ICP Waters TF meeting 2024 – presentations

Reports

• Update on recent developments under the Air Convention (Anne Kaplina, Secreteriat of the LTRAP Convention)
• Current issues ICP IM (Chair ICP IM, Ulf Grandin)
• Current issues ICP Waters (Chair ICP Waters, Heleen de Wit)

Thematic sessions

Open talks

• Recovery of the Tatra Mountain Lakes from Acidification, Jiří Kopáček , Czech Republic
• Modelling ecosystem impacts in GAINS for the revision of the Gothenburg Protocol, Gregor Kiesewetter, Austria

Report from ICPs

• ICP Forests Progress report, Kai Schwärzel, Germany
• Recent and current work of the ICP Vegetation, Felicity Hayes, UK
• ICP Modelling and Mapping progress in workplan and recent activities, Thomas Scheuschner, Germany

Biodiversity

• The revision of the Gothenburg Protocol: Biodiversity, Heleen de Wit, Norway
• Biodiversity biological indices and recovery, Gaute Velle, Norway
• Ecological recovery targets in aquatic ecosystems, Don Monteith, UK
• A brief overview of terrestrial biodiversity work under the convention, James Weldon & Ulf Grandin, ICP IM, Sweden
• Biodiversity and dynamic modelling: relevance to the GP revision, Filip Moldan, Sweden

Acidification

• Soil water patterns in coniferous catchments with geochemically contrasting substrate in the Slavkov Forest, Pavel Krám , Czech Republic
• Presentation of ICP Waters report “Trends and patterns in surface water chemistry in Europe and North America between 1990 and 2020, with a focus on calcium, Rolf D. Vogt, Norway
• Potential synergies between ICP IM and ICP Forests level 2 data – first experiences in the research station Neuglobsow, Line Grottian, Germany

Dynamic Modelling

• Using MAGIC to describe the transition from anthropogenic to natural acidification in a humic catchment, Heleen de Wit, Norway
• A novel application of MAGIC: automated calibration of 78 acidified lakes in Norway, Areti Balkoni, Norway
• Reponse to stakeholder criticism against the MAGIC model, Jens Fölster, Sweden

Cofounding factors

• Hydrobiological monitoring of Debed RB. Trends in ecological status changes, Vardan Karyan, Armenia
• Estimating carbon balance of an ICP IM forest site. Neuglobsow, Marie Romer & Cornelius Oertel, Germany
• Importance of freshwaters in national-scale carbon budgets in Finland, Martin Forsius, Finland

NEC Directive/LTER

• NEC Directive in Italian Freshwaters: achievements, critical issues, and way forward, Giulia Cesarini, Italy

Separate ICP Water Task Force meeting

• Status, activities and workplan, Heleen de Wit & Kari Austnes, Norway
• Revision of the ICP Waters Manual, Cathrine Brecke Gundersen, Norway
• Plans for the report on dose-relationships and biological recovery, Gaute Velle, Norway
• ICP Waters Chemical Inter-comparison 2337, Tina Bryntesen & Rolf D. Vogt, Norway

Next Task Force meeting and end of joint meeting

• Upcoming joint ICP IM and ICP Waters meeting, Thomas Scheuschner, Germany