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October 2020

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This month's focus: Celebrating 85!

IAHR 85th anniversary
As early as September 1935 a group of 63 directors of hydraulic laboratories from Europe and the USA decided to create the “International Association for Hydraulic Structures Research”, with the goal of advancing international cooperation in hydromechanics and its application to hydraulic engineering. Since then, the Association has evolved to become the international organisation that IAHR is today with more than 4,000 members from all over the world working for the development of water engineering, the protection of the environment, and a better water future for all.
To celebrate its 85 years of existence, IAHR will be organising a series of events in the forthcoming months that will culminate in a hybrid (Beijing, China, and online) 85th Anniversary Summit on 14-15 December
Since its creation in 1935, the association has evolved into a big community made up of the most relevant water-related and environmental fields of research and practice thanks to the support of a broad network of technical committees and working groups. The 85th Anniversary Summit will address the issues of ecohydraulics and nature-based-solutions, artificial intelligence and water, and the water-related challenges and opportunities in Africa to name but a few.

Meet IAHR people!

Interview with Roger Falconer

Interview with Roger Falconer

Roger Falconer, Past President of IAHR (2011-15), chair of the IAHR working group on Global Water Security and Emeritus Professor of Water Engineering at Cardiff University, School of Engineering, shares with us his views on water security and on the role the association plays in this regard. David Ferras, vice-chair of the IAHR technical committee on education and professional development, interviews Roger Falconer. Full interview
Professors Bruce W. Melville and Kyung Soo Jun winners of the 2020 APD Distinguished Membership Award

Prof. Bruce W. Melville and Kyung Soo Jun winners of the 2020 APD Distinguished Membership Award

Prof. Bruce W. Melville from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Prof. Kyung Soo Jun, Dean of the Graduate School of Water Resources at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Korea, longstanding members of IAHR, have received the 2020 Asia-Pacific Division Distinguished Membership Award for their outstanding contribution to the scientific activities of the IAHR Asia-Pacific Division (APD). The awards were presented at the 22nd IAHR-APD Congress in Sapporo, Japan.

What’s new at IAHR?

The Science of Global Water Security: Linking Knowledge to Solutions
Join the 2nd IAHR webinar on water security | The Science of Global Water Security: Linking Knowledge to Solutions
This second webinar in a series of webinars planned by the IAHR working group on Global Water Security, will focus on adapting high-level science and engineering solutions to the challenges and opportunities of global water security; the goal is to bring together well-known experts in their fields from the hydro-environmental science and engineering community within IAHR. The webinar will take place on 15 December 2020.

Latest updates from IAHR communities

Regional divisions

Proceedings of the 22nd IAHR Asia-Pacific Division Congress ‘Creating Resilience to Water-related Challenges’ now online
Proceedings of the 22nd IAHR Asia-Pacific Division Congress ‘Creating Resilience to Water-related Challenges’ now online
More than 270 research papers have been published on the proceedings of the 22nd IAHR Asia-Pacific Congress ‘Creating Resilience to Water-related Challenges’, which took place on 14-17 September. These are now accessible online.
Winners of the 2020 edition of the IAHR Hydro-Environment Asia-Pacific Division Heritage Awards
Winners of the 2020 edition of the IAHR Hydro-Environment Asia-Pacific Division Heritage Awards 
The winners were announced at the opening of the 22nd IAHR Asia-Pacific Division Congress on 15 September 2020. These regional awards recognize a local infrastructure of lasting and international importance and seek to give international professional recognition to the work of local hydro-environment engineers. Congratulations to the winners!

Technical committees and working groups

First IAHR webinar on water security now online
First IAHR webinar on water security now online
With more than 4,700 page views, the first IAHR webinar on water security ‘The Business of Global Water Security: Linking Knowledge to Practice’, organized by the IAHR working group on Global Water Security on 10 September, was a great success. Video presentations from the speakers are now available online.
Call for letters of intent to host the International Symposium on Ecohydraulics 2024
Call for letters of intent to host the International Symposium on Ecohydraulics 2024
The leadership team of the IAHR technical committee on Ecohydraulics invites letters of intent from the global community to serve as the local organizing committee (LOC) for the 2024 International Symposium on Ecohydraulics. 

