Programme

Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Arrivals of participants, transfer Bucharest airport - Tulcea (our suggestion is to arrive in the first half of the day and departure be after lunch because the distance between Bucharest and Tulcea is 280 km)
Registration, Hotel Delta 3* 15:00-22:00

Thursday, 8 September 2016
8:00-9:00 Registration, Mihail Kogălniceanu Hall, Tulcea County Council

9:00-10:30 Opening ceremony – Official addressing
Opening of the Conference by Mr. Petre Gâştescu, President of Romanian Limnogeographical Association
Welcoming address by Mr. Mario Sommerhaeuser, President of German Limnological Society
Welcoming address by Mr. Włodzimierz Marszelewski, President of Polish Limnological Society
Welcoming address by Ms. Monica Dumitrascu, Scientific Director of Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy
Welcoming address by Mr. Grigore Baboianu, Governor, Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority
Welcoming address by Mr. Marian Tudor, Director of Danube Delta National Institute, Tulcea
Welcoming Address by Mr. Horia Teodorescu, President, Tulcea County Council
Welcoming address by Mr. Constantin Hogea, Mayor, Tulcea City
Welcoming address from:
Ministery of Environment, Water and Forests
University of Bucharest (Romania)
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Alex. I. Cuza University, Iaşi (Romania)
Valahia University of Targoviste (Romania)
Hyperion University of Bucharest
Romanian Waters National Administration (Romania)
National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management (Romania)
Saitama University (Japan)
McMaster University (Canada)
Tel Hai College (Israel)
Technical University of Košice (Slovakia)
National Research Council CNR – ISE (Italy)
Department of Water Resources (Thailand)
Assiut University (Egypt)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Plenary session - Mihail Kogalniceanu Hall, Tulcea County Council
Chairpersons: Włodzimierz Marszelewski, Liliana Zaharia, Gheorghe Serban

11:00-11:25 THE EMSCHER RE-CONVERSION: A LARGE SCALE RIVER RESTORATION PROJECT AND ITS EFFECTS ON RIVER ECOLOGY, BIODIVERSITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREAS
Sommerhaeuser Mario (Germany)
11:25-11:50 ASSESSING EFFECTS OF WATER-QUALITY IMPAIRMENT VERSUS WATER-LEVEL DISTURBANCES ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF COASTAL WETLANDS IN EASTERN GEORGIAN BAY
Patricia Chow-Fraser, Lindsey Boyd and Dan Weller (Canada)
11:50-12:15 DISTRIBUTION OF WATER DISCHARGE INTO THE DANUBE DELTA IN WATERS LOW LEVEL CONDITIONS
Iulian Nichersu, Iuliana Nichersu, Cristian Trifanov, Marian Mierlă (Romania)
12:15-12:40 THE INFLUENCE OF EXTREMELY LOW WATER LEVEL IN THE RIVER ON LIFE IN FLOODPLAIN LAKES AT THE LOWER VISTULA RIVER VALLEY (POLAND)
Paweł Napiórkowski, Teresa Napiórkowska, Ewa Anna Dembowska (Poland)

13:00-15:00 Lunch, Hotel Delta

15:00-16:40 Oral presentations (Hotel Delta)

Session 1: Rivers and lakes ecosystem ecology, Hotel Delta, Room A
Chairpersons: Gheorghe Romanescu, Patricia Chow-Fraser, Ryszard Wiśniewski

15:00-15:20 RIVER AND FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION ON THE UPPER DANUBE BY REESTABLISHING LENGTH CONNECTIVITY AND ECOLOGICAL FLOODING
Benno Kuegel (Germany)
15:20-15:40 RESTORATION OF URBAN LAKES. TEMPORARY INFLOWS AS A MAIN PROBLEM WITHIN UNPREDICTABLE WATERSHEDS
Ryszard Wiśniewski (Poland)
15:40-16:00 HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL PRIORITIES OF RIVER RESTORATION PROJECTS IN ROMANIA
Ioana-Toroimac Gabriela, Zaharia Liliana (Romania)
16:00-16:20 DEEPENING OF THE RIVERBEDS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. CASE STUDY: THE HILLS OF CLUJ, TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA
Gheorghe Şerban, Florin Stoica, Ioan Roşu, Daniel Sabău (Romania)
16:20-16:40 PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS ON DEFORESTATION AND SELECTED SURFACE WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS OF THE PURUS RIVER BASIN, AMAZONAS STATE, BRAZIL
Eduardo Antonio Ríos-Villamizar, Maria T. F. Piedade, Socorro R. Silva, Andrea Viviana Waichman (Brazil)

