Interdisciplinary Workshop

Effects of climate change: coastal systems, policy implications, and the role of statistics

Course March 16-17, and Workshop March 18-20 2009

Program:

Day	Time	Speaker	Title
Monday	16.00-...	Eric Gilleland	Statistical software
Tuesday	09.00-18.00	Eric Gilleland	Continued
	18.00-...	Getting together
Wednesday	09.00 - 12.20	Introduction
		Andreas Sterl	Hot temperatures and storm surges: Modelling the change of climate extremes, Abstract
		Myles Allen	Quantifying and presenting uncertainty in the attribution and prediction of climate change, Abstract
		Poster introduction
	12.30-13.45	Lunch
	14.00 - 17.00	Rick Katz	Improving the treatment of extremes in the generation of climate change scenarios, Abstract
		Peter Guttorp	Looking for climate change signals in extreme temperatures, Abstract
		Hans Hansson	Coastal flooding and erosion - documented trends and possible impacts from climate change, Abstract
		Jaak Monbaliu	Natural and anthropogenic influence on sediment dynamics in the Belgian coastal zone. Can they be separated and what are the policy implications in a changing climate? Abstract
	17.00-18.00	Posters with "Beer"
Thursday	09.00 - 12.20	Richard Smith	Extreme precipitation trends over the continental United States
		Johan Lindström	Estimation of non-stationary fields, applied to seabed data, Abstract
		Gaute Storhaug	IACS URS11 defines the dimensioning wave load for ship design - but what does it mean from a statistical point of view? Abstract
		Poster introduction
	12.300-13.45	Lunch
	14.00 - 17.00	Judith Wolf	Wave climate changes on the NW European shelf from model downscaling, Abstract
		Erik Kjellström	Changes in northern European wind climate: climate models and observational data, Abstract
		Ulrika Roupé	Coastal hazards management - a clima change challenge, Abstract
		Fredrik Gröndahl	Sustainable use of Baltic Sea natural resources based on ecological engineering and biogas production, Abstract
	17.00-18.00	Posters
	20.00-...	Dinner
Friday	09.00 - 12.20	Dries Van den Eynde	Evaluation of climate change impacts and adaption responses for marine activities,
		Jens Würgler Hansen	Effects and indicators of climate change in Danish coastal waters, Abstract
		Tomas Torsvik	Ship wakes in Tallinn bay: experimental and numerical study, Abstract
		Bo Ranneby	Probabilistic classifiers using NN-balls, Abstract
		Tony Dolphin	BLINKS: Beach LINKs to Sandbanks - Sandbanks, shorelines and coastal photography
	12.30-13.45	Lunch
	14.00 - 17.00	Charmaine Dean	Looking for climate change signals in the Canadian forest fire ignition record, Abstract
		Paul Whitfield	Floods in future climates - process and statistical issues, Abstract
		Discussion	and conclusion

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