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Short course on 'Model building, inference and hypothesis testing in hydrology'
From May, 21 until 25 the CRP-Gabriel Lippmann (Luxembourg) will organize a short course on Model building, inference and hypothesis testing in hydrology'. The lecturers are: Fabrizio Fenicia (CRP – Gabriel Lippmann) and Dmitri Kavetski (University of Adelaide, Australia). And invited lectures will be given by: Martyn Clark (NCAR, Boulder), Benjamin Renard (IRSTEA, Lyon) and Hubert Savenije (Delft University of Technology)
Further information can be found here.
Günter Blöschl elected next EGU President
After an extremely close election, Günter Blöschl, who is a Past President of the Hydrology Division, won the election for the EGU Presidency with a 13-vote margin, receiving 831 votes (37% of the total) in a field of three candidates. I thank you all fro your vote: with such a razor-thin margin, each of your votes really made a difference!
The Hydrology Division is as happy as Günter himself, and warmly congratulates him with this result. I am looking forward to the cooperation.
Günter will be inaugurated in Vienna during the upcoming General Assembly. He will serve one year as President-Elect and will be Vice-President during that year (2012-2013). In 2013 starts his two-year tenure as President (2013-2015), followed by a one-year term (2015-2016) as Past-President (Vice President).
Gerrit de Rooij
President Hydrological Sciences
Extended deadline 3rd EGU Leonardo Conference on the Hydrological Cycle: Floods in 3D - Processes, Patterns, Prediction (23-25 November 2011)
The deadline for the topical conference in Bratislava, Slovakia is extended to 31 July.
AGU Awards and Medals for Murugesu Sivapalan, Tammo Steenhuis, and Carlo Laj
For 2011, the American Geophysical Union rewarded three people with connections to the Hydrological Sciences Division:
- After winning the 2010 AGU Hydrology Award, Murugesu Sivapalan (Executive Editor of HESS and Dalton Medalist) went on to win the Robert E. Horton Medal for outstanding contributions to hydrology.
- Tammo Steenhuis (Darcy Medalist) won the International Award for making an outstanding contribution to furthering Earth Sciences and using science for the benefit of society in less favored nations.
- Carlo Laj, who is very active in the EGU Outreach initiative GIFT (Geosciences Information for Teachers), received the Excellence in Geophysical Education Award for his sustained commitment to excellence in geophysical education.
Follow this link for details: http://www.agu.org/news/archives/2011-07-19_AGU_Medials_Awards.shtml
The Hydrological Sciences Division warmly congratulates Siva, Tammo, and Carlo for this recognition of their work.
Gerrit de Rooij
President Hydrological Sciences
Murugesu Sivapalan recieves the AGU Hydrological Sciences Award
The American Geophysical Union awarded the 2010 Hydrological Sciences Award to Murugesu Sivaplan (‘Siva’) ‘for outstanding contributions to the science of hydrologic predictions in ungauged basins and for international leadership in scientific hydrology’. Siva is an Executive Editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences and won the EGU Dalton Medal in 2003. Apart from the reference to Siva’s efforts to get the ‘Prediction in Ungauged Basins’ Initiative up and running nearly a decade ago, the citation also highlights various research areas he pioneered (Representative Elementary Areas, watershed thermodynamics). See EOS (vol. 92, nr. 25) for details.
We congratulate Siva with this well-deserved recognition, and look forward to many more years of being exposed to his energetic and inspiring creativity.
Gerrit de Rooij
President Hydrological Sciences
ERB workshop 2011 "Geochemical, isotope and innovative tracers: Challenges and perspectives for small catchment research". Luxembourg 12-13 September
For several decades, geochemical tracers and stable isotopes have provided valuable insights on the flowpaths taken by water and the mean residence time of water inside a catchment. These tracers have their individual advantages and complementarities. Nevertheless, over the years, inherent limitations and assumptions of these techniques, such as unrealistic mixing assumptions, unstable end-member solutions and temporally varying input concentrations became apparent and have been largely documented. In order to assess some of these shortcomings, innovative tracers have currently emerged, such as the potential of using living organisms (e.g. diatoms), DNA tracers, fiber optic cables or infrared imagery.
In combination with interdisciplinary approaches, these innovative tracers are to foster a paradigm shift where new process understanding is to generate knowledge of general hydrological behaviour across places and scales. However, there is also the need to better understand the potential and shortcomings of these innovative tracers in generating useful information at the catchment scale, and to make them progressively more routinely available.
The ERB workshop 2011 on geochemical, isotope and innovative tracers will offer a platform where the most recent advances in terms of innovative tracing techniques, analytical methods and new modelling approaches to trace water flowpaths will be debated. Futher information.
EGU-HS 2011 - Last minute information
Dear Colleagues,
as we are heading to Vienna, I would like to take this last occasion to remind to you a few very important events for HS during EGU2011.
1) Jim Dooge Memorial Session: Wednesday, April 6, 8:30-12:00, room 33. Please see http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/oral_programme/7980.
From 10:30 the session will be attended by His Excellence Mr. James Brennan, the Iris Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, and Ms. Dara Dooge and Mrs. Caroline Arlamovsky (relativies of Jim Dooge).
2) HS Business Meeting: Wednesday, April 6, 12:15-13:15, room 33. Refreshments will be served. Please attend, the Business Meeting is the most important event of our community during the year. I would be very please to speak with you there.
