[GRASSLIST:5502] SECOND INTERNATIONAL SWAT CONFERENCE

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SECOND INTERNATIONAL SWAT CONFERENCE
1-4 JULY 2003   BARI

FIRST ANNOUNCE  /  CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

You are invited to participate in the SECOND INTERNATIONAL SWAT CONFERENCE,
which will be hosted by the WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE  (IRSA) of the Italian
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CNR) in the city of Bari, Italy, from 01 to 04 July
2003

The Symposium is being co-ordinated together with the SWAT Team from the USDA -
ARS Research Lab, Temple Texas, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in
Temple Texas, and in collaboration with the EU R&D Projects EUROHARP (“Towards
European Harmonised Procedures for Quantification of Nutrient Losses from
Diffuse Sources”; EVK-CT-2001-00096)  and TEMPQSIM (“Evaluation and 
Improvement
of Water Quality Models for Application to Temporary Waters in Southern 
European
Catchments”; EVK1-CT-2002-00112).

The SWAT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES  are held every two years: the first was 
held
in Giessen (Germany) in 2001.

The purpose of the meeting is to gather together researchers devoted to river
basin modelling since it is recognized that water supply and quality are 
issues
of increasing importance and the need to study the cumulative impact of human
activities and land management at the watershed level is critical to the 
success
of water management strategies.

The Organizing Committee aims to bring together SWAT model users and 
developers
as well as scientists interested in hydrologic modelling of water resources at
basin scale. Sessions are planned for attendees to present papers as well as
open forums to discuss modelling issues with the development team from Texas.
During the Conference the new version of the model and of the GUI / GIS
interface (SWAT 2003) will be presented and released.

The first session of the Conference will be a roundtable in which some 
national
approaches on basin simulation aimed to watershed management and planning will
be presented and discussed.  Some of the invited speakers for that session 
will
come from USDA,  U.S. Universities, U.S. EPA, the European Commission, some EU
Research Centres, the Euraqua Consortium and the Italian Ministry for
Environment.

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Registration will take place in the afternoon of Tuesday 01
July, followed by three days of scientific sessions from Wednesday 02 July to
Friday 04 July. The format will consist of  plenary sessions for offered 
papers
and posters.
Parallel sessions will be run if required.
The official language of the Conference  is English.

Provisional topics

The provisional topics for the sessions are:

A - Directions in Watershed Modelling
B - SWAT Developments
C - Model Applications
D - Autocalibration and Uncertainty
E -  Comparison with Other Models
F - SWAT 2003 – Future Plans

The final list of topics will depend on the abstracts received.

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

You are invited to submit an abstract for an oral paper or a poster.

Oral papers  are scheduled to last 20 minutes, including 15 minutes of
presentation and 5 minutes for questions. Facilities will be available for 
35mm
slides, overhead projection and Powerpoint (laptop PC, with floppy disc-drive
and CD-ROM). Presenters using Powerpoint will be required to use the laptop
provided, rather than their own laptop, so should bring their presentation on
disk (floppy or CD). Software will be available to unzip zipped files as 
well as
an Iomega Zip drive for ZIP disks.

Posters should be A0 in size (841 mm x 1149 mm). They should be mounted by 
17.30
on Tuesday 01 July and should remain on display throughout the Conference.
Authors are encouraged to be present by their poster, to answer questions,
during the planned coffee breaks.

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SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

All participants proposing to give an oral or poster presentation must 
submit an
abstract. Please send a hard (paper) copy of your abstract, together with your
Registration Form and payment, to the Conference Secretary (SEE BOTTOM).
An electronic copy of your abstract, in MS Word format, should also be
emailed as an attachment to SWAT2003 at area.ba.cnr.it.
If you cannot email a copy in MS Word, please
incorporate your abstract in the body of the email itself (as well as sending
the hard copy).

Guidelines for the format of your abstract are provided on the Conference 
Web site
(http://swat2003.ba.cnr.it).

Please follow the guidance carefully, as abstracts not conforming to the
specified format may be rejected.

Only one presentation (one oral paper or one poster) per person will be 
allowed,
although a person may be a co-author on other papers/posters also. Before
submitting an abstract, authors should be confident that they can attend the
meeting.

If you need to cancel your registration at any time, please inform the
secretariat immediately.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 8, 2003. You will be 
notified of
the result of your submission by March 21, 2003 (email) or a few days later if
you do not have email.  The authors of accepted abstracts are requested to 
send
an extended version of the abstract ( up to 4 pages) by June 13, 2003.
Guidelines for the extended abstract will be provided to the authors of the
accepted abstracts.

Depending on the number of abstracts submitted, you may be invited to give 
your
oral paper as a poster, or your poster as an oral paper. Extended Abstracts 
will
be printed in a Book of Abstracts, made available to delegates on arrival 
at the
Symposium.

The Organizing Committee is trying to arrange with the journal Hydrological
Processes to publish on a Special Issue selected papers from the Conference.

