2019 News

The International Hydrology Prize is awarded annually by IAHS, with UNESCO and WMO, to two people who have made an outstanding contribution to hydrological science. More information, including previous awards, is available at  https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/International-Hydrology-Prize.do.

Nominations for the Prize are made by National Committees to IAHS, National Committees to the UNESCO-IHP or National Hydrological Advisors to the WMO, and forwarded to the Secretary General of IAHS for consideration by the Nomination Committee. The Committee consists of the President and a Vice-President of IAHS, as well as representatives from UNESCO and WMO. 

Two medals are awarded under the International Hydrology Prize: the Dooge medal and the Volker medal. Both medals are intended to distinguish outstanding achievements by hydrological scientists but with a different focus. The Dooge medal is aimed at fundamental contributions to the science of hydrology, whereas the Volker medal is aimed at outstanding applications of hydrological science for the benefit of society at large. 

The following applies to both the Dooge and Volker medals:

• The International Hydrology Prize shall be awarded to persons who have made outstanding contributions to hydrology such as confers on the candidate universal recognition of his or her international stature.
• The contribution should have an identifiable international dimension extending beyond both the country of normal work and the specific field of interest of the candidate.
• The medals may be awarded to hydrologists of long international standing or to younger but active hydrologists who exhibit qualities of international leadership in the science or practice of hydrology.
• An active involvement in the work of IAHS and other international organisations in the field of hydrology should be counted as an advantage.

 Specific considerations for the Dooge medal:

• The Dooge medal is particularly intended for hydrologists who have demonstrated scientific excellence, and have made fundamental contributions to the science of hydrology as evidenced by publications in the international scientific literature and other evidence of high standard.
• Preference should be given to candidates who have recently exhibited outstanding international leadership in the science of hydrology.

 
Specific considerations for the Volker medal:

• The Volker medal is dedicated for hydrologists who have applied their research and hydrological expertise to the benefit of society, addressing issues of public interest and development.
• Applications of hydrology to the benefit of developing countries would count as an advantage.
• Preference should be given to candidates who have contributed through both scientific and practical work, and who have made outstanding contributions to the Hydrology community as demonstrated by active involvement in the work of IAHS or other international hydrological associations.

 
Nomination format and procedure

Nominations should be received by the Secretary General of IAHS no later than 31 December 2019 – Christophe Cudennec at [email protected]  – and consist of:

• a (max. 2, pages A4 format) nomination letter signed by a National Representative to IAHS, the President of a national committee of UNESCO-IHP, or a National Hydrological Advisor to the WMO, with one sentence citation (max. 200 characters), and stating why the nominee is the most qualified person to receive the Volker or Dooge medal, paying attention to the medal's dedication specified above;
• the nominee’s CV (max. 3 pages, A4 format) with an emphasis on the contribution to hydrological science and international scientific cooperation, providing clear information on the main criteria used for the evaluation and the specific considerations mentioned above.
• a list of the major scientific publications (max. 2 pages, A4 format).

Nominations are expected from the world diversity, and equally for female and male candidates.

Evaluation criteria

a)      Outstanding contributions to hydrology evidenced by universal recognition of his or her international stature.

b)      Identifiable contributions with international dimensions extending beyond both the country of normal work and the specific field of interest of the candidate.

c)      For senior candidates prove of Hydrologists activities of long international standing, or for younger candidates, prove of being active hydrologists with qualities of international leadership in the science or practice of hydrology.

d)      Active involvement in the work of IAHS and other international organizations in the field of hydrology is counted as an advantage.

e)      Application of the hydrological research performed and the use of his/her expertise to the benefit of society and addressing issues of public interest and development.

f)       Applications of hydrology to the benefit of developing countries counts as an advantage.

The 4th International Conference on "The Hydrology of Large African Rivers" will be held in Cotonou, Republic of Benin from 24 to 28th November 2020.

The conference is organized in the frame of the UNESCO-IHP FRIEND-Water program, with the support of IAHS.

Full details of the conference are available on the website: https://friendgrandsfleuvesafriquecotonou2020.org/

Please register and submit your abstract through: https://friendgrandsfleuvesafriquecotonou2020.org/submission/.

Alongside the scientific sessions there are also several training sessions planned including 'the use of satellite data in hydrology' at discount prices for participants to the conference. Registration fees will be displayed on the website soon.

