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Short Course on Numerical Modelling of
Multiphase Flow and Transport Processes in the Subsurface
September 23-27, 2002, Stuttgart, Germany
e-mail: Mia.Suess@iws.uni-stuttgart.de
website: http://www.iws.uni-stuttgart.de/Weiterbildung

Summerschool
Hydroinformatics Systems
May/June 2002, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: frank@bauinf.tu-cottbus.de

Internet Course
HydroWeb: Web based Collaborative Engineering
June 2002
e-mail: frank@bauinf.tu-cottbus.de

Short Course on Machine learning and data-driven modelling
July 1-5, 2002, United Kingdom
website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/engin/news/confs/hydro/

Short Course on Fluvial Hydraulics - Environmental Aspects
July 8-13, 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland
e-mail: mustafa.altinakar@epfl.ch
website: http://lrhwww.epfl.ch/

Summerschool
River Flood Modelling and Analysis
August 19-30, 2002, Glasgow, United Kingdom
e-mail: daviese@civil.gla.ac.uk
website: http://www.civil.gla.ac.uk/CPD

Internet Course on Modelling Flow And Contaminant Transport in the Subsurface
-A self-study Computer Mediated Distance Learning Course-
Offered via the Internet by the Czech Technical University in Prague
e-mail: valentov@fsv.cvut.cz
website: http://cecwi.fsv.cvut.cz/kurzy/flotra2001

Further courses and information will be announced at the
IAHR-EGW website: http://www.iws.uni-stuttgart.de/IAHR

Call for Papers:

7th International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments
May 20-22, 2002, Miami, Florida, USA
This international conference focuses on the application of remote sensing and
advanced geospatial information technologies in marine, inland water, and coastal environments to address real-world problems and improve decision-making.
e-mail: marine@veridian.com
website: www.erim-int.com/CONF/marine/MARINE.html

River Flow 2002 -International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics
September 4-6, 2002, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Deadline for abstract submission is November 1, 2001. A 15-20 lines
abstract should be submitted electronically to the address below.
e-mail: riverflow@gc.ucl.ac.be
Deadline for full-paper submission is January 15, 2002.

News from the Third World Water Forum:
The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements,HABITAT, will take a key role in organising a session at the Third World Water Forum on "Water and Cities". The Asian Development Bank will lead a session on "Water in Megacities.".
The IAHR/IWA Joint Hydroinformatics Section is planning to take an active role in the IT area at the Third World Water Forum - please contact Arthur Mynett, Section Chairman at: arthur.mynett@wldelft.nl with any suggestions and for more information.
website of the Third World Water Forum: http://www.worldwaterforum.org/

Invitation for Proposal:

4th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics (2004/2005)
Sponsored by the Fluid Mechanics Section of the IAHR
Contact: Professor JHW Lee
e-mail: hreclhw@hku.hk

6th International Symposium on Stratified Flows (2006)
Sponsored by the Fluid Mechanics Section of the IAHR
Contact: Professor PA Davies
e-mail: p.a.davies@dundee.ac.uk

Approaching deadline:

MITigation of Climate induced natural Hazards (MITCH)
December 12 and 13, 2001, Delft, The Netherlands
MITCH is a Concerted Action funded through the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme, with additional support from the UK Environment Agency. WL | Delft Hydraulics is the host of the MITCH workshop.
e-mail: mitch@wldelft.nl or nfwc@Environment-Agency.gov.uk
websites: http://www.wldelft.nl/ or http://www.mitch-ec.net/

On-line News:

River Flow 2002 -International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics
September 4-6, 2002, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
The website of the River Flow 2002 conference has just been updated:
http://www.gc.ucl.ac.be/riverflow/home.html

16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice
December 2-6, 2002, Dunedin, New Zealand
The e-mail address for contacting the organisers of the conference has changed to:
nzice@physics.otago.ac.nz
website: http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/~nzice/index.html

