Applied Water Quality Modeling with WASP7, 22-26 March
R. B. Ambrose, Jr. USA & Dr. A. Ekdal, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

The objective of this course is to teach new users how to apply the US EPA WASP7 model to a variety of water quality problems in streams, lakes, and estuaries. Participants will learn what water quality processes are incorporated into WASP7, and how to use the software to address practical problems.
The course will combine theoretical and practical sessions covering the major water quality topics. Lectures will review of the important water quality processes governing transport, conventional water quality, and toxicant fate. Water quality topics include advection and dispersion, temperature, dissolved oxygen and biochemical oxygen demand, nutrients and eutrophication, solids transport, organic chemicals and metals.
Practice sessions and case study applications will acquaint the user in model setup and operation. The model preprocessor will be used to build simple datasets, and postprocessor will be used to construct graphs and visualize the simulation results.  More advanced sessions will illustrate the linkage of WASP with hydrodynamic and watershed loading models. Realistic datasets will be introduced to work with model parameterization, calibration and testing issues.  Case studies will review selected applications to a variety of water quality problems in streams, lakes, and estuaries.

Aquatic ecological simulation modeling, 12-16 April
Prof.A.Rasinkovas,Klaipeda University, Lithuania&Dr.B.Rashleigh, USEPA, USA

 The aim of this course is to introduce and practice the application of leading ecosystemsimulations models for aquatic systems (rivers, lakes, lagoons) that are freely downloadable. The course will have a theoretical and a practical component which will be closely interconnected.  The theoretical component will introduce concepts of good modeling practice, model parameterization and calibration, and interpretation of outputs, as well as theoretical ecological concepts of food web dynamics, competition and predation, and bioaccumulation.  The practical component will include practice for different acute and chronic environmental stressors in multiple types of habitats for different types of aquatic communities.  Examples will include application to decision making for toxic events, recovery of contaminated systems, setting of environmental standards, and management of fisheries populations for aquaculture 

Multivariate statistics for aquatic ecology,19-21 April
Prof.Dr. Angel Perez Muzafa, Spain & Dr.B. Rashleigh, USEPA, Athens, USA

The aim of this course is to introduce and practice popular techniques used in aquatic ecology to identify patterns and relationships between environmental stressors and responses of ecological populations and communities.  The course will focus on practical applications for assessing conditions of sites, diagnosing causes of impairments, and forecasting changes in ecological endpoints of interest in rivers, estuaries, and lagoons.  Exercises will be used to develop skills in both the application of these statistical techniques and the interpretation of results in the context of management and decision-making.

Indicators for ecosystem based management, 22-23 April
Dr.E. Andrulewicz, Sea Fisheries Institute, Gdynia, Poland.

The aim of this course is to introduce and practice environmental indicators, which are an indispensable tool for the ecosystem health assessment and management of human impacts on marine ecosystems. The course will offer information and approaches on how to establish indicators, how they can be used and how to create (your own) problem-based indicators. The full D-P-S-I-R (Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework of indicators necessary for ecosystem health assessment and for the decision making process will be taken into account in relation to the main environmental concerns: eutrophication, overfishing, chemical contamination,  oil pollution, invasion of alien species, coastal sanitary conditions, dumping of dredge spoils, extraction of sand and gravel, offshore oil and gas production, contamination  by artificial radionuclide, ecological impact of large-scale constructions and loss of  biodiversity.

Multi Criteria Decision Making Tools: Analytic Hierarchy Process, 17-20 May Prof. B. Srdjevic and Prof. Z. Srdjevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

The aim of this course is to overview the fundamentals of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), one of recognized decision making tools in both individual and group contexts, and provides full insight into its capabilities to solve complex decision making problems in different subject areas of business, engineering, resources allocation etc. The course will have a theoretical and a practical component which will be closely interconnected. On the theoretical component, the basic concepts, importance difficulties, and necessities embedded in hierarchical decision making and AHP methodology will be presented. Practical component will be to develop the skills of trainees to use AHP and deal with typical decision making scenarios in individual and group decision making process. Real-life case studies will be used  as a background for open discussions and intensive exercises during the course. Special attention will be devoted to manipulation aspects of the AHP modeling of the problem in hand and interpretation of the results obtained by the method.


Modeling with SWAT (basic), 24-26 May
Prof.R. Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, USA
SWAT is a river basin scale model developed to quantify the impact of land management practices in large, complex watersheds. SWAT is a public domain model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Temple, Texas, USA.
The advanced SWAT workshop is designed to be approximately 80% hands-on. It is assumed that attendees have a working knowledge of ArcGIS and SWAT. We will not review basic concepts of ArcGIS and/or SWAT usage prior to covering the SWAT/ArcGIS interface. This course will cover sensitivity analysis, model calibration, and uncertainty analysis using the 2005 version of SWAT with an ArcGIS interface and SWAT-CUP. In addition, the course will be devoted to discussion of participant's individual model issues (e.g. model setup, scenarios, calibration, and validation).

Modeling with SWAT (advance), 26-28 May
Prof.R. Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, USA&Dr. K.C. Abbaspour, EAWAG, Switzerland

SWAT is a river basin scale model developed to quantify the impact of land management practices in large, complex watersheds. SWAT is a public domain model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Temple, Texas, USA.
The advanced SWAT workshop is designed to be approximately 80% hands-on. It is assumed that attendees have a working knowledge of ArcGIS and SWAT. We will not review basic concepts of ArcGIS and/or SWAT usage prior to covering the SWAT/ArcGIS interface. This course will cover sensitivity analysis, model calibration, and uncertainty analysis using the 2005 version of SWAT with an ArcGIS interface and SWAT-CUP. In addition, the course will be devoted to discussion of participant's individual model issues (e.g. model setup, scenarios, calibration, and validation).