enviroGRIDS Kickoff Meeting

from Monday, 27 April 2009 (08:30) to Thursday, 30 April 2009 (18:00)
Geneva

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Apr 2009
AM
PM
13:30
Welcome Addresses (until 14:00) (B106)
13:30 Welcome Address - Prof. Pierre Spierer - Vice-rector – UNIGE  
13:40 Welcome Address - Dr. Vojko Bratina - EU Project Officer – EC  
13:50 Welcome Address - Dr. Anthony Lehmann – Project coordinator – UNIGE  
14:00
Keynote (until 15:00)
14:00 Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Group on Earth Observation (GEOSS), and related scientific challenges - Dr. Massimo Craglia – JRC  
15:00
Setting the enviroGRIDS scene (until 16:30)
15:00 Black Sea Commission - Dr. Violeta Velikova – BSC  
15:15 International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River - Philippe Weller - ICPDR  
15:30 Climatic changes in the Black Sea catchment - Prof. Martin Beniston – UNIGE  
15:45 Meteorological data and models. NIHM contribution to the EnviroGRIDS project - Dr. Valery Spiridonov – NIMH  
16:00 Demographic scenarios - Dr. Hy Dao - UNIGE  
16:15 Approach and challenges for describing the land cover change in the Black Sea basin - Andreas Littkopf – UAB  
16:30
Scientific and technological challenges (until 18:00)
16:30 Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) - Dr. Karim Abbaspour – EAWAG  
16:45 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) - Dr. Steven Newhouse - CERN  
17:00 South Eastern Europe GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience - Prof. Dorian Gorgan - UTC  
17:15 Spatial Data Infrastructures and sensors - Dr. Karel Charvat – CCSS  
17:30 Group on Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) - Dr. Douglas Cripe - GEO  
17:45 Institutional capacity building in the Black Sea countries - Dr. Anna Kortcheva - NIMH