European Aquatic Modelling Network
COST Action 626
Minutes of 3rd Management Committee Meeting
Prepared by Martin Baptist
Attendants MC meeting
Atle Harby (Norway, chairman), Emil
Fulajtar (EU), Teppo Vehanen (Finland), Javier Alba Tercedor (Spain), Peter
Goethals (Belgium), Anton Ibbotson (England), Harm Duel (Netherlands, minutes
of meeting), Klaus Jorde (Germany), Stefan Schmutz (Austria), Peter Borsanyi
(Norway), Mike Dunbar (England), Castor Guisande (Spain), Helmut Mader
(Austria), Henry Michel Gauchie (Luxemburg), Martin Baptist (Netherlands),
Simon Nemtzov (Isreal), Nicolai Friberg (Denmark), Natasa Smolar-Zvanut
(Slovenia), Tomas Kramer (Hungary), Jean Michel Olivier (France), Mari Nykänen
(Finland), Olle Calles (Sweden), Armin Peter (Switzerland).
Agenda Management Committee meeting
Approved.
Report from 2nd MC meeting
Minutes from 2nd meeting
are not available. The chairman will prepare those minutes for the next MC
meeting.
COST Secretariat news
Mr. Emil Fulajtar is the new scientific secretary for
COST Environment replacing Mr. Laszlo Szendrodi since 15th July. He
introduced himself with short curriculum and provided a brief
information on news from COST secretariat. At this moment, 11 actions are
running, and 1 new action proposal is under discussion. Emil presented some
guidelines for preparing an integrated programme of management committee
meeting and working group meetings.
Last year, the costs of the Costs
Actions on Environment exceeded the budget available. So there will be a
limitation of MC meetings (2x per year) and number of
participants reimbursed per meeting per country.
New Partners
Progress of Task 1
Progress is a little behind schedule
for several reasons:
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it takes time
for organising and structuring the activities of the Cost Action
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the scope
became wider and wider
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the group was
expanding
Because
WG 1 needs more time to finalise the state of art on data, it is not possible
to finalise the task 1 report at the end of this year. The draft state of the
art report (Task 1 report) will be ready before the next MC meeting. Overall
co-ordinator of Task 1 Report is the chairman.
It was
concluded, that the program of the actions should not be thematically more
extended, because that can influence negatively the following of the time
schedule of the planned works and it can became a limiting factor for deepening
of the knowledge on the key topics.
The MC
members had questions to key administrative issues. The secretary should
collect information on the budgetary situation of the action and on the
possibilities to prepare the publications during the duration of the action and
provide it to Management Committee.
Plans for future activities (Task B)
This will
be discussed thoroughly at the next meeting.
Items
popped up during this MC meeting:
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cross-links between the
working groups are not sufficiently intensive. To establish these links and to
make them well working will be one of main administrative tasks of the
management committee in close future.
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development of
modelling framework instead of developing new models
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co-operation between
partners: e.g. using each others data sets and models.
Next meetings
The next
two meetings will be organised in:
The
chairman needs the names of the participants for those meetings before
Suggestions
for invited speakers should be send by email to the
chairman.
Internet
For
presentation of the results of the Action the webb page was created.
Internet
site EAMN: www.eamn.org
Webmaster:
Peter Borsanyi (peter.borsanyi@bygg.ntnu.no)
Short Term Scientific Missions
Objective:
exchange of young scientists from different countries
Minimal
duration of mission: 3 days.
Maximum
duration of mission: 1 month.
Application
criteria and application form: see www.eamn.org
First
deadline for application:
Co-ordinator
STSM: Helmut Mader (mader@edv2.boku.ac.at)
The
secretary will monitor the procedure of the STSM contract approval. Moreover,
he will check whether it is allowed to send more than 1 researcher to the same
institute.
Plenary
session: MC + working groups
Report form Working Group activities
The
presentations of the working group activities will be available on internet as
soon as possible: www.eamn.org
Mike
Dunbar: contents of SoA report, future activities of WG3
Martin
Baptist: research needs on modelling: 32 items categorised into 6 groups.
Graig
Elliot: what are models, why, when and how to use models, uncertainty.
Franz
Kerle: upscaling and downscaling (spatial, temporal, complexity)
Stefan
Schmutz: general structure of SoA report on data, deadlines WG1:
Peter
Mayr: SoA of instrumentation and measurement techniques
Gerbot
Koboltschnig: results of questionnaire on abiotics
Peter
Gothals: results of questionnaire on macro-invertebrates (for the time being)
Miscellaneous
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Klaus Jorde
needs volunteers (trainers) for the habitat modelling course in
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Tor Ziegler is
preparing a twinning project for EAMN: for information, please contact Atle
Harby.
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There are
several positions available for master student at the
Conclusions
The amount of
questionnaires collected and submitted by particular participating counties
have been evaluated.
The strengthening of links between
the working groups will be one of key tasks for next Management Committee
Meeting. The next key task is to attract the attention of end users and to
build an intensive contact with them. The co-operation with end users and the practical
implementing of the results is a major goal of the action.