The 2015 Floodplain Management Association National Conference Program is now available.
Don’t forget to register prior to Friday 20th March 2015 to receive the discounted Early Registration Rate.
Secure, online registration is available.
Please ensure that you read the Registration Conditions before you register.
Early Registration & Presenter (oral and poster) Registration closes Friday 20th March 2015
The 9th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference and 3rd International Erosion Control Association National Conference will be held from Monday, 19th to Friday, 23rd October, 2015 at Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf, Sydney, Australia.
The theme for this year’s Conference is ‘Holistic Integration: Concept, Design, Construction and Operation’. This year’s Conference will explore more effective ways of managing and integrating stormwater, from the concept and design, through to construction and into operation.
This Conference effectively unites three organisations that are all in the business of managing stormwater quality and quantity at various stages of development. Importantly, it adds the construction-phase into the conversation on designing and managing Water Sensitive Urban Design. With better integration of stormwater management at ALL stages, we will hopefully see an end to operational water quality advances being effectively undone by excess pollution during the construction stage.
This year’s Conference is sure to be a thought-provoking event that will challenge delegates’ thinking and knowledge while expanding their views on holistic water management.
We invite all stormwater professionals to submit an abstract for consideration in the 2015 Conference program.
CALL FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
The Conference Committee would like to invite academics, stormwater practitioners and related stakeholders to submit abstracts on topics related to the stormwater discipline.
We are particularly seeking submissions that encourage debate and will allow participants to explore new ideas that challenge existing paradigms and engage participants in collaborative discussion.
A Water Leadership Event has been organised for Wednesday 4th March at the Sydney Water Auditorium, from the brochure:
This is an interactive workshop featuring Kevin Young, Managing Director of Sydney Water, speaking about his personal leadership experience and Dr André Taylor, Leadership Specialist with the International Water Centre, who will share with you some tips on how to network and exert influence.
Full details, including registraion information, can be found in the PDF flyer.
Update 2015-01-17: I’ve changed some of the dates to match the official website which differs slightly from the PDF attached to this post.
The first announcement for the 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium is now out in PDF format. Briefly though the current schedule is:
They have a website at: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/hwrs-2015.
We had previously announced that the workshops could only be booked as part of a conference package. Now, however, that ARR team have announced stand-alone pricing of: $195 for each workshop.
Speaker: Bryson Bates
Wednesday 26 November 2014, 4-5.30pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff will be launching its Interim Climate Change Guidelines at the Engineers Australia National Convention 2014. These guidelines were lead by Dr Bryson Bates from CSIRO. This draft discussion paper draws on the most recent climate science, particularly the release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on the Physical Science Basis in September 2013 (IPCC, 2013) as well as the new climate change projections for Australia (CSIRO and BoM, 2014), and outlines an approach to address the risks from climate change in projects and decisions that involve estimation of design flood characteristics. For consistency with the revised IFD design estimates for Australia, the Interim Guideline is intended to be applied to current-day rainfall intensities with a probability of one exceedance per year or annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs) from 50% to 1%.
Speaker: Seth Westra, Michael Leonard
Thursday 27 November 2014, 3.30-5 pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 18 focused on the Interaction of Coastal Processes and Severe Weather Events. This session will include an overview of the methodology and a demonstration of the software developed by the University of Adelaide. This project will address the current short coming in estimating flood behaviour in the estuarine zone for current and future climate conditions.
To register please go to the Convention Website. Follow the normal registration process for the Convention. The system asks you to choose what you want to attend to calculate the fee to be charged. While the Convention has a number of workshops running the registration page is only showing them as ‘Wednesday Workshop’ and ‘Thursday Workshop.’ So depending upon the day you want to attend, you can register for one or both. Registration costs $195 per workshop.
Speaker: Bryson Bates
Wednesday 26 November 2014, 4-5.30pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff will be launching its Interim Climate Change Guidelines at the Engineers Australia National Convention 2014. These guidelines were lead by Dr Bryson Bates from CSIRO. This draft discussion paper draws on the most recent climate science, particularly the release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on the Physical Science Basis in September 2013 (IPCC, 2013) as well as the new climate change projections for Australia (CSIRO and BoM, 2014), and outlines an approach to address the risks from climate change in projects and decisions that involve estimation of design flood characteristics. For consistency with the revised IFD design estimates for Australia, the Interim Guideline is intended to be applied to current-day rainfall intensities with a probability of one exceedance per year or annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs) from 50% to 1%.
Speaker: Seth Westra, Michael Leonard
Thursday 27 November 2014, 3.30-5 pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 18 focused on the Interaction of Coastal Processes and Severe Weather Events. This session will include an overview of the methodology and a demonstration of the software developed by the University of Adelaide. This project will address the current short coming in estimating flood behaviour in the estuarine zone for current and future climate conditions.
To register please go to the Convention Website
We are pleased to announce that Duncan McLuckie, Principal Flood Specialist from the Office of Environment and Heritage, has been added to the upcoming Climate Change Q&A.
Also, registrations are filling fast and while the event is free, registration is mandatory.
The Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD) recently released its guidelines on ‘Regulation and Practice for the Environmental Management of Dams in Australia‘.
A one day workshop is being held on Monday 20 October at the National Convention Centre in Canberra to raise awareness of a range of environmental issues raised in the guidelines and which practitioners need to consider at the various stages of planning, constructing, operating and decommissioning dams. The workshop will also present case studies on the application of the guidelines around Australia and have a panel discussion on the guidelines.
More information on the workshop can be found in the flyer; details of the workshop program can be found in the program.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Australian Section is presenting a Master Class on Principles of Streambank Analysis and Application of the Bank Stability and Toe-Erosion Model (BSTEM).
The Master Class will be presented by Dr Andrew Simon on the 5th August 2014, starting at 8.15am at Cardno Conference Room, Level 9, 203 Pacific Highway, St Leonards.
Dr. Andrew Simon is a geomorphologist with 30 years of experience in mechanistic analysis of unstable-channel systems, streambank erosion, cohesive-sediment entrainment, the role of riparian vegetation, “reference” sediment-transport rates, and river restoration, working on projects throughout the United States and around the globe.
His interests are in quantifying the effects of imposed channel and landscape disturbances, and mitigation measures on channel response and sediment loads. He is an internationally recognized scientist and project manager, designing field, laboratory and numerical-modeling studies, leading and participating in field data collection, analyzing and synthesizing data, and preparing technical reports. He is the author of more than 100 technical publications and the editor of several books.
The fee for this seminar is $275 per attendee (inclusive of GST).
Please refer to the attached PDF link for additional information about the speaker, the registration form and the program for the Master Class.
More information is available at the ASCE Australia Section website.
This where you can provide a contribution! The ARR Team is calling for expressions of interest in participating in the testing. Simply email arr_admin@arr.org.au with details of who will be involved (your team or individual), a brief CV for each participant and which projects you would be interested in participating in. EOI closes 23 Jul COB.
Tests will cover a wide range of the design flood estimation process and will include:
1. Design Flood Estimation
2. Urban Hydrology
3. Losses and Baseflow
4. Advanced Hydrology
5. Coastal Interactions
6. Hydraulic Modelling
We are also interested in hearing from any state or local government authorities that have catchments they think could be used in the testing. The catchments ideally would have terrain information, rainfall gauges, a water level gauge, rating curve etc. The catchment can be rural or urban.
Note: All results will remain anonymous. The aim of the tests is to test the ease of implementation of the method not the ability of an organisation.
For the official advert, please refer to the web link.