Young Professional Networks (YPNs)

Register as a guest for the 1st Young Professionals Congress
Register as a guest for the 1st Young Professionals Congress
The call for papers was a great success with 140 submissions to the First IAHR Young Professionals Congress, to be held online on 17-18 November 2020. All papers are currently being reviewed by an international scientific committee. Register to attend as a guest. Registration is free and open to all!
The IAHR Panama YPN celebrates its first anniversary
The IAHR Panama YPN celebrates its first anniversary 
On the occasion of its first anniversary, the Panama Young Professionals Network organized a series of activities and online events in September. Silke Wieprecht, vice-president of IAHR, sent them her best wishes.
Follow the IAHR Venezuela YPN YouTube channel
Follow the IAHR Venezuela YPN YouTube channel 
The YouTube channel of the Venezuela Young Professionals Network provides access to a full recording of the webinar series “Conversaciones fluidas” (Fluid conversations), which includes the participation of leading professionals on water issues. The second webinar took place on Tuesday 6 October at 5 p.m. (Venezuela time, GMT -4); the topic was “Propagation of sediment pulses in rivers, associated with dam removal: Challenges and opportunities.” 
Welcome to the recently created IAHR Yonsei University Young Professionals Network
Welcome to the recently created IAHR Yonsei University Young Professionals Network
A group of students from the Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, have joined IAHR and created the Yonsei University YPN. 
Online workshop by the IAHR Fundación Universidad del Norte YPN
Online workshop by the IAHR Fundación Universidad del Norte YPN
On 24 September 2020, the Fundación Universidad del Norte YPN organized a workshop on ‘Raster handling (DEM and satellite images) in watershed delimitation’ with the participation of MSc Alexander A. Montalvo M., professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universidad del Norte.
Follow the IAHR Peru YPN YouTube channel
Follow the IAHR Peru YPN YouTube channel
The YouTube channel of the Peru Young Professionals Networks provides access to a full recording of the technical workshops they organize. 

Institute members

New Institute member: Thessaloniki Water Supply and Sewerage Company S.A., Greece
New Institute member: Thessaloniki Water Supply and Sewerage Company S.A., Greece
EYATH has just joined IAHR as an Institute member. The company provides water supply and sewerage services to more than 1.2 million citizens in the greater Thessaloniki Urban Area in Greece every day and is specialized in the design, construction, installation, operation, utilisation, management, maintenance, extension, and renewal of water supply and sewerage systems. Its activities include projects such as desalination, pumping, treatment, storage, transport, distribution, and management of all types of water, as well as the collection, transport, treatment, storage, and management of waste.

IAHR events and co-sponsored events

Forthcoming

30th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE 2020)
30th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE 2020)
11-16 October 2020. Online
Celebrated since 1992, the annual ISOPE conference is a major international forum where expert engineers from industry, government, and academia may exchange on a wide range of technological issues vital to exploring and developing ocean, wind, and arctic resources.
3rd Technical Conference IAHR Spain Chapter | Current Issues in Water Engineering
3rd Technical Conference IAHR Spain Chapter | Current Issues in Water Engineering 
15 October 2020. Online
Organized by the IAHR Spain Chapter, the 3rd Technical Conference will focus on a selection of current issues that have an impact on water engineering. These include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the consequences of COVID-19, and some new developments related to the assessment of the impact of climate change on the management of water resources.
UHINAK | IV Cross-border Conference on Climate and Coastal Change
UHINAK | IV Cross-border Conference on Climate and Coastal Change
4-5 November 2020. Online
Uhinak is a cross border congress that explores how climate change and extreme weather phenomena affect coastal areas in Atlantic Europe. In this fourth edition, the climate emergency takes on special relevance since the effects of climate change and extreme events require immediate action.
Online International Conference on River Morphology and Flood Control Piura River, Peru. Research, Study and Particular Fast-track Plan of Rapid Action
Online International Conference on River Morphology and Flood Control Piura River, Peru. Research, Study and Particular Fast-track Plan of Rapid Action
19-20 November 2020. Online
150 years of human intervention have transformed the Piura River, Peru‘s main irrigation area, into a semi-channelled and regulated river with levee embankments, groynes and sedimented floodplains in the lower river basin, Bajo Piura, and a non-river-channelled reach of a sediment ejection source area in the upper basin: Alto Piura. The objective of this conference is to alert local authorities to the urgency of addressing the issue of flood control in Piura, through adequate "engineering principles, organization, administration and ethics". Free registration opens soon.

Calls for abstracts

9th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics | Advances in Hydro-Environments for an Era of Big Change
9th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics | Advances in Hydro-Environments for an Era of Big Change
18-22 July 2021. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Deadline for abstract submission is 20 October 2020.

