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Course on “MODELING THE WATER CYCLE WITH TETIS V9.1”. Registration open

Call for PhD Scholarships

We are glad to announce that we are currently seeking for two Ph. D. candidates in the following research areas:

1. Expansion and interconnection of hydro-environmental observation systems, with the specific PhD thesis topic: Remote Sensing data analysis to infer and predict crop water requirements by eco-hydrological modelling at catchment scale.

2. Development and integration of advanced hydrological/hydrogeological process simulation tools, with the specific PhD thesis topic: Development of surrogate models for surface and groundwater integral modelling of water and nitrogen.

The references are CEX2021-001242-M-20-4 and 5 respectively in the call that opens between Jan 12th and 26th. Please note that you can only apply for one scholarship. More information: https://lnkd.in/dc9u7WCZ

The workshop: ICSH-STAHY 2021

We are glad to announce that we are currently working on the organization of the STAHY2021, which will be held from 16 to 17 September 2021 (ONLINE, Valencia)

One day before the Workshop (15 September), the traditional Early Career Course will take place, which will be entirely free for all those registered in the Workshop.

Deadline for abstract submission: June 30, 2021

You can find more information at this link

Félix Francés, new president of the Water Technology Platform in Spain (Plataforma Tecnológica Española del Agua (PTEA))

We are pleased to announce that "The leader of the Research Group of Hydrological and Environmental Modelling (GIMHA) of IIAMA-UPV, Félix Francés, is the new president of the Water Technology Platform in Spain after the "Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting 2020” made in a telematic way last Tuesday, October 27. [..]"

You can read the full article on the iAgua website.

New update for TETIS v9 : Tetis v9.0.3

This new update is the result of continuous developments made on the eco-hydrological model. This version is compatible with previous versions of v9, which allows users to continue working on existing projects.

Apart from fixing small bugs, the novelties of this update have been made to provide better information during execution and updates of the windows in the interface.

You can find it on the download page.

Recent GIMHA's contributions to the EGU 2018 conference, Vienna, April 23-28 are now available

Romero C., Puertes C., Quintanilla I., Francés F. 2018. Analysis of the impact of urban impervious cover in a small basin: comparison between high and low spatial resolution in the water cycle using the TETIS model.. EGU Meeting 2018, from 23 to 28 April 2018 at Vienna, Austria.

Romero-Cuéllar J., Siswanto Y., Adelfio G., Francés F. 2018. Estimating predictive hydrological uncertainty by dressing a probabilistic post-processing approach; a comparison with application to a tropical catchment.. EGU Meeting 2018, from 23 to 28 April 2018 at Vienna, Austria.

Echeverría C., Ruiz-Pérez G., Francés F. 2018. On the use of satellite soil moisture data in spatio-temporal model calibration for Mediterranean catchments.. EGU Meeting 2018, from 23 to 28 April 2018 at Vienna, Austria.

Puertes C., Bautista I., Lidón A., Francés F. 2018. Evaluation of the measures to reduce sediments and nitrogen inputs to the Mar Menor coastal lagoon (Spain). EGU Meeting 2018, from 23 to 28 April 2018 at Vienna, Austria.

You cand download those and previous communications in the next link

The course language will be Spanish.
For more information follow the link or download the course flyer

• Summer School on Runoff Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB). Vienna, Austria. 6th-10th July 2015
  For additional information download the flyer

• IV Jornadas de Ingeniería del Agua: La Precipitación y los Procesos Erosivos. Córdoba, Spain, 21 and 22 October, 2015.
  Abstracts submission deadline: April 15th, 2015
  For additional information download the flyer

International Year of Soils 2015
On 24 April 2013 at the 146 FAO Council, FAO member Countries endorsed the request from the Kingdom of Thailand in the framework of the GSP for the proclamation of the International Year of Soils 2015. IUSS Activities for International Year of Soils 2015 include:


• Global Soil Security Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, May 19-21 2015.
• Global Workshop on Digital Soil Morphometrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 1-4, 2015.
• IUSS Conference on the International Year of Soils and the 350th Anniversary of Christian Albrechts University. Soil functions and climate change- do we underestimate the consequences of new disequilibria in soil properties? SUSTAIN , Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, 23-25 September 2015.
• 5th International Symposium on SOIL ORGANIC MATTER, September 20-24, 2015, Göttingen, Germany.

• IUGG 2015 - 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). Prague, Czech Republic, from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July 2015.
  Abstracts submission deadline: January 31, 2015 (November 16, 2014 for JH1, HS1 and HS2 Symposia(
  Grant applications deadline: January 15, 2015.
  

• IAHR 2015 - IAHR World Congress: Deltas of the future and what happens upstream, from 28 June to 3 July 2015 at The Hague, the Netherlands.
  Abstracts submission deadline extended: November 30th, 2014.
  Full paper submission: before February 1st, 2015.
  

