Prof. Des Walling retired in February 2016 as chair of the Board of IAHS Ltd. IAHS President Hubert Savenije and Secretary-General Christophe Cudennec thanked Des for his outstanding contribution to IAHS over more than 20 years. Des remains Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter from where he received his PhD. Des has had a highly distinguished career as a hydrologist, specialising in erosion and sediment yields and catchment sediment budgets. Amongst his many awards, in 2007 he was the recipient of the International Hydrology Prize awarded jointly by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO. He is a past President of the IAHS International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE). Des has authored more than 460 scientific papers, including many in HSJ, and edited 30 books amongst which are several Red Books dating back to 1982. Mike Acreman, secretary to IAHS and co-Editor HSJ, presented Des with a book on British rivers and a card to mark the occasion.

“From Evaporation to Precipitation: the atmospheric moisture transport”

October 25-27, 2016 Ourense, Spain

http://ephyslab.uvigo.es/eguleonardo2016/ 

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The 2016 Tison Award was presented to Guillaume Thirel, Jean-Nicolas Audouy, Lionel Berthet, Carina Furusho, Anna Kuentz, Julien Lerat, Thibault Mathevet, & Denis Ruelland.

For the paper:
G. Thirel, V. Andréassian, C. Perrin, J.-N. Audouy, L. Berthet, P. Edwards, N. Folton, C. Furusho, A. Kuentz, J. Lerat, G. Lindström, E. Martin, T. Mathevet, R. Merz, J. Parajka, D. Ruelland & J. Vaze (2015) Hydrology under change: an evaluation protocol to investigate how hydrological models deal with changing catchments, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 60:7-8, 1184-1199, DOI:10.1080/02626667.2014.967248

Left to Right:  Hubert Savenije (President, IAHS), Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General, IAHS), Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros (UNESCO), Mike Acreman (Co-editor HSJ), Guillaume Thirel (Irstea, Tison Award Recipient), Thibault Mathevet (EDF-DTG, Tison Award Recipient), Lionel Berthet (DREAL Centre-Val de Loire,  Tison Award Recipient), Tommaso Abrate (WMO). 

The paper is available open access: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02626667.2014.967248  

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.

http://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/Tison-Award.do  

Congratulations to the recipients of the International Hydrology Prize (Dooge medal and Volker medal) for 2016!

 
THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL HYDROLOGY PRIZE MEDALISTS
Dooge medal: Jeffrey McDonnell (Canada)

Left to Right:  Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros (UNESCO), Jeffrey McDonnell (Dooge Medal Recipient), Hubert Savenije (President, IAHS), Tommaso Abrate (WMO), Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General, IAHS).

Volker medal: Denis Hughes (South Africa)

Left to Right: Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros (UNESCO), Denis Hughes (Volker Medal Recipient), Hubert Savenije (President, IAHS), Tommaso Abrate (WMO), Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General, IAHS).

Awarded during the 12th Kovacs meeting at UNESCO in Paris, France (15th June 2016).

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.

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 and representatives of 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.

http://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/International-Hydrology-Prize.do  

HYDROLOGICAL INPUTS FOR WATER-RELATED SDGS IMPLEMENTATION: KNOWLEDGE, DATA, INDICATORS, TOOLS & INNOVATIONS

This year, the Kovacs Colloquium will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, during the 22nd Session of the Intergovernmental Council of the IHP on 15 June 2016. It will comprise several invited lectures, a panel and a poster session on the role of hydrology and water resources, particularly on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement of the COP-21. Programme

The Colloquium will focus on the inputs for water-related SDGs implementation adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations in September 2015. It will address methodological issues and challenges for SDGs implementation and monitoring using a set of global indicators, in particular, SDG 6 addressing water issues, and transversal and related SDGs such as end of poverty (SDG 1), food security (SGD 2), well-being (SDG 3), energy (SDG 7), disasters (SDG 11), climate change (SDG 13) and international cooperation (SDG 17).

All interested hydrologists, water resources professionals, scientists, policymakers and students are invited to participate in the 12th Kovacs Colloquium.

To register, please complete the registration form before 31 May 2016.

