ICMG Ten: REBELLIONS AND MILITARY REACTIONS

ICMG Ten: REBELLIONS AND MILITARY REACTIONS

Sunday 16 June Details
Time Conference registration
2 pm - 4 pm

7 pm – 8 pm Welcome reception – awaiting confirmation from
Highland Council

8 pm – 10.30 pm Dinner available – various choices/cost

Monday 17 June Details
Time Conference registration
8.30 am – 9.30 am
9.30 am - 10 am Welcome: Keynote by Professor Peter Doyle
10 am – 11 am
Scotland Jean Martin - Wood for victory: The Canadian
Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1916-1919
11 am
Ted Rose - Boring and quarrying for military
ICMG programme.docx005 ports in Scotland during World War II: geology-
related contributions to Allied victory

Morning tea/coffee

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11 am - 1 pm Mungo Melvin – The Crimean, A strategic
Fortifications and bases overview

1 pm - 2 pm Xavier Rubio-Campillo - "C'est une affaire
2 pm – 4 pm unique". Interdisciplinary study of a Vaubanian
Aerial and Airfields siege combining primary sources and
geographical models.
4 pm
Aldino Bondesan - The fortified Venice: the line
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with the geomorphology of its lagoon and the
mainland

Katja Hock – Legoland

Lunch

Paolo Plini - Geographical tools for the
representation of large-scale historical events:
the Italian Army in Russia (1941-1943)

Shane Guy - Early Virtual Reality Simulators for
the Fleet Air Arm & Royal Navy.

Peter Masters - Towards an integrated approach
to recording Military Aircrash Sites

Phil Bonner - The Military Airfields Of
Lincolnshire

Afternoon tea/coffee

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4 pm - 5 pm Introduction to Cawdor Range Day, Bryden
Ritchie
7 pm – 9 pm
8 pm – 10.30 pm ICMG AGM – in hotel bar

Dinner available – various choices/cost

Tuesday 18 June Details
Time Conference registration
8.30 am – 9.30 am
9.30 am – 11.30 am Francis Galgano - Environmental Security: The
Geopolitics and Battles Ogaden War of 1977

11.30 am - 12 noon Gwen MacPherson - How Vulnerable is Water
12 noon – 1 pm Supply in Water-Scarce Regions in Times of
Military Conflict? Sahel, Sahara, Somalia, Syria
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Drew Craig - Mineral Exploitation as a
Stabilisation and Economic Development Tool in
the 21st Century

Roy Bradshaw - The battle of Bosworth, another
geographic puzzle

Keynote by Dr. Tony Pollard

Lunch

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1 pm to 2 pm Travel to Locations
2 pm – 5 pm
90mins at each location Trip to Culloden Battlefield, led by Dr Tony
Pollard and National Trust for Scotland.
2 pm – 5 pm
90mins at each location Group A Culloden/Cawdor
Group B Cawdor/Culloden
5 pm – 6 pm
8 pm – 10.30 pm Guest Day at Cawdor Rifle Range
Note: under NRA (GB) Regulations

Rifles used are dated from 1790 to 1914/39
Donations of £25 to Cawdor RC to cover
expenses/ammunition on the day

Return to Aviemore

Dinner available – various choices/cost

Wednesday 19 June Details
Time Full day tour of Great Glen – details to follow,
9 am – 5 pm lead in part by Cairngorms National Park
Authority
8 pm – 10.30 pm
Dinner available – various choices/cost
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Thursday 20 June Details
Time Travel to Fort George
8 am – 9 am
9 am – 12 noon Visit to Fort George
12 noon – 1 pm Lead by 3Scots
1 pm – 2pm
2 pm – 4pm Return to Aviemore
Insurgency
Lunch
4pm
4 pm - 6 pm Alexander Stewart - Lake shoreline processes
Contemporary Military and the Battle of Sackett’s Harbour, Lake
Geosciences Ontario, NY (29 MAY 1813): a US tactical victory
influenced by geology
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Jason Strakes - Defense-in-Depth and Internal
Power Projection in Counterinsurgency
Environments: A Cross-National Analysis

Andrew Lohman - Insurgency and the City

Eliav Taub - The army in the service of politics –
evacuating graves from an occupied area

Afternoon tea/coffee

Steve Matthews - Military Geology in the British
Army: 1980 to Present Day

Eric McDonald - Military geoscience for
engineers: Developing digital and visual

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8 pm – 12 am platforms of complex terrestrial terrain data to
enhance development and testing of military
Friday 21 June equipment
Time
9.30 – 11.30 pm Jacques Bezuidenhout - Estimation of the
History and Memory background radiation and exposure levels of
military personnel in the various military units
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Hennie Smit - Testing the Military Environmental
Literacy of the South African Army

Conference dinner. Keynote by Dr. Marko
Bulmer. Various choices/cost

Details
Iikka Syvanne - Caesar’s Use of Unorthodox
warfare against Pompey in 49-48 BC

Steve Henderson - The 1877 flight of the Nez
Perce: tactical use of the geologic terrain

Kurt Schroeder - The Wars of the Century of
Peace (1815-1914): Rebellion, Colonialism, and
Major Power Wars in a Century of Rapid
Technological Change

Maurico Nicolas Vergara - Military Geography of
a Great Alpine Valley: Puster Valley and Italian

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11.30 am Operational Plans before WWI (Eastern Alps)
11.30 am - 1 pm
Contemporary GIS Morning tea/coffee

1 pm - 2 pm William C. Johnson- Flood Modeling in a region
2 pm – 3.30 pm of political instability—a case study of
Historical GIS Afghanistan

3.30 pm – 4 pm Abhishek Khosla - Different approach for
4 pm – 5pm classification of AWIFS satellite data and the
8 pm – 10.30 pm comparison with unsupervised classification.

ICMG programme.docx005 Devesh Khosla - Remote sensing change
detection technique for snow cover area on
Himalayan region
Lunch

Peter Masters - Beyond the Frontline

Aldino Bondesan - Geology and war in the
desert: how the terrain affected the Axis
defensive system of the El Alamein Battlefield

Afternoon tea/coffee

ICMG Ten – Conference wind up

Dinner available – various choices/cost

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