Meetings and training sessions for end–users

Dates: 27 June 2011

Participants: More than 40 people from of the Regional Water Board, Regional Government, Civil Protection Agency, University, Municipalities, Consulting companies, Research Centres.

Main topics: The Micore project; innovation on monitoring schemes; modelling erosion as result of the impact of extreme storm events; storm impact indicators; risk maps and development of early warning system associated to extreme storm events.

Deliverables: Programme, Micore brochure, CD with the presentations and an early arning system demonstration video.

Organization: CIMA, Universidade do Algarve

Place: Faro, Portugal

Video: EWS Site Demonstration (blip.tv)

Attachments: Programme; EWS_Micore_Introducao; EWS_Micore_Discussao; EWS_Micore_IITs; EWS_Micore_InovSistMonitorizacao; EWS_Micore_ModelErosAssoTempMaritimas; EWS_Micore_SistAlertaTempestades; EWS_Micore_MapaRisco.pdf

Conferences

Dates: 21 September 2010

Participants: Circa 100 people from Spanish research institutes and universities.

Organization: CIMA, Universidade do Algarve

Place: Solsona, Spain

Attachments: Paper

Dates: 5 April 2011

Participants: Circa 50 people from Portuguese speaking countries from National and Regional Coastal Management Agencies, Water Boards, Universities, Consulting companies, and Research Centres.

Main topics: Have been demonstrated the excellent results obtained with the Lidar technique for monitoring the impact of storms and was shown the new monitoring network based on profiles measured with GPS technology.

Organization: CIMA, Universidade do Algarve

Place: Boavista, Cape Verde

Dates: 12 August 2011

Participants: 30 people from research centres, students, general public.

Organization: CIMA, Universidade do Algarve

Place: Santander, Spain