Agenda for GRAPHIC meeting (March 3-5, 2004)

 

GRAPHIC: Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change

 

Date: March 3 – 5, 2004

Place: UNESCO, Division of Water Sciences (Science Meeting room, situated on 6th Floor, Bonvin Building situated in the UNESCO premises at 1 Rue Miollis)

 

March 3, 2004

9:00-9:30

Introduction, purposes of this meeting, schedule of the meeting

 

9:30-10:00

gIntroduction of GRAPHIC projecth

Makoto Taniguchi

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan

 

10:00-10:30

gUNESCO perspective for groundwater resources assessmenth

Alice Aureli

UNESCO/IHP, Division of Water Sciences

 

10:30-11:00

gIGARAC activities and groundwater resources assessmenth

Jac A.M. van der Gun

International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC), The Netherlands

 

11:00-11:30

gGlobal Water System Project (GWSP) beyond the groundwater issueh

Holger Hoff

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

 

11:30-12:00

gClimate Changes and Hydrogeology

Arie S. Issar

J. Blaustein Institute for Desert Research

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

 

12:00-13:30 Lunch

 

13:30-14:00

gRecovering the spatio-temporal variations of hydrological signals from GRACE datah

Guillaume Ramillien

LEGOS-GRGS/CNES, France

 

14:00-14:30

gGroundwater recharge issuesh

Timothy R. Green

USDA - Agricultural Research Service, USA

 

14:30-15:00

gGroundwater discharge issuesh

Henk Kooi

Department of Hydrology & Geo-Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Earth & Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

 

15:00-15:30

gModelling water policy processes towards integrated water resources managementh

Olli Varis

Helsinki University of Technology, Water Resources Laboratory, FINLAND

 

16:00-17:30

Discussion

 

 


Mar 4, 2004

9:00-10:00

Preparation toward the concrete GRAPHIC plan

 

10:00-12:00

Group meeting (1: Subjects)

(1) Groundwater recharge

(2) Groundwater discharge

(3) Groundwater storage

 

12:00-13:30 Lunch

 

13:30-15:30

Group meeting (2: Method)

(1) Database and monitoring

(2) GRACE

(3) Modeling and simulation

 

16:00-18:00

Presentations of the results from each group meeting, and Discussion

 

19:00-

Dinner together

 

 

March 5, 2004

9:00-10:00

Conclusions of this meeting and plans for the future

 

10:00-11:00

Tactics for the financial supports from agencies

 

11:00-12:00

Future works and tasks