Anyway authors are free to present recent work without limiting their
opportunities to publish elsewhere.

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SCIENTIFIC PANEL

The Scientific Panel is in charge of the selection of
abstracts.

Members of the Panel will serve as Chairman during the Conference sessions.

The Scientific Panel is formed by:

Jeff Arnold (USDA ARS, Texas USA)
Faycal Bouraoui (EU Joint Research Center at Ispra, Italy)
Mauro DiLuzio (Texas A&M University, USA)
Nicola Fohrer (Giessen University, Germany)
Jochen Froebrich (Hannover University, Germany)
Randel Haverkamp (Laboratoire d'Etude des Transferts en Hydrologie et
Environnement – LTHE, France),
Antonio Lo Porto (IRSA-CNR, Italy)
Roberto Passino (IRSA-CNR, Italy)
Raghavan Srinivasan (Texas A&M University, USA)
Ann Van Griensven (Free University of Brussels , Belgium / California 
University
at Riverside, USA)

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DEADLINE SUMMARY

March 8, 2003 Abstracts are submitted
March 21, 2003 Authors are notificated regarding the acceptance of Abstracts
April 30, 2003 Registration and full payment from Authors of accepted 
Abstracts; Hotel booking
June 13, 2003 Extended Abstracts are sent to the Organizing Committee
June 20, 2003 Registration and full payment for everybody else

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HOW TO REGISTER

To register for SWAT2003 complete and return a Registration Form with 
payment to
the Conference Secretariat (contact details at the bottom) by
the following date:

April 30,  2003: for the Authors of accepted abstracts or

June 20, 2003: otherwise.

Bookings will only be accepted if accompanied by full payment.

WE REGRET THAT REGISTRATIONS OR CHANGES TO REGISTRATION DETAILS CANNOT BE
ACCEPTED AFTER THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE OF JUNE 20, 2003.

Registration fees

Registration fee: Euro 350.00

Registration fee includes:
Abstract Book,
Opening Cocktail party on Tuesday, July 01,
Lunches on Wednesday 02, Thursday 03, Friday 04,
all the coffee break.

Tourist tour to Polignano a Mare and Alberobello and Conference Dinner on
Thursday 3 July person: Euro 50.00

Payment may be made in Euros. Early booking is recommended.
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VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION

Bari is one of the greatest towns of South Italy (around
350.000 inhabitants) and it is the Capital town of the Apulia Region.
Bari is located on the Adriatic Sea. It has a large shopping area, a very 
lovely
seaside walk and a medieval Old Town with important churches and pleasant
nightlife. Excellent beaches are easily reachable in the surroundings of the
town.

The Conference will be held at the Excelsior Congress Hall, in Bari 
downtown, a
couple of minutes walk from the Railway station and from the terminal of the
Airport Bus connection.

Coffee breaks and lunches will be held in the same Congress Hall. 
Accommodation
will be available in different hotels in Bari downtown. Room reservations 
can be
made through the Conference Secretariat (see bottom). In this case the 
deadline for room
reservation is April 30.

Anyway, Bari offers a wide range of accommodations for people willing to 
book by
themselves.

The city is served by a national Airport well connected to Rome and Milan
international airports and by inter-city train station (with direct links 
to all
the other major towns in Italy.), as well as coach services and motorways from
elsewhere in the country. The airport is at around 6 km from the city and 
has a
dedicated taxi service as well as a regular express bus service into the 
centre
of Bari which operates in correspondence of all flights, seven days a week.

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SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Opening Cocktail Party, Tuesday, July 01, at the Excelsior Congress Hall,
including the opportunity to taste some local wine (included in Registration
Fee);

Tourist tour to Polignano a Mare (small sea town on breathtaking reefs) and
Alberobello towns (UNESCO world heritage for the peculiar old conic-shaped 
stone
houses) followed by the Conference Dinner in a very special place on Thursday,
July 03, (NOT included in Registration Fee).

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The Organizing Committee:
Antonio Lo Porto (IRSA-CNR, Italy)
Jeff Arnold (USDA ARS, Texas USA)
Roberto Passino (IRSA-CNR, Italy)
Raghavan Srinivasan (Texas A&M University, Texas USA)

Conference WEB Site
http://swat2003.ba.cnr.it

Contacts:
swat2003 at area.ba.cnr.it

Dr. Antonio Lo Porto
Water Research Institute (IRSA-CNR)
Via De Blasio, 5
70123 Bari (ITALY)
tel. +39 080 5820532
mobile +39 348 3856448
fax. +39 080 5313365
email loporto at area.ba.cnr.it

Conference Secretariat:
www.ellecenter.it

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Antonio Lo Porto                                        Researcher
Water Research Institute                                (IRSA-CNR)
Via De Blasio, 5                                    70123 Bari (Italy)
Phone +39 080 5820532                     Fax  +39 080 5313365
Mobile +39 348 3856448     EMAIL   loporto at area.ba.cnr.it
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