IAHS News

New International Commission on Human-Water Feedbacks – ICHWF of IAHS

The result of the IAHS Administrative Plenary vote held at IUGG Assembly in Berlin, July 2023, decided to implement a new International Commission on Human-Water Feedbacks (ICHWF). The motivation was to create a new IAHS Commission to capitalise on the momentum of the scientific decade Panta Rhei – Change in Hydrology and Society that was closed during the Panta Rhei Symposium in Potsdam at 10-11 July 2023. Panta Rhei has created a very active, young and diverse community of natural and social scientists. The new commission will provide a home for this community within IAHS after the end of the scientific decade and will attract new people to IAHS in the field of Human-Water Feedbacks.

 

Objective and Methods

The commission will focus on the feedbacks between humans and water over decadal and centennial time scales. The new commission is therefore mainly concerned with changes that involve a two-way coupling between human actions and water quantity and quality. Methods will mainly comprise long-term monitoring in case study areas, use of new data (e.g. text analysis of social media posts) and social sciences approaches (e.g. behavioural experiments) and modelling that explicitly account for feedbacks between water and social processes.

Role within IAHS 

The ICHWF will have a cross-sectional character and interact with all commissions and working groups of the IAHS. It will complement ICWRS by addressing more theoretical, long-term aspects with a stronger emphasis on feedbacks and coupling. Additionally, it will support the new scientific decade ‘HELPING – Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world’ by better theoretical understanding of the long-term feedbacks underpinning sustainable development. The leadership team comprises the president Heidi Kreibich, three Vice-Presidents Anne van Loon, Saket Pande, Tobias Krüger and the secretary Melissa Haeffner.

The new commission President Heidi Kreibich reports: "Our first ideas for joint activities are the organisation of biennial summer schools on Human-Water Feedbacks, using the Panta Rhei book as a teaching material as well as a joint community-based study on testing human-water feedback models based on a compilation of socio-hydrological benchmark datasets compiled during the Panta Rhei decade" (Kreibich et al. 2023, Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts. ESSD, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2009-2023[HK1])

Results from the IAHS Officer elections from the Administrative Plenary

The results of the 2023 elections held during the IAHS Administrative Plenary on Wednesday 12 July. The Vice-President office will be held for the period 2023-2027. The President was elected in 2023, becoming President-Elect for two years, with a mandate of 2025-2029. In 2025 the President becomes Past-President and the President-Elect becomes President.

 

Position

Name

Nationality / Residence

IAHS President Berit Arheimer Sweden
  President-Elect Salvatore Grimaldi Italy
  Vice-President Christophe Cudennec France
  Vice-President Archana Sarkar India
  Vice-President Fuqiang Tian China
  Secretary General Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema Dem. Rep. Congo/South Africa
  Treasurer Kate Heal UK
  Editor-in-Chief HSJ Attilio Castellarin Italy
       
ICCE President Paolo Porto Italy
  President-Elect Sergey Chalov Russia
  Vice-President Yuri da Silva Brazil
  Vice-President Allen Gellis USA
  Vice-President Peter Molnar Slovakia/Switzerland
  Secretary Michal Habel Poland
  ECC Representative Anatoly Tsyplenkov Russia/New Zealand
       
ICCLAS President Richard Petrone Canada
  President-Elect Christopher White Australia/UK
  Vice-President Tirtha Banerjee India/USA
  Vice-President Lindsay Beevers UK
  Vice-President Shanshui Yuan China
  Secretary Rodolfo Nóbrega Brazil/UK
  ECC Representative P. James Dennedy-Frank USA
       
ICGW President Felipe de Barros Brazil/USA
  President-Elect Michelle Newcomer USA
  Vice-President Makoto Kagabu Japan
  Vice-President Chengpeng Lu China
  Vice-President Rajendra Prasad India
  Secretary Antonio Zarlenga Italy
  ECC Representative Rahim Barzegar Iran/Canada
       
ICHWF *President Heidi Kreibich  Germany
  Vice-President Anne van Loon  Netherlands
  Vice-President Saket Pande  Netherlands
  Vice-President Tobias Krüger  Germany
  Secretary Melissa Haeffner  USA
*As elected by Berit Arheimer, IAHS President      
       