Session 2: Climate changing and water resources & Coastal environment, Hotel Delta, Room B
Chairpersons: Daniela Rădulescu, Mohamed A. Ashour, Iulian Nichersu

15:00-15:20 INCLINED HEADWALLS IS AN EFFICIENT TOOL FOR MAXIMIZING THE DISCHARGE EFFICIENCY THROUGH CULVERTS
Mohamed A. Ashour, Tawab E. Ali, Abdalla A. Abdou (Egypt)
15:20-15:40 FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN. CASE STUDY FOR THE AREA OF POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT FLOOD RISK ON TUR RIVER, DOWNSTREAM NEGREȘTI- OAȘ
Costică Sofronie, Daniela Rădulescu, Alina Stancu (Romania)
15:40-16:00 HYDROLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR MILA 23 LOCALITY, DANUBE DELTA
Marian Mierlă (Romania)
16:00-16:20 VULNERABILITY AND FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE LOWER GIANH RIVER
Nguyen H.D, Touchart L, Ardillier-Carras F (France)
16:20-16:40 MONITORING THE DANUBE WITH EQUIPMENT FROM ADCON TELEMETRY – AN OTT HYDROMET BUSINESS UNIT DISTRIBUTED BY BEIA CONSULT BUCHAREST
Andrei Vasilescu, Victor Suciu, George Suciu (Romania)

Session 3: Deltas and wetlands & Water policies, Hotel Delta, Room C
Chairpersons: Monica Dumitrascu, Dariusz Borowiak, Litaor M. Iggy

15:00-15:20 TRITIUM MEASUREMENTS IN WATER AND SOME LAKE ECOSYSTEMS IN SOUTH-EASTERN ROMANIA
Corina Anca Simion, Romul Mircea Mărgineanu, Nicolae Mocanu (Romania)
15:20-15:40 ADVOCATING AND IMPLEMENTING URBAN FORESTRY AS A METHOD TO REDUCE STORMWATER POLLUTION OF NEARBY WATER BODIES
Paul M. Harris, Hongbin Gao, Samuel H. Sage (USA)
15:40-16:00 SOCIOECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS TO ASSESS ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - SUPPORT FOR THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN ROMANIA
Monica Dumitraşcu, Dan Bălteanu, Mihaela Sima, Ines Grigorescu, Bianca Dumitrescu (Romania)
16:00-16:20 GEODIVERSITY AND GEOTOURISM POTENTIAL OF THE SINOP PENINSULA (CENTRAL BLACK SEA, NORTH TURKEY)
Kürşad Asan, Hüseyin Kurt (Turkey)
16:20-16:40 OCCURRENCE OF ALUMINIUM AND BERYLLIUM IN THE OKAVANGO RIVER, BOTSWANA: HUMAN HEALTH RISKS
Oarabile Mogobe, Wellington. R.L. Masamba, Edwin Mosimanyana, Ketlhatlogile Mosepele (Botswana)

16:40-17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 19:00 Oral presentations (Hotel Delta)

Session 1: Rivers and lakes ecosystem ecology, Hotel Delta, Room A
Chairpersons: Daniel Peptenatu, Brigitte Nixdorf, Piotr Rzymski

17:00-17:20 MONITORING OF INVASIVE ALIEN PLANT SPECIES: PROSPECTS FOR ECOLOGICAL RIVER RESTORATION PRACTICE
Katharina Lapin, Karl-Georg Bernhardt (Austria)
17:20-17:40 TESTING DRIVERS OF ALIEN SPECIES OCCURRENCE IN ITALIAN FRESHWATER HABITATS
Boggero Angela, Colangelo Paolo, Basset Alberto, Marchetto Aldo, Campanaro Alessandro, Cianferoni Fabio, Corriero Giuseppe, Pierri Cataldo, Fontaneto Diego (Italy)
17:40-18:00 FITNESS, PLASTICITY, AND THE ROLE OF THE DIASPORE BANK OF THE LIMOSE CYPERUS FUSCUS IN RIVER AND SECONDARY HABITATS
Jörg Böckelmann, Karl-Georg Bernhardt, Karin Tremetsberger, Kateřina Šumberová (Austria/Czech Republic)
18:00-18:20 HOW TOXIC ARE THE CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII STRAINS ISOLATED FROM POLAND FRESHWATER LAKES?
Piotr Rzymski, Mikołaj Kokociński, Joanna Mankiewicz-Boczek, Elisabeth J. Faassen, Tomasz Jurczak, Ilona Gągała, Miquel Lürling, Barbara Poniedziałek (Poland/ Netherlands)
18:20-18:40 100 YEARS LATER: CONSEQUENCES OF COMMON CARP INVASION OF TEMPERATE ECOREGIONS IN NORTH AMERICA
Przemyslaw G. Bajer, Marcus Beck, Timothy K. Cross, Justine Koch, Bill Bartodziej, Peter W. Sorensen (USA)

