The Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2022 has been announced with a call for abstracts already out. It is scheduled for 30 November – 1 December 2022. From the Organising Committee:

“Engineers Australia is set to host the 40th iteration of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium from 30 November – 1 December 2022, under the theme, ‘the past, the present, the future.’

Join us as we look back at the work and impact of our industry predecessors, discuss current water-related issues and trends, and explore the innovations and technologies that are shaping the future of water engineering. “

The theme for HWRS 2022, The past, the present and the future, covers a range of topics relevant to practicing water engineers, students, academics, researchers, and industry specialist providers.

Examples of potential presentation topics are listed under each sub-theme below:
 

Hydrology  

  • Event based
  • Long term continuous modelling
  • Monte Carlo
  • Data collection/gauging
  • Rare-extreme event analysis
  •  Climate change
  • Programming

Flood forecasting 

  • Machine learning in flood forecasting
  • Real-time flood forecasting and warning
  • Prediction in ungauged catchments
  • Management of uncertainty
  • Statutory response to flood forecasting

Floods – Risk assessment, planning and management  

  • Design flood estimation and risk assessment
  • Floodplain modelling and management
  • Regional flood studies
  • Prediction in ungauged catchments
  • Management of uncertainty
  • Flood risk management through land-use planning
  • Using paleo-hydrology to inform flood risk

Eco-hydraulics 

  • Digital technology in low flow and drought studies
  • Quantifying long-term drought risk
  • Minimum flows to protect the environment
  • Water quality and drought
  • Technical advances in environmental flow assessment techniques
  • Environmental flow release trials and policy
  • Watershed assessment, monitoring and management
  • Water quality and health of aquatic systems
  • Fate and transport of pollutants
  • Evaluation of environmental flow programs
  • Fish and aquatic life passage at hydraulic structures

Instrumentation, hydroinformatics, smart data 

  • Hydrologic monitoring and data management
  • Advances in simulation modelling
  • Artificial neural networks, evolutionary methods and cellular automata
  • Applications of GPS, remote sensing, GIS digital terrain modelling in hydrology and water resources
  • Internet-based applications
  • Novel metrology for field measurements in rivers and hydraulic structures

Hydraulic structures 

  • Spillway design and operation
  • Urban hydraulics and structures
  • Water management for infrastructure: physical and numerical modelling of dams and weirs
  • CFD modelling
  • Linear infrastructure

Informing policy and operational decisions 

  • New digital technologies and methods for water conservation
  • Water conservation in the agricultural, industrial and municipal sectors
  • Land-use change impacts
  • Alternate water sources and Irrigation water management
  • Challenges in the use of alternative water sources
  • Sustainability issues, challenges, risks and uncertainties
  • Water governance, socio-economic framework and policy
  • Understanding and forecasting water use behaviour
  • Water stewardship, standards and accreditation
  • Multicriteria decision making and applications in water systems analysis
  • Decision support systems.

Integrated water resources management 

  • Sustainability and modelling technology
  • Water security-conflict management
  • Water trading
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Water supply and demand management
  • Bushfire response

Groundwater 

  • Advances in groundwater modelling
  • Groundwater contamination and protection
  • Integrated coastal aquifer management
  • Water harvesting and groundwater recharge
  • Transport and fate of pollutants
  • Improving water quality – salinity/sodicity management

Urban water management 

  • Liveability – meeting the basic social, environmental and economic needs of people
  • Water sensitive urban design
  • Water and urban microclimate management
  • Urban hydrology and flash flooding

Responding to climate change 

  • Impacts of global and regional climate change and adaption
  • Projections of changes to rainfall intensity
  • Quantifying, modelling and managing changes to flood risk
  • Sea level rise and coastal processes

Industrial water management 

  • Modelling and managing river diversions
  • Water supply for mining and processing
  • Managing discharge of contaminated water
  • Pumps and pipelines
  • Flood risk management for dams and other infrastructure