Invitation

Ohrid Lake and St Jovan Kaneo Church

Following the great success of BALWOIS 2004 - more than 300 participants, 249 papers available on www.balwois.net -we have the pleasure to let you know that we are organizing the International scientific conference BALWOIS 2006, that will be held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia from 23 th to 26 th May 2006 .

The main objectives of BALWOIS 2006 are to provide at international and Balkan levels:

•  a meeting that will further the progress of the knowledge in the fields of Scientific Research, Education, Policy and Development Activities and on all the Water related issues related to climate changes, hazards mitigation and water resources assessment, management and protection,

•  an atmosphere to enhance the links between the providers and the end users of water related knowledge,

•  a forum for free discussion of new ideas , research, development and applications, including techniques and methods to stimulate future works,

•  opportunities for students and young researchers and engineers to meet their experienced peers and to stimulate them to join BALWOIS activities,

•  an exhibition of current hardware and/or software in the field of water, and

•  new knowledge through the publishing of high quality papers in balwois.net web site and through DVD bundle, books edition, etc.

Topics are related to climate and environmental changes, water resources assessment, management and preservation and water related hazards as well. One additional session will be organized to present high resolution Non Hydrostatic Mesoscale Model.

Ohrid is one of the most welcoming towns of Republic of Macedonia with a very significant cultural heritage. The location of the conference on the shore of Ohrid Lake- 358 km², several millions years old and surmounted by splendid Macedonian and Albanian mountains - is particularly well chosen to work on topics linked with climate change which already affects the balance of the Balkan lakes, protection of the biodiversity against increasing anthropogenic pressures and international shared waters.

Hoping to see you in Ohrid in May 2006.

The main organizers :

Marc Morell, BALWOIS Coordinator, IRD (1)
Vlado Spiridonov, HMS Director (2)
Goce Kostoski , HIO Director (3)

1 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (France)
2 Hydrometeorological Service (Republic of Macedonia)
3 Hydrobiologoical Institute of Ohrid (Republic of Macedonia)

List of papers by number        List of papers by topic

Let you know...

Instructions for
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Document of
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Papers by topic.

Preliminary programm.

Put in your bag.

Conference week :
23, 26 May 2006

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BALWOIS Project :
www.balwois.net