Working Group “Modelling” (WG 2) within COST Action 626

As the chairperson of the Working Group “Modelling” (WG 2) within COST Action 626 I suggest the following directives for the first meetings of WG 2 to be held in Stuttgart, Germany.

Most important goals and objectives of the meeting:

Define state of the art and research needs for modelling tools and techniques on different levels and scales in all participating countries. Herein, a model is defined by any type of methodology, from simple correlations to more advanced numerical algorithms using sets of raw data to produce a result.

Draft Agenda

During full session Thursday 10.00-12.30

• Short presentations (5 min) of each of the participating institutions or sub-groups within institutions about their ongoing work with the following topics:
• Major fields of work related to COST 626 (e.g. hydropower, restoration, instream flow, scale, species…)
• state of the art of individual institutions modelling experience and practice
• models in use, models developed or under development
• individual research and development activities

During WG2 session Thursday 15.30-18.00

• discussion of different methods (hydraulic modelling, 1,2,3-D, others, habitat modelling, time series)
• definition of common objectives
• definition of state-of-the-art

During WG2 session Friday 10.30-12.30

• definition of combined research needs, chances for cooperation?
• establishment of co-ordinated research efforts in modelling and validation

During WG2 session Friday 13.30-15.00

• identification of teams and methods on upscaling (reach-floodplain)
• organisation of preparation of a state-of-the-art short report.

Other suggestions and contributions are wellcome, please contact me

Klaus Jorde

Working Group “Modelling” (WG 2) within COST Action 626

List of Participants

Austria:	Harald Meixner, BOKU Vienna Günter Unfer, BOKU Vienna Peter Mayer, BOKU Vienna
Belgium:	Peter Goethals
Finland:	Markku Lahti, FORTUM Power and Heat Aki. Mäki-Petäys, Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute
France:	Yann LeCoarer, Cemagref, Aix-en-Provence Didier Pont, Univ. Lyon
Germany:	Klaus Jorde (chair of WG 2) Matthias Schneider, University of Stuttgart Michael Kinder, Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz
Hungary:	Janos Jozsa
Norway:	Kjetil Vaskinn, Statkraft Groner, Trondheim Hans-Peter Fjeldstad, SINTEF, Trondheim Arne Erlandsen, Norwegian Electricity Assiciation, Oslo
Slovenia:	Natasa Smolar, Water Management Institute, Ljubljana
Spain:	Eugenia Marti
UK:	Anton Ibbotson, CEH Dorset Karen Fisher, Univ. of Birmingham

All participants of WG 2 are asked to prepare their contributions (presentations in part 1, opinion and oral contributions for the rest, you have to get active!) for each of the topics above. Short presentations can be given with overheads or Power Point. However, as you have only a few minutes, I suggest to use overheads because this is simply faster, or prepare your Power Point presentation on a disk or CD, however be aware that we will not be able to change computers between 5 minutes presentations, so if you use anything but standard ascii signs, you will get some funny results if you run your presentation on another computer.

Please, give me a note if you are going to give a 5-min presentation during the full session on Thursday or not, so the MC can arrange some schedule.

Questions, comments? Contact me.

Klaus Jorde