5 WRHC – topics | 17 June 2014
Speakers / presentations
A Understanding environmental processes in real-time
Cliff Dahm, UNM (USA)
- Ecological and biogeochemical effects of first flush events
A1 Rains, floods and hazards
(moderated by Axel Bronstert, Univ. Potsdam)
Clemens Simmer, Univ. Bonn
- Heavy rainfall forecast: current developments and perspective ideas
Marco Borga, Univ. Padua (Italy)
- Forecasts and early warning for flash floods and debris flows events
Jonathan J. Gourley, Univ. Oklahoma (USA)
- Contemporary observations and forecasts of flash floods in the United States
Henrik Madsen, TU of Denmark
- Ensemble prediction system – forecast uncertainties
A2 Flood forecasting, risk and communication
(moderated by Bruno Merz, GFZ)
Ezio Todini, Univ. Bologna (Italy)
- Assessment, communication and use of flood forecasting uncertainty
Annegret Thieken, Univ. Postdam
- Flood risk management between technical measures and individual precaution
Sébastien Nobert, CNRS (France)
- Forecasts, risk communication and institutional reality of emergency response
Eduardo Martins, FUNCEME und UFC, Ceará, Fortaleza (Brazil)
- Flood and drought forecasting, risk and communication
A3 Real-time eco-hydrology
(moderated by Klement Tockner, IGB)
Walter Bertoldi, Univ. Trento (Italy)
- Monitoring bio-gemorphological processes during flood events
Jens Krause, IGB
- Reality mining of animal social systems
Stefan Krause, Univ. Birmingham (UK)
- High frequency, high resolution monitoring for identifying
ecohydrological and biogeochemical hot spots and hot moments
B Water in urban areas
Suresh Rao, Univ. Purdue (USA)
- Urban water: challenges in supply and distribution
B1 Micro pollutants – sources, processes and effects
(moderated by Peter Krebs, TU Dresden)
Thomas Berendonk, TU Dresden
- Antibiotic resistance – a new emerging contaminant ………………………..
Aki Sebastian Ruhl, TU Berlin
- Anthropogenic organic micro-pollutants in the urban water cycle
Bernd Sures, Univ. Duisburg-Essen
- Pollutants in urban ecosystems: identifying substances and risks
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B2 Information generation for event prediction
(moderated by Suresh Rao, Univ. Purdue)
Uwe Haberlandt, Univ. Hannover
- Rainfall estimation using moving cars as rain gauges …………………………..
Andreas Scheidegger, EAWAG (Switzerland)
- Information generation for event prediction with low-cost high-tech sensors …………………..
Stefan Krämer, itwh Hannover
- Radar rainfall estimation and nowcasting for urban drainage …………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………..
B3 Infrastructure evolution and developments
(moderated by Peter Krebs, TU Dresden)
Michael Ahlheim, Univ. Hohenheim
- Assessing the social benefits from improved tap water supply ………………….
Peter Cornel, TU Darmstadt
- The “semi-central” approach for fast growing urban areas
Ana Deletic, Univ. Melbourne (Australia)
- Stormwater management in a water sensitive city …………………………………. …………………………………. ………………………………….
Max Maurer, EAWAG (Switzerland)
- Towards sustainable urban water infrastructures: the research needs