Session 2: Rivers and lakes ecosystem ecology, Hotel Delta, Room B
Chairpersons: Romul Mircea Mărgineanu, Martina Zeleňáková, Benno Kuegel

17:00-17:20 GOVERNING FACTORS OF BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN FLOODPLAIN LAKES OF THE PRUT RIVER (ROMANIA)
Gabriela Costea, Martin Pusch (Germany)
17:20-17:40 SPECTRAL SIGNATURE DATABASE OF SUBMERSED AQUATIC PLANTS IN SUPPORT OF BIO-OPTICAL MODEL INVERSION BASED ON SATELLITE DATA
Christine Fritz, Patrick Wolf, Thomas Schneider (Germany)
17:40-18:00 BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND THEIR RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS IN A MEDITERRANEAN LAKE
Ntislidou Chrysoula, Bobori Dimitra, Lazaridou Maria (Greece)
18:00-18:20 THE IMPACT OF LOW WATER CONDITION FOR THE PLANTS AND ALGAE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OXBOW LAKES OF THE VISTULA RIVER VALLEY
Ewa A. Dembowska, Paweł Napiórkowski (Poland)
18:20-18:40 THE DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE OF AQUATIC INSECTS IN 5 MAJOR LAKES OF SOUTH GEORGIA
Bella Japoshvili, Zhanetta Shubitidze, Ani Bikashvili, Sophio Gabelashvili, Levan Mumladze (Georgia)
20:00 Gala Dinner, Hotel Delta

Friday, 9 September 2016

9:00-10:40 Oral presentations (Hotel Delta)

Session 1: Rivers and lakes ecosystem ecology, Hotel Delta Room A
Chairpersons: Petre Bretcan, Takashi Asaeda, Thomas Schneider

09:00-09:20 MAPPING OPTIONS TO TRACK DISTRIBUTION OF INVASIVE PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN IN CANADA
James V. Marcaccio, Patricia Chow-Fraser (Canada)
09:20-09:40 BENEFITS OF EVALUATING REED AND LAKE SHORE STRUCTURE WITH A COMBINATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND PHOTOGRAMMETRIC DATA
Simon Baier, Nicolás Corti, Thomas Schneider (Germany)
09:40-10:00 MONITORING REED BEDS BY USING GREEN LIDAR AND UAV´S DATA
Nicolas Corti, Simon Baier, Thomas Schneider (Germany)
10:00-10:20 MAPPING ROMANIAN WETLANDS – A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH
Deak Gyorgy, Ciobotaru Nicu, Laslo Lucian Augustin, Matei Monica, Lupei Theodor, Boboc Mădălina, Muşat Cristina (Romania)
10:20-10:40 LOCAL COASTAL DEVELOPMENT MIND MAPPING IN THE BLUE GROWTH CONTEXT
Iuliana Nichersu, Iulian Nichersu, Eugenia Marin, Marian Mierlă, Florentina Sela, Cristian Trifanov, Alexandru Bănescu (Romania)

Session 3: Deltas and wetlands & Water policies, Hotel Delta Room B
Chairpersons: Gabriela Costea, T. Hughes-Riley, Piotr Klimaszyk

09:00-09:20 A METHOD FOR CHARACTERISING CLOGGING IN POROUS MEDIA USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND ONLINE MONITORING OF CLOG STATE WITHIN CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS
T. Hughes-Riley, M.I. Newton, P. Hawes, E. Uggetti, D. Ortega Anderez, E.R. Dye, S.T. Parslow, F. Hill-Casey, A, C.L. Trabi, J. Puigagut, J. Garcia and R.H. Morris (UK/Spain)
09:20-09:40 THE DANUBE DELTA BRAND IN THE NEW BIO-ECONOMY PARADIGM
Madalina-Teodora Andrei, Costin Lianu, Corina Gudei (Romania)
09:40-10:00 CS137 AND K40 IN SOIL AND WATER ALONG THE ROMANIAN SECTOR OF DANUBE RIVER
Romul Mircea Margineanu, Corina Anca Simion, Claudia Gomoiu (Romania)
10:00-10:20 PHYSICO-CHEMICAL FEATURES OF MAJOR AMAZONIAN WATER TYPOLOGIES: SUBSIDIES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF RIVER CLASSIFICATION
Eduardo Antonio Ríos-Villamizar, Socorro R. Silva, J. Marion Adeney, Wolfgang J. Junk, Maria T. F. Piedade(Brazil/USA)
10:20-10:40 SINCE 60 YEARS HUNGARIAN-AUSTRIAN WATER COMMISSION: SPECIFIC EXAMPLE THE CROSS BORDER LAKE FERTŐ TÓ/NEUSIEDLER SEE
Miklós Pannonhalmi, Fürt Renáta (Hungary) 10:40-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Oral presentations (Hotel Delta)

