This tour is specially designed for GEWEX scientists and is hosted by the Local Organizing Committee. The tour aims to embody the conference theme of “Water・Climate” and Anthropocene by exploring dynamic natural zones, farms, and infrastructure facilities along the river. Participants will learn about the practical application of scientific knowledge to societal adaptation to climate change.
At 08:30 am a comfortable tour bus will pick us up at Keio Plaza Hotel and will bring us to our first stop, Hoheiko Dam. We will hike to to top where we will learn more about Houheikyou valley and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
Around 10:15 am we will continue our journey to Hakkenzan winery. Thanks to its unique microclimate and soils, Mt. Hakkenzan area is well known as suitable for orchard and farming in Sapporo, a growing industry in Japan. The unique local wines are made from grapes and apples produced by their our own vineyards and neighboring farmers. Also available are locally produced jams, juices, and processed products.
The bus tour along the Toyohira river will show us more of Sapporo’s geomorphology including the rushing flow of Toyohira River and the alluvial fan on which Sapporo city is built. During the drive a video will be shown on the establishment of Hokkaido and its coal industry.
Around noon we will arrive at Moerenuma Park where lunch will be served. Lunch will feature a standing buffet-style meal, offering an introduction to Japanese food culture using Hokkaido’s world-famous seasonal ingredients. After lunch follows an introduction to the many functions of Moerenuma Park (by-products of cutoff channels, storage facilities for climate change (watershed flood control), parks, and art).
This tour will be concluded with a short visit to the Sapporo Sewerage Science Museum to learn more about Sapporo’s sewerage systems which also plays an important role in preserving the environment, including organisms in the rivers and in preventing disasters caused by heavy rains.
The tour ends at Keio Plaza Hotel around 16:30 hrs.
Details
Date: Saturday July 13, 2024
Price: 15,000 JPY per person
* JPY 10,000 for additional guest
* Children under 3yrs. of age are free1
Group size: max. 80 persons.
1 seated on parents lap on the bus and no separate lunch
What’s Included
Note
This registration and financial support form is only applicable for activities to be held in Lima (May 26-29). For information on registration and financial support for the Cuzco and Huaraz workshops and the visit to Huancayo send a message to contacto@andex-rhp.org.
Este formulario de inscripción y apoyo financiero sólo es aplicable a las actividades que se celebrarán en Lima (del 26 al 29 de mayo). Para información sobre la inscripción y el apoyo financiero para los talleres de Cuzco y Huaraz y la visita a Huancayo comunicarse a contacto@andex-rhp.org.
ANDEX is the Regional Hydroclimatic Programme for the Andes under the GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel of the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Program, one of the core projects of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). It was created in 2018 with the overall objective of improving the understanding and prediction of the climate and hydrology of the Andes Mountains, with the participation of actors from the seven Andean countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
ANDEX’s vision is to become a regional hydroclimatic programme of reference constituted by a consolidated and articulated scientific community that responds to the needs of society and contributes to planning and decision-making for the sustainable development of the Andean countries. Water security for Andean populations and high impact hydroclimatic events are its two main themes of research, production and dissemination of knowledge and information.
2024 ANDEX Annual Meeting
The ANDEX Annual Meeting 2024 will take place in Lima, Peru between May 26-29, and will bring together the members of the Scientific Committee, as well as project leaders and collaborators. Its general aims include addressing progress on ANDEX’s Scientific and Implementation Plan to 2033 and deepening the process of consolidating its scientific-academic network and linking with strategic stakeholders.
45th WCRP Joint Scientific Committee Meeting
The 45th meeting of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee will also be held in Lima from 27 –31 May, providing a unique opportunity for joint work and intra- and inter-institutional coordination. Both meetings are locally organised by IRD-Peru, the Peruvian Geophysical Institute (IGP) and Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH).
