Alkmaar, Netherlands
Day 1 - 25th May 2010
Registration - from 08.30 a.m.
09.00
Welcome by Manfred Spreafico, president of CHR
09.15
Welcome by Roeland Allewijn, Director Division Water and Use, Centre for Water Management
09.30
Keynote by Günter Blöschl - Technical University Vienna
Theme block 1 - New approaches to flood forecasting
Chair: Johannes Cullmann / Rapporteur: Eric Sprokkereef
10.15 - 10.45
Advances in Flood Forecasting with Delft-FEWS - Martin Ebel, Deltares
10.45 - 11.15
Tea/Coffee - Posters
11.15 - 11.45
Meteorological ensemble forecasting - Paul Becker, German Weather Service
11.45 - 12.15
Quantification of uncertainty using Bayesian approaches - Ezio Todini, University of Bologna
12.15 - 13.15
Lunch
13.15 - 13.45
The COST731 Action - Propagation of uncertainty from meteorology into hydrological models - Massimiliano Zappa, Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL Birmensdorf
13.45 - 14.15
Anomalies in the Meuse behaviour and how to model flood events - Hubert H.G. Savenije, Delft University of Technology
14.15 - 14.35
Two strategies for the quantification of uncertainty in the European Flood Alert System - Peter Salamon, Joint Research Centre, Ispra
14.35 - 15.05
Discussion of theme 1
15.05 - 15.30
2 min. oral poster presentations
15.30 - 16.00
Tea/Coffee - Posters
Theme block 2 - Aspects of decision making for flood damage prevention
Chair: Günter Blöschl / Rapporteur: Sebastian Kofalk
16.00 - 16.30
Decision support systems and decision making under known uncertainty - Jörg Dietrich, Leibnitz University of Hannover
16.30 - 17.00
Disaster management and dealing with the response on flooding - Kees van Ruiten, Deltares
17.00 - 17.30
More information is not always better: Coping with uncertainty in water management, Marcela Brugnach, University of Twente
17.30 - 18.00
Quantification of uncertainty in flood risk assessments - Bruno Merz, GFZ Potsdam
18.00 - 18.30
Discussion of theme 2
19.30
Participants' dinner
Day 2 - 26th May 2010
Theme block 3 - Acceptance and communication of flood warnings
Chair: Michael Bruen / Rapporteur: Peter Krahe
09.00 - 09.30
On the way to Ensemble Hydrological Forecasts: Lessons learned from MAP D-PHASE - André Walser, MeteoSwiss
09.30 - 10.00
Meet the press! Nobody cares about flood prevention... - Joachim Mahrholdt, ZDF German Television
10.00 - 10.30
Warning communication, communication warning - Dominique Bérod, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
10.30 - 11.00
Tea/Coffee - Posters
11.00 - 11.30
The media do not report on forecasts, they report on events - Michael Schanne, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
11.30 - 12.00
The role of affect in communicating flood risks - Heinz Gutscher, University of Zürich
12.00 - 12.30
Discussion of theme 3
12.30 - 13.00
Summary and conclusions of the workshop
13.00
Closing of the workshop
Evening event
Participants' dinner near the conference centre on 25 May at 19.30 pm