International Symposium on ECOHYDROLOGY

Vienna, October 23 – 25, 2005

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

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Sunday, Oct. 23 Opening ceremony

18:15Welcome addresses

Opening lecture – Othmar Nestroy (Graz): Water and soil – the bases of our life

19:15-19:45 Piano concert – Natalia Sawościanik

19:45-21:30Get-together party

Monday, Oct. 24 Morning session

9:00-9:10Maciej Zalewski (Łódź): Address in honour of Prof. Fritz Schiemer (on the occasion of his 65th birthday)

9:10-9:50 Fritz Schiemer (Vienna): Hydrologic control of system characteristics of floodplain lakes

9:50-10:20Georg Janauer (Vienna):Hydrological control of makrophytes in floodplain lakes

10:20-10:50Martin Dokulil (Mondsee): Alternative stable states in floodplain ecosystems

10:50-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:00Maciej Zalewski (Łódź): Ecohydrology – holistic approach for implementation Water Framework Directive of EU

12:00-12:40Stefan Schmutz (Vienna): Overview on the EC–waterframework–directive project FAME

Monday, Oct. 24 Afternoon session

14:00-14:40 Helmut Habersack (Vienna): Eco-hydrological and hydro-morphological-boundary conditions for river restoration

14:40-15:20Gert Michael Steiner (Vienna): Eco-hydrological functioning of mires

15:20-15:40Coffee break

15:40-16:40Oral presentation of 3 contributed papers

Jarmila Měkotová, Bořivoj Šarapatka, Otakar Štěrba (Olomouc):River landscapes, their ecological problems and optimization

T. Hein et al. (Vienna):Optimised management for the Biosphere Reserve Lobau based on a multi criteria Decision Support System: merging conservation, ecology and socio-economics

T. Fleituch (Cracow):Integrating ecosystem function and ecohydrology into river quality assessment and management (project RIVFUNCTION)

16:45-18:15Poster session

19:00Conference dinner

Tuesday, Oct. 25 Morning session

9:00-9:40 Natallia Rybianets(Minsk): State and water quality of small rivers in Belarus: case study of the Dnieper river basin

9:40-10:20Sergey Afanasiev (Kiev): Development of Water Framework Directive's theses in the monitoring of rivers of Ukraine

10:20-10:50 Coffee break

10:50-11:30György Várralyay (Budapest): Risk reduction of extreme hydrological events with sustainable land use and soil management

11:30-12:30Oral presentation of 3 contributed papers

Andrzej Giziński, Andrzej Kentzer, Paweł Napiórkowski (Toruń and Włocławek): Achievements of hydrobiology at Nicholaus Copernicus University of Toruń on its 60th anniversary

Iwona Jasser (Warsaw): The relationship between APP - the smallest autotrophic component of food web and trophic status and the depth of lakes

M. Pełechaty, A. Pełechata, A. Pukacz, L. Burchardt (Poznań and Słubice):Interrelationships between macrophytes (including charophytes) and phytoplankton and the ecological state of lakes

Tuesday, Oct. 25 Afternoon session

14:00-14:40Jan Suschka (Bielsko-Biała): Implication of integrated waste water treatment, including sludge handling on water quality conservation

14:40-15:40Oral presentation of a 3 contributed papers

Mariusz-Orion Jędrysek (Wrocław): The S-O-C isotopic picture of sulphate-methane-carbonate system in freshwater lakes

Justyna Bauza Kaszewska, Zbigniew Paluszak, Janusz Hermann (Bydgoszcz):Microbiological validation of sewage sludge composting efficiency as amethod of environmental contamination minimizing

G. Malina, M.P.J Smit and J.T.C. Grotenhuis (Częstochowa and Vageningen): The initial risk assessment and emission control from contaminated sediments

15:40-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:30 Huub J. Gijzen (Delft): The role of natural systems and processes for urban water management in the city of the future (DVD presentation?)

16:30-16:40Closing address