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Conferences

The Blue-Green Cities Research team participated in a wide range of conferences on a variety of themes aimed at bringing together flood risk management professionals and encouraging the sharing of research methods, findings and experiences. 

2016

• 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016). 17-21st October 2016, Lyon, France. 

• 2016 Liveable Cities Forum: Changing Climate, Changing Communities. 12-14th September 2016, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

• FCERM.Net Annual Assembly. 29th June 2016, Newcastle, UK. 

• 3rd Annual Wales Water Conference. 25th May 2016, Cardiff, Wales.

• Water New Zealand's Stormwater Conference 2016. 18-20th May 2016, Nelson, New Zealand. 

• The Ecosystem Service of Urban Rivers (Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies and Training Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny, Mendel University in Brno). April 19th – 22nd  2016, Chateau Křtiny, Czech Republic. 

• European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, 17th - 22nd April 2016, Vienna, Austria.

• Urban Water Management Workshop (Catchment Based Approach Urban Working Group). 12th April 2016, Leicester, UK. 

• Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. 29th March - 2nd April 2016, San Francisco, USA.

• CIBSE Resilient Cities Group meeting, 21st March 2016, London, UK. 

• Water Infrastructure Demonstrators' Network Workshop. 15th March 2016, Severn Trent Water Centre, Coventry, UK. 

• Flood and Coast 2016: Risk, Resilience and Response in a Changing Climate. 23-25th February 2016, Telford, UK. 

• Improving Flood Resilience: The Blue-Green Advantage. Blue-Green Cities dissemination event. 18th February 2016, Newcastle, UK.

• SNIFFER Flood Risk Management Conference 2016, Blue-Green Cities Session Day 2. 2nd - 3rd February 2016, Edinburgh, UK.

• 15th Annual River Restoration Symposium, River Restoration Northwest (RRNW), 2nd - 4th February 2016, Washington, USA. 

• Public Policy Exchange: Making our Nation More Resilient to Flooding: Designing Effective Strategies and Delivering Key Solutions to our Communities. 20th January 2016, Central London, UK.

2015

• Flood Resilient Communities: Evaluating the Defra Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder, 2nd December 2015, London, UK. 

• Resilience to climate change: who pays (and who benefits)? 17th November 2015, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK. 

• Irish National Hydrology Conference 2015, Data and Sustainability, November 17th, Athlone – Co. Westmeath, Ireland.

• CIWEM UDG (Urban Drainage Group) Autumn Conference & Exhibition 2015, 4-6th November 2015, Chester, UK. 

• Delivering Environmental Benefits for Urban Communities (conference and workshop), Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) Urban Working Group, 22nd October 2015, Birmingham, UK. 

• Future Urban Living Town Hall Meeting, 20th October 2015, Birmingham, UK. 

• Flood Expo 2015, 14-15th October 2015, ExCel London, UK.

• Water Conference 2015 Scotland, 7th October 2015, Glasgow, Scotland. 

• 2015 Liveable Cities Forum: Building Flood Resiliency, 27-30th September 2015, Calgary, Canada.

• 2015 Sustainable Stormwater Symposium, Oregon American Society of Civil Engineers Environment and Water Resources Group (ASCE-EWRG) and the Oregon Chapter of the American Public Works Association (APWA), 16-17th September 2015, Portland, Oregon, US. 

• 12th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2-7th Aug 2015, Suntec City, Singapore.

• Improving Future Flood Resilience, 17th July 2015, Calgary, Canada.

• 36th IAHR World Congress 2015, 28th June 28th - 3rd July 2015, Delft - The Hague, the Netherlands. 

• REFORM International Conference on River and Stream Restoration "Novel Approaches to Assess and Rehabilitate Modified Rivers", 30th June - 2nd July 2015, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 

• Water in Future Cities - RCUK Water Showcase 2015, 30th June 2015, London, UK. 

• Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, 15-18th June 2015, Ningbo, China.  

• FCERM.net Annual Assembly 2015, 28th May 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

• World Water Congress XV, International Water Resource Association (IWRA), 25-29th May 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

• Johnson Creek Science Symposium, Johnson Creek Watershed Council, 22nd May 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA.

• RRC (the River Restoration Centre) Annual Conference 2015, 19-20th May 2015, Northamptonshire, UK. 

• Wales Water 2015, 20th May 2015, Cardiff, Wales. 

• European Climate Change Adaptation (ECCA) Conference, 12-14th May 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

• CIWEM River and Coastal Group Study Weekend, 11-12 May 2015, Nottingham, UK.

