EGU General Assembly 2012 GIFT Workshop

Sunday, 22 April 2012

• Guided Tour of the Vienna Museum of Natural History and ice breaker reception
  

  Herbert Summesberger and Mathias Harzhauser
  Vienna Museum of Natural History
  Vienna, Austria

Monday, 23 April 2012

• Welcome!
  

  Donald Bruce Dingwell and Günter Blöschl
  President and President-Elect of EGU
• Practical Instructions for the workshop
  

  Carlo Laj
  EGU Committee on Education
  Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE)
  Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
• Water Cycle, freshwater availability and distribution: the major challenges for water in the next 100 years
  

  Alberto Montanari
  University of Bologna
  Bologna, Italy

  • Video stream
  • Presentation (PDF, 10.7 MB)
• Water, a key molecule for living: water in metabolism and biodiversity
  

  Gilles Boeuf
  Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris and
  Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

  • Presentation (PDF, 23.5 MB)
• Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink!
  

  Murugesu Sivapalan
  University of Illinois
  Urbana Illinois, USA

  • Video stream
  • Presentation (PDF, 3.5 MB)
• Floods in a changing World
  

  Günter Blöschl
  Centre for Water Resource Systems
  Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Vienna, Austria

  • Presentation (PDF, 28.7 MB)
• Low-cost and Easy Experiments about the Water in the Atmosphere
  

  Marcel Costa Vilas
  IES Castellar, Castellar des Vallès, Spain
• Fresh Water Ecosystems – a case of a suburban water stream
  

  Anastasios Alevisos and Grigorios Zygouras
  Chalandri and Melissia Lyceums, Greece

  • Presentation (PDF, 21.9 MB)
• Telling and measuring urban floods: event reconstruction by means of public-domain media
  

  Stefano Macchia
  Istituto Comprensivo “G. Arpino”, Sommariva del Bosco
  Cuneo, Italy

  • Presentation (PDF, 17.2 MB)
• Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents
  

  Hubert Savenije
  Delft University of Technology
  Delft, The Netherlands

  • Video stream
  • Presentation (PDF, 8.2 MB)
• Information on the Educational Programs of EGU
  

  Carlo Laj
  Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE)
  Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
• Instructions for the poster session EOS2
  

  Eve Arnold
  Department of Geological Sciences
  Stockholm University
  Stockholm, Sweden

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

• Earth observation from space: quantifying water resources to better manage them
  

  Pierre-Philippe Mathieu
  European Space Agency (ESRIN – EOP/SE)
  Frascati, Italy

  • Presentation (PDF, 23.3 MB)
  • Presentation (PDF, 737.6 KB)
• Hydrology of Yucatan: an exemple of large scale freshwater reservoir
  

  Mario Rebolledo
  Unidad de Ciencia del Agua, CICY
  Merida, Yucatan,
  Mexico

  • Video stream
  • Presentation (PDF, 31.2 MB)
• Monitoring Climate, Droughts and Floods: The trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
  

  Nick van de Giesen
  Delft University of Technology
  Delft, The Netherlands

  • Video stream
  • Presentation (PDF, 6.7 MB)
• Piezometric mapping, simulation and Modeling underground water (second group)
  

  François TILQUIN
  High School Marie CURIE, Echirolles
  Grenoble, France

  • Video stream
• Water footprint – education of sustainable development in class
  

  Annegret Schwarz,
  Head Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer
  Bad Kreuznach, Germany
• Hands-on activities – water
  

  Phil Smith
  Coordinator, Teacher Scientist Network (TSN)
  Norwich, UK

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

• How much water do we have and where – using naturally occurring isotopes to understand the water cycle and map groundwater resources
  

  Pradeep Aggarwal
  Isotope Hydrology Section
  International Atomic Energy Agency
  Vienna, Austria

  • Video stream
  • Presentation (PDF, 14.8 MB)
• Visit of the Isotope Hydrology Laboratory
  
• Visit to the Vienna Water Treatment Plant
  

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