Sino-German Symposium on Sustainable Water Management and Ecosystem Restorations in Poyang Lake Basin
Foto: RCEIS UFZ
From 17th to 23th November 2014, the Sino-German Symposium on Sustainable Water Management and Ecosystem Restorations in Poyang Lake Basin successful- ly took place in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China. 16 scientists from Germany and over 25 from the Chinese side have attended this symposium. It was funded by the Sino-German Centre for Science Promotion (DFG/NSFC).
The symposium brought together Chinese and German researchers from different disciplines (Hydrology, Ecology, Climate Research and Information Science) as well as involving authorities and stakeholder from the Poyang lake basin. It was jointly organized by Prof. Olaf Kolditz and Dr. Cui Chen from Department of Environmental Informatics from UFZ and Prof. Tianxiang Yue from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
From the German side, the participants were Gerik Scheuermann (OEC), Matthias Kästner (UBT), Antonis Chatzinotas (UMB), Michael Strauch (CLE), Karsten Rinke (SEEFO), Cui Chen, Olaf Kolditz (ENVINF) from UFZ and the others were from TU Dresden, TU Darmstadt, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and University Kiel and Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf. From the Chinese side, the participants were from CAS, Jiangxi local universities and other local authorities.
The symposium consisted of two-day’s technical program with eight sessions and two-day’s field trip to investigate the Poyang Lake region. The participants also joined the opening ceremonies of the 14th World Living Lakes Conference and the 3rd World Low-carbon and Eco-economy Conference which took place at the same time in Nanchang as well. Diverse topics have been presented and discussed the hydrosystems and ecosystems for the Poyang Lake area. The groups discussed the topics and possible project collaborations among German and Chinese scientists. As the first outcome of this workshop, a joint proposal “A modeling platform prototype for environmental system dynamics” for an international joint project from National Science Foundation China (NSFC) is now under preparation.
The symposium took advantage of the expertise from scientists of both countries and it is an important impetus for exchange of experiences between the two countries. The Symposium is also regarded as the first RCEIS (Helmholtz-CAS Centre for Environmental Information Sciences) workshop.
The Opening Ceremony for the RCEIS (Helmholtz-CAS Network for Environmental Information Science
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On 22th November 2014, the Opening Ceremony for the RCEIS (Helmholtz-CAS Network for Environmental Information Science) took place in Beijing at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
RCEIS is the joint Helmholtz-CAS Network for Environmental Information Science which was established from the beginning of 2014. It shall become a Sino-German competence centre and research platform for Earth system observation and prediction by combining expertise in the fields of environmental and information sciences using modern information technology.
The former Chinese Minister of Science and Technology (MOST), Prof. Guanhua Xu, Director of Sino-German Centre for Science Promotion, Helmholtz Beijing office representative, Prof. Quan-Sheng Ge, Director of the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources (CAS) and Prof. Tianxiang Yue (CAS) joined the opening. Prof. Guanhua Xu and Prof. Olaf Kolditz gave the opening speech on behalf of both Chinese and German sides.
For the RCEIS Helmholtz partners, Dr. Claudia Künzer from DLR (German Aerospace Centre), Jianhui Wei from KIT (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology) and several scientists from UFZ (Prof. Gerik Scheuermann and Dr. Cui Chen – Scientific Coordinator of RCEIS) attended the opening. Right before that, the first RCEIS Sino-German Symposium on “Sustainable Water Management and Ecosystem Restorations in Poyang Lake Basin” successfully took place in Nanchang City. RCEIS is dedicated to the joint Sino-German cooperation in the area of environmental sciences in the future.
Visiting Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Nanchang, China
Visiting Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research. Foto: RCEIS UFZ
On 23th November 2014, Prof. Olaf Kolditz, Dr. Cui Chen from UFZ and PhD student from KIT have visited Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Jiangxi Normal university after the invitation from Prof. Yeqiao Wang from this labor.
Prof. Wang has introduced their laboratory and the 3D virtual Geographical Environment Visualization Centre. He has also discussed with us about his research project in the area of Poyang Lake. Prof. Kolditz has introduced the international journal of environmental Earch Sciences and encouraged the scientices and phd students to submit their research results on this journal.
Visiting China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research - IWHR, Beijing
Visiting China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research – IWHR. Foto: RCEIS UFZ
On 25th November 2014, Prof. Olaf Kolditz, Dr. Cui Chen from UFZ and Mr. Yinwei Ma, the representative from Saxon State, Germany, have visitedChina Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research– IWHR, which belongs to Chinese Ministry of Water Recources - MWR, Beijing.
After the visit of Vice minister Qihua Cai from Chinese Ministry of Water Resources at the State Ministry of Environment and Agriculture (SMUL) in Dresden in September 2014, it was an honor and a great pleasure for us to have the possibility to visit the Ministry of Water Resources in China.
