Svitlana Maistrenko, Roman Synkevich and Ivan Kovalets participated at Elephant Hackaton conducted by Elephant Fund (Kiev, 1 Dec 2018, ), presenting R&D project ‘Meteo2Energy: Meteorological forecasting for Wind Energy Applications’ (by I. Kovalets, A. Khalchenkov, S. Maistrenko, R. Synkevich, T. Dontsov-Zagreba)

Roman Bezhenar presented lectures on the development of ocean models and participated in working meetings in Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (Japan)

Ivan Kovalets conducted training on ‘Environmental modeling’ in frame of KAU 2018 Data Science School, hosted by the Institute of Mathematics NAS of Ukraine (Kiev, 15-19 Oct 2018)

Vladimir Maderich, Igor Brovchenko, Roman Bezhenar, Kateryna Terletska presented lectures on their developments in modeling of marine environment at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology

Ivan Kovalets participated in press-conference “Experience with the European Decision Support System for nuclear emergency management, JRODOS, customised for Ukraine”, State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, Kiev, 12 July 2018

Vladimir Maderich and Roman Bezhenar participated in meeting of the ‘MODARIA-II WG7Marine modelling’ (IAEA, Wienna, 12-14 June 2018) presenting results of their simulation studies of marine radioactivity

Alexander Khalchenkov presented at 3rd Int. Conf. on Atmospheric Dust (DUST’2018, Milan, Italy) research on Numerical modeling of concentrations in air of radioactive aerosols (PM10) following dust emissions from contaminated territories around objects of storage of radioactive waste (Khalchenkov A., Kovalets I., Lavrova T., Todosienko S. )

Kateryna Terletska, Sergey Kivva, Oleksandr Pylypenko, Mark Zheleznyak presented 5 reports at The European Geophysical Union General Assembly EGU2018 (Vienna, Austria, 8–13 April 2018):

• Artificial radionuclides dataset of seawater, sediment and biota in marine environment at Black Sea and off Fukushima (by Aoyama M., Bezhenar R., Maderich V., Tateda Y., Tsumune D.)

• Classification of ISW transformation over the South China Sea shelf (by Terletska K., V. Maderich, K. T. Jung, G. Wang, F. Qiao, I. Brovchenko, Shumin Jiang)

• Updated module of radionuclide hydrological dispersion of the Decision Support System RODOS (by Kivva S., Zheleznyak M., Boyko O., Ievdin I., Pylypenko O., Mikhalsky O., Raskob W., Sorokin M.)

• Flood forecasting and flood inundation mapping system developed for Ukrainian parts of Prut and Siret river basins within EAST AVERT project (by Pylypenko O., Zheleznyak M., Boyko O., Kovalets I., Kivva S., Khalchenkov A., Mikhalsky O., Sorokin M.)

• Distributed model of radionuclide wash-o? from the Pripyat river watershed of Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: testing and simulation of accidental deposition on snow cover (by Zheleznyak M., Boyko O., Kivva S., Oleksander Pylypenko O., Mikhalsky O., Tschiersch J., Hurkamp K.)

At RODOS Users Group Meeting held by BfS in Munich, Ivan Kovalets presented his research on:
Use of RODOS atmospheric transport model for evaluation of possible locations of the source leading to detection of Ru-106 over Europe and Asia in 2017

UCEWP researchers Ivan Kovalets, Sergii Kivva, Oleksandr Pylypenko, Roman Synkevich jointly with researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technologies conducted training on ‘JRodos Chernobyl extensions’ to the users of the JRodos system from the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center, State Inspectorate of Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine, NAEK ‘Energoatom’, State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management and other. Training was conducted in frame of the EU INSC Project ‘RODOS extension to the ChEZ’

Vladimir Maderich, Igor Brovchenko, Roman Bezhenar, Kateryna Terletska presented lectures on their developments in ocean and marine modeling in The First Institute of Oceanography (China)

