Dr. Anastasia Sofroniou will host the first day, where local & international academics and policy makers will deliver a series of talks on water related issues concerning the island. On the second day Prof. Tarmo Soomere will organize an International Workshop towards the smart use of marine currents for environmental management. 

• Prof. Phoebe Koundouri
  Athens University of Economics and Business: "Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies" 


• Prof. Nicolas Theodossiou
  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: "Water resources management under climate change conditions". 


• Mr. Sofoklis Aletraris
  Director of the Water Development Department (WDD) in Cyprus: "Water resources management in Cyprus. Models that might be needed by the WDD". 


• Mr. Christos Zoumides
  Cyprus University of Technology: "Incorporating the water footprint into national water management policy". 


• Prof. Christos Anastasiou
  Frederick University: "Mathematical modelling and engineering decision making applied to wastewater treatment and reuse". 


• Dr. George Zodiatis
  Vice-Director of the Oceanography Centre, University of Cyprus. "The Oceanography Centre - Data and models in support of decision making" (On behalf  of Prof. George Gregoriou) 


• Dr. Arvo Käärd
  Head of the Environment Department, City of Tallinn 


• Dr. Ain Valdmann
  Head of the Municipal Engineering Department, City of Tallinn


• Prof. Tarmo Soomere
  Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  Implications of intense fast ferry traffic on nearshore water quality and beach erosion


• Prof. Kristofer Döös
  Department of Meteorology, University of Stockholm, Sweden
  Relative dispersion of surface drifters and model simulated trajectories

March 19, 2010

The workshop is organised in the framework of the BONUS+ activities funded jointly by ten agencies responsible for marine research in the Baltic Sea countries together with the European Union. The key speakers come from the project “BalticWay: The potential of currents for environmental management of the Baltic Sea maritime industry” driven by a consortium of 8 research groups from 5 Baltic Sea countries. The project aims at a substantial decrease of marine-industry-induced environmental risks and impacts. The core objective is to develop a scientific platform for an innovative low-cost technology of environmental management of shipping, offshore, and coastal engineering activities.  The approach makes use of the existence of semi- persistent current patterns that considerably affect the probability of pollution propagation from different open sea areas to the vulnerable areas. For certain regions (areas of reduced risk) this probability is relatively small. A combination of the classical risk analysis with novel mathematical methods is applied to identify the persistence, properties, and potential effect of such areas, and to establish generic criteria for their existence. 

Key presentations about different aspects of the development of such a technology will be given by: