CONFERENCE PROPOSAL: Eighth International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics: River Flow 2016

该项目将为介绍和讨论河流水力学提供一个论坛，促进跨学科研究、合作和最新成果的快速传播。它将提供一个机会来讨论如何在河流水力学的各个领域中交替使用新的方法和技术。会议还将讨论涉及河流社会影响的更广泛的主题。因此，这次会议将有助于提高公众对河流对社会重要性的认识。通过促进研究生和年轻的职业科学家的出席，该计划的支持主要针对其外展和教育贡献。在河流力学、地貌动力学、运输过程和生态水文学/河流恢复以及洪水预报和缓解方面，将由公认的国际专家组织和指导几个为期一天的大师班和短期课程。该项目将部分资助将于2016年7月11日至16日在密苏里州圣路易斯市举行的第八届国际河流水力学会议的具体宣传和教育方面的工作。从历史上看，这次会议吸引了具有环境水力学和环境流体力学背景的科学家和工程师，以及其主要关注领域包括流域水文学、湍流和混合过程、泥沙输运、地貌、地质学、淡水植物和鱼类生物学、河流生态学和可持续性的科学家。这是河流过程和河流水力学领域的主要国际会议。这将是该会议首次在美国举行。此次会议由IIHR水文科学与工程研究所、爱荷华大学、伊利诺伊大学香槟分校周文德水力系统实验室和圣路易斯大学与位于伊利诺伊州奥尔顿的国家大河研究和教育中心联合举办。会议的主要目的是提供一个论坛，就河流水力学领域的实验、理论和计算工具的最新进展交换意见和进行讨论。一批公认的国际专家和一位在国家防洪项目中发挥重要作用的美国政府机构的一位领导人将应邀出席全体会议

This project will provide a forum for presentations and discussions on fluvial hydraulics that will foster interdisciplinary research, collaboration and rapid dissemination of latest findings. It will provide an opportunity to discuss how novel methods and techniques can be used interchangeably in various fields of fluvial hydraulics. The conference will also address broader themes dealing with the societal impacts of rivers. As such, this conference will help increase public awareness of the importance of rivers for the society. By facilitating the attendance of graduate students and young career scientists, the program support is directed principally at its outreach and educational contributions. Several 1-day Master Classes and Short Courses will be organized and led by recognized international experts on well-focused topics in river mechanics, morphodynamics, transport processes and eco-hydrology/river restoration, as well as flood prediction and mitigation.This project will partially fund specific outreach and education aspects of the 8th International Conference of Fluvial Hydraulics to be held in Saint Louis, Missouri July 11-16 2016. This meeting historically has attracted scientists and engineers with an environmental hydraulics and environmental fluid mechanicsbackground, as well as scientists whose major focus areas include watershed hydrology, turbulenceand mixing processes, sediment transport, geomorphology, geology, geography, freshwater plantand fish biology, and river ecology and sustainability. This is the major international meeting in the area of river processes and fluvial hydraulics. This will be the first time the meeting is held in the U.S. The conference is co-organized by IIHR Hydroscience & Engineering, the University of Iowa, the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Saint Louis University, in partnership with the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center at Alton, Illinois. The main objective of the conference is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and discussions on the latest advances in experimental, theoretical, and computational tools in the field of fluvial hydraulics. A selected group of recognized international experts and one leader of an US governmental agency playing a major role in national projects aimed at flood protection will be invited to present plenary talks