Date:  Sep. 3, 2013

Venue: KYOTO TERRSA, Kyoto, Japan

Summary: The first edition of the Workshop on the International Sediment Advancements (WISA) will be launched during the 12th International Symposium on River Sedimentation (ISRS2013) to be held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 2-5, 2013. The Workshop, organized under the auspices of UNESCO-IHP-ISI, will constitute the morning plenary session of the second day of the ISRS2013 and will be devoted to disseminate beyond the limits of each membership the most significant progresses attained by several scientific associations operating in the field of sediment research and management. In order to involve the largest possible number of organizations and to cover their most recent advancements, the Workshop is intended to be replicated in the occasion of other important meetings of the same organizations. The format of WISA in fact is an itinerant, inter-organizational event which would tendentially be hosted during the subsequent years by all the societies, agencies and research groups dealing with sediments. 

Invited speakers for the WISA in Kyoto, Japan on Sep. 3, 2013:

1) Manfred Speafico, University of Berne, Switzerland, Chairman of the International Sediment Initiative (ISI) of UNESCO;

2) Gerrit Basson, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, Vice President of the ICOLD International Commission on Large Dams;

3) Rollin Hotchkiss, Brigham Young University, Utah, U.S.A., IAHR (International Association for Hydro-Environmental Engineering and Research);

4) Michael Stone, University of Waterloo, Canada, IAHS (International Association of Hydrological Sciences);

5) Giampaolo Di Silvio, University of Padua, Italy, President of WASER (World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research).

6) Hajime Nakagawa, Kyoto University, Japan, representing the Japanese research community.

FIRST PART, "Advances in Sediment Research"

Chair: Manfred Spreafico ( Steering Committee chairman of UNSCO-ISI)


SECOND PART, "Impact of Dams on Rivers and Sediment Management"
Chair: Gerrit Basson(ICOLD Vice President)

URL:  http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ISRS2013/