Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change

Advisory Board Meeting, 10-12 December 2012, Stirling

Day1 Monday 10th Dec. - Introduction to the GloboLakes project
Session 1. GloboLakes: Overview
Chair: Laurence Carvalho
13.30 Introduction and overview of GloboLakes project (1.24MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Andrew Tyler, University of Stirling
14.00 Regulatory context-GloboLakes: Role of UK environemental agencies (0.99MB PDF)
  • Speakers: Jan Krokowski, Scottish Environmental Agency
  • Brenda Walker, Northern Ireland Environment Agency
  • Bill Brierley, Environment Agency
Session 2. GloboLakes: Data acquisition and processing
Chair: Andrew Tyler
15.15
WP1: Remote sensing models for lakes (0.73MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Peter Hunter, University of Stirling
15.30
WP2: Data processing and distribution (2.51MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Steve Groom, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
15.45
WP3: Climate & non-climate drivers of change (0.77MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Mark Cutler, University of Dundee
Session 3. GloboLakes: Trends and modeling of lake ecology
Chair: Marian Scott
16.20
WP5: Detecting spatial and temporal patterns (0.41MB PDF)
  • Speakers: Claire Miller & Marian Scott, University of Glasgow
16.35
WP6: Attributing the causes of lake response to environmental change (0.98MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Stephen Maberly, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
16.50 WP7: Modelling (0.27MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Alex Elliott, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Day2
 Tuesday 11th Dec. - Remote Sensing of lakes
Session 4. Techniques in lake ecology and water quality monitoring
Chair: Stephen Maberly
09.00 Lessons learned from the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (1.88MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Paul Hanson, University of Wisconsin, USA
09.30 GEO water quality activities (2.24MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Steven Greb, Wisconsin Deot. Natural resources, GEO, IOCCG, USA
10.00 Algorithms for water quality: an Australian perspective (2.53MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Tim Malthus, CSIRO, Australia
10.30 Temporal trends in Lough Neagh
  • Speakers: Louise Vaughan & Yvonne McElarney, AgriFood and Biosiences Institute, Northern Ireland
Session 5. Remote sensing of optically complex waters
Chair: Steve Groom
11.00 Key Note Lecture: DIVERSITY II PROJECT (2.53MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany
11.30 Inland and coastal water quality retrieval. Some challenges and new opportunities (1.75MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Els Knaeps, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium
11.50 Development and application of regionally specific chlorophyll a algorithms from MERIS data for the Galician optically complex waters (NW Spain) (1.63MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Evangelos Spyrakos, University of Vigo, Spain (present ad.: University of Stirling)
12.10 Constituent retrieval in lakes and other deep and optically complex waters (1.34MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Daniel Odermatt, Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany
Session 6. Satellite observations of lakes
Chair: Peter Hunter
13.30 Key Note Lecture: Space-based essential climate variables for lakes (2.51MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Mark Dowell, Joint Research Centre (JRC) European Commission, Italy
14.00 Remote sensing of phytoplankton in Spanish lakes and reservoirs (2.01MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Antonio Ruiz-Verdu, National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), Spain
14.20 Long term monitoring of alkaline-saline lakes from satellite observations (0.69MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Emma Tebbs, University of Leicester
14.40 Remote sensing as a tool to the management of Spanish aquatic ecosystems (1.87MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Jose Antonio Dominguez, Centro de Estudios Hidrograficos (CEDEX), Spain
Session 7. Thermal imaging of lakes
Chair: Christopher Merchant
15.20 Key Note Lecture: ARC lakes (1.31MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Christopher Merchant, Univeristy of Edinburgh
15.50 Investigating the potential of remote sensing for long-term limnological analysis at pan-continental scales (0.93MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Eirini Politi, University of Dundee
16.10 Tunning of Flake model using remote sensing data to determine lake surface water temperature for 159 large temperate lakes (0.86MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Aisling Layden, University of Edinburgh
16.30 A novel approach for the study of the temporal coherence of global time series (0.66MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Francesco Finazzi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Day3 Wednesday 12th Dec. - Remote Sensing of lakes
Session 8. Developments in remote sensing of lakes
Chair: Mark Cutler
09.00 Lake remote sensing in Estonia (0.89MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Tiit Kutser, Estonian Marine Institute, Estonia
09.20 HABs & EO in Italian lakes and Curogian lagoon (3.09MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Mariano Bresciani, CNR IREA National research council, Italy
09.40 Perspectives on remote sensing of some South African inland waters (2.30MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Mark Matthews, University of Cape Town, South Africa
10.00 The variation of total runoff entering Poyang lake and drought-flood abrupt alteration during past 50 years (1.51MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Xiang Zhang, State Key Lab of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, China
Chair: John Rowan
11.00 Assessment and mapping phytoplankton chlorophyll patterns in inland and coastal habitats (1.83MB PDF)
  • Speaker: John Schalles, Creighton University, Omaha, USA
11.20 Remote sensing of Canadian lakes (0.98MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Caren Binding, Environment Canada, Canada
11.40 Observation of chla from satellite in estuaries (2.65MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Le Chengfeng, University of South Florida, USA
12.00 An overview of lake optics and remote sensing in Lake Taihu (2.90MB PDF)
  • Speaker: Yunlin Zhang, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, China
Session 9. Discussion Session
Chair: Andrew Tyler/Steve Groom
13.30 Partner engagement
Chair: Peter Hunter/Stephen Maberly
15.30 Science challenges
Chair: Mark Cutler/Claire Miller
16.20 Summary