European Geosciences Union
Division on Hydrological Sciences
President: Alberto Viglione
(hs@egu.eu)
Deputy President: vacant
The Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division is concerned with all aspects of the terrestrial hydrological cycle (including precipitation, surface water, soil water, groundwater) from the pore scale to the global scale, and its relationships and interactions with the atmospheric part of the hydrological cycle. The division also covers the interaction between hydrology and geomorphology (e.g., erosion, sedimentation, groundwater systems), the relationships between hydrology and soils, as well as the interaction between the hydrosphere and the biosphere (e.g., ecohydrology, wetlands). The ways in which hydrological processes are observed, quantitatively computed, and forecasted are also addressed by the division. Management and operation of water resources by societies in various parts of the world is also within the division’s realm.
The Hydrological Sciences Division (HS) has five main tasks:
Such tasks require considerable (voluntary!) input from many people, and offer plenty of opportunities to become actively involved.
To ensure that the sessions during the General Assembly cover our science as comprehensively as possible, there are currently ten Subdivisions, including a subdivision on general hydrology (monitoring and cross cutting issues). Distinct fields within the broad area of hydrology are covered. Each Subdivision Committee organises a set of oral, poster or PICO sessions to cover its field. The members of the Subdivision Committees meet during the EGU General Assembly and start preparing the draft programme for next year’s meeting in late spring/early summer. Membership of the committees of these Subdivisions is open: you can e-mail the Subdivision Committee Chair to request membership or you may directly join the meeting during the General Assembly to get involved in the Subdivision activities and in particular in the organisation of the programme, including proposal of sessions and volunteering as convener or co-convener (see overview of Programme Organisation and Convener Tasks ).
You can also become involved in the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) journal. In addition to submitting your best scientific work to HESS, consider that the journal needs both referees and members of its Editorial Board to cover a sufficiently broad spectrum of expertise to adequately handle all incoming papers. If you would like to become active as a referee or as an editor you may therefore consider informing any editor or Executive Editor of your wish.
The Division contributes to the EGU Awards & Medals programme that recognises every year eminent scientists for their outstanding research contribution and identifies the awardees as role models for the next generation of young scientists to foster geosciences research. In particular, members of the Division are invited to contribute to the nominations (deadline are every year on the 15th June, see here) for both the young and senior HS Division Awards and Medals (link).
The EGU offers a platform for young scientists to become involved in hydrological research, through sessions, social events and short courses at the annual General Assembly in April. Several activities are especially aimed for Young Scientists in the Hydrological Science, organised with the help of the Young Hydrologic Society.
Lastly, you are invited to share the news/information that may be of interest to the EGU Hydrological Sciences community, by sending a tweet to @EGU_HS or filling in the activity calendar webform.
Do not hesitate to contact the Division President or any Division Officer if you need any additional information on our activities!
The Hydrological Science Division of EGU has adopted a twitter account to share:
The 2023 Henry Darcy Medal is awarded to Marc F. P. Bierkens for outstanding research on integrative global and regional-scale water resources modelling, aimed at understanding surface and groundwater supply depletion related to human uses and climate change.
The 2023 John Dalton Medal is awarded to Taikan Oki for his seminal contribution to global hydrology through pioneering work in developing novel numerical models to quantify the global water cycle, and its evolution under human pressure.
The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Inge de Graaf for fundamental contributions to the field of large-scale hydrology and groundwater modelling.
The 2022 John Dalton Medal is awarded to Martha C. Anderson for ground-breaking contributions to the development and application of multi-scale thermal remote sensing to evapotranspiration and drought impact assessments.
The 2022 Henry Darcy Medal is awarded to Wouter Buytaert for contributions to improving water security in poorly gauged and challenging regions, through the development of innovative analysis methods and approaches for data collection and citizen science.
The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Manuela I. Brunner for outstanding contributions in the field of statistical hydrology of extremes, encompassing floods and droughts, and regional risk assessment.
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Athanasios Serafeim Parametric model for probabilistic estimation of water losses in water distribution networks: A large scale real world application to the city of Patras in western Greece
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Dirk Eilander A globally-applicable framework for compound flood risk modeling
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Hadeel Al-Zawaidah Microplastic dynamics within turbulence for improved modelling and monitoring strategies
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lars Tierolf COASTMOVE: A global agent-based model of adaptation and migration decisions in face of sea level rise
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Omar Cenobio-Cruz Improvement of high and low flow simulation in the hydrological model chain SASER
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Svenja Hoffmeister Combining field survey and time series data to learn about plant water usage in a South African agroforestry system
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Tobias Junginger The urban biocide terbutryn: field investigations to explore release and reactive transport under environmental conditions
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Tom Müller On the identification of hydrogeological reservoirs in a proglacial catchment and their future groundwater storage
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Xinyang Fan Groundwater sensitivity to Climate Change
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Yingxue Yu Effects of Microplastics on Soil Hydraulic Properties
The 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Niko Wanders for outstanding research in forecasting large-scale hydrological extremes and predicting global water cycle functions under rapidly increasing human-water interactions.
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