5th meeting of expert panel (Edinburgh)

The expert panel had yet another successful meeting (EPNB-5) in Edinburgh, UK, April 12, 2011. Minutes of the meeting are available here. 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. – 6 p.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 develop 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

3.      Heldstab Juerg, Achermann Beat; Switzerland’s integrated nitrogen budgets

4.      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:

6.      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 TFRN-6 in Rome, May 10-12