Technical Program | Keynote Speakers
Congress Theme: Go with the flow? Changing perceptions in balancing environmental and economic needs.
Topics for the 17th IAHR-APD Congress:
1. Water Resources and Hydrology
a. Surface and groundwater hydrology
b. Flood and drought management
c. Hydroinformatics
d. Hydropower
2. Environmental and Ecological Hydraulics
a. Environmental management of water resources
b. Climate change and sea level rise
c. Contaminant transport modeling and water quality control
d. Ground water pollution
3. Fluvial Processes and River Engineering
a. Sediment transportation and fluvial processes
b. Flood control and defense, and river rehabilitation
c. Sediment problems in environment and ecology
d. Hydraulic structures
4. Estuarine and Coastal Hydraulics
a. Numerical and physical modeling in coastal engineering
b. Coastal sediment transport and morphology change
c. Tsunami, wave characteristics and wave structure interaction
d. Coastal and estuarine environment
Topics for IUWMC
5. International Urban Watershed Management
a. Urban runoff management: quality and quantity
b. Innovative developments in stormwater management
c. Integrated urban water resources
d. Green infrastructure and Low Impact Design/Development
17th IAHR-APD Congress Keynote Addresses
A series of Keynote Lectures have been confirmed:
Hubert Chanson - The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Chanson of The University of Queensland is an expert in environmental fluid mechanics and water engineering. He is the author of six books.
Mohamed S. Ghidaoui - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Professor Ghidaoui of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is an expert in the fields of hydraulics, water resources and environmental fluid mechanics.
Morrie Te Whiti Love (Te Atiawa/Taranaki whanui ki Poneke)
Morrie has been involved in Maori resource management for many years. He has managed the Maori Secretariat (Maruwhenua) in the Ministry for the Environment and served as a director of the Waitangi Tribunal. He is currently Managing Director of Raukura Consultants based in Wellington.
Earl Shaver - Aqua Terra International
Earl is a graduate Agricultural Engineer with a Master of Science in Civil Engineering emphasizing hydrology and hydraulics. He initiated and implemented two state-wide sediment control and stormwater management programmes in the states of Maryland and Delaware in the U.S. He then moved to Auckland, New Zealand where fhe assisted the Auckland Regional Council in the evolution of their sediment control and stormwater management programmes.
