Ocean Business European Commission InterRisk WARMER

Environmental Risk Management Tools For Water Quality Monitoring

National Oceanographic Centre Southampton (UK), 30th March 2009

Programme

Workshop programme

The latest version of the programme can be downloaded from "Downloads" page.


08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-09.30 Introduction to EU FP6 WARMER and InterRisk projects - Luca
Sanfilippo (SYSTEA, Italy) and Stein Sandven (NERSC, Norway)
09.30-10.50 WARMER and InterRisk presentations - 15 min. each + 5 min. q/a
“Voltammetric screen-printed sensors for heavy metals and phenols. Achievements and future prospects” - Arben Merkoci (UAB, Spain)
“Multiparametric automatic detection of water quality chemical parameters using a strip of miniaturized ion-selective potentiometric electrodes working in a modular flow-cell” - Leszek Opalski, (WUT, Poland)
“The InterRisk system concept - a distributed web GIS” - Torill Hamre (NERSC, Norway)
“Capabilities of different web GIS tools” - Declan Dunne (CMRC, Ireland)
10.50-11.10 Coffee break and poster session
11.10-11.30 ‘European COastal sea Operational observing & forecasting system Project (ECOOP)’ - Ole Krarup Leth (DMI, DK)
11.30-11.50 “Marine Environmental Decision Support: an overview of advances in sensors, sensor networks, applications and architectures” - Zoe Roberts (BMT Cordah, UK) and Jonathan Williams (Marine SouthEast, UK)
11.50-12.10 “Using the HUMBOLDT framework to improve the exchange of oil spill data and information” Mark Charlesworth (British Oceanographic Data Centre)
12.10-12.30 “Water quality monitoring in Venice Lagoon” Jésus Cisneros-Aguirre (Servizio Informativo Magistrato alle Acque, Consorzio Venezia Nuova)
12.30-13.30 Lunch break and poster session
13.30-15.30 Technical demonstration presentations - 25 min. each + 5 min. q/a
“The new in-situ chemical probes and the water quality monitoring platform” - Pompeo Moscetta (SYSTEA, Italy) and Ian Thompson (YSI-Hydrodata, UK)
“WARMER in-situ and remote data integration” - Alastair Allen (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Torill Hamre (NERSC, Norway)
“InterRisk demonstration of regional portals for algal bloom and oil spill moni-toring and forecasting” - Steve Groom (PML, UK)
“Service Support Environment (SSE) for combining satellite Earth observation products with in situ data and model predictions” - Yves Coene (Spacebel, Belgium)
15.30-15.45 Coffee break and poster session
15.45-16.45 “Can recent advances in monitoring technology ease Water Framework Directive monitoring tasks?”- Round table discussion with invited environmental authorities
16.45-17.00 Workshop summary and conclusion.

Organized by WARMER & INTERRISK EC FP6 IST Projects.

admin