UEF WATER SESSION

NB! Besides these sessions, other water-related research abstracts can be considered for oral and poster presentations.

UEF Water provides interdisciplinary solutions for sustainable, responsible, and integrated utilization of the aquatic resources by combining expertise from various scientific disciplines.

UEF Water research community calls for abstracts for the following sessions:

A) Data and policy value chains interface in water management
Chair: Antti Belinskij
This session will ask why environmental monitoring and impact assessment are not being translated into effective water and marine policies, and what should be done to improve the science-policy interface in this regard.

B) Beyond the pretty picture: Remote sensing for biodiversity and ecosystem condition monitoring
Chairs: Miguel Villoslada & Franziska Wolff
In this session, we want to elaborate on whether and how remote sensing tools and techniques can help monitor ecosystem condition and halt biodiversity loss, and what may be the limiting factors in the uptake of these approaches. We welcome practical case-studies on the use of remote sensing for ecosystem condition monitoring. We are also interested in examples presenting the innovative use of satellite, airborne and drone-based tools for biodiversity conservation.

C) Monitoring and Managing Ecosystem Services and the Impacts of Outdoor Recreation, Nature-Based Tourism, and Adventure Pursuits
Chairs: Kelsey Johansen, Henna Konu, & Jarno Suni
This session interrogates the relationship between accessing and using natural environments in pursuit of enhancements to human wellbeing and quality of life, and monitoring and managing visitor impacts generated through individual and commercial outdoor recreation, nature-based tourism, and adventure pursuits.

D) Irrigation Water Efficiency or Increased Extraction Of Groundwater – Which Strategy hould We Be Promoting Towards Adapting To Climate-Induced Increased Drought Chairs: Ahsan Uddin Ahmed & Shahidul Mallick

Increased surface temperature and greater variability in rainfall have been posing an intensification of agricultural drought under climate-induced higher levels of evaporative losses, especially in drought susceptible regions. Many suggest that investing in irrigation by tapping groundwater resources is the solution, which is being pursued by mobilizing global adaptation financing. This session will take advantage of case studies gathered from across diverse regions to bring in a healthy scientific debate, based on scientific evidence and on-the-ground updated research.

You can find more detailed session descriptions of the WATER session themes here: https://blogs.uef.fi/uefwater/2024/06/04/ics24/