Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 13:07:01 +0200
Subject: HydroEco2009, SAC: announcement
Dear colleague,
On behalf of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the HydroEco2009 conference I would like to draw your attention to the possibility to submit an abstract to this conference:
HydroEco2009
2nd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology:
Ecosystems Interfacing with Groundwater and Surface Water
(Vienna, Austria, 20-23 April 2009)
OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE
Many ecological systems owe their existence to physical/chemical properties of groundwater and surface water, and can be damaged if water flow or water properties are changed by anthropogenic or natural processes. The ecological systems may be
- the terrestrial ecosystems we see every day, such as the riparian systems along the rivers, and wetlands found in headwaters as well as in low land areas or
- the subsurface ecological systems that maintain the groundwater that sustains so many people.
To address the resulting issues, this conference brings together engineers and researchers from engineering and ecological disciplines. The disciplines include, but are not limited to, hydrology, ecology, environmental engineering, biology, chemistry, geochemistry, environmental biogeochemistry, and subsurface microbiology. The unifying theme is the interaction between groundwater and (or) /surface water and ecological systems. A typical example is the hyporheic zone in riparian areas, where the ecological system interacts with water and chemical flows between surface and groundwater.
The goals of the conference are
(1) to provide information that will help that interactions between groundwater, surface water and ecology are better understood, measured, simulated, and managed, and
(2) to improve the technological basis for policy decisions (including WFD
implementation) related to the reconstruction of ecologically valuable environments and the use of water resources in these environments.
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Session A: Interactions between surface water, hyporheic zone, saturated and unsaturated groundwater
Session B: Connections between ecology and groundwater recharge and evapotranspiration Session C: Plant-groundwater interactions
Session D: Links between hydrology and biogeochemistry in groundwater
Session E: Modelling surface-water-groundwater systems
Session F: Modelling interactions between hydrology and ecology
Session G: Management, legal and regulatory issues
Session H: Bio-indicators of groundwater and surface water quality
Session S: Special Session on the implementation of WFD, with particular relevance to Groundwater and Surface water dependent terrestrial Ecosystems. The Special Session aims to:
a) Identify how the different countries across Europe have used scientific information to characterise the Ground and Surface water dependent terrestrial ecosystems (i.e. what methodologies and how scientific information is used to underpin the methodology).
b) Evaluate how the different countries across Europe have defined and / or used the term 'Significant damage' to the groundwater dependent terrestrial ecosystem, due to the status (qualitative or quantitative) of the groundwater body (i.e. what science based thresholds are used to define ‘significant’ and ‘damage’, both within national and international protected nature conservation sites and outside those sites).
c) Share experience on how the different countries across Europe have used groundwater and surface water dependent ecosystems as measures to remedy problems of surface or groundwater bodies.(i.e. Which countries have used groundwater or surface water dependent terrestrial ecosystems as measures for either ground or surface water bodies that are failing their criteria under WFD).
The Special Session will be chaired by Dr. Johan Schutten (Hans), Senior Wetland Ecologist, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and a to be announced chair.
For further information please visit:
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The deadline for abstract submission is 5 September 2008.
Prof. Tomasz Okruszko
Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Restoration
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Nowoursynowska 159
02-776 Warsaw, Poland
tel. +48 22 59 35 315
fax. +48 22 59 35 320
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