• 9th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, RCEM 2015, to be held in Iquitos City, Perú, from August 30 to September 3, 2015.
  Abstracts submission deadline: January 31, 2015
  

• Innovator Catalyst: Green skills for boosting transitions in water management. Valencia, November from 22 to 29, 2014.
  Application deadline for the Innovator Catalyst has been extended to the 15th of October, 2014.
  There are significant number of fully funded (no charge) places available for applicants able to show how they will put the programme outcomes into practice by preparing a suitable case study. Persons interested are encouraged to apply for these spaces. The application procedure does not keep a commitment on places with fees.
  Download the flyer and the agenda

The GIMHA has three new papers accepted:

• Pasquato M., Medici C., Friend A.D., Francés F. (2014). Comparing two approaches for parsimonious vegetation modelling in semiarid regions using satellite data. Ecohydrology, doi:10.1002/eco.1559



• Bussi G., Francés F., Horel E., López-Taranzón J.A., Batalla R.J. (2014). Modelling the impact of climate change on sediment yield in a highly erodible Mediterranean catchment. Journal of Soils Sediments, doi:10.1007/s11368-014-0956-7



• R. Rivaes, P.M. Rodríguez-González, M.T. Ferreira, A.N. Pinheiro, E. Politti, G. Egger, A. García-Arias, F. Francés. 2014. Modeling the evolution of riparian woodlands facing climate change in three European rivers with contrasting flow regimes. PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110200.

• GEORISK 2014: IMPROVING GEOPHYSICAL RISK ASSESSMENT, FORECASTING, AND MANAGEMENT. Madrid, November from 18th to 21st, 2014.
  Abstracts submission and registration: before October 15, 2014.
  

The GIMHA will attend the Final SCARCE International Conference

• García-Arias A., Francés F. 2014. Modelling hydroecological processes in semi-arid riparian areas. Oral presentation at the Final SCARCE International Conference: RIVER CONSERVATION UNDER WATER SCARCITY: Integration of water quantity and quality in Iberian Rivers under global change.Tarragona, Spain, October 20-21, 2014.
  Final SCARCE International Conference programme

• I EDITION OF THE IIAMA AWARD FOR THE BEST GRADE OR M.Sc. THESIS ON WATER ENGINEERING.
  Deadline for application: from October 1st to 31st, 2014.
  More information here.
  

We are pleased to annunce that the new version of the distributed hydrological TETIS model, TETIS v.8.3.0, is already available.



The main improvements of this new version of TETIS are:


• Bilingual Spanish/English interface
• A specific module of karst areas modelling has been developed
• The snowmelt parameters can be variable in space
• A post-processor to display all spatial state variables' maps has been added
• Some available tools in older versions have been improved, such as: reservoir catchment clip, multiple simulations, etc.

• International Conference on DROUGHT: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing. March, 10th - 13th, 2015 Valencia, Spain.
  Abstracts deadline extended until August 31, 2014.
  More information here.
  

• Final SCARCE International Conference: RIVER CONSERVATION UNDER WATER SCARCITY: Integration of water quantity and quality in Iberian Rivers under global change that will be held on 20-21 October 2014 in Tarragona, Spain.
  Abstracts should be submitted to the Secretariat before September 15th,2014.
  First circular can be downloaded here

• SEMINAR: RFID PIT TAG TECHNOLOGY AND MONITORING STATIONS. 2nd and 3rd of October, 2014. Valencia, Spain.
  More information here.
  

• COURSE - Agua verde y agua azul. Vegetación, agua y cambio global, from September 30th to October 2nd, 2014. Escuela Politécnica Superior de Huesca, Spain.
  More information here.
  

• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015. Vienna, Austria. 12 - 17 April, 2015.
  Special sessions proposals: before September 12, 2014.
  Abstracts submission: before January 7, 2015 (13:00 CET).
  

• 9th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences 2015: Freshwater sciences coming home. July 5-10, 2015. Geneva, Switzerland.
  Special sessions proposals: before September 15th, 2014.
  Abstracts submission: before December 1st, 2014.
  

• IAHR 2015 - IAHR World Congress: Deltas of the future and what happens upstream, from 28 June to 3 July 2015 at The Hague, the Netherlands.
  Abstracts submission: before September 30th, 2014.
  Full paper submission: before February 1st, 2015.
  

• ERRC2014 - 6th edition of the European River Restoration Conference: Connecting River Restoration Thinking to Innovative River Management, integrated with the Final event of the SEE River project, will be held from 27 - 29 October in Vienna, Austria.
  Abstracts submission: before June 1st, 2014.
  Early bird registration: before August 1st, 2014.
  

• LuWQ2015 - 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on LAND USE AND WATER QUALITY: Agricultural Production and the Environment that will be held on 21-24 September 2015, in Vienna, Austria.
  Abstracts submission: before February 1st, 2015.
  