Selected presentations from the conference will be included in a PIAHS volume (indexed WOS and Scopus).

You can also follow the conference news on ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/4th-FRIEND-IAHS-International-Conference-on-the-Hydrology-of-African-Large-river-Basins 

Gil Mahe FRIEND FIGCC Chair
Ernest Amoussou FRIEND AOC coordinator and main organizer

Applications are invited for the IAHS SYSTA (SIVAPALAN YOUNG SCIENTISTS TRAVEL AWARDS) towards the costs of participating at the following IAHS-badged conferences in 2020:

• “River sediment quality and quantity: environmental, geochemical and ecological perspectives” ICCE – Bydgoszcz, Poland – 1-5 June
• “9th International Water Resources Management Conference of ICWRS” ICWRS – Cairns, Australia – 20-22 July
• STAHY 2020 – Valencia, Spain – 23-25 September
• “Hydrology of the Major African Basins” – Cotonou, Benin – 24-28 November

 

Full details of the SYSTA eligibility criteria and application procedure are at: https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/SYSTA.do 

The three key criteria are that applicants should be from, and currently reside in, a financially disadvantaged country, be within 5 years of their PhD award and be first author of a paper in Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ) or Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (PIAHS) or in another listed hydrological journal.  Those who have previously received a SYSTA award for intercontinental travel are not eligible to apply. The maximum award value is 2000 euros.

The closing date for SYSTA applications for 2020 meetings is 20 January 2020.

We would like to invite you to the IAHS/ICCE International Symposium 'River sediment quality and quantity: environmental, geochemical and ecological perspectives'. 

The IAHS event will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland on June 1-5, 2020 (www.icce2020.ukw.edu.pl)

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Sediment quantity – cascades, budgets, yields
Sediment impacts on river channel hydromorphology and management
Sediment quality – geochemistry, nutrients, contaminants, emerging issues
Sediment-biota interactions
Business Day - inland waterways development in Middle-East Europe

Registration is open (click here)

Abstract submission deadline: Februrary 1, 2020

This event is eligible for IAHS SYSTA travel support.

Publication:
All participant’s of ICCE 2020 will be able to submit papers to peer-reviewed scientific journals. Four of five journals are indexed on Web of Science (Core Collection) and Scopus. The papers will be reviewed according to requirements of the selected journals.

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We look forward to welcoming you next June in Bydgoszcz !

The 'Land use and climate change impacts on erosion and sediment transport' papers from the 2nd IYFSWC and ICCE symposium 2018 are now available open access as PIAHS Volume 381



The papers were part of a joint symposium combining The Second International Young Scientists Forum on Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC) and the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE-IAHS) which was held on 27–31 August 2018, in Moscow. Contributions were invited on work that investigates fluvial processes including hillslope and gully erosion and sediment transport, as well as river channel changes and management, the influence of hydro-sedimentological processes operating at local to global scales, and those that compare the findings drawn from local and global studies. A particular focus of the papers in this new volume is to provide regional examples of sediment movement along the sediment cascade in Northern Eurasia. Most of these works report scientific studies across a territory which covers nearly one sixth of the land surface of the Earth. Publication in a PIAHS volume permits wider dissemination of these regional studies. Collectively, the papers cover studies from the East European plain, Kola Peninsula Mountains, Central Siberian Plateau, and the Kamchatka peninsula, as well as river catchments in Japan and Italy.

This PIAHS volume continues the long-term tradition of stand-alone proceedings from meetings convened by the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE-IAHS). Since 1981, ICCE has arranged a sequence of conferences and published 36 proceedings – and this volume discusses the ICCE story through a detailed scientometric analysis of past ICCE activities (Bondarev).

The first part of this volume comprises regional studies of soil and gully erosion (Sharifullin et al.; Gafurov et al.; Garankina et al.). The section also includes examples of an integrated approach to the study of sediment origin (Chalov et al.).

The second part of the volume is devoted to river process and connections with sediment transport issues. It includes novel studies of sediment yield presented by case studies from Italy (Porto and Callegari), the Kamchatka peninsula (Kuksina), Caucuses mountains (Tsyplenkov et al.) and channel erosion research (Golovlyov et al.; Fingert et al.; Kuznetsova et al.).

