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Organising Committee

I.V. Bondyrev (Chairman) – Head of the Department of Geomorphology of the Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, D.Sc., Professor (Tbilisi, Georgia);

N.L. Beruchashvili – Head of the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics of TSU, D.Sc., Professor (Tbilisi, Georgia);

S.S. Chernomorets (Vice-Chairman) – Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Snow Avalanches and Debris Flows, Faculty of Geography of MSU, Ph.D. (Moscow, Russia);

R.G. Gobedzhishvili – Head of the Department of Geomorphology of TSU, D.Sc., Professor (Tbilisi, Georgia);

S.A. Litvinskaya – Dean of the Faculty of Geo-Ecology at the Institute of Economy, Law and Natural Sciences, Head of the Department of Geo-Ecology of the Kuban State University, D.Sc., Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor (Krasnodar, Russia);

M.-R.D. Magomedov – Deputy Director of the Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of Dagestan Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc., Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor (Makhachkala, Russia);

G.Sh. Nakhutsrishvili – Director of the N. Ketskhoveli Institute of Botany, Correspondent Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc., Professor (Tbilisi, Georgia);

Z.Kh. Seperteladze (Vice-Chairman) – Head of Department of Physical Geography and Environmental Protection of TSU, D.Sc., Professor (Tbilisi, Georgia);

V.P. Singh - Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Louisiana State University, President of the American Institute of Hydrology, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Baton Rouge, U.S.A.);

A.A. Tishkov – Science Director of the GEF Biodiversity Conservation Project in Russia, D.Sc., Professor (Moscow, Russia);

M. Tezkan - Karadeniz Technical University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakultesi, Ph.D. (Trabzon, Turkey)

O.V. Tutubalina – Researcher, Laboratory of Aerospace Methods, Faculty of Geography of MSU, Ph.D. (Moscow, Russia);

Yu.I. Vinokurov – Director of the Institute of the Water and Ecology Problems, D.Sc., Professor (Barnaul, Russia)

V.B. Zaalishvili – Director of the Geophysical Center for Experimental Diagnostics of the Vladikavkaz Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, D.Sc., Professor (Vladikavkaz, Russia);

N.G. Zazanashvili – Conservation Director, WWF Caucasus Programme Office, Ph.D. (Tbilisi, Georgia).