LabFerrer organizes the following events (language: Spanish):

• Seminario online Generación de la Curva de Retención de Humedad completa con métodos experimentales
  a cargo de la geóloga Mireia Fontanet. Jueves 29 de Mayo a las 17:00h.
• Jornada Zona no saturada del suelo: monitorización de la humedad, propiedades hidráulicas y simulaciones
  en las instalaciones del ICGC en Barcelona. Viernes 13 de junio, a las 10:30 h .
• Otros seminarios
  

Two postdoctoral positions in the field of Analytical Chemistry in the Mexican Center of Innovation in Energy in Geothermics

• More information here.

The GIMHA has a new paper:

Bussi G., Francés F., Montoya J.J., Julien P.Y. (2014). Distributed sediment yield modelling: Importance of initial sediment conditions. Environmental Modelling & Software. 58 (2014): 58-70, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.04.010

• University of Aberdeen - full time faculty positions in hydrology-water science (deadline 19 May 2014)

• Curso sobre Medidas para la Prevención y Control contra Especies Vegetales Exóticas Invasoras. Valencia, 8 and 9 May 2014.

Research Predoctoral Thesis Dissertation.
ETSICCP Ed. 1 Salón de Actos Vicente Fullana, 9 April 2014, 10:30 am. Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Ruiz Pérez, Guiomar
  Análisis del comportamiento hidrológico de una pequeña cuenca mediterránea utilizando varios modelos hidrológicos como hipótesis. Aplicación en la cuenca de Can Vila (Barcelona, España).
  Research Predoctoral Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Co-supervised by: Dra. Chiara Medici Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

• ELS 2014 - The Earth Living Skin: Soil, Life and Climate Changes. EGU-SSS Conference, Bari (Italy) September 22-25, 2014. Deadline for abstracts submission: March 30, 2014.

• HydroEco'2015 - 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference on HYDROLOGY and ECOLOGY: Advances in Monitoring, Predicting and Managing Hydroecological Processes. Vienna, Austria, 13-16 April 2015. Deadline for abstract submission: September 4, 2014.

Ph. D. Thesis dissertation.
ETSICCP Building 1, Hall Vicente Fullana, February 28, 2014, 10:45 am. Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Bussi, Gianbattista
  Implementation of a distributed sediment model in different data availability scenarios.
  Ph. D. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

• Postdoctoral call for public support (the deadlines are to 15:00, GMT):
  a) Ramón y Cajal Call: 07/01/14 - 06/02/14
  b) Grants for postdoctoral training: 12/02/14 - 03/03/14
  c) Grants for technical support staff: 17/02/14 - 10/03/14
  d) Torres Quevedo Call: 20/02/14 - 13/03/14
  

• Interdisciplinary Water Congres (CINA 2014). A virtual research conference (online) on the water challenges and prospects, June 2-6, 2014.

• Short course "Model building, inference and hypothesis testing in conceptual hydrological modelling". The course will be held in Luxembourg on 5-9 May 2014, at the research institute CRP - Gabriel Lippmann.

• 4-years Post-doc position at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in the field of Numerical modelling of hydro and morphodynamics of intertidal flats.

• XXIV IUFRO World Congress - Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. Utah, USA. October 5-11, 2014.
  Deadline for abstracts submission: March 20, 2014.
  

Ph. D. Thesis dissertation.
ETSICCP Building 1, Hall Vicente Fullana, February 11, 2014, 11:00 am. Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Orozco Medina, Ismael
  Modelación parsimoniosa y espacialmente distribuida de los procesos de acumulación y fusión de nieve.
  Ph. D. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

• 3rd Remote Sensing and Hydrology Symposium - 3rd International Conference of GIS/RS in Hydrology, Water Resources and Environment (ICGRHWE 2014). Guangzhou (China). August 24-27, 2014 Deadline for abstracts submission: March 31, 2014

• International Conference on Water, Informatics, Sustainability and Environment (IWISE 2014). Gatineau-Ottawa (Canada). August 24-27, 2014 Deadline for abstracts submission: April 1, 2014

The GIMHA Team would like to send our sincere wishes for a Merry Christmas and a new year plenty of successes and prosperity.

• XXVI Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidráulica. August 25-29, 2014. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
  Deadline for abstract submission: January 13, 2014 extended until January 24, 2014
  Full papers have to be submitted by May 12, 2014.
  

• ICCE/IAHS International Symposium on Sediment Dynamics: From the Summit to the Sea. New Orleans, USA. December 11-14, 2014.
  Deadline for abstracts submission: November 10, 2013.
  

• 15th Biennial Conference Euromediterranean Network of Experimental and Representative Basins (ERB 2014). General topic: Advances in Hydrologic Research on Pristine, Rural and Urban Small Basins. September 9-13, 2014. Coimbra (Portugal) Deadline for abstracts submission: March 17th, 2014 included.

• The Obra Social "la Caixa", announce 25 positions to pursue the Ph. D. in Spain Deadline for applications submission: February 24th, 2014 included.

• Open position to complete the Secretariat of the joint programming initiative WATER JPI, coordinated by the Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica, Spanish Goverment (MINECO). Duration: 24 months. Language: Spanish. Deadline for applications submission: December 17th, 2013 included.

