Dear colleagues,                      

Please find attached the flyer for the 7th International Water Resources Management Conference, which will take place at the Ruhr- University Bochum, Germany, from May 18th to 20th 2016.

The conference is entitled: 'The spatial dimensions of water management - Redistribution of benefits and risks'

I hope that this conference announcement will be attract you to participate and contribute.

Please be aware that the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to the 7th of November 2015.

Detailed information is available at the conference website:

http://iahs-rub.hydrology.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

Sincerely

Andreas Schumann

7th IWRM Conference Flyer

The Measurements & Observations in the XXIst Century (MOXXI) working group has been established to promote the advancement of novel observational techniques and to lead to new sources of information to help in better understanding the hydrological cycle. MOXXI provides a reference place to share novel,  multidisciplinary, and often unintended approaches for the observation of hydrological processes.

MOXXI initiatives include organizing topical international meetings, hosting workshops at major hydrological conferences, promoting special issues in peer-reviewed journals, and organizing schools and hands-on courses on innovative observational methodologies in hydrology.

Since the 26th IUGG General Assembly in Prague, MOXXI’s website has a new appearance and hosts dedicated pages for the working group’s friends, events, publications, pictures, and laboratories (http://iahs.info/Commissions--W-Groups/Working-Groups/MOXXI.do). Further, regular updates on MOXXI’s initiatives are disseminated to friends through a newsletter. If you would like to know more about the group’s activities, please send your email address to anyone of the group’s executive team members:

Flavia Tauro ([email protected])  
Rolf Hut ([email protected]) 
Theresa Blume ([email protected])

During the IUGG General Assembly in July the IAHS Bureau thanked Alberto Montanari for his leadership of Panta Rhei during the first biennium and appointed Hilary McMillan (NIWA, New Zealand) as Chair of the second biennium (2015-2017).

The second biennium has a leadership team of six scientists: Dr. Heidi Kreibich (Germany, Changes in flood risk);  Dr. Junguo Liu (China, Water scarcity); Dr. Anne Van Loon (UK, Droughts); Dr. Alfonso Mejia (USA, Urban water systems);  Dr. Dinis Juízo (Mozambique, Hydraulics and Water Resources Management) and Dr. Tobias Krüger (Germany, Transdisciplinarity).

Information about Panta Rhei can be found at http://iahs.info/Commissions--W-Groups/Working-Groups/Panta-Rhei/.

The paper detailing the science progress during the first biennium: 'Panta Rhei 2013-2015: Global perspectives on hydrology, society and change' has been submitted for publication to HSJ. This paper covers diverse topics from hydrological models, data and predictability in the Anthropocene; descriptions and study of the human – water system; water governance and water scarcity; societal impacts on floods and droughts. 

The Panta Rhei working groups have also been invited to prepare a paper for a special issue of HESS (Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal). The special issue is open for submissions from 1 Oct 2015 - 1 Oct 2016. 'Panta Rhei: Opinions and progress towards hydrology for a changing world'. More information will be posted on the Panta Rhei News webpage as it becomes available (http://iahs.info/Commissions--W-Groups/Working-Groups/Panta-Rhei/Panta-Rhei-News.do).

We also invite any IAHS readers who are not yet involved in Panta Rhei, to look at the list of working groups and contact the working group leader of any that they would like to join. If you are interested in starting a new working group, then please to contact Hilary McMillan.

Hydrological Sciences Journal Volume 60, Issue 7-8, 2015

Special Issue:   Modelling Temporally-variable Catchments

The Special Issue was published in August 2015 and is available via the Taylor and Francis website.

Two years ago, a workshop about challenges in modelling temporally-variable catchments was organized as part of the IAHS/IAPSO/IASPEI Joint Assembly (22-26 July 2013, Gothenburg, Sweden). This participative workshop gave modellers the opportunity to confront their own models on a selection of temporally-variable catchments following a predefined calibration/evaluation modelling protocol.

This Special Issue disseminates the main outcomes of the workshop and contains 19 articles (see the Volume 60, Issue 7-8, 2015, of the HSJ). Included in the Special Issue, two articles, Thirel et al. (2015a, b), are currently free-to-view on the HSJ website as Featured Articles. 

Thirel, G., Andréassian, V., Perrin, C., 2015a. On the need to test hydrological models under changing conditions. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 60:7-8, pages 1165-1173, DOI:10.1080/02626667.2015.1050027.

