| Sunday - October 17, 2010 |
| Departure by bus, for registered people. Meeting point : |
| 09:00 |
Polydôme, EPFL, Piccard avenue |
| 09:30 |
for speakers, hôtel Mövenpick, Lausanne |
| 10:30 - 17:00 |
Visit the Alps - Barrage d'Emosson, Valais' special lunch - return at EPFL |
| 17:00 - 19:30 |
Registration at the Polydôme EPFL |
| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Get together - Reception |
| Monday - October 18, 2010 |
| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Registration at the Polydôme EPFL |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Welcome, Marc B. Parlange (EPFL), Andrea Rinaldo (EPFL) |
| 09:15 - 09:30 |
Prof. Dusan Sidjanski, Presentation of the Latsis Foundation |
| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Keynote: Ignacio Rodriguez - Iturbe (Princeton), Hydrologic Drivers of Biodiversity |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Invited Talks
Denis Baldocchi (Berkeley), Lessons Learned about Ecosystem Evaporation from Long-term, Global Flux Networks
Gabriel Katul (Duke), Soil moisture feedbacks on convection triggers and the role of soil-plant hydrodynamics
Paolo D'Odorico (Virginia), Ecohydrological feedbacks and the stability and resilience of plant ecosystems |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Invited Talks
Andras Bardossy (Stuttgart), Model complexity vs. accuracy: How much detail can a model bear and how much does it need?
Amilcare Porporato (Duke), Ecohydrology of managed ecosystems: stochastic soil moisture dynamics in soil salinization, irrigation and phytoremediation problems.
Anne Nolin (Oregon State/EPFL), Mountain Hydrology and Climate Change: Connections Throughout the Watershed
Paolo Burlando (ETHZ), Streamflow, vegetation and sediment interactions in mountain rivers |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
Invited Talks
Jean-Yves Parlange (Cornell) Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport
Michael Lehning (SFL Davos), Mountain Snow Distribution and Avalanches
Gianluca Botter (Padova), Ecohydrological characterization of streamflow probability distributions
Alexis Berne (EPFL), Precipitation measurement in mountainous regions |
| TUESDAY - October 19, 2010 |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote: Simon A. Levin (Princeton), Evolution at the Ecosystem Level: On the Evolution of Ecosystem Patterns |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
Invited Talks
Janet Hering (EAWAG), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): a science and engineering perspective with application to Switzerland
Sjoerd Van der Zee (Wageningen), The unsaturated zone as a competitive system
P. Suresh Rao (Purdue), Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Filtering of Reactive Solute Export from Catchments: Finding Simplicity While Exploring Complexity |
| 12:00 - 15:00 |
Lunch and Poster Exhibition |
| 15:00 - 16:30 |
Invited Talks
Ximing Cai (Illinois), Analyzing Human Interferences to Hydrologic Processes.
Ran Nathan (Jerusalem), The flow of life through the atmosphere: inching towards a unifying mechanistic approach for modeling large-scale biological transport phenomena
Gregory Characklis (North Carolina/EPFL), Reservoirs, Hydropower and Environmental Impact |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Invited Talks
Didier Sornette (ETHZ), Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and Predictions
Amos Maritan (Padova), Environmental statistical mechanics |
| 20:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER at the new Rolex Learning Center at the EPFL |
| WEDNESDAY - October 20, 2010 |
| 09:15 - 10:00 |
Keynote: Wilfried Brutsaert (Cornell/EPFL), Are the North American deserts expanding? Some recent climate signals from groundwater storage conditions |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 12:30 |
Invited Talks
Christian Körner (Basel), Hydrological consequences of elevated CO2 and land cover change
Wolfgang Kinzelbach (ETHZ), Hydrological modeling of wetlands and the use of models in management - Case study: The Okavango Delta
Roger H.Shaw (Davis), Atmospheric boundary-layer structure and exchanges at vegetated land surfaces
Andrew J. Guswa (Smith), The simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena: Vegetation structure and hydrologic fluxes |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Invited Talks
Demetris Koutsoyiannis (Athens), Scale of water resources development and sustainability: Small is beautiful, large is great
Marco Marani (Padova), Understanding the bio-geomorphologic dynamics of tidal systems: implications for sustainability in the face of climate change
Alfred Wüest (EAWAG), Optimizing methane extraction from Lake Kivu - Is sustainable lake management achievable? |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Invited Talks
Keith Smettem (Western Australia), Perennial revegetation in water-limited environments: what have we learned that is useful to ecohydrology?
Marc Parlange (EPFL), Land-atmosphere exchange over complex terrain
Andrea Rinaldo (EPFL), Hydrologic controls on disease epidemics |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Closing remarks |
| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Farewell party |
