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ISHS 2014 Paper Submission: 2 December 2013

This is a reminder that papers for next year’s National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering are due on 2 December 2013. I would urge you to consider submitting a paper to this important event on the calendar for the hydraulic engineering community. Please see below for more information, and feel free to forward this message to others.

The 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures and the 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering will be held in Brisbane, Australia on 25–27 June 2014. The symposium has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for current and future generations. More information.

Keynote lectures will include:

Scour at Hydraulic Structures
Professor Bruce MELVILLE, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Hydraulics of stepped weirs and dam spillways: engineering challenges, labyrinths of research
Professor Jorge MATOS, IST Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Papers: Brisbane Hydraulics Conference

A call for papers is now open for the 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures and the 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering, which will be held in Brisbane on 25–27 June 2014. The symposium has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for the current and future generations. Abstract submissions are due by 2 Dec.

More information: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/ishs-2014

ANCOLD Workshop for September

The Australian National Committee on Large Dams is running a a series of workshops around the country titled “ANCOLD Hydrology, Dambreak and Consequence Workshops”. They are two day workshops with the full details available on a PDF flyer.

The dates and locations are:

Melbourne: 2-3 September, Rydges Exhibition Street
Brisbane: 5-6 September, Rydges South Bank
Sydney: 9-10 September, Rydges World Square

HWRS2014 Abstracts Close on 14th June 2013

Just a quick reminder that the call for abstracts for the 35th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium close on the 14th June 2014. If you are interested in submitting a paper please check out their site for full details.

HWRS 2014 Call For Papers

The call for papers has now been announced for the 35th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium. Full details are available on their website.

Official Site Visit of the Hydrology and Water Resources Congress 2012

St Marys Water Recycling Plant Site Visit & Hawkesbury Nepean Modelling Presentation
Monday 19th November at 7:45 from Dockside in Sydney

The WSRG and Water Panel are running a half day site visit to the WRP in St Marys followed by presentations of the Hawkesbury Nepean Modelling conducted by Sydney Water Corporation, SKM and BMT WBM on the Monday prior to the conference.

The first event of the site visit day is the Water Recycling Plant in St Marys.

St Marys WRP is a wastewater treatment and recycling plant. The plant uses reverse osmosis technology to supply recycled water for release to the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. It replaces up to 18 billion litres of water that until now has been released from Warragamba Dam to assist the health of the river. Site visit activities may include:

a multimedia presentation
tour of the adjacent water recycling plant or wastewater processes
interactive activities at the centre

The day will continue after lunch at the University of Western Sydney with presentation on the modelling of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River.

Sydney Water is developing a new Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, hydrodynamic and river system model. This new model will inform wastewater infrastructure investment decisions for Sydney’s northwest and south west growth sectors. The modelling is being undertaken by Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) in partnership with BMT WBM, eWater CRC and CSIRO. A pilot modelling phase has been completed and simulates the hydrology, hydraulics and biochemical processes to determine the water quality benefits and impacts resulting from various waste water treatment environmental flow, water sensitive urban design and land-use change scenarios.

After the presentations, the bus will return to Dockside in time for welcome drinks.

Numbers are strictly limited and are filling up. Pre-registration is madatory.

Total cost is $70.00, which includes all bus transfers, lunch and afternoon tea.

ARR Update for August 2012

Project Updates

Project 4 (Continuous Rainfall Sequences at a point)

The Stage 2 report on Continuous simulation of rainfall sequences has been released for industry comment. Continuous simulation of rainfall sequences are becoming increasingly important in design flood estimation as they represent, arguably, the most rigorous technique available to represent the joint behaviour of flood-producing extreme rainfall events, the preceding antecedent rainfall conditions, and the influence of non-stationary catchment conditions. This report describes the outcomes from the second stage of ARR research project 4. The objectives of this stage are to:

finalise the development of the regionalised state-based method of fragments approach as well as the development of a regionalised daily rainfall generation model; and
assess the performance of the method of fragments model using the same statistics and locations that were used in Frost et al [2004].

Arising from this project, methods were developed to allow for the generation of sequences of point-rainfall at the resolution of the pluviograph data (in this study taken to be in increments of 6-minutes) at any location in Australia. The testing conducted in this phase of work focused on statistics relevant for using continuous simulation in flood frequency estimation. Specifically, the method was tested in the context of the capacity to reproduce both extreme rainfall and the antecedent rainfall leading up to the annual maxima event, with the suite of methods generally performing well against these metrics.

