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 [email protected] 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: [email protected]. 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

Register now. Over 388 people registered. https://oncue.eventsair.com/nzhs-2016-conference/registration/Site/Register

You are probably aware that New Zealand has recently been rocked by Earthquakes. The thoughts of the Local Organising Committee are with delegates and their families that have been impacted by this series of earthquakes. For international visitors, the location of most of the earthquakes have been in the top of the South Island and lower North Island. Fortunately, for our conference, Queenstown has not been affected and we are looking forward to hosting the joint conference of the NZHS and HWRS (EA) in a couple of days. Outside of North Canterbury everything is running as normal.

Note the Conference dinner and more importantly the Hydrologic Games will be held at the Skyline Gondola on the THURSDAY night at the end of the conference. Ticket includes a ride on the Gondola to spectacular views of Queenstown. Lets make sure the Kiwis don’t win the Cumec Throphy! Note in honour of the NZ adventure capital this year the conference dinner has an optional dress theme – “Adventure”. More details at http://nzhs2016.cloudaccess.host/programme/social-functions.html

Over 365 people have registered so far! This is gearing up to be a great conference.

Last chance to register notice has been sent out by the conference organisers. If you haven’t already registered you can do so here. Don’t forget your passport!

Provisional program is available with lots of papers from both Australian and New Zealand Authors. There are also plenty of papers on the new Australian Rainfall and Runoff. Check out the program here

The National Committee on Water Engineering is pleased to announce the Munro Oration will be by BLAIR FITZHARRIS, UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO titled Reflections on Climate and Water over 60 years. Read more here. The Munro oration will be held on Wednesday 30 November, 6.00pm – 7.00pm.

Rory Nathan, University of Melbourne will present a Keynote on “Impact of hydrologic variability on design flood estimates”.

Note the Conference dinner and more importantly the Hydrologic Games will be held at the Skyline Gondola on the THURSDAY night at the end of the conference. Ticket includes a ride on the Gondola to spectacular views of Queenstown. Lets make sure the Kiwis don’t win the Cumec Throphy! Note in honour of the NZ adventure capital  this year the conference dinner has an optional dress theme – “Adventure”. More details at http://nzhs2016.cloudaccess.host/programme/social-functions.html

Fieldtrips will be held on the Friday. This is a great way to see NZ. Find out more.

Check out the latest email from the conference organisers with more details at http://eepurl.com/cmxpEn

Provisional Programme

The provisional programme is now available.

Key Updates

• ACCOMMODATION – if you have not already booked your accommodation for this conference, you are advised to do so immediately! Queenstown is a busy city and rooms are already filling up quickly. There are still limited rooms available at the conference venue (Millennium Hotel), please book these through your registration or email [email protected].
• CONFERENCE DINNER – Thursday 1st December 6.00pm
  • The theme is ADVENTURE, so get creative with your costumes!
  • Book now! There are still tickets available.
  • Held at the Skyline Gondola, Queenstown, your ticket includes stunning views, a gondola ride, and a three course meal, assortment of drinks, live entertainment as well as transportation to and from the Millennium Hotel.
  • This will also be the culmination of the Hydrologic Games which will be taking place throughout the conference.
• CONFERENCE BAG DETAILS FOR 2016 – There will not be a bag/satchel provided at this year’s conference, so you will need to bring your own if you wish to have one with you, there will be a surprise gift on entry instead!

• CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON FIELD TRIPS – These are already getting booked out – if you do wish to go on a field trip, please book now through your registration login, or contact Tracy, the conference organiser.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

If you have not seen already our Keynote speakers for the conference include:

• Peter Goodwin, from Idaho Universtiy – Talk topic: Balancing Water Supply Reliability and Ecosystem Restoration: Example of the San Francisco Bay-Delta in California, USA
• Rory Nathan, from the University of Melbourne – Talk topic: Impact of hydrologic variability on design flood estimates
• Jen Crawford, from Anderson Lloyd – Talk Topic: The Problem with Ponds

For all the information on our keynotes, CLICK HERE.

We look forward to welcoming you to Queenstown!

From the Organising Committee,
Charles Pearson (NZ Chair) // NIWA
Mark Babister (Australia Chair) // WMA Water
Sarah Mager // Otago University
Lawrence Kees // Environment Southland
Tim Davie // ECan
Jo Hoyle // NIWA
James Ball // University of Technology Sydney
Monique Retallick // WMA Water