Post meeting training activities
In addition, and for the first time since the creation of ANDEX, three simultaneous training activities have been planned for the days following the meeting in Lima. Between May 30 and June 1, an interdisciplinary workshop will be held in Cuzco for ANDEX team members. Meanwhile, a glaciology and mountain hydrology workshop will take place in Huaraz, mainly for advanced students and young researchers from the Andean countries. The third activity is a visit to the possible GLAFO site that the Instituto de Geología del Perú -IGP- has in Huancayo.
To register for the 2024 ANDEX Annual Meeting click here.
For information on registration and financial support for the Cuzco and Huaraz workshops and the visit to Huancayo send a message to contacto@andex-rhp.org.
Venue
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Av. Honorio Delgado 430,
San Martín de Porres 15102,
Peru
Lima, Peru
Information on visas, accommodation, transport, and other services/facilities can be found in the Guidebook prepared by IGP.
La información sobre visas, alojamiento, transporte y otros servicios/instalaciones se puede encontrar en la Guía preparada por el IGP.
Information about the post meeting training activities
Venues and other relevant information about the Cuzco and Huaraz workshops and the Huancayo visit will be sent to the participants of these activities once the attendance quota has been fulfilled.
Las sedes y demás información relevante sobre los talleres de Cuzco y Huaraz y la visita al posible sitio GLAFO de Huancayo se enviarán a los participantes de estas actividades una vez cubierto el cupo de asistencia.
Background image courtesy of Vengador1: Cuidad de Lima
The agenda will become available mid-March.
Monday April 1, 2024
08:30 | – | 09:00 | Registration | ||
09:00 | – | 10:00 | Plenary Session in Large Hall | ||
Opening 3rd Workshop in Central Asia | Kudaiberdi Kojobekov (Rector Osh State University | ||||
Introduction to GEWEX & the World Climate Research Program | Peter van Oevelen | ||||
Objectives of the conference | Sagynbek Orunbaev / Michael Brody | ||||
10:00 | – | 13:00 | Short Technical Presentations focused on the future (breakout rooms) | ||
13:00 | 14:00 | Lunch | |||
14:00 | – | 17:30 | Discussion groups on topics presented in the morning |
Tuesday April 2, 2024
09:00 | – | 12:00 | Short Presentations and general discussion | ||
12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch | |||
13:00 | – | 16:00 | breakout groups based on themes to develop short presentations about approach to future projects and possible sources of funding |
Wednesday april 3, 2024
Excursion related to conference themes.
Limited financial assistance in the form of travel support is available to enable and support the attendance of students, early career researchers (ECR1s) and scientists from certain developing countries to the 3rd Workshop on Central Asia.
Note that the travel support will most likely not cover the entire cost of attending the GEWEX OSC; therefore, applicants are strongly advised to secure partial support from other sources.
If you want to apply for travel support, complete this section in the registration form before the deadline of Monday 18 March 2024, midnight GMT. After this deadline this section will no longer be available.
Notification about your application will be send late March/early April 2024.
The Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project is one of the six core projects of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). One of GEWEX’s priority areas is the improved understanding of the impacts of climate variability and change on water availability and food security across mountain ranges and river basins. GEWEX was founded over 30 years ago with the objective of addressing significant gaps in the understanding of Earth’s energy and water cycles given a lack of information about basic fluxes and reservoirs of these cycles.
The Initiating Regional Hydroclimate Project in Central Asia
Central Asia as a region is extremely vulnerable to climate change. The majority of its water resources are from summer melting of the regions’ mountain glaciers and annual snowpack. In a warming world, glacial extent and volume, as well as the snowpack, are declining. Agriculture is an important basis of the region’s economies and is highly dependent upon irrigation but also vulnerable to rising growing-season temperatures. For the region to efficiently and effectively adapt to these changes, it needs significantly improved observational networks and modeling that can provide more useful information for policymakers to invest in climate adaptation.
