ICP Waters TF meeting 2020 – presentations

Reports

1. Recent CLRTAP activities, including the review and possible revision of the Gothenburg Protocol and long-term scientific strategy (Isaura Rabago, Chair Working Group on Effects)
2. Report from ICP Integrated Monitoring (Ulf Grandin, Chair ICP IM)
3. Report from ICP Forests (Kai Schwärzel, Chair ICP Forests)
4. Report from ICP Modeling and Mapping, including planned update of empirical critical loads for nitrogen (Alice James, Chair ICP M&M)
5. Status and current issues ICP Waters (Heleen de Wit, Chair ICP Waters)

Thematic sessions

Trends

• 2019 ICP Waters report, Øyvind Garmo (ICP Waters Programme Centre)
• Temporal changes and drivers of functional diversity of benthic invertebrates in rivers, Christian Lucien Bodin (ICP Waters Programme Subcentre)
• Trends in water chemistry in eastern Canada, Daniel Houle (Canada)
• Preliminary results of the 2019 chemical and biological survey of 10 high altitude lakes in the Alps, Michela Rogora (Italy)
• Recovery dynamics of lake ecosystems near the massive Sudbury smelters, John Gunn (Canada)

Nitrogen

• Revisiting the nitrogen saturation hypothesis, John Stoddard (USA)
• Preliminary results 2020 nitrogen report, Kari Austnes (program centre leader ICP Waters)
• Long-term nitrogen budgets of high-altitude Alpine lakes, Sandra Steingruber (Switzerland)
• Long-term changes in the inorganic nitrogen output in European ICP Integrated Monitoring catchments – an assessment of the role of internal N-related parameters, Jussi Vuorenmaa (ICP IM)

Other

• Recent changes of nitrogen and phosphorous content in high mountain Lake Sevan, Armine Gabrielyan (Armenia)
• Drought effect on streamwater chemistry, Jakub Hruska (Czech Republic)
• Development of harmonized acidification criteria for the Nordic countries, Jens Fölster (Sweden)
• Microplastics in ICP Waters sites in Ireland, Julian Aherne (Canada)

Task Force meeting

• ICP Waters’ input to the long-term scientific strategy: priorities towards 2030.
• Empirical critical loads for nitrogen (update of 2010-report; room for short reports on national activities on biological responses to nutrient-nitrogen)
• ICP Waters 2021 report and ideas for other future thematic reports.
• Other issues