Preparation of an abstract for 8th International Gravel Bed River Workshop - A sample of abstract Masaharu Fujita*1, Jonathan B. Laronne*2, Shusuke Miyata*1, Takahisa Mizuyama*3, Yoshifumi Satofuka*4, Hiroshi Takebayashi*1 and Daizo Tsutsumi*1 1 Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University 2 Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev 3 Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University 4 College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University Keywords: gravel bed, river, disaster, Kyoto, Takayama An abstract is to consist of background, objective, method, results and conclusion of the research, stating them clearly and briefly. In particular, please consider the relevance of the abstract to GBR themes. To manage a standardized appearance and structure of the abstract for the workshop proceedings, the organizing committee requests authors to follow the following instructions: The abstract must be one page (at least 1/2 page). Illustrations are not to be included in the abstract. Title, subtitle and names of the author(s) as well as affiliations will appear in the beginning of the abstract with keywords below author affiliations. In order to avoid editorial errors, authors are strongly recommended to replace your documents with this format file by cut and paste procedures.