SEAREG - Sea Level Change Affecting the Spatial Development in the Baltic Sea Region
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Agenda SEAREG Final meeting, Tallinn, 3. – 5. March 2005

Wednesday, 2nd March 2005

Tallinn

 

21.00

 Icebreak Meeting in Hotel Olümpia Bar

Thursday,  3rd March 2005

Olümpia Hotel

Meeting-room Omega

 

9.00

Introduction

Philipp Schmidt-Thomé,
Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)

9:30

GIS-applications as tool for awareness raising and vulnerability assessment

Hilkka Kallio, GTK

10.00

Projections of future surface winds and sea levels in the late 21st century and their application for impact studies of flood prone areas in the Baltic Sea Region.

Markus Maier,
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

10.30

Coffee break

 

11.00

The impact of climate change on wind waves

Barry Broman, SMHI

11.30

The impact of climate change on water levels in Lake Mälaren

Phil Graham, SMHI

12.00

Lunch

 

13.30

DSF-Application

Implementation and acceptance

Philipp Schmidt-Thomé,GTK
Lasse Peltonen, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (YTK),
Johannes Klein, GTK

14.20

Usedom GIS Application and Modelling Results for planners

Bernd Röber,
Hartmut Rudolphi, University of Greifswald

15.00

Coffee break

 

15.30

Stockholm-Mälar Region: Application of climate research results in spatial

planning

Michael Viehhauser, INREGIA Sweden

16.00

Socio economic and environmental effects of SLR Gdansk

Michael Staudt, GTK
Jakub Zmuda, Polish Geological Institute, Gdansk (PGI)

16.30

Incorporating SLR and flood scenarios in Helsinki city planning

Samuli Lehtonen, YTK
Samrit Luoma, GTK

17.00

Potential of incorporating SLR and flood scenarios in future land use planning in Itä-Uusimaa

Heidi Virkki,
Oskari Orenius, Regional Council Itä-Uusimaa

20.00

Dinner

Invitation from project management

Friday, 4th March

Olümpia Hotel

Meeting-room Omega

 

9.30

The recent winter storm in Pärnu and scenarios of future SLR.

Johannes Klein, GTK

10.30

coffee break

 

11.00

Simulation of land cover/use dynamics through cellular automata model: Pärnu City case study

Valentina Sagris,
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

11.30

Neural network methods for climate change impact assessment

Jürgen Kropp,
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

12.00

Lunch

 

13.30

Spatial Planning and Risk - A theoretical approach and its consequences for planning policy in Europe

Stefan Greiving,
Institute of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund

14.00

The LOICZ programme and Sustainability of Human Development in Coastal Regions vulnerable to Climate Change

Peter Burbridge,
Scientific Steering Committee, LOICZ

14.30

Studies of climate change impact on the coasts in Estonia

Are Kont,
Institute of Ecology, Tallinn Pedagogical University

15.00

Coffee break

 

15.30 – 16.30

Final discussion

Philipp Schmidt-Thomé, GTK

 

 

 

Saturday, 5th March

Pärnu

 

9.00

Excursion

Valter Petersell,
Estonian Geological Survey,
Johannes Klein, GTK

12.00

Lunch in Pärnu

 

14.30

Departure from Pärnu

 

ca. 16.00

Arrival Tallinn