The third part of the volume links sediment transport processes and lake sedimentation, as well as environmental impacts. It mostly includes studies on the reconstruction of the long-term dynamics of sedimentation (Konoplev et al.; Wakiyama et al.; Garankina et al.), but also focuses on river runoff processes and salmon migration (Moreydo).

The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) was established on 28 July 1919 in Brussels, Belgium at the Inaugural General Assembly of the International Research Council (now the International Science Council) to promote activities of already-existing international scientific societies dealing with geodesy, terrestrial magnetism and electricity, meteorology, physical oceanography, seismology, and volcanology.

To celebrate the centenary of IUGG a special issue was compiled in the open-access journal History of Geo- and Space Sciences.
The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics: from different spheres to a common globe (https://www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/special_issue996.html)
Editor(s): A. Ismail-Zadeh and J. A. Joselyn

The special issue (SI) is comprised of 11 articles describing the history of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and its eight International Associations. The SI is dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the Union, which has been coordinating and promoting international efforts in Earth and space sciences since 1919.
The purpose of this SI is not to relay a definitive history of the development of international cooperation in geosciences, but to summarize IUGG's remarkable role during the 100-year span of its existence. The first three articles present the history of IUGG from its founding through the years of extraordinary development of geophysical sciences and the concurrent evolution of the Union's structure and programs extending up to its advances at the beginning of the 21st century. Outstanding histories of each of the IUGG Associations are then presented.

Two articles are of special relevance to IAHS:

IAHS: a brief history of hydrology
Dan Rosbjerg and John Rodda
Hist. Geo Space. Sci., 10, 109-118, https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-109-2019, 2019

Short summary
After describing the hydrological cycle and defining hydrology in the introduction, the early historical development of hydrology is briefly presented. Then the incorporation of hydrology within the IUGG and the subsequent development of the association are described chronologically. Finally, in the conclusions, the present state of the association is discussed together with an outlook for the future.

And

IACS: past, present, and future of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences
Ian Allison, Charles Fierz, Regine Hock, Andrew Mackintosh, Georg Kaser, and Samuel U. Nussbaumer
Hist. Geo Space. Sci., 10, 97-107, https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-97-2019, 2019

Short summary
The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) became the eighth and most recent association of IUGG in July 2007. IACS was launched in recognition of the importance of the cryosphere, particularly at a time of significant global change. The forbears of IACS, however, start with the 1894 Commission Internationale des Glaciers (CIG). This paper traces the transition from CIG to IACS; scientific objectives that drove activities and changes, and key events and individuals involved.

More information on the history of IAHS can be found at https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/History-of-IAHS.do

Congratulations to the recipients of the International Hydrology Prize (Dooge medal and Volker medal) and Tison award for 2019!

The International Hydrology Prize is awarded annually by IAHS, with UNESCO and WMO, to two people who have made an outstanding contribution to hydrological science. The 2019 IHP medals were awarded during the 27th IUGG General Assembly in Montreal, Canada as follows:

Dooge medal - Alberto Montanari, at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy 'For pioneering contributions to understanding hydrological systems in the presence of environmental and climatic change.'
For the full citation and response see the IAHS webpage https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/International-Hydrology-Prize/International-Hydrology-Prize-Winners/A-Montanari.do

Volker medal - Jan Szolgay, at the Slovak Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Slovakia 'In recognition of his international leadership in engineering hydrological research for the benefit of society.'
For the full citation and response see the IAHS webpage https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/International-Hydrology-Prize/International-Hydrology-Prize-Winners/J-Szolgay.do

The 2019 Tison Award was presented to Sandra Pool (Switzerland) and Marc Vis (The Netherlands) for the paper:

Sandra Pool, Marc Vis & Jan Seibert (2018) Evaluating model performance: towards a non-parametric variant of the Kling-Gupta efficiency, Hydrological Sciences Journal,
63:13-14, 1941-1953, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2018.1552002
 
The IAHS Tison Award, established in 1982, aims to promote excellence in research by young hydrologists. The Award is granted for an outstanding paper published by IAHS in a period of two years previous to the deadline for nominations.

For the full citation and response see the IAHS web page: https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/Tison-Award/Tison-Award-winners/S-Pool--M-Vis/

The paper is available free to view.

