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The pressures and impacts on the World’s Large Rivers have increased greatly in recent years, as a consequence of their exploitation to meet human needs. Large rivers are particularly exposed to problems of multiple uses, often with conflicting aims. At the global scale, there is no overview assessment of the current status of the World’s Large Rivers, the conflicting demands on such rivers, and likely future anthropogenic impacts, as well as the potential for restoration and the associated problems.
In 2011 the first International Conference on „The Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers“ in Vienna, Austria, provided a global forum for a wide-ranging discussion of key issues related to research on large rivers and to their effective and sustainable management, involving both scientists and decision makers. This successful event will be continued in 2014 in Manaus, Brazil at the fascinating Amazon River.
Based on the Vienna Declaration, which has been adopted by the participants in 2011, a new UNESCO / IHP Initiative (WLRI - World’s Large Rivers Initiative) will be further developed and the global network of programmes and partners will be strengthened. +
The primary goals of the workshop are:
* to convene participants to consider grand challenges in morphodynamics, geomorphology, and stratigraphy that can be addressed using physical experiments;
* to identify user requirements to achieve the grand challenges in terms of accessing experimental data and advanced experimental technologies;
* to generate, develop, and frame innovative ideas on community standards for data and metadata related to sediment experiments; and
* to identify needs and explore solutions for data storage and also cyberinfrastructure needs for data dissemination.
The workshop will include a live experiment in the University of Texas Sediment Transport and Earth-surface Processes (STEP) basin. +
The program starts on Monday, December 4, 2017. Experts from both The Water Institute of the Gulf and Deltares are looking forward to meeting you at the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA, USA.
Please join us for a three part short course in Delft3D modeling and delta geomorphology during the week before the AGU 2017 Fall Meeting. The short course includes a two day introductory course in Delft3D, a three day course for advanced Delft3D users, and a unique boat-based field trip to the West Bay Sediment Diversion. Participants are free to sign up for all three parts or to pick the parts that interest them the most. +
The purpose of Gilbert Club, which has no formal affiliation with any organization, is to hear talks and discuss research in geomorphology, especially theoretical geomorphology. The name derives from the geomorphologist Grove Karl Gilbert, but the term "club" is whimsical as Gilbert Club is not itself an organization and there is no membership. Gilbert Club was simply conceived as an opportunity for a growing community to hear major talks, debate new ideas, and encourage community level discussion of issues. The goal is to have faculty, students, government researchers and industry workers meet regularly to spawn collaborations and, frankly, to encourage friendships, on an annual basis. It has always been an open meeting, first advertised through paper mailings and now through email. In recent years attendance has approached 300. We normally have just three or four 50-minute presentations, followed by 20 minutes of discussion and debate. During the last hour or more, depending on how well we keep on schedule, we have "pop ups," during which brief (a few minutes) presentations are made by whomever wishes to do so. We have long breaks and lunch, as well as an evening of pizza and beer to encourage discussion and strengthen communication.
The essentials of Gilbert Club will not change, despite the first time in a new venue! There will be three main speakers and pop-ups just like always. We will have buses to get you to the venue in the morning and to get you back to the convention center in the evening. There will be minimal space for posters, so if you want to post one, come early. Coffee will be plentiful, but the quality is not guaranteed.
New things to be ready for: Pop-up sign-up will be in advance. Dinner will reflect the setting (fried chicken and vegan jambalaya) and given venue rules, there will be a cash bar. This year payment can only be made online with a credit card.
Speakers will be announced soon.
Registration costs (half day includes everything but dinner, full day includes everything):
Student/post-doc half day: $55
Student/post-doc full day: $65
Everyone else half day: $65
Everyone else full day: $75
The purpose of the conference is to bring together the active international thermochronology community to exchange ideas and discuss important aspects of thermochronology and its modern applications in the Earth and related sciences.
The meeting will also include a pre-conference field trip in the Alps and workshops. +
The purposes of the workshop were to identify grand challenges for fundamental research on ancient and recent carbonate systems, and to identify promising areas for advancing the next generation of numerical process models to enhance our ability to meaningfully and accurately model carbonate systems. +
The rivers that drain the eastern flank of the Tibetan Plateau and which supply sediment to the marginal seas of East and Southeast Asia are some of the largest drainage systems in the world and have large impacts both socially through their linkage to agriculture and societal development, as well as economically in providing hydrocarbon resources to the region in the sedimentary basins that have developed in the delta regions. The origin of these rivers is tied up with the progressive tectonic development of the Asian continent and particularly with the growth of high topography in the Tibetan region since the start of India-Asia collision, likely around 40-50 Ma.
