO Global Geopark

Adina Maria Popa, Dan Horațiu Popa, Alexandru Andrășanu and Simona Delia Meliță

13:05 Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark as a sustainable development strategy

Patrícia Azevedo, Fábio Loureiro, Emanuel de Castro and Hugo Gomes

13:20 A multidisciplinary GIS-database for a holistic local management of the Courel Mountains UNESCO Global Geopark (Spain)

Daniel Ballesteros, Pablo Caldevilla, Ramón Vila, Xosé Carlos Barros, Laura Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Manuel García-Ávila, Elvira Sahuquillo, Miguel Llorente, José Bienvenido Diez, Mercedes Fuertes-Fuente, Susana M. Timón-Sánchez, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Iván Álvarez, Irene Pérez-Cáceres, Manuel Acebo, Pilar Orche Amaré and Martín Alemparte

13:35 3GEO – Geoclimbing and Geotrekking in Geoparks: sustainable practices for enhancing the tourist and education experience

Irene Maria Bollati, Jasper Knight, Mohammed Alkindi, Charalampos Fassoulas, Eugenio Fazio, Ricardo Galeno Fraga de Araújo Pereira, Manuel García – Rodríguez, Hugo Gomes, Manuel Schilling, Cristina Viani, Anna Masseroli, Giuseppe Maria Amato, Tiziana Apuani, Patricia Azevedo, Tullio Bagnati, Enrique Fernandez Escalante, Martina Forzese, Marco Giardino, Manuela Pelfini, Enrico Zanoletti and Michele Zucali

13:50 Virtual tour through Seridó Aspiring Geopark geosites’: Google StreetView© as a geotouristic and geoeducational tool

Silas Samuel dos Santos Costa, Marcos Antonio Leite do Nascimento, Matheus Lisboa Nobre da Silva, Marília Cristina Santos Souza Dias and Janaína Luciana de Medeiros

14:05 Challenges in the Development of the Appalachian Geopark (USA)

Robert Clyde Burns and Jasmine Cardozo Moreira

15:00 to 17:00 Intensive short course on geoconservation
Enrique Díaz-Martínez
Geological Survey of Spain (IGME, CSIC)

Part I: Basic concepts
16:00 to 18:00 Meeting of the Geoheritage Commission of the Association of Iberoamerican Geological and Mining Surveys (ASGMI)
Meeting to update latest results and advances in geoconservation in Ibero-American countries. Open only to its members.
18:00 to 20:00 1st Workshop of the EuroGeoSurveys Geoheritage Expert Group
First meeting to coordinate efforts from European geological surveys (EuroGeosurveys) towards geoconservation in Europe. Open only to group members.

 
June 8th
9:00 to 11:20 Scientific Session II - Management and conservation
9:00 Session chairman: José Brilha

University of Minho (Portugal)

9:05 The Geoconservation Trust Aotearoa. A transdiciplinary approach to science, conservation, education, tourism, and art

Ilmars Gravis, Károly Németh and Chris Twemlow

9:20 Geomorphological heritage of sandstone areas in SW Poland – conservation and interpretation issues

Filip Duszyński and Piotr Migoń

9:35 Tourist caves in Slovenia in terms of their nature conservation and management

Martina Stupar, Mina Dobravc and Ljudmila Strahovnik

9:50 The "Save a Rock" program at COP25: citizen science to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on geoconservation

Juana Vegas, Ana Cabrera, Gonzalo Lozano, Andrés Díez-Herrero, Luis Carcavilla, Enrique Díaz-Martínez, Alicia González, Javier Luengo, Ángel Salazar and Ángel García-Cortés

10:05 Establishing management priorities for geoconservation in Cajón del Maipo Geopark project, Chile

Camilo Vergara Daskam and Cristóbal Estay Daskam

10:20 Threatened, damaged or destroyed geoheritage. Challenge and opportunity

Colin D. Prosser

10:35 Geoheritage, land-use planning and the sad case of Donald Trump's Scottish golf course

Murray Gray

10:50 Positive changes on conservation of an active spring mineral deposit in Dos Aguas Geosite during the COVID´19 confinement (Taburiente Caldera National Park, La Palma, Canary Islands)

Inés Galindo, Juana Vegas, José Heriberto Lorenzo, Esther Martín-González, Nieves Sánchez and Carmen Romero

11:05 Sustainable management and development of the World Heritage area of the High Coast, Sweden

Kristian Schoning and Lena Lundqvist

12:30 to 14:20 Scientific Session III - Management and conservation / Geoconservation in protected areas
12:30 Session chairman: Paulo Pereira

University of Minho (Portugal)

12:35 Geoheritage tourism value in the Peneda-Gerês National Park (Portugal): quantitative assessment and valorisation proposals