State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine in their press-release on 17.11.2017 regarding Ru-106 detected over Eurasia in September-October 2017 used results of simulations of the potential sources of airborne Ru-106 obtained by the UCEWP atmospheric modelling team (headed by Dr. I. Kovalets). The same results were actively mentioned by the Ukrainian and international media (TV Channel “Ukraine”, Radio Svoboda Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine, Daleko-Blisko.com and others)

UCEWP researcher Ivan Kovalets participated in IAEA Consultants Meeting on 'Mathematical Models for Assessing Remediation from Radioactively Contaminated Sites' (12-17 Nov 2017, Vienna) and presented research on:
Atmospheric dispersion of radioactive aerosols around the uranium mill tailings of Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant

Ivan Kovalets participated in the 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (17 Oct 2017, Budapest, Hungary) and presented research of the UCEWP team related to water management and hydrometeorological forecasting in the Ukrainian part of the Danube region

UCEWP researcher Ivan Kovalets co-authored report at the 18th Int. Conf. “Harmonization within atmospheric dispersion modeling for regulatory purposes. HARMO’18” ( Bologna, Italy, 9-12 October 2017)

UCEWP researchers Dr. Ivan Kovalets, Dr. Sergiy Kivva participated in Opening Meeting of the Joint Japane-Ukraine project “Strengthening of the Environmental Radiation Control and Legislative Basis for the Environmental Remediation of Radioactively Contaminated Sites” funded by SATREPS (Kiev, 29 May, 2017)

Ivan Kovalets participated in International Facilia Workshop organized by Facilia AB in Kiev, and presented his research on:

In frame of the EU project EAST AVERT: prevention and flood protection in Siret and Prut river basins Ivan Kovalets conducted training on:

Presentation of the nuclear emergency response system RODOS recently implemented in Ukraine (RODOS-Ukraine) was happened in The State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU, 30 June). Representatives of the EC and key involved organizations, including SESU, NAEC Energoatom, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and UCEWP explained the main goals and achievements of the project and answered questions of journalists.

Vladimir Maderich and Roman Bezhenar co-authored report at 14th Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association Cape Town, South Africa, 9 - 13May 2016
A platform for assessment of doses to the public from routine discharges of radionuclides to the environment from nuclear installations.

Vladimir Maderich and Roman Bezhenar co-authored report at PICES-2016. 25 Year of PICES: Celebrating the Past, Imagining the Future North Pacific Marine Science Organization November 2-13, 2016 San Diego, CA, USA
Preliminary results from modeling of radionuclide transfer through marine food web using a multi-organ fish model.

Ivan Kovalets co-authored 2 reports at 16th Int. Conf. on Harmonizationa Within Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling for Regulatory Purposes (HARMO17) (Budapest, 9-12 May, 2016).
Modification and validation of a method for estimating the location of a point stationary source of passive non-reactive pollutant in an urban environment.

Ivan Kovalets co-authored report at the 35th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application, Crete, Greeceб 3-7 Oct. 2016
Validation of an inverse method for the source determination of a hazardous airborne material released from a point source in an urban environment

Mark Zheleznyak, Vladimir Maderich, Ivan Kovalets, Sergey Kivva, Ievgen Ievdin, Alexey Boyko, Vladimir Koshebutsky, Alexander Mikhalsky participated in the final meeting held in Bratislava of the EU FP7 PREPARE Project on ‘Innovative and integrative tools and platforms for radioalogical emergency preparedness and post-accident response in Europe’. The project involved more than 40 European institutions; results of UCEWP team were presented in 8 reports and software demonstrations

Fast and simple method with NPP fence measurements for source term estimation and its integration in JRODOS

Advanced method for source term estimation and status of its integration in JRODOS

Overview of WP5 and updated release of the watershed - river modeling chain RETRACE-RIVTOX and 2D reservoir model COASTOX in HDM , the implementation studies

Integration of 3D model THREETOX in JRODOS-HDM, implementation studies and model validation on marine Fukushima scenarios

Integration of marine food chain model POSIEDON in JRODOS and testing versus Fukushima data

