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The International Association for Sediment Water Science (IASWS) seeks to promote, encourage and recognize excellence in scientific research related to sediments and their interactions with water and biota in fluvial, lacustrine and marine systems and with particular reference to problems of environmental concern.
The association also brings together and fosters collaborative research and dialogue between earth scientists, biologists, chemists and environmental engineers whose interests pertain to sediment-water interactions in all aquatic systems.
KEY THEMES
Papers are invited on the following themes, but other papers that deal with sediment-water interactions will also be welcomed and accommodated where possible.
* The impact of sediments on ecosystem functioning and human health.
* Multiple stressors (nutrients, pollutants, land use, global change) in aquatic ecosystems.
* Scale-dependent connectivity in aquatic systems.
* Technical and methodological advances in sediment-water science.
* Physical and biochemical processes in sediment systems.
* Integrating science into policy and governance for managing sediment and sediment-associated nutrient and contaminant transport. +
The International Association on Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IARH) and its Latin American Division (LAD), in association with the Water Science and Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), are proud to announce the 6th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morhodynamics, RCEM 2009.
This highly successful series of conferences has played a key role in promoting an interdisciplinary approach to river and coastal problems. The conference is unique in this emphasis on the intersection between basic research and engineering applications, blending aspects from fundamentals in fluid mechanics to laboratory experiments and field studies in river and coastal morphodynamics.
The conference provides a stimulating forum for communication among applied mathematicians, engineers, geologists, ecologists, geomorphologists, biologists, computer scientists and water managers involved in the study of Earth surface processes. +
The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2025 will be held under the theme ‘From Data to Decision: Empowering Ecosystem Management through Modelling’. It will highlight the pivotal role of advanced ecological modelling in transforming diverse datasets into decision making and actionable management strategies. +
The International Society for Ecological Modelling (ISEM) promotes the international exchange of ideas, scientific results, and general knowledge in the area of the application of systems analysis and simulation in ecology and natural resources management.
The Society was formed in Denmark in 1978—following the journal Ecological Modelling, which was formed in 1975—and today has chapters in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. ISEM sponsors conferences, symposia, and workshops that promote the systems philosophy in ecological research and teaching, and in the management of natural resources.
This global conference is the 20th biennial conference of the Society and looks to bring together scientists from all professions and applications that deal with the use of ecological models and systems ecology.
The conference will feature prominent keynote speakers, special symposia arranged by leading scientists, general oral and posters sessions, as well as preceding short courses and opportunities for field excursions following the conference. Delegates will have the choice to submit abstracts to the special symposia or the general sessions. Conference papers will be considered for a special issue in the journal Ecological Modelling.
Themes:
* Dynamic Ecological Simulation Models (aquatic, terrestrial, energetics, biogeochemical, etc.)
* Ecological Modelling and Environmental Management (Risk assessment, Flow Analysis, Sustainability, Ecotoxicology, Monitoring and Planning)
* Modelling Coupled Natural and Social Systems (Socio-Ecological, Urban, Integrated Assessment)
* Modelling of Ecosystem Services
* Biodiversity and Conservation Modelling
* Ecological Landscape and Land Use Change Modelling
* Ecological Modelling for Climate Change
* Network Modelling
* Systems Ecology +
The International Spring University (ISU), an initiative of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), announces a 1-week training on Ecosystem Services Modeling.
The 2018 event is directed to a new generation of scientists and policy analysts who can effectively use coupled human-environmental models in research, policy and management to address and solve sustainable problems. This year´s event is also intended as an update on the latest developments in the k.LAB modeling software, including key updates to make model coding and reuse more user friendly, targeted for both new participants and those from previous years. +
The International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences (ISSMMTC) gathers together international researchers concerned with offshore geohazards. In particular, it is the venue for those working on submarine landslides and the results of those landslides, such as tsunamis, and their impacts on society. It now has a long history promoting and publishing leading edge research in this field, including six (6) volumes that are part of the Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research Series published by Springer. The event is administered under the auspices of UNESCO IGCP project 640 - S4SLIDE (Significance of Modern and Ancient Submarine Slope LandSLIDEs) which aims to strengthen cooperation and promote the publication of scientific literature, promote forums that exchange ideas and facilitate knowledge transfer to developing countries, and improve the links between all sectors with a stake in furthering knowledge of submarine mass movements and their consequences.
