Date: 06-12 September, 2009
Conference Venue: Hyderabad, India

Introduction: The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) along with the Indian Hydrological Community extend a warm invitation to the Global scientific and professional community, policy makers, executives and NGOs associated with water resources to participate in a Joint International Convention (JIC) of 8th IAHS Scientific Assembly and 37th IAH Congress being organized at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India during September 6 -12, 2009. The joint Convention, in its true spirit, will be held under one roof providing ample opportunity for the members of both the Associations from all over the world to interact, share and discuss their experiences, issues of mutual interest and also initiate joint research programmes to address varied hydrological problems of local and global importance. This will be a historic event in the Annals of Global Hydrological Sciences.

Topics of symposia and workshops

Joint Symposia (JS.1-4)

JS. 1 Ecohydrology of surface and groundwater dependent ecosystems: Concepts, methods and recent developments

JS. 2 Trends and sustainability of groundwater in highly stressed aquifers

JS. 3 Improving integrated surface and groundwater resources management in a vulnerable and changing world

JS. 4 Hydroinformatics in hydrology, hydrogeology and water resources

Joint Workshops (JW.1-4)

JW. 1 Measuring and modelling interactions between surface water and groundwater.

JW. 2 Transboundary water management: Science and policy.

JW. 3 Rural and urban water systems: Minimising adverse impacts of global change on water resources.

JW. 4 Isotope tracing for water balance, hydrodynamics and hydrological processes, including groundwater recharge, as an indicator of water resources sustainability

IAHS Symposia (HS.1-3)

HS. 1 High mountain snow and ice hydrology

HS. 2 New approaches to hydrological prediction in data sparse regions.

HS. 3 Hydrological theory and limits to hydrological predictability in ungauged basins.

IAHS Workshops (HW.1-7)

HW. 1 Regionalisation of models for operational purposes in developing countries.

HW. 2 Sediment problems and sediment management in Asian river basins.

HW. 3 Flood risk management.

HW. 4 Space-time scaling for ET and soil moisture modelling using remote sensing.

HW. 5 Prediction in ungauged basins – a benchmark report.

HW. 6 Precipitation variability and water resources.

HW. 7 New statistics in hydrology

IAH Congress theme:

Hydrogeollogy of Hard Rocks

IAH Symposia (G.1-4)

G. 1 Groundwater resources development in hard rock terrains

G. 2 Groundwater quality and pollution in hard rock aquifers

G. 3 Groundwater resource management in hard rock areas

G. 4 Socio-economic issues relevant to groundwater in hard rock areas


Contacts:

for 8th IAHS Scientific Assembly

Dr Pierre Hubert
IAHS Secretary General
Email : pjy.hubert@free.fr

P. Rajendra Prasad
IAHS Vice- President and Convener of
the 8th scientific assembly of IAHS
IAHS Vice- President and Convener of
Dept. of Geophysics
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam- 530 003
Andhra Pradesh, India.
Emails: ahivisakha@hotmail.com, rpatury@yahoo.com
Phone/ Fax: +91-891-2575500 

for 37th IAH Congress

Willi Struckmeier
Secretary General, IAH
Email: w.struckmeier@bgr.de

S.N. Rai
IAH Vice President (Asia) & Deputy Director
National Geophysical Research Institute
Uppal Road, Hyderabad- 500 007, A.P., India
Emails: snrai@ngri.res.in, snrai_ngri@yahoo.co.in
Phone: +91-40-23434626, Fax: +91-40-23434651

URL:  http://www.appliedhydrology.org/iahs/