enviroGRIDS Kickoff Meeting

27 Apr 2009, 08:30 → 30 Apr 2009, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Geneva

Monday 27 April

13:30 → 14:00 Welcome Addresses

13:30 Welcome Address

Speaker: Prof. Pierre Spierer - Vice-rector – UNIGE

13:40 Welcome Address

Speaker: Dr. Vojko Bratina - EU Project Officer – EC

13:50 Welcome Address

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Lehmann – Project coordinator – UNIGE

14:00 → 15:00 Keynote

14:00 Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Group on Earth Observation (GEOSS), and related scientific challenges

Speaker: Dr. Massimo Craglia – JRC

15:00 → 16:30 Setting the enviroGRIDS scene

15:00 Black Sea Commission

Speaker: Dr. Violeta Velikova – BSC

15:15 International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

Speaker: Philippe Weller - ICPDR

15:30 Climatic changes in the Black Sea catchment

Speaker: Prof. Martin Beniston – UNIGE

15:45 Meteorological data and models. NIHM contribution to the EnviroGRIDS project

Speaker: Dr. Valery Spiridonov – NIMH

16:00 Demographic scenarios

Speaker: Dr. Hy Dao - UNIGE

16:15 Approach and challenges for describing the land cover change in the Black Sea basin

Speaker: Andreas Littkopf – UAB

16:30 → 18:00 Scientific and technological challenges

16:30 Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)

Speaker: Dr. Karim Abbaspour – EAWAG

16:45 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE)

Speaker: Dr. Steven Newhouse - CERN

17:00 South Eastern Europe GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience

Speaker: Prof. Dorian Gorgan - UTC

17:15 Spatial Data Infrastructures and sensors

Speaker: Dr. Karel Charvat – CCSS

17:30 Group on Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

Speaker: Dr. Douglas Cripe - GEO

17:45 Institutional capacity building in the Black Sea countries

Speaker: Dr. Anna Kortcheva - NIMH