scientific decade

Hydrotalks: IAHS working group leaders and coordinators on HELPING scientific decade, working groups activities, and writing community papers

Archita Bhattacharyya, Christina Anna Orieschnig and Melissa Reidy March 12, 2026

In episode 8 of the Hydrotalks podcast, we hosted four coordinators of working groups of the HELPING hydrological decade. We warmly welcomed Dr. Giulio Castelli (University of Florence) and Dr. Natalie Ceperley (University of Bern), group co-leaders of Co-Creating Water Knowledge working group; Dr. Soham Adla (ING Bank, Netherlands), a coordinator of Science communication, outreach, and …[Read More]

Join the IAHS’ New Scientific Decade: Science for Water Solutions – HELPING

Christina Anna Orieschnig September 6, 2023

What are the most pressing research topics in the international community of hydrologists? What are people working on? And how can you become involved? Many hydrologists, especially early career scientists, struggle to find answers to these questions. That is where the scientific decades of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) come in. Specifically, its …[Read More]

Ending a Decade of Hydrological Research – The IAHS’ Final Panta Rhei Symposium

Elena Macdonald July 26, 2023

The attendees of the final Panta Rhei symposium gathered at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam. Photo: Martin Ehmler, GFZ

On the 10th and 11th of July 2023, the final symposium for the scientific decade “Panta Rhei – Everything Flows: Change in Hydrology and Society” of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) took place at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam. During these two days, 150 hydrologists, engineers, social scientists and …[Read More]

Where should hydrology go?

Harro Jongen and Tessa van Hateren March 1, 2023

In 1965, UNESCO launched the first International Hydrological Decade to promote hydrology as an independent scientific discipline. This initiative has since grown into a global movement boosting hydrological research around a changing theme: the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Scientific Decades. The last two decades have shown that community efforts can shape the field …[Read More]