Time: | February 18 – 19, 2020 |
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On 18th and 19th February 2020 the Symposium „Future Challenges in Water Resources Research“ will take place at the University of Stuttgart (Vaihingen).
Keynote Talks:
- Response of River Channel Geometry to Measures and Natural Change
Dr. ir. Astrid Blom, TU Delft, Netherlands - Ecology, diversity and function of freshwater biofilms
Dr. Katharina Besemer, Water Cluster Lunz, Austria - Cyanobacteria in water ecosystems
Prof. Dr. Kaarina Sivonen, University Helsinki, Finnland - Methane Emissions from Reservoirs
Bridget Deemer, Ph.D., USGS, USA - Governance Challenges in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Prof. Dr. Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Beside these brilliant keynote speakers, a portrait movie will be presented about females in different positions in science from Professors, to Post Docs, PhD Candidates and students. The first day will end with a nice dinner and the band “Women of Music”. The second day continues with keynotes and a Science Slam around the topic of Water Resources Research.
If you visit the website under https://charm.hfk-designlab.de/ you will recognize that all protagonists are women. And this represents the idea of the symposium. The symposiums aims at presenting Powerful Women in Science.
It is without saying that everybody, no matter which gender, is warmly welcome to this symposium.
Detailed program and registration are available here. (or go to https://charm.hfk-designlab.de). Due to financial support of the Gender consulting department of Universität Stuttgart, we are able to offer low registration fees.
A full registration is 80 Euro and a (PhD)-student registration is 20 Euro.