The expert panel had yet another successful meeting (EPNB-5) in Edinburgh, UK, April 12, 2011. Minutes of the meeting are available at the end of this page. In joining the meeting to the conference “Nitrogen and Global Change: key findings – future challenges” (for details see http://www.nitrogen2011.org), EPNB-5 had the opportunity to move the scientific contriubtion into the conference, and to limit the meeting itself to the discussion on the further development of the expert panel.Nevertheless EPNB-5 was not a part of the conference schedule, and attendants did not need to also register for the conference.
Agenda
Venue: EICC, Edinburgh, Tuesday, April 12, 4 p.m - 6p.m.
- Welcome
- The DireDate project (Anne Miek Kramer, EUROSTAT)
- Reaching out towards relevant work of OECD and EUROSTAT (slides by Wilfried Winiwarter)
- N budget guiding document: suggested structure of chapters ("budget boxes)
- Dynamic tool to devlopt and display national N budgets
- Upcoming national initiatives
- Developments towards other scales: regional and farm budgets
- Next meeting and AOB
Scientific papers directly deriving from the EPNB work and presented in Edinburgh (Conference session S13 "Nitrogen Budgets - Farm to National Scale")
Oral presentations: Wednesday, April 13, 14:20 - 17:20
- Heldstab, Juerg, Achermann Beat; Switzerland’s integrated nitrogen budgets
- Alessandra De Marco, Laura Valli, Augusto Screpanti, Giovanni Vialetto; The total nitrogen budget as a national or a local scale application
Posters under session S13:
- Adrian Leip, Jürg Heldstab; Development of a tool for dynamic prediction of changes in integrated nitrogen budgets
Results of this EPNB meeting have been brought forward for discussion at the TRFN-6 in Rome, May 10-12.