Minutes of the 2nd meeting in Trondheim 10/11-05- 2001

European Aquatic Modelling Network (EAMN)

Working Group on “Raw Data” (WG1)

Agenda

• Presentation of first results
• Round table
• Guest speaker: Dave Scruton: “Research needs for Atlantic salmonid Species seen from the Canadian point of view”.
• Re-design of detailed working plan and time schedule, responsibilities, etc.
• Workshop of the sub-working groups
• Guest speaker: Piotr Parasiewicz: “MesoHABSIM – the meso habitat approach in aquatic modelling”
• Presentation and discussion of the sub-working group results, preparation of the 3^rd WG meeting agenda
• Final discussions and reporting for non-MC members

State-of-the-art

The results of the work on State-of-the-art will be summarised in a report or publication supported by the COST secretary. The structure and contents of this report follows the concept developed during the first meeting in Stuttgart (see minutes and documents of the 1^st meeting in Stuttgart)

Summary reports: Deadline: 15 Oct 2001

External expertise

As not all aquatic organisms are represented by the COST consortium expertise from outside will be included. Guest speaker should be invited for the next meeting who will be asked to contribute to our report by providing a summary.

Floodplain vegetation: Odland Arvid, Norway, Telemark College (contacted by Arnold)

Macrophytes: Tom Madsen, Univ. of Aarhus (contacted by Morten) or Georg Janauer, Univ. of Vienna (contacted by Stefan)

Riverine birds: Summary provided by Arnold

Questionnaires

In order to include the expertise of COST participants not member of WG1 and other experts the following questionnaires were developed during the meeting:

Physical habitat and instrumentation

Fish

Experimental channels

Macroinvertebrates

All questionnaires will be send out by Stefan and should be returned again to Stefan (HFA-BOKU). HFA-BOKU will provide a brief summary of questionnaire results. Detailed analysed should be carried out by the sub-working groups and included into the State-of the-art report.

Deadline for return of questionnaires: end of June

Deadline for summary and analyses (Stefan): end of July

Research needs

The discussion on Research Needs continued during the Trondheim meeting and was mainly stimulated by the presentation of Dave Scruton (see attachment). Some further comments were added to his power point presentation (see attachment).

For the further activities the following procedure was suggested:

Each of WG1 participant should respond to the presentation of David and send their comments to Armin and Morten. They then will summarise the results and present a first draft in Vigo as a basis for the further discussion.

Deadline for return of comments on Research Needs: end of June.

Preparation of Vigo meeting

The main tasks of the Vigo meeting will be:

• Short presentations of report summaries of State-of-the-art including results of the questionnaires
• Guest speakers
• Final discussion on State-of-the-art
• Presentation of first draft on Research needs
• Further discussion on Research needs