Activity Plan

Core and cross-cutting activities are implemented based on SSC recommendations and decisions in close collaboration with the IPO and Regional Nodes along an annually published and continuously reviewed Business Plan. This plan provides a rather comprehensive overview of the core activities aimed to contribute to the Scientific Themes and Priority Topics but it is subject to continued review and may change occasionally. The rational of the Priority Topics and Cross-Cutting Activities is outlined under the individual headlines in this website respectively.

Activity Plan 2008/2009

Download: Activity Plan 2008/2009

Activity

Date

Responsibility

Priority Topic 1

 

 

4. Conference on Social-Ecological Systems Analysis, Sommerhausen

05-08

Glaser

IGBP Congress, Cape Town, Session C2

05-08

Glaeser

IHDP Congress, New Delhi

10-08

Glaser

Synthesis Session at LOICZ Dahlem-Type Workshop plus preceding/following proposal writing, preparatory meetings, research assistance

06-09

Glaeser

Priority Topic 2

 

 

Collect references and contact names relevant to assess fresh water requirements for estuaries

2008

Forbes

Meeting International Conference Deltas, Dhaka

01-08

Saito

SCOR-LOICZ WG Harmful Algalblooms-Eutrification

1. Half 08

Urban

Publishing Support LOICZ-IMBER Implementation Plan & CMTT Synthesis

06-08

Roy

Workshop on Coastal Nutrient Budget, Chennai, India

08-08

Ramachandran

Meeting International Conference Deltas, China

10-08

Saito

Shanghai conference on Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS8)

10-08

Saito

SCOR/LOICZ WG 122: sediment retention in estuaries

10-08

Saito

Special Issue from the Watershed Nutrient Accounting Meeting in Paris 01/07

12-08

Swaney

Workshop to synthesize results of APN Project Case Studies from South Asia Region (Chennai, India meeting)

2009

Ramachandran

Synthesis Session at LOICZ Dahlem-Type Workshop plus preceding/following proposal writing, preparatory meetings, research assistance

06-09

Swaney

Priority Topic 3

 

 

3. Meeting Working Group Governance, Rhode Island

02-08

Olsen

2. Regional TOT Workshop Latin America, Guayaquil, Ecuador

04-08

Olsen

3. Regional Cross-Comparison Workshop Latin America, Guayaquil, Ecuador

09/10-08

Olsen

Session IHDP Congress, New Delhi

10-08

Kannen

Drafting and production of the Methods Guide

2. Half 08

Olsen

1. Regional Workshop ARCTIC

12-08

Kannen

Synthesis Session at LOICZ Dahlem-Type Workshop plus preceding/following proposal writing, preparatory meetings, research assistance

06-09

Olsen

Drafting Group: development of proposal for applying the governance baselining methods to 2-3 other world regions

1. Half 09

Olsen

Cross-Cutting and Regional Activities

 

 

Typology, data requirements and Phase II planning and scoping workshop, USA

01-08

Buddemeier

Follow-up Meeting "Arctic Coastal Zones at Risk” Tromsö

01-08

Floeser

Indian Workshop on Global Change in Coastal Systems: The LOICZ-Approach, Chennai, India

03-08

Ramachandran

Coastal Nutrient Budgets: Meeting and E-learning Module, Chennai, India (India Meeting)

03-08

Ramachandran

IGBP Congress, Cape Town, Session D3

05-08

Lansigan

Publishing Support IASC – LOICZ State of Arctic Coastal Zones – What’s at Stake?

06-08

Rachold

Annual Cross-Cutting Workshop (synthesis meeting): Lagoons, Morocco

09-08

Newton

Typology, applications and examples workshop with HD projects and Deltas as a focus

10-08

Buddemeier

Typology book

11-08

Buddemeier

Littoral Meeting, Venice

11-08

Newton

2. LOICZ-GWSP Deltas at Risk Workshop

2. Half 08

Weichselgartner

Annual Cross-Cutting Workshop (Synthesis meeting): Lagoons

2. Half 08

Newton

Scoping Workshop "Science-Policy-Practice Interface in Coastal Zones”, Geesthacht

2. Half 08

Weichselgartner

Annual Cross-Cutting Workshop: Deltas

2009

Newton

South Asia Regional Node

 

 

Attendance at Workshop on Global Change in Indian Coastal Systems: The LOICZ-Approach Chennai, India

03-08

Wikramanayake

Attendance at 7. International Conference on Coastal and Port Engineering in Developing Countries (PIANC - COPEDEC VII), Dubai

02-08

Wikramanayake

Attendance at next South-East Asia Workshop "Coastal Vulnerability in Bangkok”

08-08

Wikramanayake

Regional Workshop of APN project, Delhi

10-08

Wikramanayake

Attendance Coastal Sediments Conference, Tokyo

09-09

Wikramanayake

Southeast Asia Regional Node

 

 

3. APN Workshop on Integrated vulnerability assessment of coastal systems, Bangkok

08-08

Goh

Support of the Phil. Council for Aquatic and Marine Resources Research and Development (PCAMRD) to define its R & D agenda on climate change

2008

Lansigan

SEA core group to attend important meetings in the SEA region

2008

Lansigan

Participation in the PCAMRD agenda setting in the Philippines

2008

Lansigan

East Asia Regional Node

 

 

Summer School LOICZ

07-09

Ping

Water Cycle – Coast Interaction (Nutrients, Groundwater, Pumping)

10-09

Ping


Report Priority Topic 1: XVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE)

INPRINT 2008/2

IHDP announces new venue and date

IHDP

7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (Open Meeting), "Social Challenges of Global Change", originally scheduled for 15-19 October 2008, will take place from April 26-30 2009 in Bonn, Germany

LOICZ supports Kids University (Kinder Uni) in Backnang, Germany