ERCOFTAC International Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements
May 23-25, 2005, Sardinia, Italy
Deadline for submission of papers: May 1, 2005
For more information visit the website or contact the organizer.

8th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology
August 7-12,  2005 Delft , The Netherlands
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 15, 2005
For more information visit the website or contact the organizer

Conference on Coastlines, Structures and Breakwaters 2005 
April 20-22, London, United Kingdom
For more information visit the website  or contact the organizer

International Conference on Coastal Conservation and management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
April 17-20, Vilamoura, Portugal
Visit the website  or contact the organizer

Solutions to Coastal Disaster 2005
May 8-11,  Charleston, USA
For more information contact the organizer or visit the website

Annual Floodplain Managers Conference
June 11-17, 2005,  Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Visit the website or contact the organizer for more information

Waterpower XIV
July 18-22, Austin, Texas, USA
For more information visit the website or contact the organizer

International Symposium: Ecological status of continental reservoirs of the Arctic zone in connection with industrial development of northern territories
June 21-25, 2005,  Archangelsk, Russia
For more information contact Dr.Tatyana Sapelko

Turbine-99 III: The third IAHR Workshop on Draft Tube Flow
December 8-9, 2005 Porjus, Sweden
Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 15
For more information visit the website

INTERCOH 2005, The 8th International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport
September, 20-23 Saga, Japan
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 31, 2005
For more information contact the organizer or visit the website

4th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal & Estuarine Morphodynamics
October 4-7, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 15, 2005 
For more information visit the website or contact the organizer

HYDRO 2005: “Policy into Practice”
October 17-20 Villach,  Austria
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 14th, 2005
For more information contact the organizer  or visit the website

Matlab Routines for Wave Data
Dr Urs Neumeier has developed routines to process non-directional data from pressure sensors. They correct the attenuation of pressure variations due to depth, and then calculate the standard wave parameters (spectral parameters and zero-crossing parameters). They can return the time series of water-surface elevation corrected for the attenuation of pressure variations due to depth. They can also be used with time series of water-surface elevation (recorded with an wave staff for example) to calculate the wave parameters.
To find the routines click here
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Literature about Headland Bay-Beaches
A recently published PhD thesis entitled Morphodynamics of headland-bay beaches: examples from the coast of Santa Catarina State, Brazil is available in PDF upon request as courtesy of its author Antonio Klein. To obtain a copy click here
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Two Year Masters in Water Resources Management and Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Starting in october, 2005 the two year course allows for specialisation in hydrology or hydraulics.  The progamme is aimed at young professionals of EPF or equivalent university level graduates. For foreign candidates who are unsponsored there is the possibility of part time remunerative training places in industry.
 Deadline April 30th April (foreign), or 31st May (EU and Swiss residents)
 For more information click here

International Institute of Women in Engineering
EPF Ecole d'Ingenieurs organises annually, in English, an international programme for women in engineering. The programme is designed for students (both female and male) and is heavily subsidised by EPF.
The next programme will be:" Sustaining Women Engineers Internationally"
July 1st-22nd, Paris, France
For more information click here

Coastal Inlet Research Program (CIRP) - US Army Corps of Engineers
The stability and behaviour of tidal inlets of key interest to the US.  In 1994 the CIRP was established with the purpose of providing fundamental information about inlets to improve understanding of their natural state and to facilitate predicting their response to engineering changes.  This site contains much useful information of interest to researchers including

• photo collection
• database of US inlets and entrances
• database of inlet navigation projects
• on-line and PC based tools for coastal inlet investigations

Used with permission. Image downloaded from the Coastal Inlets Research Program web site, US Army Corps of Engineeers

New Software Beach Tools ArcView Plugin
The US Corps of Engineers has released a GIS extension designed to identify and quantitatively establish the position of the shoreline and other coastal features from aerial imagery.
For more information on hits and other software click here
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RiverSurveyor ADP system by Sontek improved
Sontek has developed new features on its RiverSurveyor ADP system which offers improved reliability in all conditions, improved software for reporting of data, and enable it to measure velocities in 30cm of water.
For more information click here

