The 6th international conference Water Resources and Wetlands took place between 13 and 17 September 2023 in the Romanian city of Tulcea, which lies on the Danube River in the immediate vicinity of the wetland of international importance – the Danube Delta.
The conference programme included the presentation of outputs or partial results of various national and international projects focused on water resources and wetlands, especially in Europe.
The conference itself was opened by the president of the Romanian Limnogeographical Association, Mr. Petre Gâştescu, followed by many important officials and representatives of national and foreign institutions, research institutes, universities and non-governmental organizations.
The conference topics included:
- Connectivity of inland waters
- River and lake ecosystem ecology
- Climate change and water resources
- Coastal environment versus deltas and wetlands
- Remote sensing and GIS – support for the monitoring of inland waters
- Microplastics in water and the environment versus aquatic microbiology
The participants had opportunity to visit the Danube Delta by boat during the excursion organized on Saturday 16 September. Conference participants received a book of abstracts.
The Carpathian Wetland Initiative (CWI) was represented by Mrs. Libuše Vlasáková of the Czech Ministry of Environment (MoE CZ) who had a poster and a presentation on the subject of the International Training Courses on Wetlands which are organized by the MoE CZ in cooperation with members of the Czech Ramsar Committee and the CWI, especially for representatives from the countries of the Carpathian region. The presentation was received with great interest. The poster in PDF is here [PDF, 296 KB].