Results of the 2019 elections held during the IAHS Administrative Plenary on Tuesday 9th July. The offices will be held for the period 2019-2023, except for the Presidents who were elected in 2015 and whose mandate is 2017-2021. In 2021 the Presidents will become Past-President and the President-Elect will become President.

	Position	Candidates	Nationality / Residence
IAHS	President	Günter Blöschl	Austria
	President-Elect	Berit Arheimer	Sweden
	VP	Salvatore Grimaldi	Italy
	VP	Paola Passalacqua	Italy / USA
	VP	Zongxue Xu	China
	Secretary General	Christophe Cudennec	France
ICCE	President	Adrian Collins	UK
	President-Elect	Paolo Porto	Italy
	VP	Yuri da Silva	Brazil
	VP	Xudong Fu	China
	VP	Allen Gellis	USA
	Secretary	Sergey Chalov	Russia
ICCLAS	President	Harald Kunstmann	Germany
	President-Elect	Richard Petrone	Canada
	VP	Monica Garcia	Spain / USA
	VP	Kanishka Mallick	India / Luxembourg
	VP	Fuqiang Tian	China
	Secretary	Christopher White	UK
ICGW	President	Aldo Fiori	Italy
	President-Elect	Felipe de Barros	Brazil / USA
	VP	Roseanna Neupauer	USA
	VP	Daniele Pedretti	Italy / Finland
	VP	Alraune Zech	Germany
	Secretary	Antonio Zarlenga	Italy
ICRS	President	Yangbo Chen	China
	President-Elect	Amir AghaKouchak	Iran / USA
	VP	Yaning Chen	China
	VP	Chris Hopkinson	Canada
	VP	Maria Jose Polo Gomez	Spain
	Secretary	Gilles Boulet	France
ICSH	President	Ashish Sharma	Australia
	President-Elect	Elena Volpi	Italy
	VP	Yuanfang Chen	China
	VP	Svenja Fischer	Germany
	VP	Chris Kochanek	Poland
	Secretary	Ilaria Prosdocimi	Italy / Belgium
ICSIH	President	Tobias Jonas	Switzerland
	President-Elect	Melody Sandells	UK
	VP	Tim Link	USA
	VP	James McPhee	USA / Chile
	VP	McKenzie Skiles	USA
	Secretary	Vsevolod Moreydo	Russia
ICSW	President	Gil Mahé	France
	President-Elect	David Hannah	UK
	VP	Ernest Amoussou	Bénin
	VP	Alain Dezetter	France
	VP	Guoqin Wang	China
	Secretary	Yonca Cavus	Turkey
ICT	President	Christine Stumpp	Austria
	President-Elect	Zhonghe Pang	China
	VP	Søren Jessen	Denmark
	VP	Maki Tsujimura	Japan
	VP	Tricia Stadnyk	Canada
	Secretary	Przemyslaw Wachniew	Poland
ICWQ	President	Wouter Buytaert	UK
	Co-President-Elect	Xiaohong Chen	China
	Co-President-Elect	Elango Lakshmanan	India
	VP	Alena Bartosova	Czech Rep. / Sweden
	VP	Stefan Krause	Germany / UK
	VP	Hongyi Li	China / USA
	Secretary	Geneviève Ali	Canada
ICWRS	President	Andreas Schumann	Germany
	President-Elect	Barry Croke	Australia
	VP	Jennifer Adam	USA
	VP	Jean-Marie Kileshye	Congo / Zimbabwe
	VP	Marloes Mul	Netherlands
	Secretary	Alberto Viglione	Italy

The 4th International Conference on the Hydrology of African Large River Basins will take place in Cotonou, Rep. of Benin from 24 to 28 November 2020.

It is organized in the frame of the UNESCO-IHP FRIEND-Water program, with the support of IAHS.

The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to 22nd of September 2019.

You can submit your abstracts here:
https://friendgrandsfleuvesafriquecotonou2020.org/fr/soumission/

A number of training sessions will follow the event. They will be advertised on the conference website.

Communications to the conference will be collected to be submitted to publication in a special issue of the PIAHS (indexed WOS and Scopus).

You can also follow the conference news on ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/4th-FRIEND-IAHS-International-Conference-on-the-Hydrology-of-African-Large-river-Basins

Gil Mahe FRIEND FIGCC Chair
Ernest Amoussou FRIEND AOC coordinator and main organizer