IAHS News
Deltas: Landforms, Ecosystems and Human Activity
Gothenburg symposium HP1, focused on deltas, was very successful, comprising 7 invited keynote papers, 15 full papers and 6 poster papers. The set of papers within the published volume (IAHS Publ. 358) provides overviews on delta processes and covers almost all types of delta environments, mostly marine, but also inland deltas.
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6th IAHS International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management DEADLINE APPROACHING
Bologna, Italy, 4-6 June 2014
The symposium is framed within the Panta Rhei IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022 and will focus on Evolving Water Resources Systems - Understanding, Predicting and Managing Water - Society Interactions.
Five new titles from IAHS - the Gothenburg books
The following titles resulting from the Knowledge for the Future Assembly, 22-26 July 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden are now available from the IAHS Bookshop.
A Survey on Water Safety Plans by WHO
What is the survey objective?
The primary objective of this survey, led by World Health Organization (WHO), is to achieve a better understanding of the global and regional progress of risk assessment and risk management approaches applied in drinking water supplies. In the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, such approaches are known as Water Safety Plans (WSPs). Throughout the survey, the term WSP is used; however, the survey also seeks information on equivalent approaches that may be named differently. The survey has been designed to collect important information on WSP implementation and related benefits and challenges in order to inform and strengthen future WSP support, guidance and advocacy.
Da Vinci's Water Theory - Review
Leonardo Da Vinci's Water Theory by L. Pfister, H.H. Savenije and F. Fenicia
The August 2013 issue of Geoscientist carried a review of this book published by IAHS.
" ..... The book demonstrates nicely how science progresses through a combination of need and curiosity. Da Vinci’s life-long interest in water was triggered by knowledge of devastating floods, and a need to better protect cities and populations, leading to work on flood-control projects. But as an observer and artist, he was also fascinated with water and its power for its own sake, as in the book’s cover illustration of a storm..........
..... Of 13,000 pages of notes at his death, only half remain, and in dispersed collections. The authors must therefore be commended for their detective work in piecing together Da Vinci’s water theories in an informative and entertaining read."
Excerpt from book review by Peter Easton (reproduced by permission).
The book, IAHS Special Publication 9, is available from the IAHS bookshop.
The Great Frisbee Challenge of 2013
As is now a tradition at IAHS meetings, a Frisbee game was organized at the Gothenburg Joint Assembly. Considering the book "Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins" had just been published and officially presented with great pomp and ceremony, some IAHS members suggested that the co-authors should also demonstrate their skills on the Frisbee field. However, there were 130 co-authors and it proved difficult to accommodate all of them on the Frisbee lawn!
International Hydrology Prize, Tison and other awards
International Hydrology Prize, Tison Award and other awards
Old and new IAHS Decades, PUB / Panta Rhei
A review of the PUB decade (2003-2012): A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—A review by Markus Hrachowitz et al.
and a summary of the Science Plan of the new decade, Panta Rhei, its targets, research questions and expected outcomes: "Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022 by Alberto Montanari et al.
are now free to view in Hydrological Sciences Journal 58(6).
Call for Abstracts - International Symposium on Erosion and Sediment Transport, December 2014
| Location: | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Dates: | 11–14 December 2014 (AGU Fall Meeting 2014 immediately follows ) |
| Abstract Deadline: | 10 October 2013 |
Panta Rhei event at AGU
H044: Hydrological Change and Water Systems: Feedbacks, Prediction, and Experimental Management
A featured session will be held during the next AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco (9-13 December 2013). It will be the first official event organised under the umbrella of Panta Rhei, the IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022.