Session 1: Rivers and lakes ecosystem ecology, Hotel Delta Room A
Chairpersons: Nese Yilmaz, Ion Grigoras, Johan Schutten

11:00-11:20 WATER LEVEL REHABILITATION PROJECT IN THE SZIGETKÖZ DANUBE SECTION – PROGRESS AND RESULTS
Márton Maller (Hungary)
11:20-11:40 THE EFFECT OF MEAN FLOW AND TURBULENCE STRESSES ON THE HABITAT SELECTION OF SUBMERGED PLANTS WITH DIFFERENT MORPHOLOGIES
Takashi Asaeda, Kelum Sanjaya (Japan)
11:40-12:00 EMISSIONS OF CO2 AND CH4 FROM NATURAL, RESTORED AND HUMAN MODIFIED RIVER-FLOODPLAIN SYSTEMS
Anna Sieczko, Katalin Demeter, Gabriel Singer, Mateusz Grygoruk, Dorota Mirosław-Świątek, Michael Tritthart, Stefan Preiner, Magdalena Mayr, Karin Meisterl, Peter Peduzzi (Austria, Germany, Poland)
12:00-12:20 WHICH FUTURE FOR ITALIAN HIGH ALTITUDE LAKES?
Ruocco Matteo, Ansaloni Ivano, Prevedelli Daniela, Zaupa Silvia, Boggero Angela (Italy)
12:20-12:40 D12 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN WETLANDS IN INDUSTRIAL AND NON-INDUSTRIAL AREAS – WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON AVIFAUNA
Jagruti Y. Rathod, Amita O. Sankhwal, Deepa J. Gavali, Ishani B. Patel, Dhara R. Shah (India)

Session 2: Climate changing and water resources & Coastal environment, Hotel Delta Room B
Chairpersons: Bożena Pius, Márton Maller, Daniel Diaconu

11:00-11:20 ASSESSMENT OF METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHT IN TORUN (CENTRAL POLAND TOWN) IN 1971-2010 BASED ON STANDARDIZED INDICATORS
Bogdan Bąk, Katarzyna Kubiak-Wójcicka (Poland)
11:20-11:40 PREDICTING DAILY RUNOFF USING STOCHASTIC RAINFALL DATA GENERATION AND RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS
Aminuddin Baki, Ismail Atan, Yasmin Ashaari, Mohd Bakri Samsudin (Malaysia)
11:40-12:00 CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON WATER RESOURCES IN AGRICULTURAL AND ADAPTATION: A CASE STUDY OF KANCHANABURI PROVINCE, THAILAND
Sathaporn Monprapussorn (Thailand)
12:00-12:20 THE HYDROGEOLOGİCAL FEATURES AND HYDROLOGİCAL BUDGET PARAMETERS OF THE GÖKGÖL WETLAND (KULU, KONYA-CENTRAL ANATOLİA)
Bayram A. Ferat (Turkey)
12:20-12:40 THE EVALUATION OF THE WATER QUALITY AND TRACE METAL CONCENTRATION THROUGH THE KIZILIRMAK RIVER OF TURKEY
Nuray (Emir) Akbulut, Aydın Akbulut, Sibel Atasagun, Naime Arslan (Turkey)

11:00-13:00 Hotel Delta Room C (7th floor)
Workshop: Bioeconomia în Delta Dunării – constrângeri, oportunităţi şi soluţii financiare
Bio-economy in the Danube Delta, contraints, opportunities and financial solutions (language – Romanian/English) organized by USH Probusiness, Bio Danubius Cluster, the Faculty of Engineering, Informatics and Geography – "Spiru Haret" University, and the Professional Association of Geography, Ecology and Tourism "Geographic Destiny"