ICRS President Amir AghaKouchak Iran/USA
  President-Elect Maria-José Polo Spain
  Vice-President Gilles Boulet France
  Vice-President Lisa Milani Italy/USA
  Vice-President Yanjun Shen China
  Secretary Pankaj Ramji Dhote India
  ECC Representative Pankaj Kumar India
       
ICSH President Elena Volpi Italy
  President-Elect Krzysztof Kochanek Poland
  Vice-President Eleonora Dallan Italy
  Vice-President Simon Papalexiou Greece/Canada
  Vice-President Sahani Pathiraja Australia
  Secretary Svenja Fischer Germany
  ECC Representative Jew Das India
       
ICSIH President Melody Sandells UK
  President-Elect James McPhee  Chile
  Vice-President Vsevolod Moreydo  Russia
  Vice-President Dhiraj Pradhananga  Nepal
  Vice-President S. McKenzie Skiles  USA
  Vice-President Shiqiang Zhang China
  Secretary Timothy E. Link  USA
  ECC Representative Anna-Marie Jörss Germany
       
ICSW President David Hannah UK
  President-Elect Alain Dezetter France
  Vice-President Ernest Amoussou Bénin
  Vice-President Elizabeth W. Boyer USA
  Vice-President Faiza Hallouz Algeria
  Secretary Yonca Cavus Turkey
  ECC Representative Moctar Dembélé Burkina Faso/Ghana
       
ICT President Zhonghe Pang China
  President-Elect Maki Tsujimura Japan
  Vice-President Søren Jessen Denmark
  Vice-President Koichi Sakakibara Japan
  Vice-President Matthias Sprenger Germany/USA
  Secretary Wei Jiang China
  ECC Representative Ravindra Dwivedi India/USA
       
ICWQ President Xiaohong Chen China
  President-Elect Dedi Liu China
  Vice-President Remegio B. Confesor USA/Norway
  Vice-President Stefan Krause Germany/UK
  Vice-President Ann van Griensven Belgium
  Secretary Alena Bartosova Czech Rep./Sweden
  ECC Representative Bertil Nlend Cameroon
       
ICWRS President Barry Croke Australia
  President-Elect Pedro Chaffe Brazil
  Vice-President Emmanouil Anagnostou USA
  Vice-President Suxia Liu China
  Vice-President Alberto Viglione Italy
  Secretary Gökçen Uysal Turkey
  ECC Representative Chris Leong Fiji/Japan
       
 

Position

Name

Nationality / Residence

CandHy Working Group Chair Wouter Buytaert Germany/UK
MOXXI Working Group Chair Salvatore Manfreda Italy
Early Career Committee Chair Moctar Dembélé Burkina Faso/Ghana
History of Hydrology Chair Keith Beven UK
Africa Regional Committee Chair Hodson Makurira Zimbabwe
Latin America Regional Committee Chair James McPhee Chile

Launch of HELPING Working Groups

 

We are pleased to announce that the HELPING Working Groups are now live and ready for you to view at your convenience. The Working Groups have been built by the community by submitting a proposal. The list of suggested Working Groups, together with their proposal documents as well as a sign up form, are now available and we would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to sign up to a Working Group.

IAHS advances in digital acceleration

IAHS now offers a new tool for sharing scientific research across the world – the Digital Water Globe (DWG). This online application is a spinning globe that links to a zoomable map of the world, tagged with site-specific scientific case-studies (i.e. permanent digital poster exhibition linked to the IAHS website). Filtering is possible through key-words and the first version is filled with examples of case-studies from each continent, provided by the DWG Task Force, the Panta Rhei working group and some Bureau members.

The tool is now open for everybody and all IAHS members can ask for a log-in to contribute with content, such as case-studies, personal profiles, references to IAHS publications and links to data storage. Everything is tagged to key-words to be searchable and findable by anyone.

This new platform offers a quick global overview of on-going scientific activities and achievements in the hydrological community at different sites across the world. It provides an opportunity for outreach and sharing among scientists of new results that are not published yet, or to promote existing publications of thrilling results to be cited. It will also serve citizens, as the filtering function can highlight scientific messages and provide facts in the public debate.

