3rd IAHR Europe Congress: "Water - Engineering and Research"

Keynote Speakers

		Water: the challenge of sustainability Francisco Nunes Correia Full Professor of Water Resources and Environment at Instituto Supe rior Técnico – University of Lisbon, Portugal and member of the Na tional Water Council; Former President of the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Technical Advisor of the Portuguese Ministry for Envi ronment and Natural Resources and former Ministry for the Environ ment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development .

		Mitigation of climate change in the hydraulic environment Suzana Kahn Ribeiro Green Economy Sub Secretary of the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Environment; Associate Professor of Transport Planning at UFRJ; Vice- Chair of the Working Group III – IPCC; Former member of the Steering Committee - GAP “Emissions Gap report”, European Climate Founda tion; President of the Scientific Committee of Brazilian Panel on Climate Change and Consultant for the Brazilian R&D Council.

		Coastal engineering challenges in a changing world Steven A. Hughes Former Research Hydraulic Engineer at the U.S. Army Engineer Re search and Development Centre, CHL, Vicksburg, MS. Worked on the practical application of laboratory experimentation and small-scale physical models in several fields and technology transfer of research into practical engineering guidance. At the moment is Senior Research Scientist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

		Ecosystem hydrodynamics: conceptual framework, recent advances, and perspectives Vladimir Nikora Sixth Century Chair in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Leader of the Environmental and Industrial Fluid Mechanics Research Group, Univer sity of Aberdeen, School of Engineering, UK. His current research activi ties are: mechanics of environmental rough-bed water flows and flow- biota interactions at multiple scales. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin burgh, and 2010 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award of the ASCE (“The award recognizes outstanding contributions to hydraulics and wa terways”).

Contact information	IHRH Instituto de Hidráulica e Recursos Hídricos
Event type	Conference
File link	http://www.fe.up.pt/iahr2014/
Source	IAHR
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Relation	http://webpages.fe.up.pt/iahr2014/
Geographical coverage	Portugal,
Address	at FEUP, Porto
Organizer	IAHR
Target audience	International
Period	[14/04/2014 - 16/04/2014]
Status	Confirmed
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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