This symposium encourages submissions from all those working on those the modern and ancient aspects of Asian river systems, but is particularly focusing on those researching the interactions between tectonics, landscape and the development of river systems. We particularly seek to understand how the development of the Tibetan plateau as well as the onset of large-scale strike slip faulting has impacted the landscape and the drainage patterns in the large rivers of Southeast Asia. Our field trip this year will focus on the modern and ancient fluvial sedimentary deposits of the Red River system, which is often considered as a classic example of how drainage has re-organized under the influence of progressive tectonic deformation.
We particularly encourage submission of abstracts from junior researchers and including graduate students working on all aspects of fluvial geology, geomorphology and geochemistry. Links to the climatic developments including the intensity of the Asian monsoon form an important sub discipline within this research group. +
The science of rain, rivers and reservoirs spans from ‘clear gold’ water, to ‘black gold’ oil. Following in the footsteps of the successful first Rain, Rivers and Reservoirs workshop in Sao Paulo, Brazil in September 2015, this workshop will bring together geoscientists and civil engineers with different backgrounds to generate new interdisciplinary approaches to key problems in our adjacent subject areas.
Modern flooding, erosion and deposition, through to geological preservation of fluvial aquifers and petroleum reservoirs require linking of fluvial/flood processes to the longer term trends of climate change, regional uplift and sea level change. These subject areas are fundamentally interdisciplinary. Therefore we would particularly encourage Earth Scientists and Civil Engineers working on aspects of fluvial processes to join the meeting.
Over-abundance of water (flooding) and under-abundance of water (drought) are societal issues in many parts of the world that we wish to address, and we encourage world-wide case studies to be submitted. These wider perspectives add both depth and context, allowing researchers focussed on one particular aspect of fluvial expertise to contribute to solutions for ongoing global challenges. +
The scope of application of PedoTransfer Functions (PTFs) has been expanded from estimating soil hydraulic properties to other soil characteristics such as thermal properties, solute transport and root water uptake, soil carbon pools and nitrogen mineralization. In this workshop we want to present the state-of-the-art in developing and applying PTFs across Earth science disciplines and to identify research needs and challenges for the future.
Introduction: (H. Vereecken) 9.00-9.10
Status Pedotransfer functions in Earth system sciences: K. Van Looy, H. Vereecken 9.10-9.30 PTFs for water related processes: (M. Schaap) 9.30-9.45
PTFs for energy related processes: (A. Verhoef) 9.45-10.00
On the role of structure in PTFs: (J. Koestel) 10.00-10.15
PTFs for Biogeochemical processes (L. Weihermüller/M. Herbst) 10.45-11.00 Methodological challenges PTFs in Earth system models (B.Minasny/J.Padarian) 11.00-11.15 Informing land surface models with observation & geospatial science (U. Mishra) 11.15-11.30 Global mapping / modeling possibilities (C. Montzka) 15mn
Participation: by invitation
apply to k.van.looy@fz-juelich.de before October 20, 2017, free of charge +
The second edition on the Winter School on GEOframe will be held between January 8 and 17, 2020 in Trento, Italy. The course is devoted to Ph.D. Students, Post-docs, Young researchers (and Professionals!) interested in estimating all the components of the hydrological cycle (rainfall, evapotranspiration, snow-melting, and river discharge). The system they will learn allows to work out very small catchments and continental basins as well (e.g. Abera et al., 2017a,b) up to build operational solutions as the one used in in Basilicata.
The aim of the course is to enable participants to run their own simulations and eventually on their own catchments and estimate the hydrological budget components.
With respect to the 2019 Winter School, there will be more practice and more detailed work on evapotranspiration and rainfall-runoff. It will be much more focused on exercises and on getting the water budget performed under various hypotheses on models' structure. +
The second phase of the FWG was launched in January 2019 and aims to develop the specific goals defined within each work package (see White Paper), with a special emphasis on engaging younger researchers.
This workshop will constitute the first important meeting of the second phase of the FWG, allowing us to update and make progress on the performed activities so far. Specifically, we expect:
# To contribute to assess changes in frequency and magnitude of floods during dissimilar cold(warm)/dry(wet) climate periods.