• The Universitat Politècnica de València is among the 400 best universities in the world, according to the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE). Specifically, the UPV is in the 351-400 range, it is also the only Spanish technological university that has established itself in this prestigious ranking. The top universities rankings employ carefully calibrated performance indicators related to teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook... reed more
  
  

• SimHydro 2014: Modelling of rapid transitory flows. The 3rd SimHydro conference will take place June 11-13, 2014 on the campus of the Nice Sophia Antipolis University, Nice (France).
  Call for abstracts: The deadline for submitting extended abstracts is extended to November 25 , 2013. Full papers are due February 28, 2014.
  

Ph. D. Thesis presentation.
ETSICCP Building 1, Hall Vicente Fullana, November 18st, 2013, 11:30 am
Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Pasquato, Marta
  Comparison of parsimonious vegetation modelling approaches for semiarid climates.
  Ph. D. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García and co-supervised by: Dra. Chiara Medici
  Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

• I Congreso en EcoHidrología para América Latina y El Caribe (CELAC-PHI 2013). November 11-13, 2013, Centro de Eventos Nacionales e Internacionales de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile


• During the conference, the following course will be held:
  Curso internacional: Avances en la determinación del caudal ecológico y su aplicabilidad en Chile.

The GIMHA will participate on December at the American Geophysical Union's 46th annual Fall Meeting:




• Medici C., Pasquato M., Francés F. 2013.Assessing a parsimonious eco-hydrological model implementation to an Aleppo pine semiarid forest through available remote sensing data. Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union's 46th annual Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, December 9-13, 2013


• Garcia-Arias A., Pons C., Francés F. 2013.Predicting the impact of water demand and river flow regulation over riparian vegetation through mathematical modeling Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union's 46th annual Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, December 9-13, 2013

Ph. D. Thesis presentation.
ETSICCP Building 1, Hall Vicente Fullana, November 18st, 2013, 11:30 am
Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Pasquato, Marta
  Comparison of parsimonious vegetation modelling approaches for semiarid climates.
  Ph. D. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García and co-supervised by: Dra. Chiara Medici
  Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

• Glossary of TETIS: terminology of state variables, maps of parameters, correction factors, etc.
  
  The objective of this discussion is to compile your proposals and suggestions for a more suitable assignment of the terminology of each element that define TETIS.
  This discussion will be open until the next November 15th, 2013. The intention is to include the knowledge acquired from the discussion into the new release of TETIS by selecting the best terminology or at least the more accepted within the user community.

Ph. D. Thesis presentation.
ETSICCP Building 1, Hall Vicente Fullana, October 21st, 2013, 11:00 am
Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• López de la Cruz, Jesús
  Análisis Estadístico y Modelación del Régimen de Crecidas en Ríos de la España Peninsular en un Contexto no Estacionario.
  Ph. D. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

Due to the success of the courses given in Valencia (Spain) and Medellín (Colombia), the GIMHA announces new national editions of the course:

MODELLING WATER, FLOODS AND SEDIMENTS WITH TETIS V8.2

Course given by: Félix Francés y Gianbattista Bussi

Confederación Hidrográfica del Cantábrico. Oviedo (Spain), October 17 and 18, 2013

IGME. Madrid (Spain), November 14 and 15, 2013

• 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics. "Informatics and the Environment: Data and Model Integration in a Heterogeneous Hydro World". New York, USA. August 17-21, 2014.
  Abstract submission is available until: September 30, 2013 → The deadline has been moved to 25th October, 2013.

• SCARCE - Advanced Course on Ecosystem Services. Tarragona (Spain), November 18-19, 2013. Online registration is opened until November 1st, 2013. Download the flyer here. Go to the SCARCE website for online registration.
  

• 4th SCARCE International Conference: Towards a better understanding of the links between stressors, hazard assessment and ecosystem services under water scarcity. Cádiz, Spain. November 25-27, 2013
  November 25-26: 4th SCARCE International Conference
  November 27: internal meeting for SCARCE members

• Lectures on computational fluid dynamics and applications Seminar LIFTEC, Campus Rio Ebro, Zaragoza. Tuesday 24th of September. See the flyer
  

• Global Vegetation Monitoring and Modeling International Conference (GV2M). 3rd - 7th February 2014. Palais des Papes, Avignon, France.
  Deadline for abstract submission: 5th October 2013.
  

• IAHS 2014. Evolving Water Resources Systems - Understanding, Predicting and Managing Water - Society Interactions. Bologna, Italy. June 4-6, 2014.
  Deadline for abstract submission, with publication on the Red Book: October 1st, 2013
  Full papers have to be submitted by October 15, 2013.
  

• River Flow 2014 - the 7th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics Lausanne, Switzerland. September 3-5, 2014. The deadline for abstract submission is: September 15th, 2013.
  

• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014. Vienna, Austria. 27 April - 02 May 2014.
  The deadline for abstract submission is: January 16th, 2013.
  

• ISE 2014 - 10th Symposium on Ecohydraulics. Trondheim, Norway, 23-27 June 2014.
  The deadline for abstract submission is: September 30th, 2013.
  

