Oral sessions

Monday, March 16, 2009

12:00-13:30: Welcome session.

12:00-13:00                 Arrival and lunch

13:00                           M. Van Camp, chair of Organizing Committee:

Opening

13:00-13:05                 R. Van der Linden, Director General of the Royal Observatory of Belgium:

Welcome

13:05-13:20                 T. Camelbeeck, Head of the section Seismology-Gravimetry, et al.: 

                                                Lithospheric deformation in stable continental regions: the importance to compare seismicity, geodetic and geologic information

13:20-13:30                 J. Mäkinen, chair of AG subgroup in working group WG1:

The COST Action ES0701 and the role of absolute gravimetry in it

13:30-14:55: Session 1

13:30-14:30                 Keynote speaker, Dr. Philippe Orban:

Introduction to hydrology

14:30-14:55                 T. Jacob et al.:

Gravity monitoring of water storage evolution in karst system

14:55-15:20                 Coffee break, posters

15:20-18:00: Session 2

15:20-16:20                 Keynote speaker, Dr. Benjamin Creutzfeldt:

Hydrological instrumentation, building a local hydrological model

16:20-16:45                 L. Longuevergne et al.:

Constructive and destructive hydrological effects on gravity at the Strasbourg station

16:45-17:00                 Pause

17:00-17:25                 M. Naujoks et al.:

On the use and the correction of local hydrological information in gravity

17:25-18 :00                Short presentation of the posters

19:30 Dinner

Restaurant “Le Petit Pont”, rue du Doyenné 114-116, 1180 Uccle.  Phone : +32 (0)2 346 49 49

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

08:30-09:00 Session 3. COST ES0701 Absolute gravimetry cooperation

10…15 min                 H. Wilmes:

The tasks of the IGFS Working Group on Absolute Gravity

10…15 min                 H. Wziontek:

The prospects of the IGFS database "Agrav"

09:00-10:25 Session 4

09:00-10:00                 Keynote speaker, Dr. Andreas Güntner:

Hydrological models: local to regional, continental and global

10:00-10:25                 M. Van Camp et al.:

Hydrology and noise affecting land-based gravity measurements

10:25-10:50                 Coffee break, posters

10:50-12:30 Session 5

10:50-11:10                 J. Neumeyer:

Gravity variations derived from global hydrological models

11:10-11:30                 M. Glegola et al.:

Estimation of the time-lapse gravity errors resulting from imperfect hydrological corrections

11:30-11:50                 J. Agren et al. :  

Non tidal effects on gravity from the Baltic Sea

11:50-12:10                 J. Mäkinen et al.:

Close-range snow and ice attraction at the Finnish Antarctic base Aboa.

12:10-12:30                 V. Smith et al.:

Comparison of the vertical height products determined from SLR, absolute gravimetry and GPS with high frequency borehole data at Herstmonceux

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Session 6. Summary and conclusions

Posters

        1.      K. Breili and B. R. Pettersen

Effects of surface snow cover on gravimetric observations

        2.    T. Klügel, H. Wziontek, C. Kroner and M. Abe

                Computation of atmospheric gravity changes from 3-D numerical weather models

        3.   L. Longuevergne, C. Wilson, B. Scanlon, H. Wu and J. Sharp

Adapting a superconducting gravimeter for field studies

        4.    M. Mojzes, M.Valko and J. Papco

Repeated absolute gravity measurements in the Tatra Mountain

        5.    M. Nordman, O. Gitlein, M. Bilker-Koivula, J. Mäkinen, H. Virtanen,and J. Virtanen

Environmental effects in absolute gravity measurements in Fennoscandia

        6.   V. Palinkas and J. Kostelecký (jr.)

Modelling hydrological effects on gravity

        7.    H. Virtanen, M. Nordman, M. Bilker-Koivula, J. Mäkinen, J. Virtanen, B. Vehviläinen, M. Huttunen, R. Mäkinen, M. Peltoniemi, T. Hokkanen

Gravity variation due to hydrology at Metsähovi, Finland