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NewsFlash World brings you every month the latest news on IAHR activities and communities around the world.
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David Ferras, IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education.
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4271 members
129 Institute members
45 Young Professional Networks (YPNs)
1561 YPNs affiliates
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This month's focus: Water security
Global water security remains one of the biggest challenges facing humanity, alongside climate change and pandemic management. On a global scale, water is a critical shared resource that authorities must understand in order to enable economic growth, social health, and environmental sustainability.
Water security is a cross-cutting issue. It concerns public health, economic growth, environmental sustainability, disaster risk reduction, and much more. Improving water security allows us to deal with the complex and interconnected challenges our societies must face every day.
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Join IAHR and become part of one of the biggest cross-sectoral communities of scientists, experts, and practitioners working together to improve water security.
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The IAHR working group on Global Water Security is organizing a series of webinars focusing on this crucial issue. The first webinar will be held on 10 September and will address the high-level business challenges and opportunities of global water security, linking the knowledge of the hydro-environmental community with the practitioners who face the challenges of addressing global water security. Join the webinar
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Dr Jay R. Lund, member of IAHR since 2017, has received the Water Management and Protection award of the 9th Prince Sultan Bin Abulaziz International Prize for Water. Dr Lund was awarded for having developed the CALVIN water supply optimization model, a tool for the integrated analysis of regional water supply systems that couples traditional water supply criteria with economic considerations. Read more
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The 39th IAHR World Congress ‘From Snow to Sea’ will be held in Granada, Spain, from 4 to 9 July 2021. It provides an excellent opportunity to showcase and get involved in the development of innovative solutions and approaches to water challenges. We look forward to receiving your original contribution and invite abstracts in all areas of the congress themes. Please note that your one-page abstract must be submitted before 1 October 2020.
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Latest updates from IAHR communities
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The IAHR technical committee on Groundwater Hydraulics and Management has elected a new leadership team. The elected chair, Professor Alberto Guadagnini, welcomes the renewed leadership team and addresses a message to the members of the technical committee.
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After voting, the IAHR technical committee on Fluid Mechanics has elected six new members to its leadership team among sixteen candidates. The elected members are Prof. Thorsten Stoesser, Prof. Claudia Adduce, Prof. Blair Anne Johnson, Prof. Rita F Carvalho, Dr Damien Violeau, and Dr Alexander N. Sukhodolov.
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Young Professional Networks (YPNs)
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The congress is a wonderful opportunity to present your work and get mentoring from leading experts. It represents a unique opportunity for networking as well; you will be invited to meet and interact with your peers and mentors through breakout sessions. This is also the chance to make your work known; all the proceedings will be published and made available in the IAHR e-library after the congress. You don’t need to be a member of IAHR to participate and benefit from this unique opportunity. Due to requests from potential participants, the abstract submission deadline has now been extended until 15 September.
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The goal of this series of interactive webinars, “Conversaciones fluidas” (Fluid conversations), organized by the IAHR Venezuela Young Professionals Network and the Venezuelan Hydraulic Engineering Society, is to provide an entertaining space of relevant technical information for students, academic professionals, and the general public about water issues. The webinars will take place in Spanish on the first Tuesday of every month and will include the participation of leading professionals. The topic of the first webinar was “To have drinking water… we must protect our water bodies”.
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Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalogue of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface. During this webinar organized by the IAHR Peru Young Professionals Network, César Aybar Camacho will speak about its application to water resources management. The webinar took place in Spanish on Saturday 5 September at 5 p.m. (GMT -5).
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10 September 2020. Online
Participate in the first of a series of webinars being planned by the IAHR Global Water Security working group, with this inaugural webinar focusing on the high-level business challenges and opportunities of global water security. The goal will be to connect the knowledge of the hydro-environment fraternity of IAHR with practitioners who face the challenges of addressing global water security.
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15-16 September 2020. Online
The 22nd IAHR Asia-Pacific Division Congress is expected to bring together engineers, scientists, academics, and policy makers for in-depth discussions and contributions to the global knowledge base in the hydro-environmental engineering and management area. The on-site physical meeting has been cancelled and replaced by a web-based conference.
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Latest updates from IAHR journals
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The latest issue of the International Journal of River Basin Management (JRBM) focuses on tools and models for analysing and predicting water behaviour under different circumstances. This issue provides various practical examples from Southwestern Nigeria, Morocco's lakes, and the Saalach and Tigris Rivers.
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The September issue of the Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research (JAWER) contains articles on design flow, calibration procedures for flow estimation, and the effects of native vegetation recovery on soil loss. It also contains an analysis of a remote sensing method to assess reservoir sedimentation in the Namodope reservoir in Uganda, an evaluation of regional soil water retention characteristics in Central India, and a detailed analysis of a critical hydrological disaster caused by a compound event at the Brazilian Tubarão River.
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The 2020 issue of Revista Hidrolatinoamericana de jóvenes investigadores y profesionales (IAHR Latin American Journal of Young Researchers and Professionals) is now out. Published in Spanish once a year, the journal provides an opportunity for young researchers and professionals to make their research and work known and also provides the hydraulic Latin-American community with an overview of the research and original work carried out in different institutions.
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This video is an accompanying presentation of the article ‘Non-hysteretic functional form of capillary pressure in porous media’ by William G. Gray, published in vol. 57, issue 6 (2019), of the IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research.
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Objective: developing hydrological models of water balance, water accounting, and water circulation to evaluate the effects of improving on-field irrigation efficiency at the irrigation scheme or agricultural watershed scales.
Application deadline is 30 September 2020. This is a remunerated contract for a graduate student with a gross annual salary of 30,000 EUR. For more information, please contact Luciano Mateos at luciano.mateos@ias.csic.es
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The Meet a Young Professional feature of the Space4Water portal, an initiative of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), provides an opportunity for young professionals to be interviewed and share their views with a broad community of experts. If you would like to be considered for the next round of interviews with young professionals apply at office@space4water.org
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- Interdisciplinary PhD student opportunity
The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is seeking a PhD student to work on a USGS funded interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (Dr. Lauren Ross) and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences (Dr. Sean Smith) at the University of Maine. For more information, contact lauren.ross1@maine.edu
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PiA webinar series
Dr Marcelo H. García, member of IAHR since 2001, is pleased to invite you to the next PiA (Particles in the Americas) webinar series on Wednesday 9 September at 3 p.m. (Bogota time. GMT -5). Dr García will talk about “A sediment particle’s journey form the Andes mountains to the Atlantic Ocean via the Bermejo-Paraguay-Parana River Waterway: from debris flows to river meandering, turbidity currents and wash load”. Join the webinar
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10th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water: nominations are open
The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water is a scientific prize with a focus on innovation. It rewards the efforts made by scientists, inventors and research organizations around the world which contribute to the sustainable availability of potable water and the alleviation of the escalating global problem of water scarcity.
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