EGU 2008 Annual Meeting, Vienna

EGU 2008 Annual Meeting, Vienna

April 14-18, 2008

We presented a paper entitled “Extreme Event Analyses from WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network” describing several examples of extreme events in Slovenia and SE Europe designed to spark interest of EU scientists and decision-makers to join WaterNet.Our key EU collaborators are the Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia (EARS), the Faculty for Civil and Geodetic Engineering (FGG), University of Ljubljana, and the Austrian Meteorological Agency (ZAMG).The EGU meetings provided an excellent forum to develop contacts and our water cycle WaterNet Community of Practice from over 51 sessions in the Natural Hazards Division with over 1460 abstracts covering all aspects from floods to droughts and earthquakes.Other Divisions included the Atmosphere, Climate, Cryosphere, Non-linear processes, Hydrology, Oceanography and Solar-Terrestrial Sciences.Collaborations with the European Space Agency, Joint Research Center and many university researchers in areas from Snow and Avalanche research to bio-fuels energy production and water quality management, emergency management, and hydrologic and climate modeling will be pursued during the next weeks.The European Science Foundation and COST may provide a means to develop workshops and exchanges among EU scientists having interests in the water cycle and related WaterNet human and automated networking.