Water Research Horizon Conference

CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Preliminary, inquired speakers & chairs)

Wednesday, 8 June 2011: Conference Day 1

Venue: nh-Hotel Berlin-Alexanderplatz, Landsberger Allee 26-32, 10249 Berlin

8:45 - 9:30am	Registration & Coffee
09:30 - 10:30am	Opening and introduction to the conference (Georg Teutsch) Welcoming by BMBF (Wilfried Kraus) BMU (Fritz Holzwarth) DFG (Ute Weber)
10:30 - 12:00am	Opening lectures (3 speakers) "Highlights of recent developments in modelling water & matter fluxes across scales" Murugesu Sivapalan András Bárdossy Suresh Rao
12:00 - 01:00pm	Lunch
	Sessions
01:00 - 03:00pm	Session 1: Hydrological modelling meeting real-world systems - compartments, scales and human action Chairs: Ralf Merz Markus Weiler 4 Speakers: Andrew Barry A. Bronstert /D. Kneis Günther Blöschl Luis Samaniego	Session 2 Hydrological Benchmarking Initiative "The HydroBench" Chairs: Sabine Attinger Wolfram Mauser 4 Speakers: Andrea Rinaldo Dennis Lettenmaier Olaf Kolditz Mario Putti	Session 3 Integrating the urban system into catchment models Chairs: Peter Krebs Volker Mohaupt 4 Speakers: Volker Erbe Peter Krebs Wolfgang Rauch
03:00 - 03:30pm	Coffee break
03:30 - 05:30pm	Session 4 Model concepts, critical zones and heterogeneity of the water system Chairs Grathwohl Nützmann 4 Speakers: Erwin Zehe Thorsten Wagener Jan Fleckenstein Olaf Cirpka	Session 5 Data for a new generation of hydrologic models: compatibility and quality assurance Chairs H. Vereecken L. Bernard 4 Speakers: Ad de Roo H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen Michael Natschke Karsten Schulz	Session 6 Simulating change in water quality? - sensitivity, effects and ecologic response to changes in water and matter cycles Chairs D. Borchardt Markus Vernohr (inquired) 4 Speakers: Markus Vernohr Philippe Van Cappellen Christian Stamm Ursula Gaedke (impulse statement)
5:30 - 06:00pm	Plenary: Preparation of Thematic Cluster Workshops (Day 2)
06:00 - 08:00pm	Conference reception

Thursday, 09 June 2011: Conference Day 2

Venue: nh-Hotel Berlin-Alexanderplatz, Landsberger Allee 26-32, 10249 Berlin

Open-Space Workshops on possible "Thematic Cluster"-activities (EU-projects, DFG-SPP/SFB, BMBF projects, etc.)
08:30 - 10:00am	Thematic Cluster-Workshop (a)	Thematic Cluster-Workshop (b)	Thematic Cluster-Workshop (c)
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00pm	Thematic Cluster-Workshop (d)	Thematic Cluster-Workshop (e)	Thematic Cluster-Workshop (f)
Plenary
12:00 - 01:00pm	Synthesis of the conference sessions and Thematic Cluster-Workshops (Chairs), final discussion
01:00 - 02:00pm	Lunch
02:00pm	End of conference

Contact

Dr. Roland Barthel
Coordination of Water Research - UFZ
roland.barthel@ufz.de
Tel. +49 341 235 1784
Fax +49 341 235 1388

For questions on organization:
Ogarit Uhlmann
Christiane Wolf
F&U confirm
wrhc@fu-confirm.de
Phone: +49 341 235-2264, -1880

Link

Water Research Alliance

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