Project Group Name of coordinator Email Country
Working Group 1
Hindu Kush-Himalayan FRIEND (Coordinator: Suresh R. Chalise)
Project Group Name Organisation Country
Database group
Prof. Dr Muhammad F. Bari Rupak Rajbhandari Prof. Dr Muhammad F. Bari Dr Narendra M. Shakya
Project Group Name Organisation Country Prof. Dr Muhammad F. Bari Prof. Suresh R. Chalise Prof. Dr Muhammad F. Bari Dr Narendra M. Shakya Prof. Dr Muhammad F. Bari (coordinator)
Dr Bashir A. Chandio Dr Birbal Rana
UNESCO/IHP; World Meterological Organization; German IHP/OHP National Committee; Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany; Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK; Global Runoff Data Centre, Koblenz, Germany;International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Prof. Suresh Chalise, Coordinator HKH-FRIEND)
Main collaborating organisations
Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Afghanistan; Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; RNR Engineering Division, Bhutan; Yangtze Water Resources Commission, China; Alternate Hydro-Energy Centre, Roorkee University, India; Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi; Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Myanmar; Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal; Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Kathmandu University, Nepal; Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (Chair HKH-FRIEND Steering Committee - Dr Muhammad Akram Kahlown)
Annex 3
FRIEND/AMIGO for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean (Coordinator: Eduardo O. Planos-Gutierrez)
Project group Participant Institution Country
HOME PAGE
Sra María del Carmen Barragán Barrios Collaborator: Jean Francoise Boyer
Lic. Cesar Buján Rubio (coordinator) Ing. Sadí Laporte Molina Center of Humid Tropic for Latin America & the Caribbean Secretary of Regional Council for Agriculture Cooperation
Institute of Electricity FRIEND/AMHY group
Centre of Hydrol. & Water Quality Institute of Electricity
Internat. Inst. of Tropical Forestry Geological Survey
US Fish and Wildlife Service Dept of Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University Ecology Center, Utah State Univ.
Inst. of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia
Mexico
Annex 4 FRIEND meetings 1997 – 2002
Region Event Venue Date
All regions Fourth International FRIEND Conference Cape Town, S. Africa 18-22 March 2002 All regions FRIEND Intergroup Coordinating Committee (FIGCC)
Meeting No. 2 Koblenz, Germany 22 March 1999
Meeting No. 3 Maastricht, Netherlands 24 July 2001
Meeting No. 4 Cape Town, S. Africa 17 March 2002
Northern Steering Committee No 5 Postojna, Slovenia 3 October 1997
European Steering Committee No 6 Koblenz, Germany 21 March 1999
FRIEND Steering Committee No 7 Stockholm, Sweden 14-15 Sept 2001
Steering Committee No 8 Cape Town, S. Africa 18 March 2002
Project 1: Database Koblenz, Germany 25 March 1999
Project 2: Low flows Postojna, Slovenia 30 September 1997
Rosendal, Norway 8-10 October 1998 Warsaw, Poland 22-26 May 2000 Freiburg, Germany 20-22 June 2001 Oslo, Norway 17-19 January 2002 Project 3: Large scale variations in Lyon, France 13-14 Dec 1999 hydrological characteristics Nice, France 28 March 2001
Nice, France 21-26 April 2002
Project 4: Floods Wallingford, UK 25 February 1998
Potsdam, Germany 3 November 2000 Nice, France 28 March 2001 Bern, Switzerland 6-8 March 2002 Project 5: Catchment hydrological and bio-Prague, Czech Rep. 25 June 1999 geochemical processes in a changing Prague, Czech Rep. 26 September 2000
environment Ghent, Belgium 21-22 Sept 2001
Cracow, Poland 25 September 2002 Demanovska dolina, 25 September 1998 Slovakia
AMHY FRIEND Low Flow Expert meeting Belgrade, Yugoslavia 10-12 June 1998 Steering Committee & Seminars Istanbul, Turkey 14-16 October 1998
Steering Committee Cosenza, Italy 10-11 October 1999