• AGUA 2013. El riesgo en la gestión del agua. Cali, Colombia, October 15-18, 2013. Abstract submission open until: June 30, 2013. The Seminar titled "Manejo del riesgo en el ciclo del agua" will be held as part of this event.
  

• 3rd IAHR Europe Congress. Porto, Portugal, from April 14th through 16th 2014
  

• I Encuentro de Modelación hidrológica y aplicaciones - September 11, 12 and 13, 2013. Medellín, Colombia.
  
  The meeting includes the personalized course on hydrological modeling "Modelando Avenidas y Sedimentos con TETIS 8.2" given by Dr. Félix Francés, the Seminar "Acople de modelos y análisis de datos para simulación hidrológica" and finally, the Encuentro Regional del Agua that will focus on the application of hydrological modeling for integrated management of water resources.
  
  Download the program of the event

• International Evapotranspiration Symposium. "Evapotranspiration: Challenges in Measurement and Modeling from Leaf to the Landscape Scale And Beyond." The symposium will be held in Raleigh, NC, April 7-11, 2014.
  
  Call for abstracts: Paper proposals must be received by October 15, 2013 to be considered for the program.
  
  Download the symposium flyer here

• Wessex Institute of Technology - Conferences Program 2013 - 2014.
  The call for abstracts is open.

• SedNet Conference 2013 - 8th International SedNet conference , 6-9 November 2013, Lisbon, Portugal. The deadline for abstract submission is: 1st September 2013.
  

• American Geophysical Union's 46th annual Fall Meeting. San Francisco, December 9-13, 2013 The deadline for abstract submission is 6 August.

• Sergio Salazar's Thesis document is available at the UPV bookstore. This Thesis is entitled:
  Metodología para el análisis y la reducción del riesgo de inundaciones: aplicación en la Rambla del Poyo (Valencia) usando medidas de "retención de agua en el territorio". 362 pp. ISBN: 978-84-9048-074-8.
  To download a free copy of the Thesis document in PDF format or to order printed copies of the book, follow the link to the UPV bookstore.

• Jornadas Internacionales de Sistemas de Soporte a la Decisión en la Planificación y Gestión de Recursos Hídricos. Valencia, June 18 and 19, 2013. Organized by: Group of Water Resources Engineering, Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), in the Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

Ph. D. Thesis presentation.
ETSICCP Building 1, Main Hall, May 24, 2013, 11:00 am
Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Salazar Galán, Sergio
  Metodología para el análisis y la reducción del riesgo de inundaciones: aplicación en la Rambla del Poyo (Valencia) usando medidas de "retención de agua en el territorio"
  Ph. D. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

• Symposium: Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Weather-Related Phenomena.
  13-16 July 2014, University of Liverpool, UK.
  Symposium on risk assessment for hydro-meteorlogical phenomena organized at the joint conferences of the Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) and Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA2014).
  

• International workshop on EcoHydrology 2013.
  A multidisciplinary approach for a global view on climate change.
  University of Calabria, 14 May, 2013.
  

• III Jornadas de Ingeniería del Agua (JIA 2013) - La protección contra los riesgos hídricos.
  Valencia, October 23 and 24, 2013.
  Abstract submission open until: April 15, 2013.
  Abstracts acceptance: May 17, 2013
  Paper submission and early bird registration: July 15, 2013.
  

The GIMHA has a new paper published:



• García-Arias A., Francés F., Morales-de la Cruz M., Real J., Vallés-Morán F., Martínez-Capel F., Garófano-Gómez V. 2013. Riparian evapotranspiration modelling: model description and implementation for predicting vegetation spatial distribution in semi-arid environments. Ecohydrology. doi: 10.1002/eco.1387

Curso de modelización numérica en hidráulica fluvial. El modelo Iber (C.H. Jucar - Valencia)



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• IAEG XII CONGRESS - Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, Session: Water basins management in semi-arid regions
  September 15-19, 2014. Torino (Italy).
  Abstract submission open until: April 15, 2013.
  

• 8th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES 2013).
  22-27 de Septiembre de 2013, , Dubrovnik, Croacia.
  Envío de abstracts antes del 15 de Febrero del 2013.
  

• European River Restoration Conference 2013 - Celebrating successes and addressing challenges. September 11-13, 2013. Vienna (Austria).
  Session proposal submission open until: April 15, 2013.
  Early bird registration open until: May 15, 2013.
  

Ph. D. Thesis presentation.
ETSICCP Salón de Grados Vicente Fullana, February 15th 2013, 11:00 am
Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Ramos Fernández, Lia
  Estudio de la utilidad de la lluvia estimada de satélite en la modelación hidrológica distribuida
  Ph. D. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Academic structure: Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  

• 8th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences. 1-5 July, 2013. Münster (Germany).
  Abstract submission starts December 15, 2012.
  

• Biohydrology Conference 2013 - Bio meets Hydrology. 21-24 May, 2013. Landau/Pfalz (Germany).
  Abstract submission open until: January 31, 2013.
  After the conference there will be the chance to publish the contributions in a special issue in Ecohydrology.
  

