Agenda for COST Action 626 meeting in Trondheim, Norway, May 9-13, 2001

 

 

Wednesday, May 9

Arrival at Trondheim Rainbow Hotel. The hotel should be announced by the airport bus driver. Everybody meet for a drink and/or some food at the pub in the ground floor of the hotel, “Ludwig bierstube”. You can either enter from the hotel or the outside next to the hotel. They will have some food available and anything you would like to drink. We will be there from 19:30, everybody can drop in after arriving to town, if they like.

 

 

Thursday, May 10

You can walk from the hotel to the university where you also will find SINTEF Energiforskning. It will take you maximum 20 minutes. The common session will take place at the university auditorium EL6. Enter the university at the entrance with the sign “O. Bragstads Plass”. Follow signs to EL6 (to the right after some meters)

 

Time

Working Group 1: Raw data

Working Group 2: Modeling

Working Group 3: Application

Comments

9:00 – 9:30

Welcome, introduction, short summaries of WG meetings in Stuttgart at EL6

Common session at EL6

9:30 – 10:00

N. LeRoy Poff:  Research needs from the holistic aquatic ecosystem modelling perspective and possible linkages with traditional modeling

Common session at EL6

10:00 – 12:00

Meeting at M1 of SINTEF:

·         Presentation of first results

·         Round table

 

 

Meeting at M2 of SINTEF:

·         Brief summary of the activities since the last WG-meeting in Stuttgart by WG leader

·         Discussion of national contributions to and final preparation of the state-of-the-art report

Meeting at M3 of SINTEF:

·         Introduction to Research Needs in model application

·         Types of model application: presentations, discussion and general research needs

·         Interpretation of results:

 

Coffee available

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break. University restaurant buffet in the 13th floor of “Sentralbygget” (Central univ. building)

NOK 125 to be paid

13:00 – 13:30

Dave Scruton: Research needs for Atlantic salmonid Species seen from the Canadian point of view.

Common session at EL6

13:30 – 14:30

End-user comments and discussion in plenum at EL6

Common session at EL6

14:30 – 17:00

Meeting at M1 of SINTEF:

·         Re-design of detailed working plan and time schedule, responsibilities, etc.

·         Formation of sub-working groups

Meeting at M2 of SINTEF:

·         First report of upscaling group and definition of research needs for upscaling

·         Search for combined activities on upscaling

Meeting at M3 of SINTEF:

·         Models and decision support systems

·         Discussion of national contributions to state of the art report - frameworks and case studies

 

Coffee available

17:00 – 18:00

Summary of today’s Working Group meetings in plenum at EL6. 15 min each WG

Common session at EL6

19:30 - ??

Dinner at Kvilhaugen (means “Having-arest-hill”, the best view of the city

Everybody can walk downtown after the dinner

Bus or taxi to Kvilhaugen

Friday, May 11

 

Time

Working Group 1: Raw data

Working Group 2: Modeling

Working Group 3: Application

Comments

9:00 – 12:30

Meeting at M1 of SINTEF:

·         Workshop of the sub-working groups

·         12:00: Presentation and discussion of the sub-working group results, preparation of the 3rd WG meeting agenda

Meeting at M2 of SINTEF:

·         Discussion with end-users about research needs to modelling tools

·         Evaluation of demand and possibilities of the exchange of models to other groups

·         Organisation of exchange of young scientists

·         Participation and presentation of the WG at the 4th Int. Conf. on Ecohydraulics, March 2002

·         Organisation of state-of.-the-art conference

Meeting at M5 (obs!) of SINTEF:

·         Summary of research needs from Day 1

·         Research needs for applying state-of-the-art models (e.g. bioenergetic approaches)

·         1ntegration of model application into national and EUframeworks

o        Introduction

o        Short country presentations

o        The Water Framwork directive and modelling

 

Coffee available

12:30 – 13:00

Invited speaker: Piotr Parasiewicz: MesoHABSIM – the meso habitat approach in aquatic modelling

Common session at EL6

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break. University restaurant buffet in the 13th floor of “Sentralbygget” (Central univ. building)

NOK 125 to be paid

 

Afternoon:

Time

Management Committee

WG 1: Raw data

WG 2: Modeling

WG 3: Application

Comments

14:00 – 16:15

Management Committee meeting II, at EL6:

·         Approval of agenda and minutes of 1st meeting

·         COST secretarIat news

·         Administrative issues

·         Evaluation of the work

·         End-user involvement

·         Short Term Scientific Missions

·         Internet site

·         Any other business

Meeting at M1 of SINTEF:

 

Final discussions and reporting for non-MC members

Meeting at M2 of SINTEF:

 

Final discussions and reporting for non-MC members

Meeting at M5 (obs!) of SINTEF:

 

Final discussions and reporting for non-MC members

 

Research needs: model regionalisation, standardisation and intercalibration

 

Coffee available

16:30 – 18:00

Short reports of Working Group activities. Preparation for next meeting in Vigo, November 8-9, 2001.

Short report from North American initiative. Closing remarks.

Common session at EL6

19:00 – 24:00

Barbeque at the farm of Jo and Agnes by the fjord just outside Trondheim.

Food and drinks at self-cost.

Minibus transport from Trondheim hotel to Jo’s farm

24:00

Bus return to the hotel/downtown. Night clubs and bars are still open, but probably no sauna….

 

 

Saturday  May 12

 

Sleeping, breakfast, sightseesing, shopping, etc on your own in the morning.

 

 

Sailing, fishing and Munk island visit at 12:15 –  approx. 17:00

 

We meet at the fish marked/inner harbor called “Ravnkloa” (“the footh of the raven”) at 12:15 for boarding two old sailing ships. We will first visit the Munk island just outside Trondheim, and then go sailing on the fjord. We can be fishing from the boats. We will provide something suitable to drink, you all have to bring a sandwich or just fresh fjord shrimps and bread for lunch. There will be no possibility of buying food on the island or on the fjord, so please bring your own lunch food. This could be bought at the fish marked (including meat and vegetables) or anywhere else in town. Don’t forget cloths that could stand both nice sunshine and heavy rain storms, normally we have all four seasons in a day in Trondheim.

 

 

We haven’t booked any restaurants for the Saturday night, but we can at least meet at the Good Neighbour pub for a drink at 19:00. It is located by the old town bridge by the river Nidelva, or actually we can sit on a float in the river. It is located on the Bakklandet side of the river, i.e. not the downtown side.

 

 

 

Sunday May 13

 

For those who want to and have time, we can go to some places like:

- Tyholt tower, not far from Thursday night restaurant, overlooking the city and the surroundings

- The Bymarka hills just outside town. We can take the tramway to Lian, and walk in the hills of the town.

- The Sverresborg Folk museum, showing old Norwegian buildings and the way people used to live before we discovered oil in the North Sea.

- A short visit to our laboratories, including the indoor river “Gurobekken”

- A football or rugby match played by COST 626 at the lawns beside the Tyholt tower

- The beach

- A pub…

 

 

In case of emergency or any other needs, you can call:

 

Atle in the office: +47 73 59 72 15

Atle at home:        +47 73 94 32 65

Jo in the office:     +47 73 55 03 42