ICSU Grants Programme for 2003:
The call for applications for the ICSU Grants Programme in 2003 has started.
The ICSU Grants Programme aims at supporting relevant scientific initiatives to promote international scientific and technological activities that contribute to the benefit and well-being of society. Applications for 2003 must be received at the ICSU Secretariat by 1 March 2002.
(IAHR is an Associate Member of ICSU)
For further information, contact Rohini Rao at the ICSU Secretariat:
Fax: +33 1 4288 9431
e-mail: rohini@icsu.org

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Waves transformation
I'm working on the analysis of fluid motion under frames of direct task of the theory of energy propagation. I am looking for information on experimental study of solitary waves transformation, especially after their passing from channel into wide area. I would really appreciate if you could provide me with references or contacts.
Sergei Sokolov, PhD
Russian Research Institute for Water Resources Management
e-mail: sokolovsb@aport.ru

2D models
I'm a forest engineer PhD student who has been working with 1D IFIM (minimum instream flow) studies for 5 years in Spain. I have decided to use 2D models on my PhD. The experimental design I have though, needs to model a 1 km or more (more or less 100 times bankfull width) river reach between minimum and mean flows. I would like to know if this is possible without losing accurancy in 2D velocity and depth predictions, because this is very important in IFIM methodology.
e-mail: jsanz@iaf.uva.es

Stormwater outlets
Stormwater outlets on active sandy beaches often block due to sand being carried into the pipe or culvert by wave or wind action. If the pipe fills completely then the first flush will not clear the pipe, and upstream flooding occurs. The outlet elevation is in or just above the intertidal zone for normal tide and wave conditions. I recall several attempts made in the 1970s to design self-scouring outlets, especially one attempt for beach outlets in Hawaii. I have searched unsuccessfully and I would appreciate any ideas of where to find the Hawaii reference, or where a more recent review of current practices on the design of beach stormwater outlets exists.
David Robinson, Coastal Services, Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
e-mail: david.robinson@env.qld.gov.au

Debris Flow
I'm a Civil Engineer from the Engineering University of Peru and I'm investigating the debris flow caused by the "fenomeno del Niño" that very often affects my country. I need to know if it exists any software about debris flow.
Erika Cardenas
e-mail: ecs106@hotmail.com

New Events
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International course on Cost Effective Planning and Design for Small Hydro Projects at Alternate Hydro Energy Centre (AHEC)
February 5-14, 2002, India
e-mail : akumafah@rurkiu.ernet.in, ahec@rurkiu.ernet.in, ahec@vsnl.com
website : http://www.ahecindia.org/

International Symposium on PIV and Modelling Water Wave Phenomena
April 17-19, 2002, Cambridge, UK
website: http://www.math.uio.no/~atlej/PIVWW2002/

5th International Conference on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques
& Short Course on "Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques"
June 18-21, 2002 Ancona, Italy
e-mail: aivela@mehp1.unian.it
website: http://www.aivela.org/

10th Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology (PACON 2002)
July 21-26, 2002, Chiba, Japan
e-mail: pacon@hawaii.edu
website: http://www.hawaii.edu/pacon

International Conference on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (QPF)
September 2-6, 2002, University of Reading, UK
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 March 2002.
e-mail: execsec@royal-met-soc.org.uk
website: http://www.royal-met-soc.org.uk/qpf/

3rd International Conference on Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment
September 10-12, 2003, Davos, Switzerland
You are invited to contribute a paper for presentation and inclusion in the Conference Proceedings. Please submit an abstract (500 words maximum) by March 1, 2002.
website: http://www.wsl.ch/3rdDFHM

Waves 2005
July 3-7, 2005, Madrid, Spain
Organised by ASCE/COPRI, CEDEX and IAHR
e-mail: Jose.M.Grassa@cedex.es