• World Water Week 2013. 1-6 September 2013. Stockholm (Schweden).
  Abstract submission open until: January 7, 2013.
  

Prof. Félix Francés will be one of the six members of the Leadership Team (LT) of Joint IAHR-IWA Hydroinformatics Committee for the period from 1 January 2013 - 31 December 2014

• The LT include the following SIX IAHR members:
  
  1. Michael Abbott (having served 1 term)
  2. Michael Piasecki (having served 1 term)
  3. Félix Francés (new)
  4. Jeanne Huang (new)
  5. John Reginald (new)
  6. Nigel Wright (new)
  

The GIMHA organized, within the 3rd SCARCE International Conference: Bridging toxicants, stressors and risk-based management under water scarcity, the following course:


COURSE: MODELLING WATER, FLOODS AND SEDIMENTS WITH TETIS V8.2

Universitat Politècnica de València, 29 November 2012, Valencia, Spain.




• Due to the success of the course, having obtained a very positive assessment by the 21 attendees, GIMHA is planning new editions of the same course at both national and international scales. The next editions, scheduled for 2013, will be in Sevilla (Spain) and in Colombia.
  

The GIMHA has two new papers published:



• Salazar S., Francés F., Komma J., Blume T., Francke T., Bronstert A., Blöschl G. 2012. A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of flood management measures based on the concept of "retaining water in the landscape" in different European hydro-climatic regions, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 3287-3306, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-3287-2012.



• García-Arias A., Francés F., Ferreira T., Egger G., Martínez-Capel F., Garófano-Gómez V., Andrés-Doménech I., Politti E., Rivaes R., Rodríguez-González P.M. 2012. Implementing a dynamic riparian vegetation model in three European river systems. Ecohydrology. doi: 10.1002/eco.1331

• Four Decades of Progress in Monitoring and Modeling of Processes in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System: Applications and Challenges, Napoli (Italy), 19-20 June 2013.
  All conference papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings within the journal Procedia Environmental Sciences, managed by Elsevier B.V.
  Abstract submission open until: December 15, 2012.
  

• 6th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER 2013). Koblenz, Germany. From 3 to 7 June, 2013.
  Abstract submisssion deadline: December 16th, 2012.

• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013 (EGU 2013). Vienna, Austria. 07-12 April 2013.
  Abstract submisssion deadline: January 9th, 2013.

• XI Jornadas de Investigación en la Zona no Saturada del Suelo , Lugo (Spain), November 2013.
  Registration and abstract submission: From next December 10th to January 11th, 2013.
  

M. Sc. Thesis presentation.
ETSICCP Ed. 2 Salón de Grados, 11 de diciembre de 2012, 11:00 h.
Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)

• Hernández López, Mario
  Evaluación de la Incertidumbre de los Parámetros y su efecto sobre la Incertidumbre Predictiva de un Modelo Hidrológico Distribuido, mediante un algoritmo Markov Chain Monte Carlo de tipo Adaptativo.
  M. Sc. Thesis supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Master Program on Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València.
  See all the M. Sc. Thesis.

• 35th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). Chengdu, southwestern China from September 8 to 13, 2013.
  The deadline for submitting abstracts is Dec. 1, 2012.
  

• IAHS-IAPSO-IASPEI Joint Assembly titled "Knowledge for the future", Gothenburg, Sweden, 22-26 July 2013.
  Call for abstracts: before 15 November 2012. Proceedings to be pre-published in IAHS Red Books.
  Deadline for full papers: 20 January 2013 (approved abstracts only).
  

The GIMHA has two new published papers:

• Salazar S., Francés F., Komma J., Blume T., Francke T., Bronstert A., Blöschl G. 2012. A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of flood management measures based on the concept of "retaining water in the landscape" in different European hydro-climatic regions, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 3287-3306, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-3287-2012.


• García-Arias A., Francés F., Ferreira T., Egger G., Martínez-Capel F., Garófano-Gómez V., Andrés-Doménech I., Politti E., Rivaes R., Rodríguez-González P.M. 2012. Implementing a dynamic riparian vegetation model in three European river systems. Ecohydrology. doi: 10.1002/eco.1331

Engineering Final Project (PFC) presentation.
ETSICCP, November 8, 2012

• Ruiz Pérez, Guiomar
  Estudio del comportamiento hidrológico no-lineal de una pequeña cuenca Mediterránea. Aplicación del estudio a la cuenca de Can Vila (Cataluña)
  PFC supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García and Dr. Chiara Medici
  Civil Engineering (5 years studies), Universitat Politècnica de València, academic year 2012-2013.
  See all the Engineering Final Projects (PFC)

Course: Modelling water, floods and sediments with TETIS 8.2

The GIMHA organizes this course at the Universitat Politècnica de València, 29 November 2012. The course is part of the 3rd SCARCE International Conference: Bridging toxicants, stressors and risk-based management under water scarcity.