Chairpersons: Costin Lianu, Mădălina-Teodora Andrei, Corina Simona Gudei

10:45 – 11:00: ÎNREGISTRAREA PARTICIPANŢILOR
11:00 – 11:10: OPENING SPEECH / CUVÂNT INTRODUCTIV – Dl. Petrişor Petrescu, Preşedintele Clusterului Bio Danubius
11:10 – 11:25: THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE DANUBE DELTA AND THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION (EUSDR) IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT / IMPORTANŢA
ECONOMICĂ A DELTEI DUNĂRII ŞI OPORTUNITĂŢILE OFERITE DE STRATEGIA UNIUNII EUROPENE PENTRU REGIUNEA DUNĂRII (SUERD) ÎN DEZVOTAREA DURABILĂ
Dr. Mădălina-Teodora Andrei, ofiţer SUERD – USH Pro Business, lector Facultatea de Inginerie, Informatică şi Geografie – USH, Preşedinte Asociaţia Profesională de Geografie, Ecologie şi Turism "Destin Geografic", Bucureşti
11:25 – 11:40: THE DANUBE DELTA BRAND IN THE NEW BIO-ECONOMY PARADIGM AND THE CLUSTERS INNOVATIVE ROLE IN DEVELOPING REGIONAL VALUE CHAINS / BRANDUL DELTA DUNĂRII ÎN NOUA PARADIGMĂ A BIOECONOMIEI ŞI ROLUL INOVATIV AL CLUSTERELOR ÎN DEZVOLTAREA LANŢULUI VALORIC REGIONAL
Dr. Costin Lianu, Coordonator SNE si SUERD sector privat, expert clustere, membru fondator Clustero, Director General USH Pro Business, Manager Cluster Bio Danubius, Bucureşti
11:40 - 11:55: CROSS-TERRITORIAL APPROACH FOR MATCHING FOOD SECURITY, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, MARINE AND MARITIME AND INLAND WATER RESEARCH WITH COASTAL BIOECONOMY / ABORDAREA ECOTERITORIALĂ PENTRU ÎMBINAREA SECURITĂŢII ALIMENTARE, AGRICULTURII ŞI SILVICULTURII DURABILE, A CERCETĂRILOR MARINE, MARITIME ŞI PE APE INTERIOARE CU BIOECONOMIA REGIUNILOR DE COASTĂ
Dr. Iulian Nichersu, Drd. Eugenia Marin, Drd. Silviu Covaliov, Institutul de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Delta Dunării, Tulcea
11:55 – 12:10: BIO DANUBIUS CLUSTER - THE ROLE IN THE LOCAL ECONOMY OF THE DANUBE DELTA / CLUSTERUL BIO DANUBIUS – ROLUL ÎN ECONOMIA LOCALĂ A DELTEI DUNĂRII
Drd. Corina Gudei, Director General USH Pro Business, Membru Cluster Bio Danubius
12:10 – 12:55: Discuţii / Networking

13:00 -14:30 Lunch, Hotel Delta

14:30-16:00 Posters viewing Hotel Delta

14:30-16:00 Hotel Delta - Room B (1st floor)

Workshop: Mineral Waters and the Integrated Development of the Local Economies organized by National Society of Mineral Waters and the Research Center for Integrated Analysis and Territorial
Management (language - English)

Chairpersons
Mr. Radu Dumitru – General Manager of the National Society of Mineral Waters
Mr. Daniel Peptenatu – General Manager of the Research Center for Integrated Analysis and Territorial Management
Mr. Daniel Constantin Diaconu – Workshop coordinator
Mr. Radu-Daniel Pintilii – Scientific Manager of the Research Center for Integrated Analysis and Territorial Management

Program
14:30-14:45 COMPLEMENTARITY OF THE SPA TOURISM IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS
Daniel Constantin Diaconu, Daniel Peptenatu, Ion C. Andronache, Radu-Daniel Pintilii, Razvan-Cătălin Dobrea
14:45-15:00 STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE IN THE TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS WITH SPA TOURISM RESOURCES. BĂILE HERCULANE, AS A CASE STUDY
Cristian-Constantin Drăghici, Daniel Peptenatu, Alexandra Grecu, Ana-Maria Ilie, Andreea Karina Gruia
15:00-15:15 PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPA TOURISM IN CALIMANESTI-CACIULATA AREA
Radu-Daniel Pintilii, Andreea Karina Gruia, Cristian-Constantin Drăghici, Vlad Loghin, Mircea-Cristian Visan
15:15-15:30 PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPA TOURISM IN OCNELE MARI TERRITORIAL SYSTEM
Camelia Teodorescu, Alexandra Grecu, Adrian-Gabriel Simion, Iulia Nedelcu, Ana-Maria Ciobotaru
15:30-16:00 NETWORKING