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

This special issue also includes papers following alternative testing methodologies, as well as an opinion paper on the definition of non-stationarity (Koutsoyiannis & Montanari – currently also free-to-view).

The remaining papers in the issue are available to purchase directly through the Taylor & Francis website and to IAHS members through the membership subscription rate (online/online+print - go to HSJLink to order).   IAHS members in the poorest countries receive free online subscriptions.
Member subscriptions are accessed using your personal log in at HSJLink in the IAHS membership area. IAHS membership is free of charge.

This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 4th IAHR Europe Congress is in less than two weeks from now. The deadline is 1st October 2015.

Submit your abstract here: http://www.iahr2016.ulg.ac.be/

The upcoming IAHR Europe Congress will be hosted by the University of Liege, Belgium, from 27 to 29 July 2016. It is the fourth in a successful series, formerly held in Edinburgh 2010, Munich 2012 and Porto 2014. This congress has become a prestigious event in the agenda of hydro-environment researchers and practitioners from all over Europe and beyond. It will provide a unique forum for scientists, professionals, managers and policy-makers to share recent research advances and be updated on the latest technology in all branches of hydraulic and water engineering.

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IAHS are pleased to announce our co-sponsorship of the 4th IAHR Europe Congress to be held in Liege, Belgium 27-29 July 2016.

Abstract submission is now available for the Congress entitled 'Sustainable hydraulics in the era of global change'. 

Key Dates

Second Announcement

Further details are available from http://www.iahr2016.ulg.ac.be/.

At the IUGG in Prague in July 2015 Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz stood down as editor of the Hydrological Sciences Journal after 18 years in charge. 

Address to the retiring editor of HSJ Zbyszek Kundzewicz by Demetris Koutsoyiannis.

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In July 2015 Attilio Castellarin joined Demetris Koutsoyiannis and Mike Acreman as co-editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal.

Welcome, Attilio, as HSJ Co-Editor by Demetris Koutsoyiannis.

The IAHS Bureau in Gothenburg (July 2013) agreed to gradually renew the panel of the Co-Editors of Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ) and increase their number from two (Zbyszek Kundzewicz and Demetris Koutsoyiannis), to three. Since April 2014, Mike Acreman was appointed as new Co-Editor, while in April 2015 Zbyszek Kundzewicz retired, after 18 years of leading HSJ.

The IAHS Bureau in Prague (June 2015) unanimously accepted an earlier proposal by the IAHS Ltd Board meeting (February 2015) that the new HSJ Co-Editor, who would replace Zbyszek, would be Attilio Castellarin.

Attilio is Associate Professor of Water Engineering and Hydrology at the University of Bologna. He received his Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering (major in Environmental Engineering) with honours in 1996 from the University of Bologna and his PhD in Water Engineering in 2001 from the Polytechnic of Milan. Since 2006 he teaches Hydraulic Infrastructures, Hydrological Modelling, and Water Resources Engineering and Management to undergraduate and graduate students of the School of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Bologna. He collaborates with UNESCO/IHE, USGS, TUW (Austria) and Tufts University (USA) within their training and scientific research programmes. He is author and co-author of 45 papers on journals indexed in WoS and Scopus. His research interests include hydrological applications for environmental and civil engineering: analysis of extreme hydrological events; hydrological predictions in ungauged watersheds; sustainable water resources management; anthropogenic and climate variability effects on hydrological processes; one- and two-dimensional hydraulic modelling; flood-hazard and flood-risk assessment and mapping. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Hydrology (winner of the Associate Editor award in 2013) and Water Resources Research. He has also been a very active and responsible reviewer of HSJ.

Attilio’s scientific and teaching achievements, his successful editorial career and good reputation in other, top quality hydrological journals, as well as his enthusiastic acceptance of the HSJ Co-Editor position, accompanied with full and unreserved commitment to HSJ, are the first signs of a bright future in our collaboration and in leadership of the journal. His young age signifies the IAHS policy to engage the young generation of hydrologists into its activities, a policy also manifest in its new decade-long “Panta Rhei” initiative.

I have no doubt that the three Co-Editors together will achieve much for the benefit of HSJ and the international hydrological community.

Welcome, Attilio as HJS Co-Editor and good luck in your new capacity.

Research to operations (and vice versa) in hydrological forecasting

Contributed by Maria-Helena Ramos, Fredrik Wetterhall, Andy Wood, Julie Demargne, Qingyun Duan, Liz Stephens and Massimiliano Zappa.

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