Gallery of Fluid Mechanics Images
A good website with a range of images relating to fluid mechanics has been developed by Prof Mark Cramer. Click here


Reproduced with permission

Lakes GIS Database Proposal
I am looking for partners for a proposal to be submitted under a Japanese-Russian joint programme on constructing a database or GIS for lakes involving Russia and Japan. Deadline is March 15th

Prof. DSc Sergei Ryanzhin
Institute of Limnology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Sevastyanova 9, St Petersburg 196106 RF
ph/fax +7(812)3878020/3887327
E-mail: ryanzhin@peterlink.ru

Construction Health and Safety in Coastal and Maritime Engineering
By Ian Cruikshank and Stephen Cork
Published by Thomas Telford; ISBN 0727733451; January 2005; 176 pp; price: £ 40.00
This book identifies and analyses the principles causes of accidents in order to promote best practice.
For more information click here
 
Manual on the use of timber in coastal and river engineering
by Matt Crossman, Jonathan Simm
Published by HR Wallingford; ISBN0727732838;September 2004; price: £ 40.00
Whilst primarily intended for practising engineers, the manual will also be a useful reference for students, procurement specialists and the general reader interested in the use of timber in coastal and river environments.
For more information click here

Coastal and estuarine managed realignment - design issues
by DJ Leggett, N Cooper, R Harvey
Published by CIRIA; ISBN 0-86017-628-2; 2004
Managed realignment is a deliberate process of altering a flood defence to allow flooding of a previously defended area. It can make use of natural defences such as sand dunes, saltmarshes, shingle ridges and other coastal features that absorb wave and tidal energy. The technique offers long-term sustainable management of coasts and estuaries for a variety of stakeholders, demanding fewer resources compared with hard defences and giving scope for creating (or re-creating) habitats for wildlife. There is also the potential to apply the technique to achieve land management targets for biodiversity, landscape, public access, archaeological and other purposes, while in the long term financial savings are possible compared with hard defences.
For more information click here

Piers, Jetties and Related Structures exposed to waves: guidelines for hydraulic loadings
by Kirsty McConnell, William Allsop and Ian Cruickshank
Published by HR Wallingford;ISBN 072773265X; August 2004; price: £ 40.00
This book brings together existing guidance on hydraulic design, including design wave conditions, prediction of scour and vessel mooring loads, and new methods for the prediction of wave loading, including forces on the underside of jetty deck. These guidelines will help maritime designers to optimise jetty designs, and are an essential reference resource.
For more information click here

Several Research Scholarships, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Project 1: Investigation of Hydrodynamic Diffusion Processes in Sediment Transport
Research Project 2: Oil Particle Interaction Under Turbulent Conditions
For descriptions of both projects, click here
Needed
(a) For admission as a Master's candidate, is needed a Bachelor's degree with honors at least at second class Upper level.
(b) For admission as a Doctor of Philosophy candidate, a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree (research based) needed.
(c) (i) Applicants whose mother tongue is not English must submit a copy of their TOEFL* score (at least 600 [Paper-based] or 250 [Computer-based]). Test dates must be within 2 years or less from the date of your application. (ii) A very good GRE test score is required.
To send CV contact Dr Nian-Sheng Cheng or Dr Lloyd Chua, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore.

