General overview and scientific presentations

Saturday 11 March 2023

General introduction

The first day of the workshop is meant to help shape the rest of the week. Based on the scientific presentations and inputs from the participants, we hope to gather ideas and suggestions about the most pressing questions we can address with OGGM (and other open-source data products / models) in Pakistan.

09:00 - 09:30: Welcome by the organizers
09:30 - 11:00: Presentation of the workshop, introduction to OGGM (Fabien Maussion)
11:00 - 11:30: Morning Tea/Snacks
11:30 - 12:15: Scientific presentation 1 (Adnan Siddique): Machine Learning based efforts towards large scale monitoring of glacial lakes & potential GLOFs in HKH
12:15 - 13:00: Scientific presentation 2 (Jawairia Ashfaq Ahmad): Regional hydrology with a focus on the Upper Indus Basin

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45: Scientific presentation 3 (Fabien Maussion): Climate policy and global glacier change - putting an ice cost to our greenhouse gas emissions
14:45 - 15:30: Scientific presentation 4 (Fahad Saeed): Application of University of British Columbia’s Watershed Model over Upper Indus Basin
15:30 - 16:00: Afternoon Tea/Cookies
16:00 - 18:00: Potential and pitfalls of open source models for research in Pakistan. Presentation (Jakob Steiner, Fabien Maussion) and open discussion with participants.