Sidney and Victoria host not only the federal research lab of the Institute of Ocean Sciences, but also the University of Victoria (UVic) and numerous ocean-related high tech companies. UVic hosts Ocean Networks Canada, the premier facility for real-time observation and monitoring of the ocean and ocean floor with a fibre-optic network into the Pacific, the Strait of Georgia, northern British Columbia's coast, as well as the Arctic and the Atlantic. +
The Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) commemorates the coming year 2020; it is the 15th anniversary since JpGU was founded in 2005, and the 30th anniversary since its predecessor, the Japan Earth and Planetary Science Joint Meeting, was first held in 1990.
On this occasion, the 2020 annual meeting will be held joint with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020, following the first cooperative effort with AGU in 2017. Furthermore, the Joint Meeting anticipates expansion and enrichment of joint sessions with the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) and the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
The JpGU has recently grown to embrace over 51 members of academic societies and over 10,000 individual members. The attendance at the 2019 Annual Meeting exceeded 8,400 total participants (including approximately 2,400 students), with over 650 participants from abroad (covering 41 nations and areas). The meeting provides an indispensable opportunity for participants from the fields of Earth and planetary science to interact. The annual survey indicates that the participants would like to see a wider range of session programs, including some open to the public, and an expansion of English-language sessions. Hopes are high for the promotion and expansion of interdisciplinary and border-area researches and further internationalization of Earth and planetary science research. +
The Landslides risk has strongly increased over the last decade, mainly because of ever growing population and relevant bigger exposure. In many countries, this is also due to expanded civil and industrial settlements, as well as widened infrastructures and lifelines. For this reason, in order to perform risk analysis and management, it is necessary a better understanding of landslides’ mechanics, accounting for relevant soil and rock properties and their behaviour in well documented case histories.
Other natural hazards, such as storms, earthquakes and volcanism, may act as landslide triggers in some areas.
These will be the main topics of the next ISL that will take place in Napoli in June 2016. These themes will be viewed using the classic approach of the modern science, i.e. moving from experience to practice through theory. Experience gives the keys to understand phenomena thus focusing on factors that play a major role. Theory channels data from experience within a mathematical approach which is extremely useful to predict similar future events. Practice exploits the results of both experience and theory in order to protect people and man-made works, but also allows to go back to the theory that can thus be improved and replaced, if necessary, with a new and more successfully theory.
Diverse events will fill the meeting: special lectures delivered by renowned academics and professionals, a “Young Session”, a Round-robin, a prize for the best paper recently published in scientific journals, and a prize for the best symposium paper. Cultural events, post-symposium technical trips and further surprises will come along. +
The MODFLOW and More conference series has become a tradition for the presentation of cutting-edge research and innovative practical application of groundwater models in all aspects of hydrologic work. We anchor the conference on MODFLOW because of its widespread use and its status as a community model. The conference is dedicated to advances in all types of groundwater modeling, not just the development and use of MODFLOW. Typically 50% or more of the presentations have involved models other than MODFLOW and its companion codes. We seek to continue this tradition and look forward to spirited discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of codes.
We invite you to submit an abstract for MODFLOW and More 2015 at http://igwmc.mines.edu/conference/Mod2015/abstracts.html. The Scientific Advisory Committee will review the abstracts, and selected authors of both oral and poster presentations will be published in the conference proceedings. Abstracts are due by midnight Thursday, January 1, 2015 and selected papers are due by midnight April 1, 2015.
For more information, please visit the conference website: http://igwmc.mines.edu/MODFLOW2015.html.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Organizing committee:<br>
Reed Maxwell, IGWMC, Colorado School of Mines<br>
Mary Hill, University of Kansas<br>
Chunmiao Zheng, University of Alabama<br>
Matt Tonkin, S.S. Papadopulos & Assoc., Inc. +
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is offering a week-long tutorial on the Community Terrestrial Systems Model (CTSM) on 4-8 February 2019. CTSM is a unified land model for climate, weather, hydrology, and ecology. The Community Land Model (CLM5) is an instantiation of CTSM. Configurations for Numerical Weather Prediction, hydrology, and ecology (CLM-FATES) research applications are in development and are likely to be available by the tutorial. This tutorial will use a combination of lectures and practical sessions to provide an introduction to the CTSM, including new features such as FATES, representative hillslopes, and anthropogenic land and water management practices.