Andreia Afonso and Paulo Pereira

12:50 The karst geoheritage of Tara National Park (Serbia) and its potential use in geotourism

Tamás Telbisz, Jelena Ćalić, Jelena Kovačević-Majkić, Ranko Milanović, Jovana Brankov and Jasna Micić

13:05 Restoration of a geological landscape in the high Arctic, Svalbard, Norway

Lars Erikstad and Dagmar Hagen

13:20 Orígens Geopark inventory and fieldwork good-practice-protocol as tools for geoconservation

Xavier Mir Pellicer and Joan Poch

13:35 Using geodiversity index map to select priority areas for assessing ecosystem services in the central coast of São Paulo, Brazil

Debora Silva Queiroz and Maria da Glória Motta Garcia

13:50 Cultural ecosystem services of geodiversity and awareness-raising on geoconservation: a perspective from the Ceará Central Domain, North-eastern Brazil

Pâmella Moura and Maria da Glória Motta Garcia

14:05 How protected are geosites in protected areas? An analysis from the geoheritage of the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Maria da Glória Garcia, Lígia Maria de Almeida Ribeiro and Karina Kawai Higa

15:00 to 17:00 Intensive short course on geoconservation
Enrique Díaz-Martínez
Geological Survey of Spain (IGME, CSIC)

Part II: Geoheritage inventories
17:00 to 18:50 Scientific Session IV - Geoheritage and cultural heritage / Education and public outreach
17:00 Session chairman: Lars Erikstad

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Norway)

17:05 New potential geoheritage assets surrounded with the cultural heritage from Dikili and Madra Mountain (Western Anatolia, Izmir Turkey)

Ökmen Sümer, Mehmet Akbulut, Cüneyt Akal and Hülya İnaner

17:20 ELIGES: scientific criteria for selecting 10 areas of urban geosites for environmental awareness and geotourism in Segovia (Spain)

Andrés Díez-Herrero and Juana Vegas

17:35 Valorisation of the Geological Values (Future Geosite Candidates) around the UNESCO World Heritage Asset of Hittite Capital Ḫattuša

Ökmen Sümer, Mehmet Akbulut, Nizamettin Kazancı, Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor, Meriç Aziz Berge, Atilla Ongar, Andreas Schachner, Hülya İnaner, Yaşar Suludere, Yavuz Hakyemez, Necip Sabri Mülazımoğlu, Sonay Boyraz-Arslan, Hamdi Mengi and Sevim Tuzcu

17:50 Criteria and indicators of urban geoheritage assessment for geoturistic use: the cultural value importance of geoheritage in Rome (Italy)

Alessia Pica and Maurizio Del Monte

18:05 Cultural service associated with geoheritage in Seridó aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark, Northeast Brazil

Matheus Lisboa Nobre da Silva, Marcos Antonio Leite do Nascimento, Silas Samuel dos Santos Costa and Janaína Luciana de Medeiros

18:20 Geoheritage in the United States: National Parks and more

Thomas Casadevall, David Mogk, and Ester Sztein

18:35 Public outreach for decision support at Mount Saint Helens National Monument, USA

Daniel Tormey


 
June 9th
9:00 to 11:20 Scientific Session V - Inventories and research
9:00 Session chairman: Sven Lundqvist

Geological survey of Sweden (Sweden)

9:05 Geodiversity model of Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand

Vladyslav Zakharovskyi and Károly Németh

9:20 Tectonic geoheritage as a forgotten opportunity to use it for natural hazard resilience – Lessons from the Kakoura 2016 Earthquake, New Zealand

Károly Németh, Boxin Li, Boglárka Németh and Vladyslav Zakharovskyi

9:35 Occurrence and genesis of waterfall calc tufa deposits from semi-arid Upland Deccan Traps, India: proxies for paleoclimate and monsoon record

Madhuri S. Ukey and Ravindrasinh G. Pardeshi

9:50 Mapping geosites in Albania

Ledi Moisiu, Adil Neziraj and Albert Avxhi

10:05 Representative and unique geosites of the Russian Caucasus

Marina S. Vdovets, Valery Ja. Vuks and Yuri Lyahnitsky

10:20 Feedback on twelve years work on the national geoheritage inventory in France: results and advances for geosite protection

Isabelle Rouget, Grégoire Egoroff and Claire de Kermadec

10:35 Need of inventory and preservation of the Tete Fossil Forest: a recognition of the largest fossil forest in Africa

Nelson Nhamutole, Marcelino Moiana, Marion Bamford, Ricardo Araújo, Juana Vegas and Enrique Díaz-Martínez

10:50 Granite blockfields of Seoraksan, Republic of Korea – diversity and geoheritage values