Steering Committee & International Conference Montpellier, France 10 October 2000 HKH FRIEND 1st Steering Committee meeting Kathmandu, Nepal 11-12 May 1998
Database management training course Kathmandu, Nepal 13-22 May 1998
Meeting database group Kathmandu, Nepal 3-5 March 1999
Snow & Glacier group Kathmandu, Nepal 8-10 March 1999 Low Flows group & Low Flows Training Course Kathmandu, Nepal 19-25 April 1999 2nd Steering Committee meeting Kathmandu, Nepal 11-13 April 2000 Inception meeting, rainfall-runoff modelling group Kathmandu, Nepal 10 April 2000 Inception meeting and workshop of floods group Kathmandu, Nepal 14 April 2000 Inception meeting, river water quality group Kathmandu, Nepal 14 April 2000 River water quality group training workshop Islamabad, Pakistan 21-27 May 2001 Snow and glacier group/ICSI workshop on Kathmandu, Nepal 20-24 March 2001 glacial mass balance
Glacier mass balance measurement workshop New Delhi, India 23 Sept - 6 Oct 2002 Southern Africa 4th Steering Committee meeting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 31 July 1998 FRIEND 5th Steering Committee meeting Windhoek, Namibia 9 September 1999
6th Steering Committee meeting Blantyre, Malawi 13-14 Nov 2000 7th Steering Committee meeting Cape Town, S. Africa 18 March 2002
Low flows workshop Lilongwe, Malawi 29 Jan 2 Feb 2001
Drought analysis workshop Gaborone, Botswana 26-30 Nov 2001
Annex 4
Nile FRIEND 2nd Steering Committee meeting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania August 1998 3rd Steering committee meeting Khartoum, Sudan 4-6 July 1999
Coordinators meeting Cairo, Egypt 29-30 April 2000
4th Steering Committee meeting Cairo, Egypt 21-23 August 2000 1st Project Management Team meeting Cairo, Egypt 10-12 December 2001 AOC FRIEND Steering Committee Abidjan, Côte dIvoire 16-19 November 1998
Steering committee meeting & workshop Yaoundé, Cameroon 30 Nov -3 Dec 1999 Steering Committee meeting Niamey, Niger 26-27 June 2000 Asian Pacific 5th IHP RSC Meeting Nong Khai, Thailand 16-19 December 1997
FRIEND 6th IHP RSC Meeting Taegu, Rep. of Korea 10-13 November 1998
7th IHP RSC Meeting Nanjing, China 18-21 October 1999
8th IHP RSC Meeting & Symposium Christchurch, NZ 20-24 November 2000 9th IHP RSC Meeting & Symposium Hanoi, Vietnam 18-22 November 2001 10th IHP RSC Meeting & Symposium Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 14-18 October 2002 1st AP FRIEND workshop: Data archive & scientific Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 20-23 March 1999 methods for comparative hydrology and water resources
2nd AP FRIEND/GAME workshop: ENSO, floods Hanoi, Vietnam 23-26 March 1999
& droughts in 1990s in SE Asia & the Pacific
Asian Pacific Workshop: Mekong Basin Studies Bangkok, Thailand 24-26 January 2000 FRIEND/AMIGO 1st FRIEND/AMIGO Steering Committee Cuernavaca, Mexico 1-3 December 1999 for Mesoamerica Minimum hydrological phenomena working group San José, Costa Rica 31 Nov - 3 Dec 2000
& the Caribbean Homepage and database working group Cuernavaca, Mexico 6-9 December 2000 FRIEND/AMIGO presentation at CATHALAC Panama City, Panama December 2000 Governing Board meeting
FRIEND/AMIGO presentation at IV Inter-Foz de Iguazu, Brazil 2-6 September 2001 American Water Dialogue
FRIEND/AMIGO presentation at Panama Water Panama City, Panama 25-27 October 2001 Summit
International Scientific Workshop on drought in Panama City, Panama November 2002 Mesoamerica, Caribbean & other humid regions
Region Event Venue Date
Annex 5
Annex 5 FRIEND publications 1997-2002
Note: This list has been compiled from information supplied by authors. An additional 63 papers presented at the 4th FRIEND Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, in March 2002 by FRIEND participants are published in FRIEND 2002-Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice (Eds:
van Lanen, H.A.J. & Demuth, S.), IAHS Publ. no. 274.