VALUE Opening seminar From Watershed processes to policy-making
Aalto University, Otaniemi, Espoo on 17th to 18th
February, 2010
17 FebruaryOpening of the seminar Venue: TUAS House, Lecture Hall TU1, Otaniementie 17, Espoo (see the map) |
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12:00-12:30 |
Prof. Olli Varis |
Welcoming words |
Prof. Björn Klöve |
VALUE - doctoral program: a common platform for Finnish water and catchment research and education |
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Prof. Kaarina Sivonen |
Research and postgraduate training |
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Senior Res. Seppo Hellsten |
Significance of postgraduate training for the sectoral research institutes |
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Watershed processes and integrated modelling |
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12:30-13:40 |
Maria Lehtimäki |
Biological processes affecting the cycling of silicon (Si) within water ecosystems and their catchment areas |
Annu Kaila |
The cycling and transport of phosphorus following the restoration of drained peatland forests |
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Kaisa Rantasärkkä |
Differentiation of akinetes by the bloom-forming cyanobacteria Anabaena |
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Grazyna Brek-Laitinen |
Autochthonous vs allochthonous carbon in microbial food webs of changing lacustrine ecosystems – the role of picoplankton and its diversity in carbon cycling |
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Virpi Siipola |
Geochemical impacts on the release of Si within entire watersheds |
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Johanna Hohenthal |
Impact of land cover change on the river discharges and water quality in East African mountains |
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13:30-13:50 |
Discussion and coffee break |
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Grounds, methodsand tools for land-use, management, and protection of watersheds |
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13:50-15:30 |
Leena Stenberg |
Erosion and sediment transport mechanisms in drained forested catchments |
Hanna Huitu |
Mapping source areas of suspended solids and nutrients loading from agriculture to water using GIS modeling and automatic hydrometeorological monitoring |
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Hanna Sipari |
RNA-based detection methods for hepatotoxic cyanobacteria and regulation of microcystin biosynthesis |
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Simo Tammela |
Modeling of stream flow processes and ecological habitats in river restoration |
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Aleksandr Klimeski |
Novel methods for removing phosphorus from runoff waters |
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Heli Suurkuukka |
Indicator species and biodiversity protection in changing forest landscape: does the protection of key biotopes advance the protection of terrestrial and aquatic nature? |
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Anita Pätynen |
Modelling phytoplankton dynamics in lakes at different time and space scales |
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Pekka Rossi |
Integrated management of groundwater and dependent ecosystems in Finnish eskers |
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Ion Ferencik |
Integrated environmental modeling of hydrological systems A coupled hillslope-floodplain-channel approach |
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15:30-15:50 |
Discussion and break |
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Disciplinary basis for policy-making on watersheds and water resources |
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15:50-17:10 |
Tuomas Saarinen |
Restoration of Acidified Rivers: Seeking Causes and New Water Management Solutions |
Mia O'Neill |
The role of the state in promoting ecological sanitation. Case studies from selected developed and developing economies. |
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Janne Alahuhta |
Spatial modelling and multi criteria decision analysis for catchment scale environmental risk assessment in boreal river basins –RiskBASIN |
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Mari Annala |
Effects of land use changes on stream communities: how general are species responses? |
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Amélie Beucher |
Developing methods for risk mapping of Acid Sulfate Soils |
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Hanna Sinkko |
Benthic bacterial communities in nutrient cycling of the Baltic Sea, with emphasis on phosphorus |
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Jussi Jyväsjärvi |
Lake profundal macroinvetebrates - Environmental drivers of community variation and implications for bioassessment |
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Eliisa Lotsari |
Fluvial processes in a changing climate: causes, effects and uncertainties of future floods in Boreal and Sub-Arctic Finland |
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Annina Takala |
Building competence for sustainable water and waste water services (pres. by Tapio Katko) |
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Closing of the day |
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18 FebruaryVenue: Main building, Lecture Hall E, Otakaari 1, Espoo (see the map) |
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9-9.30 |
Keynote by Prof. Olli Varis (Subject will be announced later) |
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9.30-12 |
Workshop according to separate directions in pre-nominated groups of 3 to 4 persons |
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12-13 |
Lunch |
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13-15.00 |
Round-up of the workshop and summation of the seminar |
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More information:
Instructional coordinator Riitta Kamula, Tel. +358 8 553 3566, riitta.kamula at oulu.fi