14:30-16:00 Hotel Delta - Room A (1st floor)

Workshop Impact, potential distribution and sustainable management of invasive plant species in protected areas organized by the Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy and Danube Delta – National Institute for Research and Development (language - English)

Chairpersons
Monica Dumitraşcu – Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy – Workshop coordinator
Ines Grigorescu – Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy
Gheorghe Kucsicsa - Ph.D., Scientific Researcher, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy
Mihai Doroftei - Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Danube Delta – National Institute for Research and development
The workshop topics
1. Biogeographical and ecological analysis of invasive plant species
2. Impacts and potential distribution of the main invasive plant species in protected areas
3. Proposals for integrated management, control, eradication and alternative usage of invasive plant species
4. Communication, raising awareness and education on the impacts of invasive plant species in protected areas
16:00-17:20 Plenary session Hotel Delta - Room A (1st floor)
Chairpersons: Petre Gâştescu, Mario Sommerhaeuser, Włodzimierz Marszelewski
16:00-16:25 THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF EXTERNAL NITROGEN LOADS AND INTERNAL NUTRIENT RECYCLING ON WATER QUALITY AND CYANOBACTERIAL BIOMASS IN A SHALLOW POLYMICTIC LAKE
Brigitte Nixdorf, Jacqueline Rücker, Björn Grüneberg (Germany)
16:25-16:50 EVALUATION OF THE ORNITHOGENIC INFLUENCE ON THE TROPHIC STATE OF EAST MEDITERRANEAN WETLAND ECOSYSTEM USING TREND ANALYSIS
Litaor M. Iggy, I. Barnea, O. Reichmann, I. Zohar (Israel)
16:50 -17:15 ANALIZING DANUBE'S DELTA SURFACE FLUCTUATIONS IN COASTAL AREA USING SATELLITE IMAGES
Cristian Trifanov, Mierla Marian, Ion Grigoras (Romania)
17:15-17:40 WETLAND PROTECTION IN SCOTLAND USING THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; PRACTICE, POLICY AND FUTURE
Johan Schutten, Roger Owen (Scotland)

17:40-18:00 Coffee break

18:00-19:00 Conference closing

Saturday, 10 September 2016

8:30-9:00 Boarding the ship
9:00-18:00 Field trip in the Danube Delta
13:00 Lunch on board

Sunday, 11 September 2016

7:00 Departures Tulcea-Bucharest airport
9:00 Departures Tulcea-Bucharest airport

