The
15th International Symposium on River Sedimentation (15th
ISRS) to be held in Florence, Italy in 2022 has been postponed by one year to
September 5-8, 2023 due to COVID-19. The new date was suggested by the Local
Organizing Committee, considering feedback from WASER Council members, and was approved
by WASER and IRTCES.
The
ISRS series of triennial conferences was initiated in 1980 by the Chinese
Hydraulic Engineering Society with the support of UNESCO. Since its foundation,
the International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation
(IRTCES) in Beijing has served as the permanent secretariat of ISRS. Fourteen
such symposia have been successfully held at venues in China (5 times), USA,
Germany (twice), India, Egypt, Hong Kong China, Russia, South Africa, and
Japan. The World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER) was
inaugurated at the 9th ISRS in 2004, with its Secretariat based in IRTCES, and
the ISRS has since then become the official Symposium of WASER and has included
the WASER General Assembly. The objective of the ISRS is to provide a forum for
scientists, engineers, researchers and decision makers to exchange ideas,
research results, and advanced techniques and to share their experience and
information, across the broad field of sediment and its management.
The
theme of 15th ISRS is ‘Sustainable Sediment Management in a changing
Environment’ with 10 topics including: Sediment transport, Reservoir
sedimentation, River morphodynamics, Coastal morphodynamics, Ecomorphodynamics,
Sediment related disaster, Plastic in river and coastal systems, Interaction
between sediment dynamics and hydraulic structures, Integrated sediment management
at the river basin scale, and Social, economic & political problems related
to sediment and water management.
The
Symposium website can be found at: https://www.isrs2022.it/.
