ESF LEE (formerly LESC) Exploratory Workshops in 2005

LEE (formerly LESC) is  funding 15  ESF Exploratory Workshops in 2005:

  • Preliminary details may be consulted prior to each event
    (for information purposes only - these meetings are not open to the public)

  • Final scientific reports, provided by the Convenor(s), become available two months after each event

List of Workshops in 2005

1.

EW04-028

New Improvements in the Aquatic Ecological Risk Assessment of Fungicides and Biocides
Dates and location: 6 - 9 November 2005, Wageningen, Netherlands
Convened by: Paul J. van den Brink (NL), Lorraine Maltby (UK) and Wendt-Rasch (SE)
ESF Representatives: Milena Horvat (Institut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, SI) and Rudy Rabbinge (Dean Graduate Schools, Wageningen, NL)
Scientific Report (PDF 508 KB)

2.

EW04-034

New perspectives on sea-ice research for the next 10 to 20 years
Dates and location: 12 - 16 December 2005, Delmenhorst, Germany
Convened by: David N. Thomas (UK)
Scientific Report (PDF 66 KB)

3.

EW04-035

Building a tephrochronological framework for Europe: the key to better models of abrupt environmental change
Dates and location: 9-12 April 2005, Swansea, United Kingdom
Convened by: Siwan Davies (UK) and Stefan Wastegard (SE)
ESF Representative: Olgeir Sigmarsson (CNRS, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, FR)
Scientific Report (PDF 656 KB)

4.

EW04-045

Non-Sulfide Zn-Pb Ores: genetic models and exploration - the European deposits
Dates and location: 20- 23 April 2005, Iglesias, Italy
Convened by: Maria Boni (IT) and H. Albert Gilg (DE)
ESF Representative: Peadar McArdle (Geological Survey of Ireland, Dublin, IE)
Scientific Report (PDF 261 KB)

5.

EW04-046

Evolution of Carbonate Systems during the Oligocene-Miocene climatic transition
Dates and location: 22 - 26 February 2005, Potsdam, Germany
Convened by: Maria Mutti (DE),  Werner Piller  (AT) and Christian Betzler (DE)
Scientific report (PDF 312 KB)

6.

EW04-049

Unraveling the distribution of mega-biodiversity in complex ecosystems: Relationships between vertical gradients and beta-diversity of arthropods in tropical rainforests
Dates and location: 5 - 9 July 2005, Brussels, Belgium
Convened by: Maurice Leponce (BE) and Yves Basset (PA)
ESF Representative: Lucien Hoffmann (CRP Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, LU)
Scientific Report (PDF 1.2 MB)
For additional details go to website

7.

EW04-050

Charcoal to Black carbon: defining common issues of quantification and interpretation in archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and carbon cycle research
Dates and location: 31 August - 2 September 2005, Saint Andrews, United Kingdom
Convened by: Michael Ian Bird (UK)
ESF Representative: Fatima Abrantes, Instituto Nacional de Enjenharia tecnologia e Inovaçao, Amadora, PT
Scientific Report (PDF 298 KB)
Abstracts of the workshop (PDF 1.6 MB)

8.

EW04-056

Large woody debris in European Rivers : dynamics, human perception, challenge for restoration and application to other areas
Dates and location: 17 - 19 October 2005, Lyon, France
Convened by: Hervé Piégay (FR) and Kenneth J. Gregory (UK)
ESF Representative: Reinhart Ceulemans (Dept. of Biology, University of Antwerpen, NL)
Scientific Report (PDF 493 KB)

9.

EW04-057

Dynamic Bioavailability of Pollutant Species in Aquatic Ecosystems
Dates and location: 16 - 19 October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
Convened by: Herman P Van Leeuwen (NL) and Raewyn M. Town (DK)
ESF Representative: Sonja Lojen (Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SI)
Scientific Report (PDF 624 KB)

10.

EW04-064

The Reactivity of Iron Minerals in Natural Aquatic Systems
Dates and location: 5 - 7 October 2005, Bayreuth, Germany
Convened by: Stefan Peiffer (DE) and Bo Thamdrup (DK)
ESF Representative: Jens Meincke, Institute of Oceanography, Universität Hamburg, DE
Scientific Report (PDF 423 KB)

11.

EW04-065

Aquatic Phage Ecology (EWAPE-1)
Dates and location: 1-4 February 2005, Thonon les Bains, France
Convened by: Stéphane Jacquet (FR)
Scientific Report (PDF 604 KB)
Further information available at: go to website

12.

EW04-068

Deconstructing life: Synthetic Biology in Biocatalysis and Biodegradation
Dates and location: 13 - 16 October 2005, Avila, Spain
Convened by: Vitor Alexandre Martins Dos Santos (DE) and Víctor de Lorenzo (ES)
Scientific Report (PDF 408 KB)

13.

EW04-069
co-funded by HUM (formerly SCH)

The First Big Science - European Geological Maps, 1800-2000
Dates and location: 17 - 20 November 2005, Paris, France
Convened by: Pietro Corsi (FR)
ESF Representative: Demir Altiner, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TR
Scientific Report (PDF 117 KB)

14.

EW04-158
co-funded by HUM (formerly SCH)  and SOC (formerly SCSS)

Environmental history: problems and potential in the integration of the sciences and humanities
Dates and location: 3 - 4 November 2005, Stirling, United Kingdom
Convened by: Althea Lynn Davies (UK) and Fiona Watson (UK)
ESF Representative: Gisli Palsson (Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS)
Scientific Report (PDF 310 KB)

15.

EW04-167
co-funded by SOC (formerly SCSS)

Farming for Health
Dates and location: 16 - 19 March 2005, Wageningen, Netherlands
Convened by: Majken van Dijk (NL) and Jan Hassink (NL)
ESF Representative: Rudy Rabbinge (University of Wageningen, NL
Scientific Report (PDF 67 KB)

ESF Contacts for Exploratory Workshops in the Life and Environmental Sciences

  • ESF Exploratory Workshops:
ValerieAllspach-KiechelE-Mail
Database officer
  • ESF LEE (formerly LESC) Unit:
JaneSwiftE-Mail
Team Leader Communications - Principal Officer Governance