Just Published
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Hydraulics of stepped chutes and spillways
Chanson, H.
Publisher: A.A. Balkema;
ISBN: 90 5809 352 2; EUR 95,00 / $ 105,00; Publication Date: November 2001
The stepped channel design has been used for more than 3500 years. Recent advances in technology (e.g. RCC, polymer-coated gabion wire) have triggered a regain in interest for the stepped design, although much expertise had been lost in the past 80 years. The steps increase significantly the rate of energy dissipation taking place along the chute and reduce the size of the required downstream energy dissipation basin. Stepped cascades are used also in water treatment plants to enhance the air-water transfer of atmospheric gases (e.g. oxygen, nitrogen) and of volatile organic components (VOC). This book presents the state of the art in stepped chute hydraulics. Results from more than forty-five laboratory studies and four prototype investigations were re-analysed and compared. The book provides a new understanding of stepped channel hydraulics, and it is aimed at both the research and professional community.
website: http://balkema.ima.nl/Scripts/cgiBalkema.exe/new

Site Seeing
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Encyclopaedia of Water
The Wiley Water Encyclopaedia Website contains around 1400 entrees in its table of contents and visitors to the website are invited to contribute articles fulfilling informational requirements. The intent of this book is to create a fully comprehensive depository of all information relating to the scientific and technological aspects of water.
e-mail: editor@wileywater.com
website: http://www.wileywater.com/

Bibliography of Sediment Resuspension
Prof. David Hill of Penn State University has set up a PDF Bibliography of Sediment Resuspension due to boating effects on the following web site:
http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/hydro/hill/boat.pdf

Droplets
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Hydropower Optimisation Software
The Hydropower Optimisation Software MAXHYDRO (previous WOPRO) is now available. MAXHYDRO is a set of interlinked computer programs that can be used as a
decision support tool for Hydropower system planning, analysis and operation; Real-time reservoir operation; Real-time optimal unit allocation; Optimal short term resource scheduling, maximising revenues to the power utility in the spot market environment.
For more information or to download a demo package visit:
http://www.maxhydro.com/

Software for Sale
A computer program has been developed for optimal (least-cost) design of water supply pipeline systems.
e-mail: mdshahdad@yahoo.com
website: www.geocities.com/mdshahdad

OTD-Diver
Instrument supplier Van Essen, of The Netherlands, has launched a new instrument, OTD-Diver, for monitoring of dissolved oxygen in surface and groundwater. The instrument uses an optical oxygen sensor which continuously measures and registers the dissolved oxygen concentrations.
e-mail:mailto:vanessen@vanessen.com
website: www.vanessen.com/en/news/current/nws-en-01_2-1.asp
More information on Van Essen is provided in the IAHR Members Directory List of Equipment Suppliers now also available in the eLibrary on the IAHR website: http://www.iahr.org/

Stormwater Management Manual
Local Engineers have worked with the Malaysian Dept of Drainage & Irrigation to
formulate the Stormwater Management Manual. This document entails the methodology and criteria required for all Projects implement after the year 2001.
e-mail: kinping@tm.net.my

Partner search for ICZM network project (INTERREG IIIC)
EUCC-The Coastal Union is inviting ICZM related project networks (regional, national and international) and national and regional authorities to join a project proposal for the promotion of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in Europe. The proposal will be submitted to the INTERREG IIIC Programme at the earliest occasion.
e-mail: virginie@coastalguide.org

Evaluating software packages
The Department of Marine Environment and Engineering of the National Sun Yat-Sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) has been committed by the EPA for evaluating software packages which are suitable for oil and chemical spill prediction and response supporting system. The software has to be equipped with GIS capability and database system supporting oil base, chemical base, ecological base, and clean up supporting system base. The software has to be able to estimate damages caused by spills too. Suggestions on evaluation criteria or recommendations on software packages are welcomed.
Contact: Jason C.S. Yu, Assistant Professor, NSYSU
e-mail: jasonyu@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

