Tuesday 12th November 2013, Press Room, WMO Building, 08:30~18:00
7bis avenue de la Paix, CH-1211 Geneva 2.
Second in a series of workshops organized and sponsored by the ICES Foundation
Agenda:
08:30 - 09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00 - 09:20 Introduction to ICES
Bob Bishop, President & Founder, ICES Foundation
09:20 - 09:50 Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Post 2015 Unleashing the power of Earth Observations
Barbara J. Ryan, Secretariat Director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
09:50 - 10:20 EU INSPIRE: the Challenge of Multi-Disciplinarity
Dr. Massimo Craglia, Senior Scientist, EC Joint Research Centre Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit
10:20 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 The EU ACQWA Project: from Science to Policy
Professor Martin Beniston, Chair for Climate Research, and Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences (IES), University of Geneva
11:15 – 11:45 Asian Monsoons in a Changing Climate
Professor Jagadish Shukla, Chairman of the Ph.D. Climate Dynamics program, George Mason University and President, Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES)
11:45 – 12:15 Artic Dynamics in a Global Context Sensitivity and the Carbon Budget
David Wasdell, Director of the Apollo-Gaia Project, London
12:15 – 13:45 Private Lunch on 8th Floor WMO l’Attique Restaurant
13:45 – 14:15 Advanced Earth Observation to quantify mechanisms of Feedback, Interaction and Scale in the Earth System
Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman, Head of Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
14:15 – 14:45 ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes: Recent Achievements and Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Michael Rast, Head, Science Strategy, Coordination & Planning Office, ESA, and Faculty of Geosciences, Ludwig Maximilians University at Munich
14:45 – 15:15 The Earth’s Many Voices: Learning to Decipher Pre-Earthquake Signals
Dr. Friedemann T. Freund, NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, SETI Institute, and Department of Physics, San Jose State University
15:15 – 15:45 The Impact of Impacts: Asteroid Detection and the SENTINEL MISSION
Professor G. Scott Hubbard, Stanford University, Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Program Architect, B612 Foundation
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:15 The Human Brain Project
Professor Henry Markram, Co-Director of the EU Human Brain Project, Director of the Blue Brain Project and Founder and Director of the Brain Mind Institute, EPFL.
17:15 – 17:45 The Exponential Promise of High Performance Computing
Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig, Director, German Climate Research Centre, and Department of Informatics and Scientific Computing, University of Hamburg
17:45 – 18:00 Wrap up discussions