COST Action 626 –Management Committee and Working Group Meetings

May 30-31, 2002. Oulu, Finland.

Agenda

May 30: 08:30 Registration

09:00 Opening

Some practical notes

09:20 – 11:00 Separate Working Group meetings

I. Minutes of last meeting

II. Report of activities since last meeting

III. Year 1 report

IV. State-of-the-art report

V. Re-organising of Working Groups. Plan

VI. Re-organising of Working Groups. Assignment of members.

11:00 – 11:30 Short inter-WG seminars:

I. Organisation

II. Assignment of members

III. Election of Rapporteurs

11:30 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 14:00 Inter-Working Group seminars:

I. Data and model integration (WG1 / WG2):

- review of usage of data in models

- from raw data to model input data

II. Model suitability for various user demands (WG2 / WG3)

- review of modelling case studies from state-of the art report from

WG3

- views on uptake of new models from WG2

III. Monitoring needs (WG1 / WG3)

- review of usage of data in case studies

- data availability for decision makers

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee break

14:30 – 17:00 Inter-Working Group seminars:

I. Data and model integration (WG1 / WG2):

- the data collection and modelling procedure:

How to ensure an integrated approach?

How to re-use data/models?

II. Model suitability for various user demands (WG2 / WG3), discussion groups on:

- the modelling process: end-user modeller links

- why model?

- models supporting the Water Framework Directive

- other topics as agreed

III. Monitoring needs (WG1 / WG3), discussion groups on:

- usage of data from multiple assemblages in decision making

- utility of monitoring data in modelling

- separating impacts of water quality, habitat structure and flow

- other topics as agreed

17:00 – 18:30 Joint Working Group meeting:

I. Report from Data-Model integration

II. Report from model suitability for various user demands

III. Report from monitoring needs

19:00 ‘After working hours’ - buffet, sponsored by North Ostrobothnia Regional Environment Centre and NorNet (http://www.nornet.oulu.fi/english/index.html).

May 31: 09:00 – 11:00 Inter-Working Group seminars:

I. Data-Model integration (WG1 / WG2)

- Summary and report.

II. Model suitability for various user demands (WG2 / WG3)

- Summary and report.

III. Monitoring needs (WG1 / WG3)

- Summary and report.

11:00 – 14:30 Separate working group meetings (original WG’s)

WG1:

I. Summary of re-organised WG meetings

- implications for WG 1

II. Suggested topics for future re-organised WG’s.

- interactions with other Working Groups

- interactions with End Users

- interactions with others?

III. Further issues on future research needs for WG 1

IV. STSM presentations

V. COST 626 intermediate workshop and seminar

WG2:

I. Summary of re-organised WG meetings

- implications for WG 2

II. Suggested topics for future re-organised WG’s.

- interactions with other Working Groups

- interactions with End Users

- interactions with others?

III. Further issues on future research needs for WG 2

IV. STSM presentations

V. COST 626 intermediate workshop and seminar

WG3:

I. Summary of re-organised WG meetings

- implications for WG 3

II. Suggested topics for future re-organised WG’s.

- interactions with other Working Groups

- interactions with End Users

- interactions with others?

III. Further issues on future research needs for WG 3

IV. STSM presentations

V. COST 626 intermediate workshop and seminar

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch (NOTE: during WG-sessions)

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 17:00 Fourth Management Committee Meeting:

15:00 – 15:30 Administrative issues

Report from 3^rd MC meeting

News and information from COST

15:30 – 16:00 Evaluation of work so far, open discussion on re-organised structure.

15:30 – 16:00 Planning of future work: Should we keep re-organised Working

Groups.

Internet site (Framework)

End-User involvement

Next meetings.

16:00 – 17:00 Short Term Scientific Missions. Evaluation and report.

17:00 – 18:30 Joint Working Group meetings. Report and conclusion. (report from Working Group activities by WG leaders and new Rapporteurs. Discussion.)

20:00 Finnish Archipelago Style Buffet (dinner in the Radisson SAS –restaurant,

address Hallituskatu 1).

June 1: 09:30 – 24:00 Excursion to Paltamo and Vuokatti (by bus). We will start at 0930 hours in the

morning, and go from Oulu to Paltamo (a small municipality, 2 hours by bus from

Oulu). During the journey, we make a short visit to have a glance on habitat

enhancements in a large short-term regulated river.

In Paltamo, we’ll visit Finnish Game and Fisheries Research and Aquaculture Station, where you have possibility to get information on the Institute’s aquaculture, to check an experimental research unit (flumes), and to have a light (field-)buffet lunch.

From this place we continue our way to the Holiday Club Katinkulta in Vuokatti (45 minutes bus ride from Paltamo).Here you’ll have several possibilities to spent the next two hours, e.g.: 1) go to spa including sauna-world and swimming (take your swim suit with you if you prefer this), 2) have a walking trip in the forest-covered hills, 3) go to a nearby village and join the local life, … etc. By 1800 hours we get together and go for dinner to a forest cottage (Kammi). Before the dinner there will be some preceding competitions for volunteers, like darts but instead of darts with an axe. Return to Oulu starts around 2100 hours and arrival time will be by 2400 hours. So you’ll still have time to enjoy the ‘white’ night at downtown Oulu.