# To advance the methods for data integration from different archives. Several challenges related to this topic have been identified (FWG Work Package 2).
# To find common strategies to include past flood records in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies. This is motivated by the interest of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) on the added value of paleo floods archives for DRR (FWG Work Package 3). +
The severe effects of earthquakes, tsunamis, inundations and droughts have in a devastating way indicated the need for better knowledge of geophysical processes in order to predict and minimise the consequences for mankind. This knowledge also contributes to a better understanding of human impact on the environment.
This Scientific Assembly to be held in Gothenburg on 22-26 July 2013 will be a forum, where experts from various disciplines of hydrology, oceanography, seismology and physics of the Earth's interior can meet and exchange knowledge and ideas with colleagues from all over the world. The Assembly also gives the scientists the opportunity to inform the general public and policy makers. +
The short course is organized by the Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center (IGWMC) at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co. The instructor of the short course is Dr. Jirka Šimůnek, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside (CA).
"Hands-on" computer sessions will provide participants an opportunity to become familiar with the Windows-based HYDRUS-1D and HYDRUS (2D/3D) computer software packages, including several additional modules, such as ROSETTA and HP1. Emphasis will be on the preparation of input data for a variety of applications, including flow and transport in a vadose zone, variably-saturated flow and transport during irrigation, and two-dimensional leachate migration from a landfill through the unsaturated zone into groundwater. Calibration will be discussed and demonstrated by means of a one-dimensional inverse problem. Selected advanced HYDRUS topics will be covered during the second part of the course (e.g., colloid and colloid-facilitated transport, preferential flow, multicomponent transport, constructed wetlands).
For more information visit: http://igwmc.mines.edu/short_course/hydrus.html
or contact: igwmc@mines.edu +
The steepestdescent is a one-day conference for topics in the broad field of earth surface dynamics. It will be held at the University of Vienna on Saturday 13th of April right after EGU, and will consist of a set of invited talks, an open session, lunch and social interaction.
We are happy to announce that this year we will have the chance to listen to the three following speakers:
# Eric Lajeunesse (IPGP - Paris) From the dynamics of bedload transport to the morphology of rivers, insights from the lab.
# Page Chamberlain (Stanford) Grassland expansion and its role in altering the hydrologic balance from the Miocene to Recent.
# Gerald Roberts (Birkbeck London) Geomorphic records of earthquake recurrence, multi-seismic cycle strain rates and viscous flow of the crust/mantle
In addition we will have informative speeches by Stuart Lane (Earth Surface Processes and Landforms), Niels Hovius (EGU Earth Surface Dynamics) and Sean Willett (Topo-europe). +
The symposium will take place 12-14 October 2015 in Vienna, Austria, and is organised by the FloodChange team of the Vienna University of Technology in the frame of the ERC Advanced Grant Deciphering River Flood Change. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together experts from hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, hydraulic engineering and environmental history to discuss the effects of changes in the river system on the regional flood regime, both in historical and modern times.
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together experts from hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, hydraulic engineering and environmental history to discuss the effects of changes in the river system on the regional flood regime, both in historical and modern times. River morphology changes due to sediment deposition and erosion, river straightening and hydraulic structures have traditionally been investigated and modelled locally but, depending on the spatial structure of the system, they may have a larger scale impact. The symposium will focus on detecting, quantifying and upscaling the effects of such changes in the river
system on the flood regime at a regional scale. The symposium is organised in the frame of the ERC
Advanced Grant on FloodChange (floodchange.hydro.tuwien.ac.at) and will consist of invited talks, oral lectures, poster sessions and discussion sessions.
Confirmed invited speakers are Professor Janet Hooke from University of Liverpool, Professor Tom Coulthard from University of Hull, Dr Michele Di Lazzaro from the University Roma Tre, Dr Daniele Ganora from Politecnico di Torino, Professor Bruno Merz and Dr Sergiy Vorogushyn from GFZ Potsdam, and Dr Ilaria Prosdocimi from CEH Wallingford.
Abstracts: 300-500 Words, title, author name, affiliation, and contact. Please send to alinas@hydro.tuwien.ac.at before 17 August 2015
Registration: Before 17 August 2015 via email to salinas@hydro.tuwien.ac.at The conference fee of €300 includes meals and is non-refundable. Attendance is limited in number and will be assigned on a first come first served basis.
