HW07 Towards a Science Programme for Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB)

 


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In river basins everywhere, man's activities have disrupted the natural hydrological and ecological regimes.   This is particularly true for those basins in developing country regions where climatic variability and basin development undertaken with little or no data have frequently led to the depletion of water resources, ecosystem degradation, and poor quality of life.  New advances in understanding and predictive capacity are needed to support the sustainable management of ungauged or poorly gauged basins.  The Workshop will focus on the formulation of a PUBS science programme which can mobilize the scientific community in a coordinated and effective way to address this major challenge over the next ten years.

 

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Main Convener P E O'Connell

Professor of Water Resources Engineering

and Director, Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Cassie Building, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK

Tel: +44 191 222 6405 ; Fax: +44 191 222 6669

P.E.O'Connell@ncl.ac.uk

 

Co-conveners

 

Levent Kavvas

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California,

Davis, CA 95616, United States of America

Tel: + 1 916 752 0586 ;  fax: + 1 916 752 7872

mlkavvas@ucdavis.edu

 

Murugesu Sivapalan

Department of Environmental Engineering, Centre for Water Research,

University of Western Australia,

35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

Tel: + 61 8 9380 2320 ; fax: + 61 8 9280 1015

sivapalan@cwr.uwa.edu.au

 

Jeff McDonnell

Department of Forest Engineering, Oregan State University,

Corvallis, Oregan 97331-5706, Oregan, United States of America

Tel: + 1 541 737 4952 ;  Fax: + 1 541 737 4316

jeff.mcdonnell@orst.edu