Commemorating three decades of the Southern African association of geomorphologists

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Table 1. Poster and oral presentation contributions at SAAG conferences since 2010. Subfields are broadly based on the categories used by Beckedahl et al. (2002) and Holmes et al. (2016). Applied aspects are subsumed into the respective subfields. Cold-climate geomorphology includes all presentations from the SANAP programmes (see text). Papers based on cosmogenic dating techniques are classified separately to emphasize the recent contribution of the technique to geomorphological research

Number of conference presentations in sub-fields	2010 Grahamstown, South Africa	2012 Gobabeb, Namibia	2015 Sani Pass, Lesotho	2017 Kwaluseni, Eswatini	2019 Chintsa, South Africa	Average % and [number]
Fluvial geomorphology	5	8	5	12	2	14.6
Cold climate geomorphology	5	5	11	2	8	14.9
Arid and semi-arid geomorphology	4	10	1	1	2	8.3
Soils, soil erosion and degradation	21	7	12	14	14	32.2
Coastal and estuarine geomorphology	0	1	0	0	0	0.4
Macro- and Quaternary geomorphology	0	5	3	1	0	4.1
Rock weathering	1	3	1	2	2	4.2
Slope processes	3	0	4	0	1	3.8
Biogeomorphology	2	2	2	5	0	5.0
Research based on cosmogenic dating techniques	1	0	1	2	7	5.6
Other	2	4	2	6	1	6.8
Total presentations	44	45	42	45	37	[43]

Beckedahl, H.R., Sumner, P.D. & Garland, G. (2002) South African geomorphology: critical choices for the future. South African Geographical Journal, 84(1), 145–152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2002.9713765

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