Learning objectives include:
* Understanding ecological, biogeochemical, biogeophysical, and hydrologic theory underpinning the CTSM
* Running and modifying components of the CTSM
* Analyzing CTSM output
The tutorial will be taught primarily by the staff of the Terrestrial Sciences Section at NCAR and is intended for graduate students and postdocs in ecology, hydrology, environmental sciences, climate or related fields. Early career research scientists and faculty are also encouraged to apply, though if space is limited, preference will be given to graduate students and postdocs.
The tutorial will be held at NCAR's Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO. Participants should plan to be in Boulder during the entire tutorial and devote their full time to this tutorial. There is no registration fee. Partial funding may be available for lodging, per diem, and local travel, though airfare cannot be supported.
For inquiries about the content and format of the tutorial, please contact Danica Lombardozzi (dll@ucar.edu). For further logistical information about the tutorial, contact Marlene DiMarco (mdimarco@ucar.edu).
The deadline for applications is Friday, November 2, 2018. The tutorial is limited to ~50 students. Applicants will be notified whether or not their application has been accepted by the end of November. To apply, please fill out the Google form: https://goo.gl/forms/fw7SRxR8OOWutlKq1.
The Ninth Summer school on sensitivity analysis will be organised by the Joint Research Centre and the University of Naples Federico II. The school will be held in Capri Island at the Congress Centre of the University of Naples.
The school will illustrate the motivations to conduct sensitivity analysis (SA) on simulation models and offers an accessible treatment to the techniques used in global sensitivity analysis. The programme will begin with the first principles of sensitivity analysis and will guide the students through the full range of recommended practices with exercises and application examples.
The scientific programme will include: introduction to SA and overview of techniques, sensitivity analysis vs. sensitivity auditing, graphical methods, high dimensional model representations, polynomial chaos expansions, derivative-based measures, variance-based and screening methods, moment independent methods, sensitivity analysis with given data, sensitivity measures for correlated inputs, metamodelling with smoothing techniques, metamodelling with gaussian processes, practicum with Simlab/Matlab, exercises for students, sensitivity analysis for spatial and time-dependent input, round table with selected case studies from students.
A preliminary list of instructors is: Andrea Saltelli (University Autonoma de Barcelona - University of Bergen), William Becker (JRC), Stefano Tarantola (JRC), Biagio Ciuffo (JRC), Rossana Rosati (JRC), Daniel Albrecht (JRC), Vincenzo Punzo (University of Naples), Emanuele Borgonovo (Bocconi University), Thierry Mara (University of La Reunion), Sergei Kucherenko (Imperial College London), Nathalie Saint-Geours (iTK, Montpellier) and other lecturers to be confirmed.
You can submit your application by sending your CV and a motivation letter to: sensitivity-analysis@jrc.ec.europa.eu
The deadline for submitting applications is December 10 2015. The organising committee will not accept late candidatures.
The school can accommodate up to 25 participants. The evaluation of candidatures will be done before 15 January 2016. Successful candidates will be informed not later than 31 January 2016.
The school is free. The students will have to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.
According to the enlargement policy of the European Commission, the JRC expects to reimburse flight and accommodation expenditures of up to two meritorious students from Candidate Countries (Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey).
The South African National Committee of the International Association of Hydrological Scientists (SANCIAHS) invites you to participate in the 2017 IAHS Scientific Assembly to be held from July 10-14in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
The theme of the meeting is "Water and Development: scientific challenges in addressing societal issues” which is particularly appropriate in the context of an IAHS Scientific Assembly meeting being held for the first time in sub-Saharan Africa and is well aligned with the IAHS Panta Rhei.
South Africa has a rich and varied hydrological history and has been a research leader in many aspects of hydrology through years of paired catchment and process hydrology research, model development and in the inclusion of scientific knowledge as exemplified by the South African National Water of 1998. SANCIAHS is a strong and active network representing South African hydrologists and has been active for nearly 40 years recently hosting it's 18th national symposium. SANCIAHS is joined by Waternet as a major scientific partner in hosting the 2017 Scientific Assembly. WaterNet is a southern Africa regional network of university departments and research and training institutes active in integrated water resources management. +
The State of the Coast 2014 conference consisted of three full days of presentations by leading experts in concurrent sessions, keynote presentations, poster sessions, and networking opportunities. The State of the Coast 2014 conference was attended by more than 900 scientists, land owners/managers, federal and state agency personnel, local officials, industry and business leaders, resource users, and interested citizens.
We look forward to hosting SOC16 the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL).