Integration of long-term models MOIRA-LAKE and MOIRA-RIVER into JRODOS- HDM

Implementation of JRODOS-HDM for the assessment of Cs-137 transport and fate in rivers, reservoirs and ponds of the Fukushima Prefecture

JRodos demonstration and simulation capabilities, Source term and RIMPUFF in ARGOS series of demonstrations and presentations of new tools

Members of UCEWP team will make the presentation on the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union , (San Francisco, USA)

1. Zheleznyak M, Kivva S, Konoplev A, Nanba,K H Wakiyama, Multiscale Modeling of Radioisotope Transfers in Watersheds, Rivers, Reservoirs and Ponds of Fukushima Prefecture

2. Kivva S, Zheleznyak M, Konoplev A, Wakiyama Y., Developing of Watershed Radionuclide Transport Model DHSVM –R as Modification and Extension of Distributed Hydrological and Sediment Dynamics Model DHSVM

Ivan Kovalets presented results of UCEWP team on 'Improving decision support systems for response to nuclear and radiological accidents using experience of Chornobyl and Fukushima studies' at Third Meeting of Joint Japan-Ukraine Committee for the Cooperation to Advance Aftermath Response to Accidents at Nuclear Power Stations

Ivan Kovalets made presentation on the Work Group Meeting of the Project ‘U4.01/10G - Development of the method (strategy, technology) for the remediation activities at the former uranium facility “Pridneprovskiy Chemical Plant” Stockholm, Sweden

Mark Zheleznyak made presentation on the International Workshop “Regional Cooperation on Emergency Preparedness and Response in South East Asia Region, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Ivan Kovalets was invited to give lecture in China Aerodynamic Research & Development Center (CARDC) 'Development and application of CFD models for air pollution studies: overview of 20 years activities in IMMSP and UCEWP' (Mianyang, Sichuan, China, Sep 2015).

Ivan Kovalets and Alexey Boyko made presentations on the 2nd CONFERENCE of the Project EAST AVERT “Promoting Integrated Management for Water Policy and Flood Risk Prevention and Early Warning System in the upper Siret and Prut River Basins cross-border area”, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Kovalets I., Khalchenkov A., Anulich S., Udovenko O. System of meteorological forecasting in Prut and Siret river basins

Vladimir Maderich presented report at the 4th China-Korea Workshop on Oceanic Monitoring and Development of Prediction System of Radionuclides for Nuclear Safety, Qingdao, China.

Members of UCEWP team presented their work at European Geophysical Union's General Assembly in Vienna:

1. Terletska K., Maderich V., Brovchenko I., Kyung Tae Jung, Talipova T. Classification of regimes of internal solitary waves transformation over a shelf-slope topography

2. Bezhenar R., Jung K.-T., Maderich V., Willemsen S., de With G., Qiao F. Transfer of radionuclides from high polluted bottom sediments to marine organisms through benthic food chain in post Fukushima

3. Zheleznyak M., Raskob W., Kovalets I., Kivva S., Maderich V., Nanba K., Bezhenar R., Ievdin I. Prognosis and assessment of the consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi accident provided by the models of the decision support system RODOS

4. Zheleznyak M., Kivva S., A.Konoplev, , K.Nanba, Y.Onda Role of Reservoirs in Radionuclide Transport in the River Systems: Comparative Analyses for the Rivers of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Fallout Zones

5. Zheleznyak M., Kolomiets P., Dzjuba N., Ievgen, Sorokin M., Denisov N., Ischuk O. and Koeppel S. Numerical Modeling for Flood Mapping under Climate Change Impacts: Transboundary Dniester River Study.

