IAHS co-convenes sessions on Freshwater at the International Scientific Conference “Our common future under climate change”, 7-10 July 2015, Paris, France, the largest scientific event ahead of the UNFCCC COP21 negotiations to be held in December 2015.

Climate change and freshwater – 1: State of knowledge / 2: Shaping the future

Convening partners: IAHS-UNESCO-WMO-French research coordination Allenvi

The freshwater cycle, including groundwater, is embedded in the climatic system. The freshwater cycle is also a strong structural and functional driver linking processes, locations, scales, uses and hazards, and socio-institutional entities and dynamics. The freshwater cycle also provides a key interface between the atmosphere, the geosphere, the biosphere and the anthroposphere; and between the basic needs, especially for water, food, energy and health. Although the fundamental physics behind climate processes is rather straightforward, the impact of climate change on local water resources is difficult to quantify with limited uncertainty (IPCC 2014).

Two sessions will address these issues across the first days of the conference, with a conceptual progression from actual knowledge towards approaches to shape the future.

Contributions submissions by 2nd March at www.commonfuture-paris2015.org

Due to the increased interest in the abstract submission for the 26th IUGG General Assembly in the last few days the Local Organizing Committee decided to extend the Abstract Submission Deadline until February 8, 2015. If you have not yet submitted your abstract, do not miss your chance to be part of the Scientific Programme.

When 22 June - 2 July 2015
Where Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic
Website www.iugg2015prague.com

New Abstract submission deadline JH3, HW01-HW18 8 February 2015
You can review these 'at a glance' in our pdf file or you can easily print the full description of each session from our sessions list.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENT AND SEASONAL PREDICTION

The dynamic assessment and monitoring of available water resources and seasonal predictions are a basis for the sustainable management and use of water resources. To this effect, an International Conference on Water Resources Assessment and Seasonal Prediction is being organized in Koblenz, Germany from 13 to 16 October 2015.

The conference is being organized by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology and the German IHP/HWRP Secretariat and co-sponsored presently by WMO, UNESCO, GEOSS and IAHS.

The first information note and call for papers has been published on: www.worldwaterbalance.org
The organizers can be contacted under: [email protected]

On 10th January 2015 IUGG announced the list of Elected and Conferred Fellows to be presented at XXVI IUGG General Assembly on 1 July 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.

With specific relevance to IAHS we congratulate:  A. Askew (Switzerland/Australia), H. Colenbrander (The Netherlands), J. C. Rodda (UK), K. Takeuchi (Japan), G. Young (Canada).

IUGG Fellows Announcement

Abstract Deadline for the XXVI IUGG General Assembly

The Local Organizing Committee and the Scientific Program Committee of the XXVI IUGG General Assembly announced the following abstract submissions dates:
- 15 January 2015, due date for the abstract submission in case of an application for a travel grant award; and
- 31 January, due date for the abstract submission.

Other important dates to be marked in your calendar:
- 31 March, due date for the notification of paper acceptance and successful grant application;
- 10 April, early bird registration deadline.

Please read carefully the abstract submission guidelines before submitting your abstract at: http://www.iugg2015prague.com/abstract-submission-guidelines.htm. All presenters are limited to two oral presentations, except for the invited Union Plenary Lecturers, who may present two oral presentations in addition to their Union lectures.

For all abstract submission and registration details, and the scientific program outline, go to: http://www.iugg2015prague.com.

The Proceedings volume from icce 2014 

Sediment Dynamics from the Summit to the Sea

Editor: Y. JUN XU
Co-Editors: MEAD A. ALLISON, SAMUEL J. BENTLEY, ADRIAN L. COLLINS, WAYNE D. ERSKINE, VALENTIN GOLOSOV, ARTHUR J. HOROWITZ & MIKE STONE

The contributions selected for this volume from ICCE2014 present the latest progress on research covering topics from hillslope and channel erosion to riverine sediment transport, sediment-associated contamination and pollution, catchment and river basin sediment yield, integrated erosion-sediment modelling, and sediment dynamics in coastal systems.
The New Orleans symposium on Sediment Dynamics from the Summit to the Sea continued the successful, ongoing series of International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE) of IAHS symposia but was unique in being held on a large river delta; and highlighting the beneficial sides of erosion and sedimentation in connection with coastal and delta building processes.

IAHS Publ. 367 (2014) ISBN 978-1-907161-45-2, 470 + x pp. Price £105.00

Abstracts of the papers in this volume can be seen in the IAHS bookstore

Complex Interfaces Under Change: Sea – River – Groundwater – Lake

C. Cudennec, M. Kravchishina, J. Lewandowski, D. Rosbjerg & P. Woodworth
(Editors)

The hydrosphere is dynamic across the major compartments of the Earth system: the atmosphere, the oceans and seas, the land surface water, and the groundwater within the strata below the two last compartments. The global geography of the hydrosphere essentially depends on thermodynamic and mechanical processes that develop within this structure. Water-related processes at the interfaces between the compartments are complex, depending both on the interface itself, and on the characteristics of the interfaced compartments.
Various aspects of global change directly or indirectly impact these interfaces and interfaced compartments and processes. Climate, sea-level, oceanographic currents and hydrological processes are all affected, while anthropogenic changes are often intense in the geographic settings corresponding to such interfaces.

This volume combines selected papers from two symposia, HP2 and HP3, held during the 2013 IAHS-IAPSO-IASPEI Assembly in Gothenburg, Sweden:

HP2: Land–Ocean Interaction – Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry, and
HP3: Implications of Sea Level Change for the Coastal Zone.

IAHS Publ. 365 (2014) ISBN 978-1-907161-43-8, 100 + viii pp. Price £36.00
Abstracts of the papers in this volume can be seen in the IAHS bookstore

Our congratulations go to the recipients of the IUGG Early Career Scientist Award and the STAHY Best Paper Award.

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Red Books in press – Available from IAHS in December 2014.

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