The theme for this year's MODFLOW and More conference is "Modeling for Sustainability and Adaptation". With recent challenges imposed by an ever changing climate and urban population growth, how can we adapt our modeling tools accordingly? Are our models of sustainable water yield accurate enough to effectively solve the problems we're faced with as groundwater hydrologists? These questions (and more!) will be explored at this year's conference.
Topics for this year's conference include:
* Natural and Managed Aquifer Recharge
* Case Studies of Depleted Aquifers
* Sustainable Groundwater Quality: Challenges and Tradeoffs
* Past, Present, and Future of Mining and Groundwater
* Past, Present, and Future of MODFLOW
* GUIs and You
* Parameterization, Sensitivity Analysis, and Uncertainty
* Using Models to Identify Data Needs and Guide Data Acquisition
* Simulation Code Verification, Benchmarking, and Intercomparisons
* Simulating the Agriculture-Groundwater Connection
* Unsaturated Zone and Multiphase Flow Modeling
* Advancements in Data Discovery, Retrieval, and Visualization
* Effective Presentation of Modeling Results
* Contaminant Transport Modeling: Developments and Case-studies
* The Analytic Element Method: Developments and Applications
* Fracture Flow and Transport Modeling
* Unconventional Applications of Groundwater Models +
The third edition of the Winter School on GEOframe (https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6687556278632539882/243432955575880902; GWS2021) will be held between January 7 and 16, 2021 in Trento, Italy. The course is devoted to Ph.D. Students, Post-docs, Young researchers (and Professionals!) interested in estimating all the components of the hydrological cycle (rainfall, evapotranspiration, snow-melting, and river discharge). The system allows to work out catchments from very small to continental (e.g. Abera et al., 2017a,b; ), up to build operational solutions, as the one used in in Basilicata.
The aim of the course is to enable participants to run their own simulations and, eventually, on their own catchments and estimate the hydrological budget components.
Previous Winter school material is freely available at the GEOframe blog (https://geoframe.blogspot.com/2020/01/gsw2020-photos-and-material.html).
Compared to what was done in the past courses, there will be more practice and a more detailed work on evapotranspiration and rainfall-runoff. It will be much more focused on exercises and on getting the water budget performed under various hypotheses on models' structure.
Due to COVID-19 the lectures and the work will be limited to, at most, 10 people in presence but it will be possible to follow the class remotely either synchronous online and synchronous online (we’ll use a “blended” type of teaching based on Zoom). There is no fee or subscription for the asynchronous classes. Synchronous classes require subscription and the payment of a small fee of 10 Euros or (for Italians) a subscription to the Italian Hydrological Society. Who requires a certificate of participation, however, must pay (150 euros).
Instructors will be:
* Prof. Riccardo Rigon, Ph.D. (GS)
* Prof. Giuseppe Formetta, Ph.D. (GS)
* Ing. Marialaura Bancheri, Ph.D. (GS)
* Ing. Niccolò Tubini, Ph.D. candidate
* Ing. Concetta D’Amato, Ph.D student
The provisional topics will be:
* Day 1 - Installation and introduction to the Object Modelling System Infrastructure and Jupyter
* Day 2- Hydrologic Response Units delineation and treatment of spatial features
* Day 3- Interpolation of hydrometeorological datasets and elements of parameters calibration with LUCA and particle swarm tools
* Day 4 - Estimation of evaporation and transpiration
* Day 5 - Rainfall-Runoff I - Representation of semidistributed models with the Extended Petri Nets. The embedded reservoir (ERM -see also here) and other available models. Discussing inputs data to models and modelling solutions.
* Day 6 - Rainfall-Runoff - II - Preparing the topology and the simulation files. Connecting and disconnecting components. Running modelling solutions.
* Day 7 - Trying alternative modelling solutions
* Day 8 - A little on travel times with GEOframe
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With December 1, 2020, we start to give students support for installations required to run our models.