'''About CRCL'''<br>
CRCL is Louisiana’s longest-standing, statewide organization dedicated to coastal restoration, and is made up of thousands of people with many points of view, including business leaders, scientists, boaters, land owners, fishermen, sportsmen, and volunteers. For the past 25 years, CRCL has united various stakeholders under the common mission of protecting and restoring a sustainable coastal Louisiana. We work with local, state, and Federal governments to develop and implement large-scale restoration plans and programs. CRCL is a champion for sound policies and established science. Our workshops and conferences create forums for innovative projects and strategies to restore coastal Louisiana. CRCL advocates for robust and defendable scientific practices and coastal policies that build land and preserve the Louisiana way of life on our coast. +
The Subduction Zone Observatory (SZO) concept is a multidisciplinary science program to study a significant portion of one or more subduction zones as an integrated system. Subduction zones contain a rich diversity of tectonic processes operating at a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, from plate-scale over millions of years to grain-scale over microseconds. Subduction zones span continental to oceanic environments, and interact with biological processes and climate. Subduction zones are responsible for many of Earth's most extreme natural events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. These hazards coupled with increasing population density in these regions leads to an urgent need to understand how subduction zones work to better inform hazard assessment, mitigation, forecasting, and early warning. Emerging technologies, strong international partnerships, open access data, and the success of long-term community experiments establish a strong foundation to investigate the entire subduction zone system from an integrated, multidisciplinary perspective and at multiple scales.
A comprehensive suite of multidisciplinary onshore and offshore observations at a Subduction Zone Observatory (SZO) will enable a systems approach to the complex, interconnected suite of physical and chemical processes operating at subduction zones. An SZO will improve our understanding of natural hazards including earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. Observations acquired through an SZO will address a number of grand challenges in geoscience, including fluid flux through the crust and mantle, geochemical processes in arcs, magmatism and volcanic eruptions, injection of water into the mantle, links between deep Earth and surface processes, lithospheric deformation, the earthquake cycle, and responses to megathrust earthquakes on times scales from seconds to millions of years and spatial scales from millimeters to thousands of kilometers.
The purpose of the workshop is to seek input and start defining what suite of activities would be involved in an SZO that allow new science to be achieved.
The Symposium is a three-day platform for national decision makers, renowned scientists, and industry from all six Mekong riparian countries (China, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam), as well as from the international community to share their experience and knowledge. It will focus on relevant aspects of finding equilibriums between necessary economic development as well as the urgent need for environmental protection and the maintenance of the Mekong’s river ecology.
The first day will be devoted to official opening of the conference with keynote talks on the most pressing environmental/political/economic issues in the overall Mekong Basin, as well as the hand-over of the extensive Mekong Delta Information System, which has been developed in the WISDOM project (www.wisdom.eoc.dlr.de).
This day will be a highly political day, giving you the chance to meet decision makers, and ministry staff from all Mekong countries, and also network with enterprises, international donors, and NGOs etc. The whole conference will have simultaneous translation in all riparian country languages, and even for coffee side talks we also have free interpreters available.
The second and third day will focus on numerous scientific topics including:
* Hydropower development and impacts on river ecology
* Hydropower development and impacts on economy
* Impacts and outcomes of the Greater Mekong Subregion Initiative
* Mekong Basin forest dynamics and REDD+
* Mekong Basin landuse and urbanisation dynamics
* Natural hazards in the Mekong Basin
* Tonle Sap Lake: ecology, biodiversity and rural livelihoods
* Climate change related challenges in the Mekong Delta
* Mechanisms for transboundary water management, good governance
* Participation and capacity building
to name only a few selected. We will have room for three large parallel sessions; the conference aims at about 350 participants. +
The TERENO Network (www.tereno.net) will conduct the 2nd TERENO International Conference from Oct 8-12, 2018 in Berlin (Germany).
For more information on the event, for abstract submission and registration please see http://www.ufz.de/tereno2018/.
The event is intended to provide a platform for young scientists and international experts and highlights the main facets of TERENO research. The conference will offer a mix of oral and poster presentations and keynote lectures reflecting on current topics in Earth System Science. In addition, the conference is a place to meet and discuss with TERENO scientists and colleagues from around the world and offers excellent opportunity for formal and informal networking.
Among the most recent TERENO-supported national and international networking activities, which will be presented in Berlin in detail, is eLTER – the emerging European Integrated eLTER Europe Research Infrastructure.
Scientists from all disciplines of Earth and Environmental Sciences are cordially invited to attend the conference.
