enviroGRIDS Kickoff Meeting

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

Geneva

Monday 27 April

Welcome Addresses

1 Welcome Address

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

2 Welcome Address

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

3 Welcome Address

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Lehmann – Project coordinator – UNIGE

Keynote

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

Speaker: Dr. Massimo Craglia – JRC

Setting the enviroGRIDS scene

5 Black Sea Commission

Speaker: Dr. Violeta Velikova – BSC

6 International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

Speaker: Philippe Weller - ICPDR

7 Climatic changes in the Black Sea catchment

Speaker: Prof. Martin Beniston – UNIGE

8 Meteorological data and models. NIHM contribution to the EnviroGRIDS project

Speaker: Dr. Valery Spiridonov – NIMH

9 Demographic scenarios

Speaker: Dr. Hy Dao - UNIGE

10 Approach and challenges for describing the land cover change in the Black Sea basin

Speaker: Andreas Littkopf – UAB

Scientific and technological challenges

11 Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)

Speaker: Dr. Karim Abbaspour – EAWAG

12 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE)

Speaker: Dr. Steven Newhouse - CERN

13 South Eastern Europe GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience

Speaker: Prof. Dorian Gorgan - UTC

14 Spatial Data Infrastructures and sensors

Speaker: Dr. Karel Charvat – CCSS

15 Group on Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

Speaker: Dr. Douglas Cripe - GEO

16 Institutional capacity building in the Black Sea countries

Speaker: Dr. Anna Kortcheva - NIMH