The webinar on April 16 will be presented by Boris Kaus, Tobias Baumann, Georg Reuber, Anton Popov (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) on Geodynamic inversion: Methods to link models with data & how that helps to obtain insights in the physics and rheology of the lithosphere:
In order to link geodynamic forward models with geological and geophysical data, inverse modelling strategies are required. Here, we will discuss the basic principles behind the two main inversion approaches: Sampling-based (statistical) and gradient-based (deterministic) inversion. We will show the advantages and disadvantages of each approach related to geodynamical inverse problems. We will also explain the adjoint method, which is a particularly efficient way to compute the pointwise gradient of the misfit function with respect to model parameters. The gradients are not only useful for inversions but can also be employed to 1) automatically determine the key model parameters (and scaling laws) for a particular geodynamic simulation and 2) can be used to compute geodynamic sensitivity kernels that visually show where changes in the setup have a key impact, on, for example, the surface velocity. Finally, we will discuss a detailed example that shows how geodynamic inversion can be used to constrain the rheology of the lithosphere.
To join the webinar, please connect at: https://zoom.us/j/955605274
For additional information, please visit https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/webinars/ . +
The “Ecopath 35 years – Making Ecosystem-Based Management Operational” conference and workshops will be held in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, during December 4 to 11, 2019, to showcase thirtyfive years of progress using the Ecopath approach in different fields: fisheries management, marine conservation, ecosystem dynamics, climate impacts, and ecosystem-based management (EBM), as well as to introduce exciting new facilities of the approach. The gathering will be an international scientific reunion on ecosystem modelling based on the Ecopath and Ecosim modelling framework and software (www.ecopath.org).
We especially welcome contributions that demonstrate progress on making EBM operational. This includes studies/projects that bring ecosystem modelling to the fora where management and policy decisions are made. Fisheries management can be part of that, but the aim is the ecosystem, and with it processes that focus on the spectra of activities that are of importance for management of ecosystems (be they marine, freshwater or terrestrial). It's about ecosystem-based management.
The Ecopath 35 years is hosted by the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in cooperation with College of Marine Science, University of South Florida.
The conference and courses/workshops are arranged under the auspices of the Ecopath International Research and Development Consortium, the official cooperative body that oversees the EwE development and cooperation.
The schedule for the conference and training courses is:
* Tuesday, Dec 3, 5-7 PM: Registration (likely to be held at FWRI lobby). Registration will also be possible on Dec 4.
* Wednesday, Dec. 4 to Friday, Dec. 6: Conference
* Saturday, Dec. 7 at 9 AM: Ecopath Consortium General Assembly (open for Consortium members; prospective new members, please contact Villy Christensen or Marta Coll re. participation)
* Saturday, Dec. 7 to Wednesday, Dec. 11: Advanced courses (parallel sessions)
* Sunday, Dec. 9 - Tuesday, Dec. 10: Introductory EwE course
Please be aware that the weekend prior to the conference is the US Thanksgiving Weekend, and that airports will be very busy.
There is growing recognition of the fact that biological resources and diversity are vital to humankind’s economic and social development. It is accepted that Biological diversity is a global asset of tremendous value, and it needs to be preserved for future generations. At the same time, the threat to species and ecosystems has never been greater than it is today and, it is vital that biodiversity conservation is given due recognition in order to ensure that the ongoing development embodies a strong sense of sustainability.
Located in South-Eastern Europe, Serbia covers an area of 88,407 km2 with moderate continental climate. The dominant position of river valleys from the south towards the hilly areas in the north of the country allows the deep penetration of polar air masses in southern regions. The mountain landscape of Serbia is rich in canyons, gorges and caves, as well as preserved forests, home to a multitude of endemic species. Serbia’s mountains form part of the Rhodopes range, the Carpathians and Balkan Mountains, and the Dinaric karst, the large mountain chain rich in natural and cultural heritage of the Western Balkans. 15 peaks reach an altitude of over 2,000 m, of which the highest is Ðeravica in the Prokletije, with a height of 2,656 m. erbia is a country of rich ecosystem and species diversity – covering only 1,9% of the whole European territory it is home to 18% of European vascular flora, 25% of European insects fauna, 16% of European fish fauna, 16,5% of European reptile and amphibian fauna, 69% of European bird fauna, 38% European mammal fauna. The diversity of ecosystems in Serbia is primarily evident in the diversity and specific character of its vegetation. Serbia’s status as a center of biodiversity in Europe is to a high degree determined by its geological age, geomorphology, and climatic conditions and, in particular, by its role as refuge for a number of species during the glacial periods. Thus, the Balkan and Pannonian regions of the country harbor numerous endemic-relict floral elements from previous geological ages.
