You are here
November 2016
Hydro Nation Scholar Scholar, Bas Buddendorf to present at the AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco 12th-16th December 2016
Hydro Nation Scholar, Bas Buddendorf will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting in San Francisco in December. Bas will be giving a talk titled 'Spatio-Temporal Effects Of River Regulation On Habitat Suitability For Juvenile Atlantic Salmon: Implications For Ecosystem Functioning.' His study focussed on the River Lyon, a tributary of the Tay, Scotland's largest river. Bas investigated the effects of different types of river regulation (hydropeaking, compensation flow and near-natural) on the hydraulic characteristics of downstream river reaches and inferred the consequences for juvenile salmon using hydraulic habitat suitability models. This work improves understanding of the effects of regulation on biophysical processes and may be useful in managing trade-offs between management, restoration, and societal benefits.
October 2016
Hydro Nation Scholar Welcome event Autumn 2016
In 2016, we will welcome a further five scholars to the growing Hydro Nation Scholars Programme. The Hydro Nation staff team and current scholars look forward to welcoming them to the programme at a welcome event in Autumn 2016 and supporting them in the commencement of their PhD studies.
HABITAT III -the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
Hydro Nation Scholar, Robert Sakic Trogrlic attended HABITAT III - the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, where UN member state will establish global commitment to sustainable urbanisation through a global agreement – the New Urban Agenda.
Robert was invited by the HABITAT III Secretariat to be a speaker for the Children and Youth Roundtable, representing Water Youth Network. He was also in charge of organising and facilitating a session entitled The role of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation for building urban resilience, organised jointly by Water Youth Netwrok, United Nations Major Group for Chilren and Youth and TERI- The Energy and Resources Institute. This is part of Science, Technology and Innovation Stream of the Children and Youth Forum, which was held on October 15th.
Robert also had a role in supporting (along with Water Youth Network) the HABITAT III youth representative of the Netherlands and Dutch Government in organising a youth competition called Youth for Sustainable Urban Deltas, the winner of which will get a chance to present at COP22 in November 2016.
Hydro Nation Scholar, Nazli's blog 'Coastal freshwater aquifer joins the sea'
Nazli Koseoglu's blog 'Coastal freshwater aquifer joins the sea' is now available on the Life Plus 2 meters website. The Life Plus 2 Meters project is designed to help people think about and prepare for adapting to climate change. It is a non-commercial, crowdsourced project which allows authors to offer their vision of a climate-changed world where sea levels have risen by 2 m, 'extreme' weather is routine, and people must adapt to complex changes in environmental, social, political and economic conditions. Authors' visions are published as blogs for discussion and debate, and in 2017 a selection of posts will be collated for a book, Life Plus 2 meters.
September 2016
Hydro Nation Scottish-Indian Entrepreneurship Programme 2016-2017
In the run up to the launch of the Scottish Government's Hydro Nation Entrepreneurs Programme, a number of the Hydro Nation Scholars have met with programme organiser Adam Purvis, Power of Youth to give their thoughts on meeting the needs of the global water sector and engaging with entrepreneurs in Scotland and India. A number of scholars will also attend the Hydro Nation Entrepreneurs Summit in Edinburgh in September 2016.
August 2016
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 30th August to 2nd September 2016
Hydro Nation Scholar, Christopher Schulz will be presenting at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographic Society. The theme for the 2016 Annual Conference is nexus thinking, an approach that has attracted a surge of interest in the last five years among academics, policy-makers and third sector organizations. The aim of nexus thinking is to address the interdependencies, tensions and trade-offs between different environmental and social domains. Christopher’s talk, titled ‘Valuing Water in Mato Grosso, Brazil’, will discuss how water is valued by the local population culturally, the use of water in the state’s main economic activities and its wider role in sustaining the biggest wetland in the world, the Pantanal, and associated challenges and conflicts over water governance, pollution and investment in domestic water supply and sanitation.
Hydro Nation Scholar, Bas Buddenborf's EGU General Assembly 2016 conference report published
Hydro Nation Scholar, Bas Buddendorf's conference report for the EGU General Assembly 2016 has been published in the BHS newsletter 'Circulation' No. 130, after Bas received a travel grant to attend the conference. His conference report is available to download.
Forthcoming Hydro Nation Scholar publication in Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law
Ruby Moynihan's paper titled 'International law on protection of transboundary freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity' will soon be available in J Razzaque and E Morgera Biodiversity and Nature Protection Law (Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, forthcoming August 2016).
July 2016
Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop in Brasilia, Brazil, 20-24th July 2016
Hydro Nation Scholar, Christopher Schulz is participating in a Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop in Brazil on ‘Climate and Landscape Change in the Pantanal: assessing environmental vulnerabilities and future water security in Brazil's wetland wilderness.’ The aim of the event is to exchange ideas between British and Brazilian researchers with an interest in the Pantanal wetland and is open to early career researchers.
1st Portuguese-Brazilian Symposium on Models and Practices of Sustainability, Lisbon, 11th July 2016
Christopher Schulz presented his research on values and water governance in the Upper Paraguay River Basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, at the "1° Simpósio Luso-Brasileiro sobre Modelos e Práticas de Sustentabilidade" to an audience of Portuguese and Brazilian researchers. The symposium was a Portuguese-language pre-event to the 22nd International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference (13-15 July).