Friday, 9 September 2016

14:30-16:00 Posters viewing Hotel Delta

THE LAKES OF THE ROMANIAN BLACK SEA COAST-WATER REGIME, PRESENT STATE
Petre Gâştescu, Petre Bretcan, Dacian Constantin Teodorescu (Romania)
INVESTIGATION OF GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SEDIMENTS CORES FROM CAINENI, MOVILA MIRESII AND AMARA LAKES (ROMANIAN PLAIN)
Cristiana Radulescu, Claudia Stihi, Petre Bretcan, Dan Tanislav, Ioana Daniela Dulama, Sofia Teodorescu, Raluca Maria Stirbescu, Alin Ioan Bucurica (Romania)
TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON CONCENTRATIONS AND EXPORT ALONG DANUBE RIVER COURSE IN YEARS 2010-2012
Górniak Andrzej (Poland)
PRELIMINARY STUDY ON ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITY AND WATER QUALITY OF THE TAKSEBT LAKE DAM (TIZI-OUZOU-ALGERIA)
Fella Hamaidi-Chergui, Mohamed Brahim Errahmani (Algeria)
STATE OF WATER QUALITY FOR REBRICEA RIVER BY PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Andreea-Mădălina Moisii, Gheorghe Romanescu, Iuliana Gabriela Breabăn (Romania)
PRELIMINARY MONITORING ON ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION OF WATER FROM EL BELLEH WADI CHERCHELL-ALGERIA
Mohand Said Hamaidi, Fella Hamaidi-Chergui, Halla Benkheira, Hichem Kais, Samira Zamiche (Algeria)
COMPARISON OF PHYTOPLANKTON AND ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES VERSUS ABIOTIC CONDITIONS IN MEANDERING AND ANASTOMOZING SECTION OF LOWLAND RIVER
Magdalena Grabowska, Maciej Karpowicz, Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin, Elżbieta Jekatierynczuk-Rudczyk, Piotr Sieradzki (Poland)
A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE PHYTOPLANKTON DENSITY, SOME NUTRIENTS AND HEAVY METALS IN ELMALI DAM LAKE (İSTANBUL, TURKEY)
Nese Yilmaz, Ibrahim Ilker Ozyigit, Alina Dumitrache, Goksel Demir, Ibrahim Ertugrul Yalcin (Turkey, Romania)
INVESTIGATION OF HEAVY METAL (CD, CU, NI AND ZN) ACCUMULATION CAPACITIES IN AN AQUATIC PLANTS HYGROPHILA POLYSPERMA, AND DETERMINATION OF HEAVY METAL EFFECTS ON PLANT PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS
Nese Yilmaz, Ibrahim Ilker Ozyigit, Mehmet Emin Uras, Ibrahim Ertugrul Yalcin (Turkey)
BIODIVERSITY, HYDROGEOLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL PARTICULARITIES IN THE UPPER BASIN OF SLANIC RIVER, BUZAU COUNTY
Sorin Perțea, Mihaela Sencovici (Romania)
FATTY ACIDS AS EXAMLE OF ACTIVE COMPOUNDS CONTAINED IN MACROALGA Cladophora Glomerata
Bogusława Łęska, Joanna Fabrowska, Beata Messyasz, Marta Pikosz, Radoslaw Pankiewicz (Poland)
THE INFLUENCE OF HABITAT FACTORS ON FILAMENTOUS GREEN ALGAE DEVELOPMENT FORMING MONOSPECIES MATS IN FLOWING AND STAGNANT WATERS
Beata Messyasz, Marta Pikosz, Boguslawa Leska, Radoslaw Pankiewicz, Joanna Fabrowska (Poland)
KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF FORESTRY'S STUDENTS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT AND RIPARIAN FORESTS
Efthimiou Georgios, Ntouras Konstantinos, Metzanis Aristides (Greece)
KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF FORESTRY'S STUDENTS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT AND RIPARIAN FORESTS
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CHARACTERISATION OF THE PLANT AVAILABLE LIGHT IN LAKES WITH DIFFERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES
Markus Hoffmann (Germany)
IMPACT OF THE COLONIES OF GREAT CORMORANTS ON LAND AND WATER ECOSYSTEMS
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE T-YEAR MAXIMUM FLOWS ALONG THE DANUBE RIVER
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THE ROLE OF EMERGENT AQUATIC MACROPHYTES IN MOISTURE TRANSPORT AWAY FROM LAKE: A CASE STUDY
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GEOCHEMICAL SPECIATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF METALS IN SEDIMENTS OF THE LOBO-BROA RESERVOIR, BRAZIL
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HOW CHANGED LIGHT CONDITIONS INFLUENCE CERTAIN MACROPHYTE SPECIES
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EVALUATION OF THE ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT ON THE WATER QUALITY OF DAMBOVITA RIVER
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BASIC DATA CONCERNING THE WATER QUALITY AND RECENT SEDIMENTATION IN ABANDONED CHANNELS LOCATED WITHIN THE DANUBE DELTA – SF. GHEORGHE ARM
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HYDROLOGIC AND ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS ON RIPARIAN AREAS IN AGRICULTURAL DOMINATED LANDSCAPES OF GREECE
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RESISTANCE TO DEGRADATION AND TROPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF SELECTED LOBELIA LAKES OF POMERANIA
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COMPLEMENTARITY OF THE SPA TOURISM IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS
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STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE IN THE TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS WITH SPA TOURISM RESOURCES. BĂILE HERCULANE, AS A CASE STUDY
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PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPA TOURISM IN CALIMANESTI-CACIULATA AREA
