Monday, 23 March

Registration & Coffee (starting 09:00 h)

• 09:45 h - Peter Grathwohl, University of Tübingen: Welcome & Introduction

Session I Catchment Scale Processes & Environmental Monitoring

• 10:00 h - Suresh Rao, Purdue University, USA: Nutrient Dynamics in Urbanized River Basins: Model-Data Synthesis

COFFEE BREAK

• 11:30 h - Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China: A systems approach to understanding contaminant fate and transport in a complex urban watershed

LUNCH BREAK

• 13:30 h - Poster Session A
• 15:30 h - Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines, USA: Diel changes in the critical zone: Exploring hydrogeologic controls on tree water-use

EVENING TALK

• 16:30 h - Georg Teutsch, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig: New developments in environmental monitoring

ICEBREAKER (starting 17:30 h)

Tuesday, 24 March

Session II (Upcoming) Pollutants, Microbial Processes & Risks

• 09:00 h - Linda Lee, Purdue University, USA: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Amphibian Health Effects, Bioaccumulation and In-vivo Biotransformation

COFFEE BREAK

• 10:30 h - Christian Stamm, EAWAG, Dübendorf: Quantifying fate and transport of pollutants at the catchment scale: Challenges and ways forward
• 11:30 h - Kathrin Fenner, ETH Zürich: Dissecting variability in biotransformation for improved chemical assessment

LUNCH BREAK

• 13:30 h - Poster Session B
• 15:30 h - Ellen Kandeler, University of Hohenheim: Microbial regulation of MCPA degradation in soils - From gene abundance to process rates
• 16:30 h - Will Overholt, University of Jena: Key groundwater microorganisms driving subsurface carbon flow

CONFERENCE DINNER (starting 18:30 h)

Wednesday, 25 March

Session III: New Modeling Concepts, Model Uncertainty & Big Data

• 09:00 h - Florian Wellmann, RWTH Aachen: 3-D geometric representations of geological features: concepts, methods, and uncertainties

COFFEE BREAK

• 10:30 h - Wolfgang Nowak, University of Stuttgart: Plausible parameter ranges for hydrosystem models: a scientific and computational challenge
• 11:30 h - Reed M. Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines, USA: Hydrology in the supercomputing age: How computational advances have revolutionized our field and, what big data and massively parallel simulations mean for the future of hydrologic discovery
• 12:30 h - Closing (end of the scientific part: 13:00 h)

GUIDED TOUR OF THE MUSEUM HOHENTÜBINGEN CASTLE (starting 14:30 h)