RedR's 21st Birthday
RedR (Engineers for Disaster Relief) celebrate their Annual General Meeting and their 21st Birthday on November 12th 2001. RedR is an international NGO with offices in London, Canberra, Auckland and Geneva that relieves suffering in disasters by selecting, training and providing competent and effective personnel to humanitarian aid agencies world-wide.
website: http://www.redr.org/

New Executive Director of the WWC
The World Water Council has appointed a new Executive Director. Daniel Zimmer will take over from Jamil Al-Alawi as of November, 2001. Daniel Zimmer has spent much of his career at the Water and Environmental Engineering Department of Cemagref, a renowned French public agricultural and environmental research institute. Most recently, as the Deputy Head of Department, he was responsible for strategic planning of research activities, dealing in particular with agricultural water management, wastewater treatment and waste management, drink water distribution optimisation and public service management.
website: http://www.worldwatercouncil.com/

Call for tenders, EU
The Research Directorate-General of the European Commission has announced a call for tenders relating to the European land-ocean interaction studies (ELOISE) cluster.
The contract involves assisting its services in the implementation of the EU-funded coastal zone research cluster. The deadline for requesting tender documents is 30-11-2001. The deadline for submitting tender documents is 07-12-2001 Before contacting the Commission, tenderers are strongly advised to consult the original call text in the Official Journal of the European Communities at the reference: OJ No S 184-125961 of 25-09-2001, p.77
website: http://www.cordis.lu/

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Faculty Position, Delaware, USA
The University of Delaware, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in coastal or environmental engineering starting Fall 2002. An earned doctoral degree in civil and environmental engineering or a related field is required. Applicants should send a cover letter summarising their experience, and teaching and research plans, along with their curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three references to: Prof. Nobu Kobayashi, Centre for Applied Coastal Research, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716.
e-mail: rad@udel.edu
website: http://www.ce.udel.edu/

Research Fellow in Computational Hydraulics, HR Wallingford, UK
HR Wallingford wishes to recruit a research fellow with specialist knowledge of open channel flow initially to work on a nationally funded R&D project to improve the computational procedures currently used for the estimation of flood conveyance. Following the completion of this initial research, there are opportunities to work on the development and application of variety of simulation models in engineering and environmental hydraulics. For an informal discussion on this position, please contact, Dr Paul Samuels:
e-mail: p.samuels@hrwallingford.co.uk
website: www.hrwallingford.co.uk/

Coastal Engineer, California, USA
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, is currently accepting applications for a coastal engineering position.
e-mail: Kevin.Knuuti@spd02.usace.army.mil
website: www.usajobs.opm.gov/wfjic/jobs/TM6081.HTM

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Florida, USA
the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering of the University of Florida offers two or three Post-Doctoral positions to study nearshore and coastal fluid dynamics emphasising the behaviour of alongshore currents, wave and current interactions, and benthic boundary layers. The projects involve utilising computational fluid dynamics
models to understand the non-linear time-dependent flow behaviour and various influences of topography, wave field conditions, tides, bottom drag, stratification, and
coupling between waves, currents, and sediment transport.
e-mail: slinn@coastal.ufl.edu

Post-doc research position, USA
The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management is advertising a post-doc research position in co-operation with the USGS for Coastal Hazards Research.
website: http://ceo.hrd.state.ma.us/ceo.nsf/

PhD Studentship, Loughborough, UK
PhD Studentship available for EU students with Dr. Vahid Nassehi of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK, to work on modelling for subsurface transport processes (combined free and porous flow).
e-mail: v.nassehi@lboro.ac.uk

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Plymouth, UK
The University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies, is looking for a suitably qualified and enthusiastic individual to take up a new position as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow funded through the EU HUMOR project, commencing on 1 February 2002 for a period of two years. The research programme will involve the creation, development and testing of a new 'cellular-automaton'-type model of morphological change in the coastal zone on scales of order 10-1000 metres.
e-mail: tohare@plymouth.ac.uk

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