The South African National Committee of the International Association of Hydrological Scientists (SANCIAHS) invites you to participate in the 2017 IAHS Scientific Assembly to be held from July 10-14 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

The theme of the meeting is "Water and Development: scientific challenges in addressing societal issues” which is particularly appropriate in the context of an IAHS Scientific Assembly meeting being held for the first time in sub-Saharan Africa and is well aligned with the IAHS Panta Rhei.

The scientific programme will cover the following topics. Abstract submission will soon be open.


# Water security and the food-water-energy nexus: drivers, responses and feedbacks at local to global scales
# Hydrology and the Anthropocene
# Understanding spatio-temporal variability of water resources and the implications for IWRM in the semi-arid east and southern Africa
# Water Balance and Crop Water Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa Agricultural Watersheds
# Land use change impacts on water resources
# Water resources management and the competition/balance between humans and ecosystems (eco-hydrology)
# Measurements in the 21st century: innovation in hydrological observations
# Environmental and artificial tracers as indicators in hydrology
# Innovative ICT tools for water management and science
# Prediction in ungauged basins
# Modelling hydrological processes for prediction under change
# Probabilistic forecasts and land-atmosphere interactions to advance hydrological predictions
# Extreme events: links between science and practice
# Advances in cold-region hydrological models: Integration of process understanding and application to climate and landcover changes
# Operational snowmelt runoff modelling: Advances and prospects for water management
# Water quality and sediment transport issues in surface water
# Long-term evolution in catchment water quality
# Changing biogeochemistry of aquatic systems in the Anthropocene: inter-comparison of data and models for predicting water quality
# Advancements in modeling and characterization of aquifer
# Methodologies for risk assessment of groundwater contamination
# Quantifying uncertainty in hydrological systems: A Bayesian point of view
# Nonstationarity in Hydrology: Theories, Methods and Applications
# Multivariate statistics for hydrological application
# Stochastic hydrology: simulation and disaggregation models
# Graduate Schools in Water Sciences
# Facilitating Scientific contributions in water diplomacy and cooperation processes

Further information is available on the website: http://cwrr.ukzn.ac.za/iahs/call-for-papers/iahs-2017-in-south-africa---invitation