Latest updates from IAHR journals

Hydrolink. Issue 3, 2020. Special 85th IAHR anniversary issue

Hydrolink. Issue 3, 2020. Special 85th IAHR anniversary issue
Hydrolink is celebrating the 85th anniversary of the association by looking into its past, present and future. This special issue includes some reflections on the history of IAHR and its recent achievements under the leadership of the current and three past presidents. Six leading women members also share their thoughts on progress towards greater diversity and gender equity within the association and in water issues. Young professionals from across the globe discuss the challenges and aspirations of a new generation of engineers and scientists working on hydro-environment science and engineering. Regional concerns, in particular the case of Africa, which is one of the current strategic objectives of IAHR and requires greater engagement, are also addressed. The issue includes technical articles from IAHR Institute members presenting developments in solutions for fish-friendly hydropower, optimizing the size of surge vessels, and hydraulic studies to improve the safety of historic dams. To celebrate IAHR's 85th anniversary, we are happy to announce that this issue is FREE ACCESS. Share it!

RIBAGUA  Vol. 7. Issue 1, 2020 (in Spanish). Open access

RIBAGUA
This issue of RIBAGUA explores a further validation of a code based on the numerical method of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), developed at CEDEX, Spain. For this validation, data was used from a physical model, also developed at CEDEX, of the intake of the dam in La Angostura, Peru. This issue also presents a numerical analysis of highly convergent spillways. Among other benefits, Finally, readers will learn about the PORT 21 System, aimed at forecasting waves and currents in the South American coastal region. Case studies that illustrate the operation of the system are also presented, including an example of calibration and validation of the system in southern Chile.

IAHR Book Series

Hydraulics of Levee Overtopping
Hydraulics of Levee Overtopping
By Lin Li, Farshad Amini, Yi Pan, Saiyu Yuan and Bora Cetin
This book presents a cutting-edge approach to understanding overtopping hydraulics under negative freeboard of earthen levees, and to the study of levee reinforcing methods. This approach combines a soil erosion test, a full-scale laboratory overtopping hydraulics test, and numerical modelling for turbulent overtopping hydraulics. It provides an analysis that integrates the mechanical and hydraulic processes governing levee overtopping occurrences and engineering approaches to reinforce overtopped levees.

Jobs and opportunities

  • 6-month internship opportunity in the field of coupled hydro-sediment/ecology modelling combining process-based and machine learning approaches. Dyneco, Ifremer. Brest, France
Seagrasses form habitats of high ecological and natural heritage value. However, in a context of global changes, these underwater meadows are vulnerable to environmental and anthropogenic stressors. In the Arcachon bay in southwestern France, the total surface area of Zostera spp. seagrass beds has drastically declined. As part of the EU Life Integrated MarHA project, several research actions led by Ifremer aim to better understand the ecology and resilience of these typical coastal habitats. One specific action is to develop spatially explicit simulations of seagrass long-term dynamics, in particular in the pilot site of Arcachon Bay. Please email Heloise Muller and Martin Marzloff Martin for further information. The general scope of work includes high-performance computational modelling of astronomic tides, hurricane storm surge, and wind-waves and their impacts on coastal systems and communities for present and future conditions (including climate change and sea level rise). Specific themes of focus for independent research include real-time hurricane storm surge forecasting; compound flood modelling (rainfall-runoff, high river flows, and coastal storm surge); event-driven and long-term barrier island evolution; unstructured mesh generation; and natural- and nature-based feature implementation and assessment. 
  • Fully funded PhD position available in Coastal Physical Oceanography at VIMS. Application deadline is 1 November 2020
PhD opportunity in coastal physical oceanography is available to work with Dr. Piero Mazzini at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) - William & Mary. The PhD student will participate in the multi-institutional research project: River Plume-Cape Interaction - Plume Separation from The Coastal Wall, Vorticity Generation And Fresh Water Retention funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). Interested candidates should contact Dr. Piero Mazzini with the subject heading “VIMS PhD position inquiry”. Send a one-page letter of motivation, current CV and transcripts. Eligibility requirements 
  • Research Assistant position to work on a funded project in collaboration with University of Central Florida, University of New Mexico and Denison University
The student will be involved in the development of numerical models for the long-term evolution of fluvio-deltaic environments, as well as their validation against laboratory flume experiments and field observations. To apply informally, send Prof. Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba a letter of interest and curriculum vitae. Feel free to contact Prof. Lorenzo for any questions about the research project or the application process.

Special announcements

10th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water: nominations are open
10th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water: nominations are open until 31 December 2021
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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