The IAHS is pleased to announce that the three volumes of Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences from the July 2017 IAHS Scientific Assembly in Port Elizabeth, South Africa are all now available online open access.

Volume 378 
Understanding spatio-temporal variability of water resources and the implications for IWRM in semi-arid eastern and southern Africa.
Editors: H. Makurira, D. Mazvimavi, J.-M. Kileshye-Onema, E. Kapangaziwiri, and W. Gumindoga

This volume contains 14 peer-reviewed papers that focus on integrated water resources management in the southern Africa region and are a culmination of extensive research in five broad themes, namely, (1) hydrological modelling (2) groundwater hydrology (3) application of earth observations in water resources assessments (4) water allocation and use and (5) water quality management. Southern Africa offers wide research opportunities to solve challenges related to the assessment of surface and groundwater resources, water supply and sanitation, water pollution and allocation. However, data scarcity and difficulty in accessing research sites discourage many research efforts. The papers in this Volume are research outputs from mainly postgraduate studies conducted at universities in southern Africa with the sole aim of contributing to knowledge in water sciences that will facilitate informed decision-making and policy formulation by water managers and practitioners in the region.

Volume 377
Water quality and sediment transport issues in surface water.
Editors: G. Mahe, K. Heal, A. B. Gupta, and H. Aksoy

Sediment transport and water quality are modified by human activities all along river courses. If research focuses only on pristine basins and large dams, little is known about the quality of the waters flowing to the sea. Most rivers around the world are regulated to some extent by hydraulic infrastructure, even in developing countries. How river management impacts on water quality and sediment transport from the upper basins to coastal areas is not well known in many countries, especially in the developing world, even though this may have strong and long lasting effects on coastal geomorphology and ecosystems. In a time where many people try to explain the coastal recession that is observed on many coastlines, from the sea level rise and thus from “global change”, knowledge of the actual sediment transport to the sea could bring new perspectives, as the reduction of riverine sediment transfer certainly contributes to this recession. One of the associated questions is what is the role of the human impact on these processes? At what speed do these changes take place? This proceeding volume gathers together communications about water quality and sediment transport monitoring and modeling, especially for large river basins, with a focus on the relationships between estuarine river systems and coastal areas in terms of water quality and sediment load. There are also studies presenting diverse methods for estimating the amount of sediment released to the sea and its variability in time.

Volume 376
Water security and the food–water–energy nexus: drivers, responses and feedbacks at local to global scales.
Editor(s): G. Jewitt and B. Croke

The papers presented in this special issue were part of a symposium held during the IAHS Scientific Assembly in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in July 2017. Contributions were invited that investigated the issue of water security and more broadly the food-water-energy nexus; including investigation of water quality as well as quantity, hydro-economics, education, transboundary issues, the influence of processes operating at local to global scales, as well as those that compared conclusions drawn from local and global studies. The papers presented in this special issue cover a wide range of topics, and have a broad geographical focus.

We are thrilled to invite you to the STAHY 2018 conference in Adelaide, Australia. Abstract registration is now open.
 
The International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) invites researchers to submit abstracts for presentation at the ninth edition of the STAHY International Workshop, STAHY 2018. STAHY 2018 will bring together the experts – academics and practitioners – and young scientists alike for vibrant scientific discussions and debates. STAHY 2018 will be held in Adelaide, South Australia from 24-26 September 2018.
 
Please note that all abstracts are welcome and should conform to the required format and be uploaded to the online submission system.
 
STAHY 2018 will focus on statistical methods for hydrological applications. The themes of the workshop are:

• Modelling of hydrological and hydro-meteorological events
• Advances in hydrological forecasting and data series analysis
• New insights into flood frequency analysis and risk assessment
• New insights into arid and semi-arid hydrology

STAHY 2018 will also celebrate the contributions of Prof George Kuczera, a stalwart of the Australian and international hydrological communities. George has made tremendous contributions to hydrological research and practice over the last 40 years, and this workshop will provide an opportunity for all of us to celebrate these achievements.
 
Important dates
Abstract Submission Deadline 01 July 2018
Early Bird Registration Deadline 31 July 2018
Registration Deadline 31 August 2018
Conference Date 24-26 September 2018

Venue
The workshop will be held in the Beachside Function Centre of the Glenelg Pier hotel, which is located on the Glenelg foreshore and offers stunning ocean views.

The Glenelg Pier Hotel
18 Holdfast Promenade
Glenelg SA 5045
 
Registration will be opening soon, information available here. For more information or to keep up to date with STAHY 2018 visit https://www.stahy2018.org/
 
We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you in Adelaide.

Best Regards,
The local organising committee

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Dear IAHS members

Please find below two announcements of Summer Schools.

The Summer School on Runoff Predictions in Ungauged Basins will run at the TU Wien, Austria from July 1-6, 2018. The purpose of the Summer School is to learn methods for estimating runoff characteristics in the absence of local runoff observations.

http://www.waterresources.at/fileadmin/user_uploads/News_items/PUB_2018_Flyer.pdf


The 9th Annual Catchment Science Summer School will run at the University of Birmingham UK from Aug 26-31, 2018. The course is designed for PhD students and Post Docs in catchment science.

https://www.usask.ca/watershed/teaching/catchment-science-summer-school.php


Please forward to potentially interested people.