Pre-registration period is open: The pre-registration can be done at the Centro de Formación Permanente (CFP) of the Universitat Politècnica de València.

For more information follow the link

• The GIMHA will attend in October 2012 the PUB Symposium 2012. Completion of the IAHS decade on Prediction in Ungauged Basins and the way ahead. Delft, October 23-25, 2012. To obtain more information visit our agenda.

• IMPRINTS Final Workshop: International workshop on Implementing the EU Flood Directive in flash flood prone areas. Brussels, 27th September 2012.
  Participants are invited to present Posters with their own work or reflections on the subject.
  

Engineering Final Project (PFC) presentation.
ETSICCP, September 17, 2012

• Hidalgo Pérez, Jose Luis
  Estudio de soluciones para la disminución del riesgo de inundación de la Bahía de Javea (Alicante)
  PFC supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Civil Engineering (3 years studies), Universitat Politècnica de València, academic year 2011-2012.
  See all the Engineering Final Projects (PFC)

TETIS 8.2.4 released July 2012

We are happy to announce immediate availability of TETIS 8.2.4, a new version of the distributed hydrological model TETIS.



The new features of this version are:
• a more user-friendly interface
• the new sediment cycle sub-model
• recent improvements in the conceptualization of vegetation transpiration
• recent improvements in automatic calibration

To download the new version, visit our software section.

• Next course SCARCE: Sediment Transport and Associated Fluvial Processes that will be held in Barcelona on October 15th and 16th, 2012.
  
  To download the flyer, follow the link.
  
  Although it states that registration is open on the website www.idaea.csic.es/scarceconsolider, due to some problems with the website, entries must be made by sending an e-mail to the following contact address.

• The GIMHA will attend in June 2012 the Catchment Change Network (CCN) Conference: Stakeholders, next generation models, and risk in managing catchment. Celebratory Workshop GLUE: 20 years on. Lancaster University, UK. 25-27 de Junio de 2012. To obtain more information visit our agenda.

• 3rd SCARCE International Conference: Bridging toxicants, stressors and risk-based management under water scarcity.
  Universitat de València, 26-27 November 2012, Valencia, Spain.
  Organized by IDAEA-CSIC, Universitat de València and Universitat Politècnica de València.
  Download the conference flyer.



• Within this international conference the GIMHA is organizing the following Course: Modelling water, floods and sediments with Tetis v8.2
  Universitat Politècnica de València, 29 November 2012, Valencia, Spain.
  For more information, please follow the link or send an e-mail to gimhaupv @ gmail.com
  

• Workshop: Estimating and monitoring the effects of river restoration measures - IS Rivers.
  University Lumiere Lyon, June 25, 2012, from 11:30 to 5:45pm.
  Organized by the Italian Centre for River Restoration (CIRF).
  

• III Jornadas Técnicas del CIREF.
  Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, June 19-20, 2012.
  Organized by the Iberian Centre for River Restoration (CIREF).
  

• Summer School 2012: Flood Risk Management.
  University of Oxford, St Anne's College, July 16-20, 2012.
  Organized within the project WATERDISS 2.0.
  

The sediment yield distributed model developed by Gianbattista Bussi and Félix Francés is on the news this weekend:




• LEVANTE-EMV: http://www.levante-emv.com
• LA VERDAD: http://www.laverdad.es
• LAS PROVINCIAS: http://www.lasprovincias.es
• ABC: http://www.abc.es

• The contribution to the EGU 2012 titled Reconstruction of the sediment flow regime in a semi-arid Mediterranean catchment using check dam sediment information, with Gianbattista Bussi as first author, has received one of the Outstanding Student Poster Award 2012 awarded by the organization.
  Congratulations!
  

• Annual Catchment Science Summer School.
  University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Aug 19-24 2012.
  This course is designed for PhD students and Post Docs in catchment science.
  

• XVIII edition of the Week of of Civil Engineering and Environmental (SICMA 2012).
  Valencia, Spain, 7-11 May, 2012.
  Organized by the School of Civil Engineers (ETSICCP) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).
  

• COURSE ON HABITAT SIMULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS ASSESSMENT IN CASIMIR.
  Valencia, Spain. 7-8 May, 2012.
  Registration opened since March 12, 2012. The number of seats is restricted to 28.
  Download the program of the course

• 4th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology: Emerging Patterns, Breakthroughs and Challenges (HydroEco 2013). Rennes, France. From 13 to 16 May, 2013.
  

• XVIth Congress of the Iberian Society of Limnology. in Guimarães (Portugal) from 2 to 6 of July 2012.
  Deadline for early registration and abstract submission is March 15th.

• FPI 2012 research grants fom Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.
  Applications deadline is February 23th, 2012 (15:00 h).
  We recommend to consider the project named "MODELACION ECOHIDROLOGICA DISTRIBUIDA A ESCALA DE CUENCA PARA BOSQUES EN CLIMAS SEMIARIDOS" supervised by Prof. Félix Francés, reference CGL2011-28776-C02-01.