The prototype was shown at the IAHS Scientific Assembly in Montpellier, France in 2022 and now the tool is operational in time for the 28th IUGG General Assembly next week in Berlin, Germany. Enjoy!

Share your hydrological science easily and find relevant studies here: https://dwg.smhi.se/dwg 

 

International Conference on Mountain Hydrology and Cryosphere, Nepal, November 2023

The International Conference on Mountain Hydrology and Cryosphere will be held in Kathmandu and Dhulikhel, Nepal, on 9 and 10 November 2023. 

The conference will cover a wide range of topics concerning mountain hydrology, cryosphere and related topics. The meeting will be dedicated to the following topics but not limited to:

  • Mountain hydrology, hydrological modeling, glacio-hydrological modeling
  • Groundwater hydrology, isotope hydrology, aquatic ecology, water quality and wastewater
  • Transboundary issues of water resources, water resources management
  • Hydro-meteorology in agriculture
  • Cryosphere, climate change, cryospheric changes and their impacts on water resources  
  • Glacier mass balance, glacier surface and energy balance modeling
  • Debris-covered glacier and rock glacier, sedimentation
  • Permafrost hydrology and mapping
  • Water-induced disasters, snow and ice avalanches, glacial lake and glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), landslide and landslide damming outburst flood (LDOF)

The conference is organized by the Nepal Committee for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Himalayan Cryosphere, Climate and Disaster Research Center, Kathmandu University (HiCCDRC, KU) and The Small Earth Nepal (SEN). 

Abstract submission and online registration are now open https://www.iahs-nepal.org/icmhc-2023/registration-and-abstract-submission 

For additional information please visit the website: https://www.iahs-nepal.org/icmhc-2023 

Reminder: HELPING Logo Competition

HELPING Logo

This is a reminder that the logo of the HELPING decade will be found through an open competition. The winner will be selected through an open voting procedure at the IAHS meeting within the IUGG Assembly in Berlin. Your logo can be submitted as either .jpeg or .png or .pdf files and in a file size that is small enough to send via email. Please send your logo, together with a short description explaining your thoughts/ideas behind the design, to [email protected] before 30 June 2023.

STAHY 2023 Workshop, November 2023 in Boston, USA

The International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH) wish you to save the date for the 13th International Workshop on Statistical Hydrology (STAHY 2023), which will be hosted by the Northeastern University, Boston, USA during November 9-10 2023 with Early Career events on 8 November 2023.

The STAHY 2023 workshop aims to bridge the environmental statistics and artificial intelligence communities with vibrant scientific discussions and debates on advanced statistical methods to solve climate, water, and sustainability issues. 

With the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we are coming upon a renaissance in environmental statistics that STAHY 2023 wishes to capture in its theme. For example, machine learning, including the latest generative pretrained transformers, cannot work without probability theory, and nonlinear statistics can benefit from neural processing. 

Therefore, we welcome contributions on insights and approaches that use machine learning, artificial intelligence, and/or environmental statistics approaches topics that address climate, water, and sustainability issues.

Abstract submission will open in early July

Expression of Interest: If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please send an email to Stacey Archfield ([email protected]) under the subject “Expression of Interest for STAHY 2023”, including your name, surname and contact details (i.e. affiliation, email and preferred telephone number). We will be keeping you updated with the latest workshop news (dates, venue, deadlines, agenda, etc.)

This event is eligible for SYSTA travel awards. Full details and application form are available at https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/SYSTA-Grants/. The closing date for SYSTA applications is noon on 17th July 2023 (GMT).

2023 International Hydrology Prize medallists

IAHS are pleased to announce the award of the International Hydrology Prize (Dooge medal and Volker medal) for 2023 to:

Dooge medal - Aldo Fiori, Italy
                        - Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Greece/USA 

Volker medal - Junguo Liu, China

Nominations for the annual 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.

As of 2014, 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.

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

Our warmest congratulations go to all recipients.

The International Hydrology Prize medals will be awarded on 15th July during the IUGG General Assembly in Berlin.

It's Finally Here!

The countdown is over and we can finally unveil our new and modern website. Introducing the new iahs.info website - your new destination for all things IAHS. A brand new experience awaits.

Make your own contribution by engaging in an open competition for Best Graphical Logo for our Scientific Decade: HELPING Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world. 

Come and see it for yourself.

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