3) EGU Award Ceremony: Wednesday, April 6, 17:30-20:00, room D (please see http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/oral_programme/8105). Refreshments will be served. Please attend. The award ceremony is one of the most important EGU events during the week. Also, we will celebrate during that Ceremony the HS awardees: Peter Troch (Dalton Medal; medal lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 5, 18:30 in room 33), Jan Szolgay(Darcy Medal; medal lecture will take place on Thursday, April 7, 18:30 in room 33),Florian Pappenberger (with award presentation, citation and reply; Citationist: Jutta Thielen; Arne Richter outstanding young scientist award; medal lecture will take place on Thursday, April 7, at 16:30 in room 33), Andreas Guentner (with award presentation, citation and reply; citationist: Jan Seibert; EGU Union Service Award) and Bill Dietrich (with Medal presentation, citation and reply; citationist: Guenter Bloeschl; Holmes Union Medal. Medal lecture will be given on Thursday, 12:15, in room D, where refreshments will be served).
4) Special Geomorphology/Hydrology event: Meet the Master.
Thursday 7 April, time block 5, room 21 - 'Meet the Master': Bill Dietrich, winner of the 2011 Arthur Holmes medal, will talk about the challenges, choices and opportunities he has faced in his distinguished career, and answer questions from the audience.
This event is for young scientists only, and will be primarily targeted at geomorphologists and hydrologists.
Alberto Montanari
Outgoing President, HS Division
HS Newsletter January 2011
Dear Colleagues, this newsletter aims to inform you about the next activities of the Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
Please see the full newsletter here
Alberto Montanari
The HS scientific programme at EGU2011 is on-line!
The scientific programme of the Hydrological Sciences Division during EGU2011 is on-line at the web page:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/sessionprogramme/HS
Please mark your calendar and submit your abstract! Among the featured event, I wish to draw your attention on the medal lectures (Dalton medal lecture: Peter Troch, Tuesday night, April 5, 2011; Darcy medal lecture: Jan Szolgay, Thursday night, April 7, 2011; Outstanding Young Scientist Lecture: Florian Pappenberger, Thursday afternoon, April 7, 2011) and the Memorial Session in Honour of Prof. Jim Dooge (please see meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/oral_programme/7980) which will take place on Wednesday, April 6, 2011.
I am looking forward to seeing you in Vienna!Alberto Montanari
HS Newsletter March 2011
Dear Colleagues, this newsletter aims to inform you about featured events organised by Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) at the next EGU Meeting in Vienna (April 3-8, 2011).
Please see the full newsletter here
Alberto Montanari
Siva Sivapalan receives the 2010 Hydrologic Sciences Award by AGU
Murugesu ("Siva") Sivapalan, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geography at the University of Illinois, Chief Editor of HESS and Dalton medallist in 2004, has been awarded with the 2010 Hydrologic Sciences Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The year 2010 is fruitful of international scientific recognitions for Siva. In fact, he was presented in July with the International Hydrology Prize from the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. He was cited, “For outstanding contributions to watershed hydrology and global leadership in advancing predictions in ungauged basins". Siva's speech during the award ceremony can be downloaded here
Siva has made outstanding contributions to hydrology and is dedicating substantial efforts to the Division on Hydrological Sciences. He has also been a leader in the PUB (Predictions in Ungaged Basins) initiative of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, which has impacted the state of the art of watershed hydrology and its practice worldwide.
On behalf of the Hydrological Sciences Division I wish to congratulate with Siva for his great scientific achievements.
Alberto Montanari
Gerrit de Rooij has been elected President of the Division on Hydrological Sciences for the biennium 2011-2013
I am pleased to announce that Gerrit de Rooij has been elected President of the Hydrological Sciences Division for the biennium 2011-2013. Gerrit de Rooij is the current scientific secretary of HS and is taking care of organising the HS scientific programme for EGU2011. He started contributing to HS 10 years ago. During this period he chaired the subdivision on Unsaturated Zone and actively contributed to the development of HESS by serving as Editor.
Gerrit de Rooij will start his term at the end of EGU2011. On behalf of the Division on Hydrological Sciences I am pleased to welcome Gerrit and wish him all the best during his term as Division President!
Alberto Montanari
- Peter Troch
The 2011 medallists of the Hydrological Sciences Division
Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce the 2011 medallists of the
Hydrological Sciences Division:
- 2011 Dalton Medallist: Peter Troch (University of Arizona)
- Jan Szolgay
- 2011 Darcy medallist: Jan Szolgay (Slovak University of Technology)
- Florian Pappenberger
- 2011 Oustanding Young Scientist: Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
- Andreas Guentner
- 2011 Union Service Award: Andreas Guentner (Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam)
I am also pleased to announce that the 2011 Arthur Holmes Union Medal will be awarded to Bill Dietrich (University of California Berkeley).
Alberto Montanari
2nd EGU Leonardo Conference on the Hydrological Cycle: Looking at catchment in colors. A success!
Date: 12 November 2010
The second edition of the 2nd EGU Leonardo Conference on the Hydrological Cycle took place in Luxembourg from November 10 to 12, 2010. The conference has been a success. About 150 people from 29 countries attended the scientific sessions, which were structured in oral talks and poster presentation. The discussions that were organised during the sessions were particularly interesting.
The scientific quality of the talks was excellent. Invited speakers were Markus Weiler, Johan Bouma and Keith Beven.
Hubert Savenije, past president of HS and Darcy medallist in 2008, gave the first Leonardo Lecture during the gala dinner of the conference. The Leonardo Lecture was promoted by the Hydrological Sciences division of EGU to recognise outstanding contributions to the field of hydrology during the Leonardo Conference. It has been an honor for HS to give such a rewarding recognition to Hubert Savenije.
The next Leonardo Conference will be held in November 2011 in Bratislava. I really hope to see many of you there.
Alberto Montanari
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