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PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPA TOURISM IN OCNELE MARI TERRITORIAL SYSTEM
Camelia Teodorescu, Alexandra Grecu, Adrian-Gabriel Simion, Iulia Nedelcu, Ana-Maria Ciobotaru
SPATIO-TEMPORAL FEATURES OF THE HUMAN PRESSURE ON THE PREAJBA-FĂCĂI LACUSTRINE COMPLEX (DOLJ COUNTY, ROMANIA)
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LONG-TERM CHANGES OF THE LAKE WATER TEMPERATURE: CASE STUDY OF THE LAKE CHARZYKOWSKIE (POLAND)
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HYDRO POWER PLANT PROJECT AND MAINTENANCE WITH RESPECT TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
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THE EVOLUTION OF GROUND-WATER LEVELS IN A HUMAN-INFLUENCED HYDROLOGICAL REGIME (VÂRFU CÂMPULUI – BUCECEA AREA, ROMANIA)
Delia Gheorghe, Florin Obreja, Liviu Bogdan, Bogdan Niga, Ovidiu Covaci, Dan Dascalia (Romania)
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FLOOD OCCURRENCE EVALUATION BASED ON THE HEIGHTS OF WATER LEVEL IN THE RIVERS
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RESTORATION OF WETLAND ČIČKY IN SLOVAKIA
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VARIABILITY OF THE LOWER VISTULA'S DISCHARGE BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF CITY OF TORUŃ
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN RAINFALL PARTITIONING AND HYDRAULIC TRAITS OF THREE SAND-BINDING SHRUBS IN NORTHEASTERN CHINA
Zhimin Liu (PR China)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOURISM IN THE DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE AREA
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ZOOPLANKTON DIVERSITY AND DENSITY THROUGH THE TURKISH LAGOONS
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COMPLEX MODELING SYSTEM FOR THE WATER QUALITY WITHIN BATHING AREAS OF THE ROMANIAN BLACK SEA TRANSITIONAL SHORE
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CHANGES IN WATER FLOW AND HYDROCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF LAGOON TYPE LAKE ENGURE LATVIA DUE TO MANAGEMENT OF REED BEDS AS GREAT BITTERN (BOTAURUS STELLARIS L.) HABITATS
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WETLANDS LANDSCAPE CHANGES IN COMMON FLOODPLAIN OF JIJIA-PRUT RIVERS ANALYZING THE VARIATION OF WATER BODY SURFACES
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THE EFFECT OF GRAVELLY SEDIMENT SHORTAGE IN MIDSTREAM RIVER CHANNELS ON RIPARIAN VEGETATION COVER
Takashi Asaeda, Kelum Sanjaya (Japan)
PONTO-CASPIAN PERACARID FAUNA (CRUSTACEA: MALACOSTRACA) OF THE DANUBE DELTA: INVASION THREAT OR CONSERVATION VALUE?
Péter Borza, Thomas Huber, Patrick Leitner, Nadine Remund, Wolfram Graf (Hungary, Austria, Switzerland)
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CONSEQUENCES OF P AND N ENRICHMENT FOR MICROBIAL AND METAZOAN COMMUNITIES IN PEATBOGS
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PHYCOFLORA ASSEMBLAGES OF PEAT BOGS IN THE CENTRAL PART EASTERN POLAND - DIVERSITY DEPENDING ON HABITAT CONDITIONS
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A MAGNETO-LITHOLOGICAL APPROACH OF THE NATURAL AND HUMAN-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES RECORDED IN THE MODERN SEDIMENTS OF SOME LAKES IN THE DANUBE DELTA (ROMANIA)
Sorin-Corneliu Rădan, Silviu Rădan, Irina Catianis (Romania)
ECEDEA, FROM SWAMP TO REHABILITATION AND NEW TRENDS
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A TALE OF CYANOBACTERIAL METABOLITE, CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN: TOXIC POTENCIES AND ECOLOGICAL ROLE
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FIRST EXPERIENCES OF THE ECOLOGICAL CHANGES AT THE KIS-BALATON MARSHLAND (HUNGARY)
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CONSERVATION ASPECTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE ALTERED WATER FLOW MANAGEMENT DURING THE PILOT PERIOD AT THE KIS-BALATON WATER PROTECTION SYSTEM (HUNGARY)
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MONITORING OF PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN ALGERIA
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ECOLOGICAL FLOW AS A TOOL FOR THE AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS MAINTAINING AND PROTECTION WITH REGARD TO THE LOWER PART OF THE DANUBE FLOODPLAIN
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PALEOLANDSCAPE IN NORTHERN MUNTENIA: ENEOLITHIC SETTLEMENTS IN THE PRAHOVA-BUZĂU INTERFLUVE
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ASSESSMENT OF URBAN WATER SERVICES IN ROMANIA. CITY BLUEPRINTS AS CASE STUDY
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GEOCHEMISTRY, VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTOURISM POTENTIAL OF THE SILLE VOLCANIC FIELD (KONYA, CENTRAL ANATOLIA-TURKEY)
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THE MINERAL WATER RESOURCES IN VULCANA-BAI COMMUNE (DAMBOVITA COUNTY - ROMANIA) AND THEIR ROLE IN THE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA
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THAI'S ROLE AND IMPLEMENTATION ON MEKONG RIVER SOCIAL IMPACT MONITORING AND VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT (Thailand)
THAI'S ROLE AND IMPLEMENTATION ON MEKONG RIVER FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (Thailand)