• The Mathematical Modeling of Flood Hazard in the XXI Century.. Lecture given by D. Félix Francés García, awarded in the category of Confirmed Researcher. Cycle of Conferences for Innovation in Engineering. Venue: Sede del Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos en Valencia - Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos C/ Luis Vives, 3 46003 Valencia. February 14, 2012. 07:00 pm.
  Download the slides of the lecture

• X International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (ICHE). November 4-7, 2012. Rosen Plaza Hotel. Orlando, Florida. Abstracts deadline: March 1, 2012.

• Wessex Institute of Technology - Conferences 2013.
  The call for abstracts is open.

• EGU 2012. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012. Vienna, Austria. 22-27 April, 2012. Deadline for abstracts submission: January 17^th 2012.

• HydroPredict 2012. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Predictions for Hydrology, Ecology and Water Resources Management. Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria), 24^th-27^th September 2012. Deadline for abstracts submission: February 9^th, 2012.
  

• International workshop on flash flood and debris flow risk management in Mediterranean areas January 26^th, 2012. Salerno, Italy. Deadline for abstracts submission: January 16^th, 2012.
  

Ph. D. Thesis disertation.
ETSICCP, December 26, 2011. 12:00 pm.

• Barrios, Miguel
  Elementos para el estudio del efecto de escala espacial en un modelo hidrológico distribuido.
  Supervisor: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Ph. D. Program of Water and Environmental Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
  See all the Ph. D. Thesis

Engineering Final Project (PFC) presentation.
ETSICCP, December 22, 2011

• Fernández Herrero, Estefanía
  Combinación entre los temporales de orígenes marino y terrestre para la caracterización extremal de las inundaciones costeras. Aplicación a la desembocadura del Río Girona.
  PFC supervised by: Prof. Félix Francés García
  Civil Engineering (5 years studies), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, academic year 2011-2012.
  See all the Engineering Final Projects (PFC)

• The 1st International Congress & Fair on Water, Waste and Energy Management. 23-25 May 2012. Salamanca, Spain. Deadline for abstracts submission: January 30^th, 2012.
  

• The 20th IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling ~ASM 2012~ June 25 - 27, 2012. Napoli, Italy. Paper submission before February 15^th 2012.
  

• Wessex Institute of Technology - Conferences 2012.
  The call for abstracts is open.

• The 4th International Congress of ECSSS. EUROSOIL 2012 "SOIL SCIENCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND AND ENVIRONMENT". Bari, Italy. 2-3 July, 2012. Extended deadline for abstracts submission: November 10^th 2011

• XI Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidrogeología. IV Congreso Colombiano de Hidrogeología Cartagena de Indias, 20-24 August 2012. Deadline for abstracts submission: December 30^th 2011.

RESEARCH AWARD TO THE DOCTOR FÉLIX FRANCÉS

• National Award for Innovation in Engineering category Confirmed Researcher, granted by the Professional Association of Civil Engineers.
  


• UPV NEWS
  
• Los ingenieros premian a dos catedráticos de la UPV. LEVANTE-EMV VALENCIA
  

El plan de riesgo de inundación ha sido pionero a nivel mundial. LEVANTE-EMV VALENCIA



• Reed the complete news
  

• The GIMHA will attend in November 2011 the FLOODS IN 3D: PROCESSES, PATTERNS, PREDICTIONS. EGU 2011 Leonardo Conference Bratislava (Slovakia), 23^rd-25^th November 2011. To obtain more information visit our agenda.

• The GIMHA will attend in November 2011 the 2nd SCARCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE. Technical University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 28^th-29^th November,2011. 30^th November: internal meeting for SCARCE members. Online inscription opened from 25^th of July until 28^th October 2011. To obtain more information visit our agenda.

• XIX Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR2012) . June 17^th-21^st, 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois (USA). Extended deadline for abstracts submission: October 14, 2011.

COURSE IN MORELIA

• Seminar in Distributed Hydrologic Modeling with TETIS model
  Educational establishment: Morelia, Mexico
  Organization: Universidad Michoacana
  Activity developed: Delivery of the 10 hours of lectures and practices.
  Date: 8^th-9^th September, 2011.

Increasing the number of TETIS users outside Spain. Reinforcing ties with university researchers ...

• XXV Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidráulica 2012. Ramada Plaza Herradura Hotel Conference Center, San Jose, Costa Rica. September 9^th-12^th, 2012. Call for Abstracts: before September 16^th, 2011.

• International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics - River Flow 2012. Ramada Plaza Herradura Hotel Conference Center, San Jose, Costa Rica. September 5^th-7^th, 2012. Call for Abstracts: before September 30^th, 2011.

• 9th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics 2012. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria), September 17^th-21^st. Call for Abstracts: before September 9^th, 2011.

• 2nd IAHR Europe Congress. Water - infinitely deformable but still limited. Bavaria (Germany), 27^th-29^th June 2012. Deadline for the submission of the Abstracts is: September 16^th, 2011.