Piotr Migoń, Marek Kasprzak and Kyung Sik Woo

11:05 Putting Geoheritage on the map in Luxembourg: the ‘Mëllerdall’ (aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark) and ‘Minett’ (UNESCO Biosphere)

Robert Weis and Birgit Kausch

12:30 to 14:20 9th Meeting of ProGEO’s SE Europe Regional Working Group
This meeting attempts to coordinate planned activities and set strategies and action plans for the future geoconservation in this region of Europe. Open only to its members
12:30 to 14:20 4th Meeting of ProGEO’s SW Europe Regional Working Group
This meeting attempts to coordinate geoconservation efforts from Andorra, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, set strategies and plan actions for the future. Open only to its members
15:00 to 17:00 Virtual Workshop: Key Geoheritage Areas Initiative (KGA)
IUCN-WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group (GSG).

To discuss the overall vision and goals for the proposed Key Geoheritage Areas (KGA) Initiative and steps to move forward. Open to anybody registered in the ProGEO symposiuym
15:00 Introduction of GSG and KGA

Kyung Sik Woo / Chair, WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group

15:05 IUCN-RES-074: IUCN Geoheritage Resolution and future perspectives

Tim Badman / Director, IUCN World Heritage Programme

15:20 Concept of Key Geoheritage Areas (KGA)

José Brilha / Deputy Vice Chair, WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group

15:40 What can we learn from the Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) Programme

Nigel Dudley / IUCN WCPA

16:00 IGCP 731: IUGS Global Geosites. The great opportunity for the international recognition of geological heritage sites

Asier Hilario / Chair, IUGS Commission on Geoheritage (ICG)

16:20 Discussion & Questions

 
June 10th
9:00 to 11:05 Scientific Session VI - Education and Public Outreach
9:00 Session chairwoman: Clare Glanville

Geological survey of Ireland (Ireland)

9:05 SWOT analysis of geo-educational tourism in Lushan Geopark, China

Shi Ying and Elena de Uña-Álvarez

9:20 How to make geology more attractive for a public through online presentation?

Markéta Vajskebrová, Martina Fifernová, Martin Lisec and Radek Svítil

9:35 A citizen science program to report fresh outcrops: a new tool to appropriate geological heritage in France

Asma Seinhausser, Grégoire Egoroff, Alicia Mansilla-Sanchez, Lydia Detienne and Isabelle Rouget

9:50 Seeking public engagement with geodiversity

J. Rodrigues, E. Costa e Silva, and D.I. Pereira

10:05 International Geodiversity Day: developing a global outreach initiative

José Brilha, Murray Gray, Jack Matthews and Zbigniew Zwoliński

10:20 Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University (Vila Real, Portugal): a space of public outreach of geology

David Martín Freire-Lista, Javier Eduardo Becerra Becerra and Mila Simões de Abreu

9:00 to 11:00 Meeting of the International Commission on Geoheritage (ICG) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
This meeting has the purpose of building bridges with ProGEO and informing about the new launching of the Global Geosites project led by this Commission of IUGS. Open only to its members.
15:00 to 17:05 Scientific Session VII - Inventories and research
15:00 Session chairwoman: Hülya Inaner

Dokuz Eylül University (Turkey)

15:05 Inventory of geosites in the Rio Grande do Norte state: first steps towards a geoheritage database for the brazilian northeast

Filipe Freire Alencar, Marília Cristina Santos Souza Dias, Ítalo Mendonça Nascimento Barbalho and Marcos Antônio Leite do Nascimento

15:20 Methodological discussion concerning inventory and assessment of geomorphosites: An integrated approach

Daniel Souza dos Santos, Kátia Leite Mansur, José Carlos Sícoli Seoane, Vanessa Costa Mucivuna and Emmanuel Reynard

15:35 National geosites inventory of Chile: preliminary results from compilation and homogenization stages

Francisca Salazar D., Felipe Fuentes C. and Manuel Arenas A.

15:50 Inventories of geomorphological heritage: a review of the Brazilian scientific publications

Eliana Mazzucato, Vanessa da Costa Mucivuna, Denise de La Corte Bacci and Maria da Glória Motta Garcia

16:05 Assessing landscape-scale geodiversity across Finland

Helena Tukiainen and Jan Hjort

16:20 Applying evenness measures to geodiversity evaluation

Borut Stojilković

16:35 Registration and assessment of geosites: Results and implications of a Norwegian study

Tine L. Angvik, Rolv Magne Dahl, Lars Erikstad and Tom Heldal

16:50 Geosite valorization of Ohrid-Prespa Transboundary Biosphere Reserve

Ardiana Miçi and Florina Pazari

17:05 Closing ceremony
15:00 to 16:30 Meeting of the IUCN WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group (GSG) steering committee
Open only to its members.
18:00 to 20:00 ProGEO General Assembly
Open only to its members.