List of Participants

7th International Water Resources Management Conference of ICWRS. Bochum IAHS - 18-20 May 2016

The spatial dimensions of water management - Redistribution of benefits and risks

Registration Deadline 11 May 2016

Programme book

Further details on the programme and registration are available from http://iahs-rub.hydrology.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/node/8 Conference flyer

The spatial aspects, which will be discussed during this meeting are extensive. The main topics of presentations are:

Spatial aspects of water supply and the redistribution of benefits from water
Floods and spatial aspects of flood risks
Spatial dimensions of water scarcity
Scale problems of water management ? when the summation of individual measures becomes a problem
Hydrological regionalization issues
The spatial dimension in socio-hydrology

International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE) Symposium 2016, Rothamsted Research, North Wyke - 11th-15th July

The final closing date to submit abstracts is 15th May and the deadline to register for the conference is 17th May.

If you haven’t already registered for this event, please use the following link for more details and to book your place:-

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/icce-symposium-2016-integrating-monitoring-and-modellingfor-understanding-predicting-and-managing-tickets-19697026336 

Please send any abstracts either to [email protected] directly or to [email protected] 

12th Kovacs Colloquium
15 June, 2016, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
International Hydrological Prize and Tison Award Ceremony

HYDROLOGICAL INPUTS FOR WATER-RELATED SDGS IMPLEMENTATION:
KNOWLEDGE, DATA, INDICATORS, TOOLS & INNOVATIONS

Every two years, the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) organise the Kovacs Colloquium, a series of international scientific meetings in the most challenging fields of water resources research. These meetings also commemorate the late George Kovacs, an established authority on hydrology, who served as Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of IHP and as Secretary General and President of IAHS.
 
This year, the Kovacs Colloquium will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, during the 22nd Session of the Intergovernmental Council of the IHP on 15 June 2016. It will comprise several invited lectures, a panel and a poster sessions on the role of hydrology and water resources, particularly on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement of the COP-21.
 
The Colloquium will focus on the inputs for water-related SDGs implementation adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations in September 2015. It will address methodological issues and challenges for SDGs implementation and monitoring using a set of global indicators, in particular, SDG 6 addressing water issues, and transversal and related SDGs such as end of poverty (SDG 1), food security (SGD 2), well-being (SDG 3), energy (SDG 7), disasters (SDG 11), climate change (SDG 13) and international cooperation (SDG 17).
 
All interested hydrologists, water resources professionals, scientists, policymakers and students are invited to participate in the poster session presenting hydrological inputs for water-related SDGs implementation: knowledge, data, indicators, tools & innovations. Proposals to enhance the exchange of knowledge between scientists, local communities and decision-makers to better respond to environmental changes, to improve water management resources and to contribute to SDGs monitoring and implementation are encouraged.
 
Young women scientists from Least Developed Countries are encouraged to participate.
 
Poster abstracts should not be more than two pages in length, including figures and tables. Two-page abstracts of selected posters will be invited for publication in the final PIAHS e-volume, which will be ISI indexed. See the attached guidelines for poster proposals.
 
Further conditions prior to publication will be communicated to selected authors.
 
To register your abstract submissions, please complete the following form before 1 May 2016. Participants should take care of any related travel expenses and visa process to attend the Colloquium, as the organizers will not cover any such expenses nor undertake any action with regard to visa issues.
 
Related Information:
List of Participants
Registration for Participants
Guidelines for Poster Proposals

https://en.unesco.org/feedback/12th-kovacs-colloquium-call-posters 

 If you are at EGU, I would like to particularly request you to attend our Panta Rhei PICO session HS1.1 on "Panta Rhei: Early career scientists’ vision and progress for research in hydrology, society and change", Tue, 19 Apr, 10:30–12:00 / PICO spot 1.

The location is on Brown level -2, near the X1 posters. After invited talks from our early career scientist speakers, the session will include audience discussion and be a chance for you to influence the Panta Rhei future directions, so please bring along your questions and comments. Everyone is welcome, not just early career scientists!

Other sessions related to Panta Rhei that may interest you are:

HS7.4 Change in climate, hydrology and society
HS5.5 Hydrology & Society: Transdisciplinary approaches to hydrology and water resources management
HS5.4 Advances in socio-hydrology

Hilary McMillan