Download a PDF of the report.

Project 10 and 15 (People Safety and Two dimensional Modelling (Flow around buildings))

Flow around buildings and People Safety presentation will be held at the 19th Queensland Water Symposium on 27-28 Sep in Brisbane.

Report Review Process

The Revision team is committed to producing a quality project for industry. As part of the revision process has been developed where reports are reviewed by the Technical Committee as well as Australian and International reviewers. The following reports are undergoing the detailed review process prior to release to the industry for comment and are expected to be released soon.

General Updates Call for Reviewers

Those interested in reviewing projects should email arr_admin@arr.org.au briefly describing which projects they are interested in reviewing and what qualifications/experience they have in those practice areas.

HWRS 2012

Registration is now open for the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium. HWRS 2012 is Australia’s largest event devoted to hydrology, water engineering and related areas in water resources management. The Symposium has a long history as Australia’s pre-eminent conference in hydrological research and provides a forum to discuss emergent and innovative approaches for practicing engineers and scientists. HWRS 2012 takes place from 19 – 22 November 2012 at Dockside, Sydney NSW,
HWRS 2012 will bring together a large audience of academics, government officials and industry practitioners. Symposium highlights will include presentations from various researchers working on the 21 Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Projects, and keynote speeches from some of the world’s leading experts in hydrology and water resources. Dr Rob Vertessy, of the Bureau of Meterology has been confirmed to give the Munro Oration.

Australian Rainfall and Runoff has joined LinkedIn. Join the group for discussions and updates on the revision of Australian Rainfall and Runoff.

Hydrology and Society Conference Annoucement

The organisers have just posted an announcement for the 4th EGU Leonardo Conference on the Hydrological Cycle, which is reporoduced below.

ONLY 2 WEEKS TO GO: “Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Challenges” PRCC conference – Register Now!

The following is a cross post of a conference announcement that may be of interest to our subscribers.

Practical Responses to Climate Change Conference, 1-3 May, Canberra, Australia

Registrations are now open for the ‘Practical Responses to Climate Change’ conference which will be held in Canberra, Australia, at the National Convention Centre from 1 to 3 May 2012. The theme for 2012 is ‘Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Challenges’.

The conference will provide a forum for presenting strategies for managing a variable and changing climate, with a particular focus on the water sector. It will be an opportunity for policy makers, engineers, business leaders, planners and researchers from a range of disciplines to present, listen to and debate the latest research and practice on water and climate policy implementation challenges in urban, catchment and coastal environments. High profile national and international speakers will be brought together with delegates from around Australia and the world for a series of plenary lectures and contributed papers that will ensure a vibrant and interesting program. Discussion panel sessions at the end of each day will be included to allow a forum for debate of key issues and also presentation and discussion of the most recent thinking.

Just some of the speakers include:

James Cameron – CEO, National Water Commission
Wendy Craik AM – Commissioner of the Barriers to Climate Change Adaption Inquiry, Productivity Commission
Phil Cummins – Deputy Commissioner, Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry
Rhondda Dickson – CEO, Murray Darling Basin Authority
Leo Dobes – Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
Rowan Douglas – CEO Global Analytics, Willis Group & Chairman, WillisRe Research Network
Alistair Driver – National Conservation Manager, UK Environment Agency
Barbara Norman – Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Canberra
Mike Rothery – First Assistant Secretary, National Security Resilience Policy Division, Attorney-General’s Department
Harinder Sidhu – First Assistant Secretary – Adaptation, Science and Communication Division Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
Caroline Sullivan – Assoc Prof Environment, Economics and Policy, Southern Cross University
Rob Vertessy – Acting Director of Meteorology, Bureau of Meteorology

The full program can be downloaded.

The conference is run by Engineers Australia in partnership with the HC Coombs Policy Forum at the Australian National University. Further information on the conference and registrations (including reduced prices for students) can be found at: www.climatechange2012.org

Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2012: Abstract Reminder

Over on the HWRS2012 website there is a reminder that the call for abstracts is now open and that they will close on the 19th March 2012.

On behalf of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (HWRS) 2012 Organising Committee, I would like to remind you that the call for abstracts for the Symposium is now OPEN. A flyer with further information including important dates for the Symposium is attached to this email.

HWRS 2012 takes place from 19 – 22 November 2012 at Dockside, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Abstracts can be submitted via the Symposium website www.hwrs2012.org.au on the ‘Abstract Submission’ page. Please note that the closing date for abstract submission is MONDAY, 19 MARCH 2012.

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