Conference Committee Venue

- Andris Andrušaitis, Latvia th Amber Baltic Hotel - Mikko Alestalo, 6 Study Conference - Berit Arheimer, Sweden Międzyzdroje on BALTEX - Franz Berger, Germany Promenada Gwiazd 1 - Ryhor Chekan, Belarus 022 PL- 72-500 Poland Tel. ++48/91/ 32 85 00; Fax ++48/91/ 32 81 - Jüri Elken, Estonia First Announcement - Pavel Groisman, USA Details on registration procedures and the con- ference in general will be - Sven-Erik Gryning, Denmark available at the BALTEX website: - Hans-Jörg Isemer, Germany - Daniela Jacob, Germany www.baltex-research.eu/WOLIN2010 - Sirje Keevallik, Estonia - Kaisa Kononen, Finland Travel - Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Poland - Maria Lamaanen, Finland - Joakim Langner, Sweden (chairman) - Michael Lautenschlager, Germany - Andreas Lehmann, Germany - Juha-Markku Leppänen, Finland - Alice Newton, Norway - Anders Omstedt, Sweden - Janusz Pempkowiak, Poland - Marcus Reckermann, Germany - Dan Rosbjerg, Denmark - Bernd Schneider, Germany - Benjamin Smith, Sweden • By car: --Miedzyzdroje (E-65/ - Hans von Storch, Germany Road #3) - Timo Vihma, Finland • By plane: International flights into Berlin, - Valery Vuglinsky, Russia connection to Wolin by train (see below); Regular flights to Szczecin Airport from Warsaw (approx 1h), also from Oslo, London and Dublin Międzyzdroje • By ferry: from Copenhagen (9h overnight Island of Wolin crossing) or Ystad (8h) to Swinoujscie (connection to Międzyzdroje by bus) Poland • By train: Szczecin to Międzyzdroje (every 2h); regular connections to Międzyzdroje from Warsaw, Berlin and Hamburg 14 to 18 June 2010

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BALTEX is a Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP) projections over the basin for Second announcement: November 2009 of the Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Obser- the 21st century. This involves detection and Abstract submission: February 2010 vations Project (CEOP) within the Global Energy attribution studies as well as assessments Registration & hotel reservation: April 2010 and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) of the of past, current and future climate change World Climate Research Programme. In the two including its impacts on the environment; Location decades since its beginning, BALTEX has evolved • Provision of improved tools for water from a metorological, hydrological and oceanogra- management, with an emphasis on The island of Wolin is located in the Baltic Sea as phical research programme to a true interdiscipli- extreme hydrological events and long- part of the river estuary in the Pomeranian nary research network for the Baltic Sea basin, term changes. This includes the assessment Bay. It is separated from the island of by encompassing the environmental disciplines me- of water resources in today’s and future the Świna river, and from mainland by teorology, hydrology, oceanography, climatology climate, as well as forcasting extreme events the river. Wolin covers an area of 265 km², and biogeochemistry, including efforts towards and their impacts on the environment and the highest point is Mount Grzywacz with 116 m improving communication within the scientific infrastructure; above sea level. community, education and outreach to stakehol- • Biogeochemical cycles in the Baltic ders and the public. The backbone of BALTEX re- Most of the island consists of forests and postglacial Sea basin and transport processes mains the investigation of the water, energy and hills. Located in the centre of the island is the within the regional Earth system under matter cycles and fluxes in the regional climate Wolin National Park. The island is a main tourist anthropogenic influence. This involves system of the Baltic Sea basin (the catchment area attraction of northwestern Poland. the coupling of regional climate models with and the sea) under changing conditions. biogeochemical models to estimate the impact of climate change on matter fluxes. Results related to any of the above themes are welcome, as well as contributions from other related programmes. The Conference is also envisaged as a communication platform for the research community, water resource managers and other stakeholders. Invited and contributed papers will be presented in plenary along with parallel poster sessions. Conference language is English.

Participating Organisations The 6th Study Conference on BALTEX will reflect BONUS - Baltic Organisation the interdisciplinary nature of the BALTEX Network for Funding Science programme. Conference topics are aligned along EEIG Wolin was first mentioned in theth 10 century the revised BALTEX Phase II objectives: HELCOM as the second largest Baltic marketplace of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Viking Age. It is speculated that Wolin may have Improved understanding of energy and Commission • been the basis for the legendary settlements water cycles under changing conditions. Jomsborg and Vineta. Later Wolin became famous This involves the development and assessment LOICZ Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone for its pirates. During the ages, Wolin was part of of regional models, and the improvement of Denmark, Sweden and Germany. observations; Analysis of past climate variability and NEESPI • Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership change, and provision of regional climate Initiative

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