Monday 7 June 2010

Afternoon               Arrival Hotel Mercure, Potsdam

18.00                   Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza (Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences LESC)

18.20                   Ice breaker and poster session

20.00                   Dinner

Tuesday 8 June 2010

09.00-09.10           Welcome by Convenor
Eva Mueller, John Wainwright, Anthony Parsons

09.10-10.00           Keynote lectures on self-organised ecogeomorphic systems:
1. Self-organization, pattern formation and nonlinearity

                            John Wainwright

                            2. Application of emerging patterns in the modelling of land-degradation scenarios in dryland settings

                            Thorsten Wiegand

10.00-10.30           Coffee / Tea Break

10.30-12.00               Seminar I:

                                     Current advances in land-degradation studies
Francesc Gallart, Vasilios Papanastasis, Pier Paolo Roggero

12.00-13.00           Lunch

13.00-14.30               Seminar II:

                            Current advances in the analysis of ecogeomorphic systems from the perspective of of geomorphologists and ecologists

                            Anthony Parsons , Florian Jeltsch, Juan Bellot

14.30-15.00               Coffee / tea break

15.00-16.30               Seminar III:

                                     Spatial modelling and analysis of self-organisation

                                     Rene Lefever, Stefania Scarsoglio, James Millington

16.30-18.30           Discussion

                                     1. Definition of research frontiers

                                     2. Definition of major problem areas

                                     3. Synergy effects between interdisciplinary research

                                     4. Setting up outcome of the workshop: manual, synthesis paper, internet platform etc.

19.00                    Dinner

 

Wednesday 9 June 2010

08.30-10.30           Workshop I: Modelling and land degradation

                            Computational methods and modelling tools for self-organised ecogeomorphic systems and land degradation studies:

1.      Implementation of algorithms for self-regulating systems, feedback loops within ecogeomorphic systems

2.      Nonlinear analysis methods

Tamara Hochstrasser, Concepcion Alados, Laura Turnbull

10.30-11.00            Coffee / Tea Break

11.30-13.00            Spatial analysis techniques for pattern formation

1. Pattern analysis

2.  Visualisation techniques

Thorsten Wiegand

13.00-14.00            Lunch

14.00-15.30            Workshop II: Data assimilation and pattern formations in land degradation studies

                                      Data assimilation and uncertainty:

1.      Integration of measured data into degradation models

2.      Uncertainty assessment: Quantification of uncertainty towards model structure and/or parameterisation data

                            Jim Freer, Bruno Cheviron

15.30-16.00            Coffee / Tea Break

16.00-17.30                Quantification of pattern formations:

                            1.    Land degradation patterns in different environmental settings

                            2.    Spatial field techniques

                            3.    Remote sensing applications

                            Pierre Couteron, Almo Farina, Nuria Martínez Carreras

17.30-19.00                Synthesis

                            Planning of following-up activities:

1.      Organisation of the compilation of keystone manual on current advances in the research on self-organized ecogeomorphic systems

2.      Synthesis paper for high-profile journal

3.      Set-up of a European internet platform on spatial ecogeomorphic data and process studies

20.00-22.00            Conference dinner

 

Thursday 9 June 2010

Departure in the morning