Doherty Visiting Professor, Department of Marine and Environmental Systems (DMES) Florida Tech´s College of Engineering, Florida, USA
The endowment to DMES from the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, Inc. provides approximately $40,000 (depending on benefits desired and market conditions), and is ideally suited as matching funds for a sabbatical. DMES offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in oceanography, coastal zone management, ocean engineering including coastal engineering and naval architecture, environmental science, environmental resource management, and in meteorology. 
Needed
an established professional experience from academia, government, or industry
a terminal degree (preferably) in science, engineering, or management
a clear vision for their time at Florida Tech´s College of Engineering
Process
Applicants should use postal mail to send a statement of interest on
letterhead stationery not exceeding two pages in length, and two-page
curriculum vitae to:  Dr. George A. Maul, Professor and Head, Department of
Marine and Environmental Systems, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West
University Boulevard, Melbourne FL 32901. 
For more information about the employer click here

Research-Engineer position in Sedimentology at EDF R&D - LNHE, Chatou, FRANCE
Electricité de France (EDF) manages a large part of the inland waters over the French territory, and is more and more faced with short-term issues - e.g. optimisation of water resources for hydro-power, protection against floods and droughts, cooling availability - and long-term issues - e.g. potential impacts of climate change - linked to the use and management of water resources.
The “Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique et Environnement” (LNHE) is one of the 15 Departments of EDF Research & Development. LNHE gathers 100 people working in the field of free surface flow, groundwater and environment.
In order to enhance its scientific capacity in the field of Sedimentology and Fluvial Hydraulics, EDF R&D/LNHE has a new opportunity for the position of  Research-Engineer.
You will work on some of the following topics driven in the framework of an important R&D project focused on huge Hydro power issues :

• Integrated sediment management at Hydro power units, including upstream large dam plants
• Sediment pollution and related environmental and health concerns
• Development in the field of metrology for sedimentological field investigations

Graduate students for research in  boundary layer dynamics over, and morphologic evolution of, rippled seabeds, Ohio State University, USA 
This cooperatively funded National Science Foundation project has provided support for a  combined modelling and observational effort to gain new knowledge of the dominant processes which govern the fluid-sediment interface in the coastal region.
A multi-institution field scale experiment will be performed this summer at the Oregon State University OH Hinsdale Wave Research laboratory.  With support from 2 National Science Foundation grants, we will be performing numerical simulations and obtaining field observations of the near bed fluid-sediment interactions resulting from waves.  We are looking for students who have interests and/or demonstrated strengths in coastal processes, sediment transport, bottom boundary layer dynamics, CFD modelling,  observational fluid dynamics techniques (ie. PIV). For more information regarding the project or student opportunities
contact Diane Foster  at Ohio State University
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International MSc in Coastal Engineering
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) welcomes applications from
international students who wish to study Coastal Engineering
The key topics for the programme are
    *    Hydrodynamics
    *    Wave mechanics
    *    Loads on structures
    *    Surf zone dynamics
    *    Scour and scour protection
    *    Sediment transport and morphology
International students may register for a full time MSc degree programme
with a duration of 2 years. The international students study together with
Danish students, and teaching is in English. The University does not charge to students admitted to the M.Sc. program
tuition fees. The new education starts in September 2005 and the deadline
for applications is March 15,  2005.
For further information, click here.  
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Coastal Engineer, Coastal Science & Engineering (CSE), Columbia, USA
Needed
• BSCE and MS/ME with minimum of 4 years’ experience
• PE (or ability to become registered in South Carolina within one year)
• U.S. citizenship
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Experience with CE modeling, coastal structures, beach nourishment design
• Business development experience
• Scuba certification
Salary commensurate with experience.
Process:
Applicants should send the resume in confidence to CSE, PO Box 8056, Columbia SC 29202-8056; fax to 803-799-9481, or by email
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2005
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Research Associate, Urban Flood Modelling, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral Research Associate in the Urban Water Research Group. You will be responsible for developing for 24 months and leading research in the area of intra-urban flooding and contributing to other on-going projects within the group.
A PhD (or equivalent) in civil, chemical or environmental engineering or a related discipline and strong modelling experience are essential.
The Urban Water Research Group is an internationally leading centre for the study and advancement of urban water management. The post is funded by the Group's Platform Grant, awarded by EPSRC to leading UK research teams.
To apply, please email an application form and curriculum vitae to: Professor David Butler, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Kensington campus, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, e-mail: d.butler@imperial.ac.uk
For more information click here.
Closing date: 8 March 2005