For more information, please contact:
Bárbara Krause
AT Proyecto BOSAWAS
MARENA/GTZ
Tel (505) 233-2594/263-2370
Barbarakrause@hotmail.com

Costa Rica, November 2000
Second Pan American Course on Mass Migration

This activity will be carried out for the 5th to the 11th of November in San José, Costa Rica. It is organized by the Geotechnical Association of the College of Civil Engineers in Costa Rica. Registration fee for each participant is $300. The course will be given by international experts and space is limited.

For more information:
Marco Valverde, mvalverdemo@icelec.ice.go.cr
Alex Garcia, cinecritica@hotmail.com
Fax: (506) 253-3779

Ecuador, September 2000
Course for Managers on Health, Disasters, and Development

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), through their Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Coordination Program (PED-PAHO/WHO), will offer an intensive two-week-and-a-half course for managers whose responsibilities now involve, or may involve in the future, emergency and disaster management, both in the private and public sectors and in civil society organizations. The course will be held in Quito, Ecuador, from 30 August to 15 September 2000. The course will only be available in Spanish.

For more information, please contact:
Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Coordination Program
(PED-PAHO/WHO)
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W. Washington DC 20037, USA
Tel. (1-202) 974-3531 Fax: (1-202) 775-4578
curso-lideres@paho.org

Chile, August 2000
“VI International Congress on Earth Sciences”

Congresses in which scientists of various nationalities have met to discuss and diffuse the results of their researches and scientific and technological development, with the purpose of assuring the future well being of humanity. In Santiago Chile, from 7th to 11th of August.

For more information, please contact:
Nueva Santa Isabel 1640
Tel (562) 4606813
cct2000@igm.cl

Argentina, October 2000
International Field Volcanology Course in the Central Andes

This field volcanology course has already been taught on six previous occasions in recent years. With the sponsorship of UNESCO, it will be held in Salta, Argentina, from 9 to 17 October 2000.

Participating professors will include José Viramonte, Beatriz Coira, and Ivan Petrinovic from Argentina; Raymond Cas from Australia; and Guillermo Alvarado from Costa Rica.

For more information, please contact:
Berta González Bonorio, Course Secretary
curvol@unsa.edu.ar
http://www.unsa.edu.ar/~geonorte/cursos/curvol.html

Venezuela, October 2000
Second Hemispheric Conference On Disaster Reduction In The Education Sector

The goal of this Conference is to update the Hemispheric Plan for the Reduction of the Education Sector’s vulnerability to socio-natural disasters. It will be held from the 2nd to the 4th of October in Caracas.

For more information, contact:
Sussana Urbano
FEDE,Ministry of Education, Venezuela
www.fede.gov.ve
sussana.urbano@usc.net
or OAS: sbender@oas.org

USA July, 2000
25th Hazards Research and Applications Workshop

Took place from the 9th to 12th of July in Boulder, Colorado, USA
For more information, contact:
Mary Fran Myers
Natural Hazards Center Co-Director
(303) 492-2150 myersmf@colorado.edu
web: www.colorado.edu/hazards/ss/ss.html

California, September 2000
1st California Symposium on Aviation Emergencies:
Strategies and Technologies to save lives

The symposium will be held in Santa Monica, California, USA, September 25 Monday and 26 Tuesday, 2000.
For more information, contact:
Sarah Kincaid Fax (310) 284-3195
info@emergency-management.net
www.emergency-management.net

Iceland, August 2000
“International Conference and Exhibition”

The 4th International Conference of LACDE will be held in Haskolabio Conference and Cultural in Reykjavik, Iceland 27 to 30 August 2000. The Main theme of the conference will be focused on the linkage between science and local autorities in disaster management.

For more information, please contact:
Samvinn Travel/Conference Department
Tel (+354) 5691014
Fax (+354) 5527796
heidar@samvinn.is
thorunn@samvinn.is