Thursday 26th May

10.00-10.30 Welcome and Introduction
10.00 – 10.05 Giovanni Zanchetta (University of Pisa)
10.05 – 10.15 Lisandro Benedetti Cecchi (Vice Rector for Research, University of Pisa)
10.15 - 10.30 Kevin Guillaume (Secretary general Circle U., Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Session 1 - Chair Monica Bini

10.30 – 11.10 Bernardo Gozzini (LAMMA Toscana, Italy) • "Global warming and regional impact: the case of Tuscany"
11,10 – 11.50 Piero Lionello (MedClivar, University of Salento, Italy) • “The relation between climate change in the Mediterranean region and global warming”
11.50 -12.10 Coffee-break
12.10 – 12.50 Silvio Gualdi (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Cambiamenti Climatici - CMCC, Italy) • “Climate Predictions and their applications in the Mediterranean region”
12.50 – 13.30 Antonello Provenzale (IGG-CNR Pisa) • “Climate Change and wildfires: from the Mediterranean to the Artic”
13.30-14.30 Lunch break

Session 2 – Chair Gianni Zanchetta

14.30 – 15.10 Jelena Lukovic (University of Belgrade) • “A later onset of the rainy season in California”
15.10 – 15.50 Jay Famiglietti (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) • “Global groundwater depletion as viewed from space”
15.50 – 16.30 Viviana Re (University of Pisa) • “Insights and opportunities driven by transdisciplinary socio-hydrogeological approaches”
16.30 – 17.10 Laura Imburgia (UNESCO WWAP) • “Designing gender-responsive water policies that support climate resilience and sustainable development”
17.10 – 17.50 Karen Villolth (International Water Management Institute, South Africa) “One Water – how to engage youth in global water action”

Friday 27th May

Session 3 - Chair Viviana Re

9.30 – 10.10 Russell N. Drysdale (University of Melborune, Australia) • “Australian hydroclimate: linking past with the present and future”
10.10 -10.50 Marnik Vanclooster (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) • “Uncertainty propagation in the climate information-knowledge chain”
10.50 – 11.20 Neil Roberts (University fo Plymouth, UK) • “Impact of Holocene hydro-climatic changes on Mediterranean lakes and wetlands”
11.20 – 11.50 Coffee-break

Session 4 - Chair Adriano Ribolini

11.50 – 12.30 Mira Bar-Matthews and Alan Matthews (Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Geological Survey of Israel) • “Partitioning the roles of temperature and hydrological changes on speleothem 18O during Terminations in the Eastern Mediterranean region”
12.30 – 13.10 Raymond S. Bradley (University of Massachusetts, USA) • “Late Quaternary abrupt climate change in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics: the continental signal of Tropical Hydroclimatic Events (THEs)”
13.10-14.30 Lunch break

Session 5 – Chair Elisa Pellegrini

14.30 – 15.10 Adam Izdebski (Palaeo-Science & History” Independent Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany) • “Beyond one-way determinism: water, floods and miracles in late antiquity in the Mediterranean”
15.10 – 15.50 Barbara Stenni and Ilaria Crotti (Ca’Foscari University Venice, Italy) “Past climate postcards from Talos Dome deep ice (East Antarctica)”
15.50 – 16.30 Carlo Baroni and Maria Cristina Salvatore (University of Pisa, Italy)  “Glaciers and water resources over Alpine area”
16.30 – 17.00 Wrap up and closing remarks