NEU Kick Off Meeting: Agenda
(March 2006)
Garmisch Partenkirchen (13-17 March 2006)
Monday 13
0930-1230
Meeting of Scientific Steering Committee
Setting out of posters
1230-1330
Lunch
1330-1730
Plenary Session 1 (Chair: Mark Sutton)
Hosts Welcome
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
1335-1355
DG Research:
NEU context & official opening
Giovanni Angeletti
1355-1415
DG Environment:
Development of European nitrogen policies
Michel Sponar
1415-1505
Keynote lecture: Perspectives on reactive
nitrogen and the environment
Arvin Mosier
1505-1525
NEU Concept & plan for the meeting
Mark Sutton
1525-1550
Component 1: Advances in N flux methods &
application in NEU
Eiko Nemitz
1550-1620
Tea Break
1620-1755
Plenary Session 1 contd. (Chair: Jan Willem Erisman)
1620-1645
Component 1: N flux measurements and the
NEU flux network
Ute Skiba
1645-1715
Component 2: Ecosystem manipulation to
understand to N interactions with global
change
Claus Beier
1715-1745
Component 3: The application of plot-scale
models to interpret N and GHG exchange
processes
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
1800-1900
Young Scientists Forum (inc. election)
Break
1930-
Reception with food (and posters)
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Tuesday 14
0900-1200
Parallel Groups Session 1: NEU Components and Activities
Room A. Flux measurement methods for application in the Level 2 and Level 3
networks. (Chair: Eiko Nemitz/Jan Duyzer) (A1.1, A1.2, A1.4)
Room B. Review of NEU manipulation experiments (Chair: Claus Beier (C2)
Room C. Current status and uncertainties in plot scale models for Nr and
GHG. (Chair: Klaus Butterbach-Bahl/Marcel van Oijen) (C3)
Room D. Development of harmonized datasets for European modelling (Chair:
Adrian Leip) (A5.1, A6.1)
Room E. Special Topic: Sources and fate of atmospheric/biospheric organic
nitrogen (Chair: Neil Cape)
Room F. Trends in atmospheric N2O, CH4 and CO2: Comparison of
measurements and models (Chair: Arjan Hensen /Peter Bergamaschi) (A6.2)
1200-1310
Lunch
1310-1530
Plenary Session 2. (Chair: Klaus Butterbach-Bahl)
1310-1345
European carbon fluxes, N interactions and
the experience of CarboEurope IP
Annette Freibauer
1345-1420
Component 4: Landscape scale assessment
of nitrogen interactions
Pierre Cellier
1420-1455
Component 5: Assessing European Nitrogen
and GHG fluxes, including scenarios
Wim de Vries
1455-1530
Component 6: Verification of European
Nitrogen fluxes
Jan Willem Erisman
1530-1600
Tea Break
1600-1800
Parallel Groups Session 2: NEU Components and Activities
Room A: Roles and tasks of the NEU Level 1 network of measurements at 50
sites (Chair: Mark Sutton) (A1.5).
Room B: Standardizing flux measurements Level 2 and Level 3 sites. (Chair:
Eiko Nemitz/Jan Duyzer)
Room C: Common Measurement Protocols in relation to model needs. (Chair:
Claus Beier/Ute Skiba ) (A1.2, A1.3, A1.4, C2, C3, A4.3) To include
establishment of Task Force on Common Sampling Protocols
Room D: Defining good practice in numerical modelling.
(Chair: Wim de Vries/Marcel van Oijen) To include establishment of Task
Force on Common Modelling Protocols.
Room E: Development of farm-scale agricultural models (Chair: Jörgen
Olesen) (C4, C5)
Room F: Regional inverse dispersion modelling of N2O and CH4 (Chair: Peter
Bergamaschi) (A6.2)
1800-1840
Gender Action Meeting
2000-
Conference Dinner
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Wednesday 15
0830-1000
Plenary Session 3. (Chair: Claus Beier)
0830-0915
Component 7: Managing Data in NEU:
Policy and implementation.
Anne de Rudder
0915-0940
Components 9 & 10: Training and
disseminating the NEU results
Stefan Reis
0940-1000
Coffee Break
1000-1130
Parallel Groups Session 3: NEU Components and Activities
Room A. Implementing the NEU Level 1 network (A1.5) (Chair: Mark
Sutton).
Room B. Agreeing micrometeorological protocols (Chair: Eiko Nemitz/Jan
Duyzer) (A1.2, A1.3).
Room C. Concluding work plans for the manipulation measurements (C2)
(Chair: Claus Beier).
Room D. Application of plot scale models and scenarios (C3) (Chair: Pete
Smith).
Room E. Landscape inventories (A4.1)(Chair: Tommy Dalgaard).
Room F. European scale modelling of N and GHG fluxes (A5.3, 5.5) (Chair:
Wim de Vries)
1130-1700
Skiing and other activities (e.g., curling)
1700-1800
Break
1800-2000
Plenary session 4. (Chair: Mark Sutton)
First General Assembly of NitroEurope IP
1800-1805
Introduction and adoption of agenda
Mark Sutton
1805-1820
Component 8: Project management: inc.
Stefan Reis
Consortium Agreement, Review & Assessment etc.
1820-1835
Discussion
1835-1850
Gender Report + election
M. Francesca Cotrufo
1850-1905
Young Scientists Forum report
To be elected at YSF Monday
13 March.
1905-1935
Dissemination Reports
iLEAPS and LEARN
Timo Vesala
INI, COST 729, ESF Nitrogen projects
and policy interactions.
Jan Willem Erisman
1935-1945
Any other business
2000-
Dinner in Hotel
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Thursday 16
0830-1030
Parallel Groups Session 4
Special Topics in N research: status, uncertainties and priorities
WG1: Oxidized N fluxes (NOx, N2O etc)
Chair: Klaus ButterbachBahl/Kim Pilegaard
WG2: Reduced N and aerosol fluxes
Chair: Eiko Nemitz
WG3: Landscape scale flux verification
Chair: Pierre Cellier/Mark
Theobald
WG4: Contrasting effects of N on the
plant and soil C for different systems
Chair: Bridget Emmett/Jörgen
Olesen
WG5: GHG fluxes and wetlands
Chair: Ute Skiba
WG6: Closing the N budget:
denitrification and leaching
Chair: Oene Oenema/Lex
Bouwman
WG7: Uncertainty assessment in data and Chair: Marcel van Oijen
modelling
1030-1045
Coffee Break
1045-1300
Parallel Groups Session 5: NEU Components and Activities
Room A. Cross cutting measurements of plant and soil processes (Chair:
Francesca Cotrufo) (A1.4)
Room B. Development of the NitroScape landscape model
(Chair: Pierre Cellier) (A4.2)
Room C. European scale modelling: focus on scenarios (A5.2) with a link to
modelling (A5.3-A5.5) (Chair: Wim de Vries/ Martha Bakker)
Room D. Trends in atmospheric NHx and NOy . Comparison of
measurements in relation to emissions and modelled changes.
(Chair: Albert Bleeker) (A6.1)
Room E. Data handling and checking tools. (Chair: Anne de Rudder) To
include establishment of Task Force on Data Management (A7.4)
Room F. Free for emerging topic
1300-1400
Lunch
1400-1630
Plenary Session 5: Conference Wrap Up (Chair: Mark Sutton)
1400-1530
Reporting back of "Special Topic" Working Groups
1530-1600
Final discussion and Close of Conference
1600
Tea Break
1930-
External Advisory Group and SSC, Joint dinner.
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Friday 17
0900-1030
Joint Meeting of EAG and SSC
1230-1330
Lunch and close
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