Announcement

Dates: 11 - 14 April, 2011

Venue: UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands

Purpose:

This meeting will be the second workshop of the Hydrology Domain Working Group. It is open to any member of the working group.

The kind people at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft (The Netherlands) have offered to host us in April in the week following EGU and the week before the OpenWater Symposium. That is, the week starting April 11.

The workshop represents an excellent opportunity for the Hydro DWG to progress the excellent work done so far. In particular, it presents an opportunity to have a gathering for those interested in: WaterML2.0, Surface Water IE, Forecasting IE, GWML2.0, a Surface Water feature model, standard water vocubularies.

Registration

Please fill out your details (name, organisation, email address) on the Notification of attendance page here: Registration

Agenda

Date	Time	Session	Presenters
Monday 11th	9:30	Welcome - Expectations of this meeting - Update on WMO Relationship - Update from Bonn TC	David, Ulrich and Ilya
	10:15	UNESCO-IHE Presentation- Institute for Water Education	Dr. Yunqing Xuan
	10:35	Department of Geoinformatics, University Jena, Germany	Christian Fischer
	11:00	Break
	11:30	IE Updates - Current status and what's next for Surface Water IE - Current proposal for Forecasting IE	Peter Fitch et al, John Halquist
	12:30	Lunch
	14:00 - 18:00	Reference Architecture for Water Information Systems	OGC
	18:00	Close
Tuesday 12th	9:00 - 12:30	A Model for Surface Water Features	CSIRO, GRDC
	12:30	Lunch
	14:00 - 18:00	GWML	Eric and Boyan
	18:00	Close
Wednesday 13th	9:00 - 17:00	WaterML2.0 SWG	Gavin Walker and others
Thursday 14th	9:00 - 17:00	Surface Water IE	Peter Fitch and others
	10:30 - 16:00	HydrologicVocabularies	Rob, Irina, Boyan, I-Lin, Eric, DavidV, Ilya et al

Logistics

Meetings

The meeting will be held in rooms booked by our hosts here:

Address: Crommelinplein 1, Delft
Rooms: C2 and C4 on the 1st floor

Facilities

Each room contains:

• One desktop computer connected to a normal (not smartboard) projector;
• Desks and chairs (both moveable);

Communications

Unfortunately there is no wireless network coverage in the building we will be meeting in (nor is there a phone line). We're currently exploring options.

Wireless coverage is available at the UNESCO-IHE building (where we'll be having lunch)

Teleconference Details

For those not able to attend we are trying to sort out teleconference options.

Telephone: +1 712 432-3100 Conference Code: 675284 | Host Code: 7938

Web: Details soon

Directions

The following link shows the route from Delft train station to the meeting building http://goo.gl/uFfLy

Hotels

Suggestions from our hosts

-- DavidLemon - 15 Dec 2010