6. Boyko O., Zheleznyak M. Flood predictions using the parallel version of distributed numerical physical rainfall-runoff model TOPKAPI

7. Hofman R., Seibert P., Kovalets I., Andronopoulos S. Analytical source term optimization for radioactive releases with approximate knowledge of nuclide ratios

Vladimir Maderich made the presentation at the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, USA):

Members of UCEWP team presented their works on the development of the Hydrological Module of the RODOS System at the Workshop of the EU FP7 PREPARE Project "Extension of aquatic dispersion and consequence modeling in Decision Support Systems, on the basis of recent experiences and technological advances" Bratislava Slovak Republic

• Bezhenar R., V.Boyko, I. Ievdin, V.Koshebutsky Information about testing implementation of HDM JRODOS model chains with the implementation of JRODOS in Ukraine

• Ievdin Ie. JRODOS - status of the development and implementation of the new features

• Maderich V. Overview of the THREETOX and POSEIDON modeling systems and status of their implementation into JRODOS

• Takahashi T., K.Nanba, M.Zheleznyak Overview of the radionuclide contamination problems of the rivers, reservoirs, ponds and coastal areas in Fukushima Prefecture and related proposed changes in the WG5 Work Program

Sergey Kivva and Mark Zheleznyak made presentations at the JAEA – 2nd Cesium Workshop: meeting challenges for Fukushima recovery, Fukushima:

Kivva S., Mark Zheleznyak, Kenji Nanba. Mathematical Modeling of Radiocesium Transport through the Subsurface Environment, Rivers, Reservoirs, and Watersheds for Justification of Post-Accident Countermeasures: Experience of Post Chernobyl Studies and Testing of the Applicability to Fukushima Conditions

Ivan Kovalets participated in the Workshop of the EU FP7 ‘PREPARE’ Project on ‘Extension of atmospheric dispersion and consequence modelling in Decision Support Systems at the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘DEMOKRITOS’, Athens, Greece with the report: Kovalets I., Ievdin I., Andronopoulos S., 2014. Status of implementation of Source Inversion Module in the JRODOS

Mark Zheleznyak made presentation at the 13 South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Association Conferences, Australia:

Mark Zheleznyak presented work of UCEWP team at the 3rd International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity (ICRER-2014) Barcelona, Spain:

• Zheleznyak M., Kivva S., Konoplev A., Onda Y.,.Nanba K. Comparative modeling analyses of Cesium-137 fate in the rivers impacted by Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents"

• Zheleznyak M., Raskob W., Bezhenar R., Boyko A, Ievdin I., Koshebustsky V. et al. Integration into JRODOS the models of radionuclide transport in rivers, reservoirs and coastal waters to support the emergency response in early accidental stages"

• Kivva S., M.Zheleznyak, A.Konoplev., Y.Onda, K.Nanba, Y.Wakyama. Models of radionuclide transport on watersheds: development and implementation for the Chernobyl and Fukushima catchments

Mark Zheleznyak and Andriy Demydenko participated in the Workshop “Managing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loads to Water Bodies:

Characterisation and solutions, Towards Macro-Regional Integrated Nutrient Management”, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra with the report:

Vladimir Maderich and Igor Brovchenko presented their work at the 3rd China-Korea Workshop on Oceanic Monitoring and Development of Prediction System of Radionuclides for Nuclear Safety Qingdao, China:

Members of UCEWP team presented their work at the European Geophysical Union's General Assembly in Vienna:

• Jung K.T., Maderich V., Bezhenar R., de With G., Qiao F., Casacuberta N., Masque P. 90Sr dispersion and fate in the Northwestern Pacific and adjacent seas:global fallout and the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident.

• Taulpova T., Terletska K., Maderich V., Brovchenko I., Jung K., Peulnovsky E., Grimshow R. Loss of energy of internal soultary wave over underwater obstacle

• Tkaulch P, Luu Quang-Hung L., Kolomiets P., Zheleznyak M. Projections of storm surges over Sunda Shelf for the future culmate

• Wakiyama Y, Onda Y Yoshimura K, Kato Y, Konoplev A, Zheleznyak M. Radiocesium wash-off associated with soil erosion from various land uses after the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP accident

• Kantardgi, I., Zheleznyak, M., Demchenko, R., Dykyi, P., Kivva, S., Kolomiets P., Sorokin M. Modeulng of nonulnear hydrodynamics of the coastal areas of the Black Sea by the chain of the proprietary and open source models

