Registrations are filling fast and time is running out for the remaining places at the Hydraulics and Water Engineering Conference 2017 – 13th to 16th November, Dockside, Sydney. Our programme at a glance includes highlights such as:

• Nearly 50 peer reviewed papers on all aspects of hydraulic theory and application.  Check out the full list of papers online.
• Practitioner facilitated workshop on the pros and cons of direct rainfall on grid.
• Professor Ron Cox of the Water Research Laboratory, UNSW to give the Henderson Oration
• Full Day Hydraulic Modelling workshop or alternate visit to WRL and MHL at Manly Vale.

The full programme is available online.

Hydraulic Workshop
The day starts with a Q&A session featuring prominent hydraulic modellers discuss the latest techniques and the future direct of 2D modelling. They will discuss cloud storage, GPU cards, calibration techniques, CFD and much more. Mark Forest, Practice Leader – Floodplain Management and Surface Water Modelling, HDR Engineering, Reno Nevada, USA, talk on the developments and evolution of HEC-RAS. Hear and question Software developers and vendors on the latest developments and innovations.  So far TUFLOW, DHI, 12d, Innovyze, HEC 2D and Waterride are confirmed to be present.  See the latest on Monte Carlo hydraulic modelling with direct examples of these techniques (including the Brisbane River flood study) in practice from front line engineers.

Registration Fees Will Rise on the 6th of November
Standard registration closes on 6th November and late fees will apply after that time.  Register now to lock in the standard rate.

The Civil College National Committee on Water Engineering is calling for nominations for the JD Lawson Scholarship. The scholarship recognises and encourages a professional engineer who is making an outstanding contribution in hydro-environmental engineering to the professional community. 

Who was JD Lawson?

Jack Dempster Lawson was an Emeritus Professor whose career spanned four decades, and whose contribution to the fields of hydraulic and water resources engineering was and still is profound. After working briefly with the Commonwealth Department of Works and for two years as a Research Hydraulic Engineer with the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority he joined the University of Melbourne as a Senior Lecturer in 1954. In 1970 he was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering, a position he held until his retirement in 1989. At the time of his death in 1991 he was the world President of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). 

The Scholarship

The scholarship includes up to $5000 for registration, flights and accommodation to attend the 37th IAHR World Congress to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 13-18 August 2017. 

Find out more

To find out more and to nominate, visit our website. 

Nominations close Monday, 13 February

The National Committee on Water Engineering and Engineers Australia is pleased to announce that the 13^th Hydraulics in Water Engineering Conference will be held at the DockSide, Sydney on 13-16 November 2017. The conference will cover all aspects of Hydraulics in Water Engineering.  The Scientific Committee of the 13^th Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering is inviting Authors to submit Abstracts to any of the following themes.

Conference Themes

• Applied Hydraulics
  • Best engineering practice
  • Risk management
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Education
• Hydraulic structures
  • Conveyance structures
  • Dam operations
  • Hydropower
  • Flow structure interactions
• Infrastructure
  • Stormwater
  • Bridges
  • Pipes and pumps
  • Irrigation
• Coastal Hydraulics
  • Ports and harbours
  • Shoreline protection
  • Geomorphology
• Riverine Hydraulics
  • Rivers
  • Estuaries
  • Sediment transport
  • Wetlands
• Numerical methods
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics
  • Flood forecasting
• Environmental
  • Ecohydraulics
  • Environmental fluid mechanics
  • Ocean outfalls
  • Stratification
  • Water quality
• Hydraulic Methods
  • Technology
  • Innovations
  • Physical modelling
  • Data collection
  • Industrial processes

Submission Details

Abstracts of between 250 and 300 words will be accepted in Microsoft Word or plain text and should be submitted to abstracts@hiwe2017.com.au by 3rd March 2017.  Once the Abstract has been accepted, authors are required to submit a full paper for peer review on the template to be provided.

Sponsors and Further Information

We are seeking sponsors, if you are interested please contact us on: info@hiwe2017.com.au. Our website: http://www.hiwe2017.com.au/ will go live soon.

See: http://www.coastsandports2017.com.au/

The Local Organising Committee, the National Committee for Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Engineers Australia, PIANC and IPENZ invite you to attend the Australasian Coasts & Ports 2017 Conference; an amalgamation of the 23rd Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference and the 16th Australasian Port and Harbour Conference. The Conference will be held in Cairns, Queensland, from 21-23 June, at the Cairns Convention Centre.

The Coasts & Ports Conference series is the pre-eminent forum in the Australasian region for professionals to meet and discuss issues extending across all disciplines related to coasts and ports.

Our Conference theme “Working with Nature” reflects the increasing recognition of the need to design and operate projects from a perspective that places the natural environment at the forefront of the project, to benefit the community and nature.

An increasing awareness of the value for ecosystem services, both marine and terrestrial, complements this philosophy, and provides opportunity for maximising the benefits of multi-disciplinary collaboration between engineers, scientists and regulatory bodies.

Coasts & Ports 2017 will bring together engineers, planners, scientists and researchers to Cairns, to focus on the technological, scientific, policy, planning and design issues related to our diverse and developing coasts.

Coasts & Ports 2017 will continue to publicise the persisting importance of coastal engineering problems, incorporating numerous concurrent streams for technical presentations, half-day field trips and the opportunity to network with colleagues in a vibrant social program, including a Welcome Reception, Conference Dinner and Closing Sundowner.

We look forward to seeing you in Cairns in 2017!

Professor Tom Baldock
Coasts & Ports 2017 Chairperson