Initial steps for the proposed Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP) in Central Asia have been to identify the relevant scientific and socio-economic community, its interests, priorities, and current capabilities and capacities. For more information about the Central Asia initiative visit https://www.gewex.org/central-asia-initiative/
This workshop will be the third workshop to develop the proposed RHP in Central Asia. The main themes will be:
Day 1 – short presentations by participants – on these themes
Day 2 – discussion groups to develop concrete plans/projects and potential sources for funding.
Day 3 – excursion organized by Osh State University
The primary language of the workshop is English. However, simultaneous interpretation into Russian and Kyrgyz will be available.
Agenda
The agenda will become available late March or early April 2024. The program outline can be found at: https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/3rd-workshop-central-asia/agenda/
Registration
Registration is free of charge.
To register go to: https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/3rd-workshop-on-central-asia/registration-2/
Venue
Osh State University,
Main Campus,
331 Lenin Street,
723500, Osh City,
Kyrgyzstan
Grand Hotel Chavos (450 m)
280 Kurmanjan-Datka St
Osh
15–20% discount depending upon room type for
participants of the 3rd Workshop on Central Asia
Hotel SunRiseOsh (1.7 km)
Masaliyev Avenue, 25A
Osh
20% discount for participants of the
3rd Workshop on Central Asia
Additional information about the GEWEX RHP Central Asia Initiative:
Background image courtesy of Mr. Theklan: Day 10: Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Top image courtesy of Osh State University
For information about the Groundwater workshop, a side meeting of the 9th GEWEX Open Science conference, visit:
https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gewex-osc2024/program/groundwater-workshop/
Groundwater (GW) is an important, and at the same time, distinct component of the global water cycle. While sustaining life and economies on Earth, GW is generally invisible and often ignored by the public, acting in the underground of the Earth, and only outcropping in relatively few places as surface water. As a result, on the one hand, GW is an unknown component of the terrestrial water cycle to many. On the other hand, because of its tremendous hydro-ecologic and socio-economic importance, GW has been valued and exploited by humans in many regions of the world throughout history. While GW is everywhere on the continents, it is the pronounced local to regional relevance and simultaneous invisibility that distinguishes GW from other components of the global water cycle. (GEWEX Quarterly, Vol. 33, No.1, Quarter 1 2023, pg. 5,6)
GW has been mentioned in many existing and completed GEWEX activities [e.g., in the GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Soil and Water initiative], yet not included in a formalized way. Thus, a call for a dedicated GEWEX GW activity is urgently needed in times of increasing pressures on water resources.
The goal of the workshop is to promote a GEWEX Network of experts for defining a multi-year science and research agenda on establishing groundwater modeling within the global Earth system modeling communities. Central to the workshop and ensuing activities is the hydrogeologic perspective, which is required to tackle the challenges of constructing and applying hydrogeologic and groundwater flow models over large space and time scales. The agenda will include keynotes and discussions leading to the definition of the core science and research mission of the network and next steps. For further information please contact Stefan Kollet (s.kollet@fz-juelich.de) and Laura Condon (lecondon@arizona.edu).
The Groundwater Workshop is a side event of the 9th GEWEX Open Science Conference.
Agenda
The agenda consists of invited keynotes, breakout groups and panel discussions.
Venue
Hokkaido University
5 Chome Kita 8 Jonishi, Kita Ward,
Sapporo, Hokkaido
Japan
Registration
The In-person Workshop will take place on 6 & 7 July 2024 (1.5 day).
Participation is free of charge.
Accommodation, transportation and things to do
Please visit Practical Information on our 9th GEWEX Open Science Conference website for information about accommodation, transportation and things to do in Sapporo, Japan.
Laura Condon | University of Arizona (USA) |
George Houben | Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources(Germany) |
Seifu Kebede Gurmessa | University of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa) |
Stefan Kollet | Research Center Juelich (Germany) |
Christian Langevin | US Geological Survey (USA) |
Alan MacDonald | British Geological Survey (United Kingdom) |
Chunmiao Zheng | Southern University of Science and Technology (China) |