BONUS+ BalticWay Annual Meeting
Excelsior Hotel Palermo, Italy
Via Marchese Ugo, 3, Palermo
April 11–13, 2011
Prelude: field trip to coasts of Sicily, Sunday, April 10
Field trip to coasts of Sicily
19:30 Meeting of senior scientists
Monday, April 11
09:30–11:00 Technical meeting, Part I: adoption of agenda, discussion of Annual Reports.
11:00–11:30 Welcome coffee
11:30–19:00 Workshop The smart use of marine currents for environmental management
Part I: Scientific developments Chair: Ewald Quak
11:30 Opening of the workshop
Inverse problem of optimizing the location for dangerous acitivities
11:40 Tarmo Soomere (Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia): Basic steps of the technology for fairway optimization
Direct simulations
12:10 Andres Höglund and Markus Meier (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute): [title to be confirmed]
12:40 Andreas Lehmann (Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany): Climate variability of the Baltic area and the Baltic Sea response
12:40–14:00 Lunch
14:00 Guest presentation: Gianluca Sara, University of Palermo [title to be confirmed]
14:30 Guest presentation: Alexander Sokolov (Baltic Nest Institute): [to be confirmed]
15:00 Jens Murawsky (Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen): [title to be confirmed]
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Xi Lu (Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany): The analysis of the trajectories in the Western Baltic Sea |
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
Inverse problems and validation experiments
16:30 Oleg Andrejev and Kai Myrberg (Finnish Environmental Institute, Helsinki): Construction of optimal fairways in fields generated by Lagrangian particles statistics.
17:00 Bert Viikmäe (Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia): Equiprobability lines in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Proper
17:30 Kristofer Döös (Department of Meteorology, University of Stockholm, Sweden): Surface drifters in the Baltic Proper
18:00 Joakim Kjelsson (Department of Meteorology, University of Stockholm, Sweden): Validating the model simulations with surface drifters
18:30 Mikk Viidebaum (Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia): Experiments with surface drifters in the Gulf of Finland
18:50 Closing
Participants of the workshop The smart use of marine currents for environmental management
19:30 Workshop dinner, Part I (place to be confirmed).
Tuesday, April 12
09:30–13:00 Workshop The smart use of marine currents for environmental management,
Part II: Presentation and discussions of chapter drafts and contents of the BalticWay book
13:00–14:30 Lunch
14:30–18:00 Workshop The smart use of marine currents for environmental management,
Part III: Planning meeting of follow-up of the BalticWay project
19:30 Workshop dinner, Part II (place to be confirmed).
Wednesday, April 13
09:30–13:00 Technical meeting, Part II: discussion of WP status; administrative issues
13:00 End of the Annual Meeting