Best wishes

Günter Blöschl
IAHS President

Congratulations to the recipients of the International Hydrology Prize (Dooge medal and Volker medal) and Tison award for 2018!

Left to right: Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General IAHS), Johannes Cullmann (Director, Climate and Water Department WMO), Howard Wheater (Dooge Medal Recipient), Andreas Schumann (Volker Medal Recipient), Ryan T. Bailey (Tison Award Recipient), Abou Amani (Chief of Section HSS, UNESCO), Günter Blöschl (President IAHS).

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 2018 IHP medals were awarded during the WMO Conference for Prosperity through Hydrological Services (HydroConference) as follows:

IHP Dooge Medal: Howard Wheater (Canada)
"In recognition of his international leadership in hydrological research of scientific excellence, coupled with its translation into policy and practice and application worldwide.” For the full citation and response see the IAHS webpage https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/International-Hydrology-Prize/International-Hydrology-Prize-Winners/H.Wheater.do

IHP Volker medal:  Andreas Schumann (Germany)
“For pioneering contributions to water resources 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/A.Schumann.do

The Tison award was presented to Ryan Bailey and is shared by Ryan T. Bailey (USA) & Saman Tavakoli Kivi (Iran) for the paper:

Ryan T. Bailey & Saman Tavakoli Kivi (2017) Method for estimating available groundwater volume of small coral islands, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 62:14, 2381-2392, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2017.1382703

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/Bailey--Tavakoli-Kivi/
The paper is available open access.

The first two volumes of proceedings from the IAHS 2017 Scientific Assembly are now available online open access as PIAHS volumes 376 and 377

Volume 377, 2018 Water quality and sediment transport issues in surface water
IAHS Scientific Assembly 2017, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 10–14 July 2017
Editors: G. Mahe, K. Heal, A. B. Gupta, and H. Aksoy

Volume 376, 2018 Water security and the food–water–energy nexus: drivers, responses and feedbacks at local to global scales
IAHS Scientific Assembly 2017, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 10–14 July 2017
Editors: G. Jewitt and B. Croke

The articles are available for download and printed versions of the volumes are available from Copernicus.

The IUGG Annual Report 2017 is now available at http://www.iugg.org/publications/reports/report2017.pdf   It provides a summary of the activities of the Union, its Associations, Commissions and Programs. IUGG thanks all who contributed to the report.

The 8th Global FRIEND-Water Conference will focus on the theme of hydrological processes and water security in a changing world, under which eight sessions will cover the topics including:

• Hydrological observations under the changing environment and scarcity
• River regimes and hydrological extremes under the changing environment
• Simulation and prediction of surface water and groundwater processes under the impact of human activities
• Urban hydrology and sponge city
• Multi-objective water resources allocation and operation
• Integrated watershed management including eco-hydrology and socio-hydrology
• Water quality and sediment transport including coastal hydrology: changes under climate change and human activities
• River health and ecological baseflow under changing environment

A post conference technical tour will be arranged to visit water related projects and facilities of Beijing.

The key dates are now as follows:
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2018
Notification of acceptance (oral or posters) and invitation issue date: May 15, 2018
Full paper/Extended Abstract submission deadline: July 30, 2018

Full information is available at http://8thfriendwater.iwhr.org/40?lang=en

On the Theme of: 23 unsolved problems in Hydrology that would revolutionise research in the 21st century

Report

We had excellent meetings on Friday 13 April 2018 (Splinter meeting at EGU in Vienna) and on Saturday 14 April (Vienna Catchment Symposium at TU Wien) with about 60 and 110 people attending, respectively.

These are the questions resulting from the LinkedIn discussion, the Friday Splinter meeting and additional email contributions received before Friday.
https://iahs.info/uploads/Unsolved%20Problems%20in%20Hydrology/Questions_13_April_2018_edited1613.pdf

On Saturday we had three rounds of discussions in four break out groups and one final plenary discussion. In each round we discussed the questions, merged them, split them and reworded them as needed followed by a voting on prioritising the questions. The voting was for gold/silver/bronze/remove in each of the three break out group rounds. Only the gold and silver ones were retained for the plenary with an additional round of voting (by the entire plenary) for gold, silver or removing them from the list. The idea of the process was to whittle down the 260 questions initially proposed to a more coherent and smaller set of those questions deemed most important by the participants. The process resulted in 16 gold and 29 silver questions which are posted here.
https://iahs.info/uploads/Unsolved%20Problems%20in%20Hydrology/Questions_14_April_2018_plenary.pdf

A paper drafting team (Günter Blöschl, Elena Toth, Jeff McDonnell, Gia Destouni, Antonio Chambel, Elena Volpi, Jim Kirchner, Marc Bierkens, Christine Stumpp, Christophe Cudennec, Hubert Savenije, Siva Sivapalan, Aldo Fiori) has been formed to
- check whether there are any obvious ‘holes’ in the list and propose a small number of additional questions if needed
- wordsmith the questions
- start with an initial draft of the summary paper.

The updated list of questions will be circulated among the co-authors (those who have substantially contributed to the process which will be around 160 scientists) with a final voting on the list, and the co-authors will also be asked to provide suggestions for any changes to the paper draft.

The plan is to submit the paper to HSJ.

Many thanks again for all your contributions

Günter