We are very pleased to announce that the abstract submission is now open. Abstracts are invited for the following topics:
# Relevance of soils in terrestrial matter fluxes - measurements and model concepts
# Improving water quality management using new observation and modeling strategies
# Modeling the Hydrological System – Balancing of complexity and Uncertainty
# Novel Approaches to monitor dynamic events
# Biodiversity Monitoring: Past, presence, future
# Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Services
# Networking of long-term infrastructures for terrestrial research
# Measuring and modeling water storage dynamics
# Ecotrons and lysimeters: complementary tools for observation and experimentation on the critical zone
# Model-data fusion: Improving predictions and improving process understanding
# Soil greenhouse gas exchange - Linking methods, bridging scales
# Biogeochemical processes in soil-plant-atmosphere systems
# Decadal and centennial variability from high-resolution bio- and geoarchives.
# Innovative Sensing methods for the critical Zone
# Management and integration of environmental observation data
# Integration of in-situ and remote sensing data for the earth surface-atmosphere system
The Third Italian Workshop on Landslides is jointly organised by the Seconda Università di Napoli and the Università di Napoli Federico II. It will focus on the relationships between hydrology and slope stability.
The Workshop aims at presenting innovative hydrological research applied to landslide studies to improve the understanding of the spatio-temporal patterns of slope movement mechanisms induced by precipitations. Rain and snowmelt water infiltration, leading to pore water pressure increase and/or matric suction decrease, is indeed among the most common triggers of landslides. Scientific knowledge about fundamental physical processes affecting infiltration, such as macropore and fissure flow, water repellency, soil structure, soil-plant interactions, as well as about the effects of land use practices (e.g., deforestation, terracing, grazing, etc…), has strongly improved in recent years, but their incorporation into larger scale hydrological models is still incomplete and application in landslide prediction limited.
The main session will be devoted to the hydrologic response of slopes, that will be examined through the results of tests on small-scale physical models, the data from the monitoring of well-instrumented natural slopes and numerical analyses carried out using mathematical models. Renowned researchers from several countries will contribute with their knowledge and experience and the meeting will include wide and lively discussions. On the second day, a Round robin test on landslide hydrological modeling will take place: participating researchers will be engaged in a competition aimed at checking whether present knowledge, and what type of knowledge, allows to successfully perform class A predictions. +
The University of Alabama is the home of the National Water Center. The second annual Water Policy Summit will be held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama April 5-6, 2018 at the National Water Center and the Bryant Conference Center. It is a first-of-its-kind facility that leverages the ubiquitous data, robust science, and societal drivers to support informed policy making on water resource issues from the national to the local scale. The Water Policy Summit will bring nationally recognized experts together. The summit will include focused sessions on various topics such as water policies, water law, climate change, hydrology, assessments and much more. The theme of this year's summit is Community Resiliency: Summit to Sea.. Panels will address issues that involve coastal water policy, coastal science, ground water, climate change, adaptation and resiliency, and hydrologic extremes. Continuing education credit will be offered to engineers, geologists, and attorneys.
While the shoreline accounts for less than 10 percent of the land area, approximately 39 percent of the US population lives on or near it, and there is a growing trend of people migrating towards the coast. In addition to potentially impacting ecologically sensitive regions, coastal populations are also susceptible to storms and other hydro-meteorological extremes. The third annual Water Policy Summit focuses on the science, adaptation resiliency and other societal and policy implications of our coastline in a changing climate. +
The University of Hull would like to warmly invite you to attend the 14th Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference (YCSEC) from 19th to 21st March 2018. This annual conference brings together early career researchers who are interested in all things coasts – and we are not all necessarily ‘young’ anymore! The aim is for a comfortable environment to share and discuss research, without the pressures that entail with some larger conferences.
This three day conference includes a local pre-conference field trip, keynotes, oral and poster presentation, along with the annual conference dinner.
Full details can be found here: http://ycsec2018.wordpress.com +
The University of Melbourne in collaboration with IAHR invites you to the 11th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics in Melbourne. Ecohydraulics is central to many challenges facing river and water resource management around the world.
Ecohydraulics links the disciplines of hydraulics with aquatic ecology, water engineering, fluvial geomorphology and biogeochemistry. This symposium is the premier meeting for scientists and innovative practitioners working across these disciplines focussing on the underpinning science and its application.
We hope you will join us in Melbourne at the height of Melbourne’s summer in 2016, for a stimulating and enjoyable symposium.
Regards,
Michael Stewardson<br>
ISE 2016 LOC Chair<br>
University of Melbourne +