Andriy Demydenko presented joint work of UCEWP and Institute of Water Reseourse (USA) at the Fourth meeting of Joint US-Ukraine Working
Group on Scientific & Technological Cooperation: Demydenko A.O., Kovalets I.V., Zheleznyak M., Stakhiv E. ‘Warning and minimization of consequences of natural hazards’

• Yu. Kanarska, V. Maderich Three-dimensional simulations on the seasonal and short-period variability of circulation in the Dardanelles.
• Donchyts, G. Development of a decisions support system for river water protection measures in a case of accidental pollution.

• Treebushny D., Madsen H. (2003), A new reduced rank square root Kalman filter for data assimilation in mathematical models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2657, Computational Science - ICCS 2003, Proc. Internat.. Conf., Melbourne and St.Petersburg, June 2-4, 2003, Eds. P.MA. Slot at al., Part.1., Springer, pp. 482-491.
• Donchits G., Zheleznyak M. Object - oriented framework for modelling of pollutant transport in river network., Ibid, , pp. 35-44
• Kivva S. Data assimilation for 2-D advection-diffusion equation - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2657, Computational Science - ICCS 2003, Proc. Internat.. Conf., St.Petersburg, June 2-4, 2003, Eds. P.MA. Slot at al., Part.2., Springer, 2003, pp. 619-628

• "Flood forecasting for the Ukrainian part of the Tisza Basin: linking with the numerical weather forecasts, comparative testing of distributed and lumped models" Belov, S.; Donchytz, G.; Kivva, S.; Kuschan, A.; Zheleznyak, M.
• "Modelling of wave - current interaction in coastal areas based on hyperbolic mild-slope equation" Demchenko, R., Zheleznyak, M.
• "ASUD2- decision support system on Dnieper reservoirs operations taking into account environmental priorities." Iritz, L. ( SwedPower); Zheleznyak, M.; Dvorzhak, A.; Nesterov , A.; Zaslavsky, A.
• "Hydrodynamics and hydraulics of exchange flows in the long sea straits: Turkish Straits case study". Kanarska, Yu.; Maderich, V.; Zervakis, V ( National Centre for Marine Research, Greece)
• "On the thermohaline engine of the Aegean Sea " Zervakis, V.; Tragou, E.; Maderich, V.; Papadopoulos, A.; Georgopoulos, D.
• "3D Lagrangian model for oil dispersion by breaking waves and currents" Brovchenko, I.; Maderich, V.
• "A new reduced rank square root Kalman filter technique for data assimilation in large scale modelling systems" Treebushny, D.; Madsen, H. ( DHI Water&Environment, Denmark)

• "The modelling system for simulation of the oil spills in the Black Sea" I. Brovchenko, A. Kuschan, V. Maderich, M. Shliakhtun, S. Yuschenko, M. Zheleznyak

• "A non-hydrostatic numerical model for calculating of free-surface stratified flows in the coastal sea" Yu. Kanarska, V. Maderich,
• "Modelling of the seasonal dynamics of the water masses, ice and radionuclide transport in the large Siberian river estuaries" V. Maderich, Dziuba N., Koshebutsky V., M. Zheleznyak , V. Volkov (NIERSC, Russia)
• "The influence of different parameterisations of meteorological forcing and turbulence schemes on modelling of eutrophication processes in a 3D model of estuary" V. Maderich, O. Nesterov and S. Zilitinkevich (Uppsala University, Sweden)

• "THREETOX model. Application for the control of waste heat in reservoirs and estuaries" R. Heling (NRG,Netherlands), V. Maderich, V. Koshebutsky
• "Water quality modelling to support the operation of the Kakhovka Reservoir, Dnieper River, Ukraine" J. Hoybye (Water Consult, Denmark) , L. Iritz (SwedPower AB, Sweden), M. Zheleznyak, V. Maderich, R.Demchenko, N. Dziuba, G. Donchitz , V. Koshebutsky