Climate Change Conference
Agenda
2nd International Conference on
Climate Change - The environmental and socio-economic response
in the Southern Baltic region
Szczecin, Poland, 12-15 May 2014
SUNDAY, 11 May 2014
16:00 - 20:00 Registration at the Conference Venue
19:00 Ice Breaker at the Conference Venue
MONDAY, 12 May 2014
09:00 - 10:15 Registration at the Conference Venue
10:30 Opening Ceremony
Inaugural addresses
Olgierd Geblewicz, Marshal of the Province of Western Pomerania
Piotr Krzystek, Mayor of the City of Szczecin
Artu Bejger, Rector of the Szczecin Maritime Academy
Edward Włodarczyk, Rector of the University of Szczecin
Opening Lectures
11:30 Late Pleistocene climate change and its impact on palaeogeography of the southern Baltic Sea region
Leszek Marks, University of Warsaw, Department of Climate Geology and Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Warsaw
12:00 Copernicus dilemma and contemporary science
Karol Piasecki, University of Szczecin, Faculty of Humanities
12:30 Lunch
Session A: Reconstructions of palaeo-environmental change: Geological proxies and numerical modelling
14:00 Keynote Lecture
Linking terrestrial and marine ecosystems: Holocene land-cover changes and their effect on terrestrial carbon pools and coastal ecosystems along the Swedish Baltic coast
Anneli Poska, Nielsen A.B., Björk S., Broström A., Filipsson H.L., Ghosh A., Khan M., Ning W., Åkesson C., Conley D.J.
14:30 Disentangling influences on varve preservation in a 1200-year record of partially varved sediments from Lake Tiefer See (NE Germany) – A multiproxy approach
Nadine Dräger, Theuerkauf M., Hübener T., Wulf S., Kienel U., Slowinski M., Plessen B., Dulski P., Schedel R., Ott F., Lorenz S., Brauer A.
14:50 Paleogeographiс investigations in the Kaliningrad region, Russia
Yuriy Kublitskiy, Subetto D., Arslanov K., Druzinina O., Skhodnov I.
15:10 The development of lake sedimentation since Older Dryas in Belarus
Aliaksei Novik
15:30 Late Glacial to Holocene environmental changes with special reference to salinity reconstructed from shallow water lagoon sediments of the southern Baltic Sea coast
Sławomir Dobosz, Seddon A., Witkowski A., Kierzek A., Cedro B.
15:50 Break
Session C: Natural dynamics of the coastal zone and the socio-economic response from prehistoric to recent times
16:20 Keynote Lecture
Simulation of the historical ecosystem state as a reference according to the Water Framework Directive
Rene Friedland, Schernewski G., Neumann T.
16:50 The dynamics of the coastline of the Eastern Gulf of Finland: the natural processes and human activities on the natural disasters prevention
Petr Leontev
17:10 Determination of the snow melting intensity in nowadays climate conditions by example of the Neman river basin
Alexander Volchak, Kostiuk D., Petrov D., Sheshko N.
17:30 A comparison of selected River-mouth systems – zones of interference between terrestrial, marine and anthropogenic impacts
Jan Harff, Deng J., Osadczuk A,, Tang C,, Witkowski A., Wu J., Xia Z.
17:50 Closing for the day
19:30 Evening Lecture
"Energiewende" in Germany - Issues and problems
Friedrich Wagner, Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald
TUESDAY, 13 May 2014
Session D: Climate change and regional planning
9:00 Keynote Lecture
Effects of climate change on atmospheric nitrogen deposition to the Baltic Sea
Jerzy Bartnicki, Simpson D.
9:30 Future Wave Climate Projections at the German Baltic Sea Coast on the Basisnf the Regional Climate Model Cosmo-CLM
Norman Dreier, Schlamkow C., Fröhle P., Salecker D.
9:50 Comparison of the December 2013 storm surge with long-term severe storm events at the Pomeranian Bay coast (the southern Baltic Sea)
Halina Kowalewska-Kalkowska, Marks R.
10:10 Influence of climate change on urban surface runoff pollution in the city of Brest, Belarus
Ina Bulskaya, Volchek A.
10:30 Break
11:00 Oral poster presentations
1 slide, max. 1 min per poster
11:45 Poster session
13:00 Lunch
Session D cont. Climate change and regional planning
14:00 Keynote Lecture
How reliable are selected methods of projections of future thermal conditions? A case from Poland
Joanna Wibig
14:30 Application of hydrodynamic model of the Baltic Sea to the December 2013 storm surge representation along the Polish Baltic coast
Halina Kowalewska-Kalkowska, Kowalewski M.
14:50 Frequencies of cyclones with different origin within the territory of Belarus and their impact to hydrometeorological conditions
Irina Partasenok, Melnik V., Chekan R.
15:10 Influence of climate change on water resources in Belarus
Alexander Volchak, Parfomuk S.
15:30 Break
16:00 The violent mid latitude storm hitting Northern Germany and Denmark, 26 October 2013
Hans von Storch, Feser F., Lefebvre C., Stendel M.
16:20 Interrelation between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and then Discharges of 50 Rivers Located at the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin: A Statistical Sensing Analysis
Ali B.Mahmood, Marks R.
16:40 Effects of land management regulations and measures on nitrogen leaching in the German Baltic Sea catchment
A. Wagner, Heidecke C., Kreins P., Venohr M.
17:00 Closing for the day
19:30 Conference Dinner
WEDNESDAY, 14 May 2014
Session E: Changing Baltic Sea coasts and their sustainable protection
9:00 Keynote Lecture
Effectiveness of Coastal and Flood Protection Structures in a Changing Climate
Peter Fröhle
9:30 Effect of climate change on ice regime of lagoons of the southern and eastern Baltic Sea
Inga Dailidienė, Baudler H., Rukšėnienė V.
9:50 A method for estimating coastline recession due to sea level rise by assuming stationary wind-wave climate
Junjie Deng, Harff J., Schimanke S., Meier H.E.M.
10:10 Extreme short-term aeolian accumulation on foredunes of west Polish coast caused by hurricane Xavier on December 2013
Tomasz Łabuz
10:30 Break
11:00 Highly persisting patch formation areas in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea
Andrea Giudici, Soomere T.
11:20 Subaerial beach volume change and sea level rise on decadal time scale in he Lithuanian coasts of the Baltic Sea
Darius Jarmalavičius, Kriaučiūnienė J., Žilinskas G., Pupienis D.
11:40 On spatio-temporal variations of the wave energy potential along the eastern Baltic Sea coast
Maris Eelsalu, Soomere T.
12:00 Lunch
Copernicus Symposium
13:00 Nicolaus Copernicus – 500 years of experimental science
Roman Marks, Szczecin University, Poland
13:30 Was uns der Augenschein, die Physik und die Bibel lehren - Ein Plädoyer für das geozentrische Weltbild
What intuition, physics and the bible tell us – A plea for the geocentric world view (lecture given in German)
Jürgen Hamel, Archenhold-Sternwarte, Berlin, Germany
14:00 Climate change and variability in Poland from Copernicus‘s time to present
Rajmund Przybylak, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
14:30 Break
14:50 Final discussion and concluding remarks
16:00 Closing for the day
THURSDAY, 15 May 2014
All day excursion