(News from ISI): The 10th International Symposium on River Sedimentation (10 th ISRS) was successfully held in the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow , Russia on August 1 to 4, 2007. 237 participants from 30 countries and regions attended the important series technical event.

The International Symposia on River Sedimentation (ISRS) is a triennial event initiated in 1980, with a permanent secretariat in the International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES). With the support from the UNESCO and the related international associations, and with the participation of the experts and scholars worldwide, the ISRS has drawn wide attention and become one of the attractive technical events in the world. So far over 2200 persons have attended the symposia. The ISRS provides an opportunity for scientists, engineers, researchers and decision-makers to exchange ideas, research results and advanced techniques, and establish friendship. It served as the official symposium of WASER since the 9 th ISRS held in Yichang , China in 2004.

The 10th ISRS was organized by the Moscow State University, sponsored or cosponsored by 18 institutes or organizations including the UNESCO, Federal Agency of Water Resources of Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources, Federal Agency of Science and Innovations, World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER) and International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES). The central theme of the Symposium is: Effects of River Sediment and Channel Processes on Social, Economical, and Environmental Safety . The problems of soil erosion and fluvial processes, sediment yield forming and sediment transport are the part of general problem of water and earth resources rational usage and protection. The Symposium is to consider sediment transport and accumulation, riverbed processes and river sedimentation, river mouth and estuarine problems, environmental sedimentation, soil and water, and sediment information, pollutant transfer and piling up in rivers and reservoirs, small rivers degradation and disappearance, river engineering, river structures reliability and stability.

The papers were presented and discussed in plenary sessions and 7 parallel sessions, which including: (1) Processes within drainage basins as sources of river sediment: study, modeling, and forecasting under natural and anthropogenic conditions; (2) An estimation of natural and anthropogenic factors contribution into changes of river sediment yield; (3) River sediment yield estimation for studying and modeling river channel processes; (4) Sediment yield in river mouths; (5) River sediment in the environment; (6) Management of river sediment formation and transport processes; and (7) Land-Sea Interactions: Coastal Environmental Changes. 15 keynote papers are:

2 D. E.WALLING ( UK ) Global Change and the Sediment Loads of the World's Rivers

2 N.I.ALEKSEEVSKIY, R.S.CHALOV ( Russia ) Hydroecological Safety of Russia and its Relationship with Sediment Yield and River Channel Deformations

2 N.S.KASIMOV, M.YU.LYCHAGIN, I.A.KOROLEV ( Russia ) Heavy Metal Transport in the Volga River

2 Presentation by Dr. Abdulmalek A Al Sheikh, secretary general of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize For Water

2 SAM S.Y. WANG ( USA ) River Engineering Using Integrated Methodology

2 P.WALLBRINK ( Australia ) Progress and Limitations in Modeling Sediment Transport

2 P. DEDKOV, V.I. MOZZHERIN, A. V. GUSAROV ( Russia ) Suspended Sediment Yield on the Earth: Basic Regularities

2 V.N. Mikhailov ( Russia ) Hydrological-morphological Processes at River Mouths

2 J.R. Gray , W.R. Osterkamp ( USA ) Vision for a WorldWide Fluvial-Sediment Information Network

2 B.F. Snishchenko ( Russia ) Application of the Hydro-Morphological Theory of Channel Processes for Accident Prevention in Social and Industrial Complexes in River Valleys

2 V. N. GOLOSOV ( Russia ) Research of Sediment Transport and Deposition in the Watershed-River System on the Base of Tracer Techniques

2 BABINSKI ( Poland ) Influence of Reservoirs on Sediment Transport and Erosion Processes below the Dams

2 Yitian. LI, L. JIANG, Z. SUN ( China ) Characteristics of Channel Evolution Downstream from the Three Gorges Project

2 Ph. N. Owens ( Canada ) Erosion Processes and Pollution Transport

2 I.P. KOVALCHUK ( Ukraine ) Problems of Small Rivers Degradation

A technical tour cruising down the Moskva River from Novospassky Bridge to Serebryany Bor was organized. During the tour, participants looked at hydraulic structures, embankments and bridges, observed the waterways management and visited one of the Moskva-Volga channel locks, as well as enjoyed the beautiful scenery around the river.

In the closing ceremony held in the afternoon of August 4, Prof. R.S Chalov, the representative of the LOC handed over the Symposium banner to Prof. Chunhong HU, the representative of the permanent Secretariat. Then Prof. HU handed over the symposium banner to Prof. G.R. Basson, the representative of the 11th ISRS. Prof. Basson welcomed all participants meeting again in South Africa in the September, 2010 ！

The symposium proceedings with 6 volumes was published by the Moscow State University . A total of 374 scientific papers from 38 countries and regions were included into the proceedings.

Details about the symposium can be seen by visiting: http://www.irtces.org/zt/10isrs (by Cheng LIU, IRTCES)

Opening ceremony

Presidium of the opening ceremony



Speech by Prof. Jinwu Pang, the reprentative of Chinese delegation at the Opening



The permanent secretariat presenting gift to the LOC in the closing ceremony



The permanent secretariat handing the symposium banner to the representative of the 11th ISRS