• European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 12-17th April 2015, Vienna, Austria. 

• RTPI Event - Demystifying Water Management in Planning, an integrated approach. April 15th 2015, Newcastle, UK. 

• Ecobuild 2015 - the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment, 3-5th March 2015, London, UK.

• 6th Annual Water Northern Ireland Conference, 26th February 2015, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2014

• Flood Defence and Prevention Expo, 4-5th December 2014, London, UK. 

• UK flood management - priorities, investment and adaptation, Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum (WEETF), 4th November 2014, London, UK.

• European River Restoration Conference (ERRC), 27-29th October 2014, Vienna, Austria.

• International Conference on Fluid Mechanics (ICFM) 2014, 27-28th October 2014, Barcelona, Spain. 

• Natural Flood Management: The Evidence Requirements for Wider Delivery, CIWEM, 10th September 2014, London, UK.

• 13th International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD 2014), 7-11th September 2014, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

• 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2014), 17-21st August 2014, New York, US. 

• StormCon, The North American Surface Water Quality Conference and Exposition, 3-7th August 2014, Oregon, US.

• Water Innovation Europe 2014, Water: Green Tape or Blue Gold? Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform (WssTP), 25-26th June 2014, Brussels, Belgium. 

• International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response (FRIAR), Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT), 18-20th June 2014, Poznan, Poland.

• Surface Water Management 2014, CIWEM, 18th June 2014, London, UK.

• ARCC (Adaptation and Resilience in the Context of Change) Assembly 2014, 10-11th June 2014, Birmingham, UK.

• World Environment and Water Resources Congress (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 1-5th June 2014, Portland, US.

• The International Conference on Sustainable Development of Critical Infrastructure (IC-SDCI 2014), 16-18th May 2014, Shanghai, China. 

• Johnson Creek Watershed Council (JCWC) Annual Dinner and Celebration, keynote presentation on "The Blue-Green Cities Initiative; a UK perspective on Sustainable Flood Risk Management in the Johnson Creek Watershed" by Prof. Colin Thorne, 22nd May 2014, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

• River Restoration Network Conference (RRC), 7-8th May 2014, Sheffield, UK.

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

• Institute of Water (IWA) Northern Ireland Area Conference: Flushed Away! Sewerage - The Poor Relation? 10-11th April 2014, Limavady, Northern Ireland, UK. 

• Flooding Conference: Britain under water, 20th March 2014, BRE, Watford, UK.

• SNIFFER Flood Risk Management Conference 2014 (SNIFFER), 4-5th February 2014, Edinburgh, UK.

• Resilient Communities: Providing for the Future, Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES), 19-22nd January 2014, Christchurch, New Zealand. 

2013

• American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 9-13 December 2013, San Francisco, CA, US.

• Invited Charney Lecture by Leonard Smith; Predictability, Probability(s) and Physical Insight ( abstract).

• Sustainable City 2013, 8th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT), 3-5th December 2013, Putrajaya, Malaysia.

• 8th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD 2013), 25-29th November 2013, Gold Coast, Australia.

• British Hydrological Society South East Section and National meeting, Hydrology for Flood Risk Management, 21st November 2013, London, UK.  

• The Future of the Concrete Channel Conference, 21st November 2013, UC Berkeley Campus, CA, US. 

• LWEC (Living With Environmental Change) Conference: Decision Making in the Twilight of Uncertainty, 19th November 2013, Birmingham, UK. 

• CIWEM Urban Drainage Group (UDG) Autumn Conference & Exhibition, Future Thinking and Challenges, 15th November 2013, Nottingham, UK.

• Managing Ecosystems for People, Nature and Economy, Network of European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC) Annual Conference, 18th October 2013, Bangor, Wales, UK. 

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Environmental and Water Resources Group (EWRG),  Rethinking the Flood Control Paradigm, 25th September, Portland, Oregon, US. 

• Engineering Education for Sustainable Development 2013 (EEDS13), 22-25th September 2013, Cambridge, UK.

• 35th International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) World Congress, The Wise Find Pleasure in Water, 8-13th September 2013, Chengdu, China.

• International Conference on Flood Resilience (ICFR): Experiences in Asia and Europe, 5-7th September 2013, Exeter, UK.

• Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) Surface Water Flooding and Management, 26th June 2013, London, UK. 

• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Flooding 2013, Developing Flood Resilient Communities, 23rd May 2013, London, UK. 

• International Council for Building (CIB), World Congress, special conference session: Making Cities More Resilient,  5-9th May 2013, Brisbane, Australia.

• Floodplain management: adapting to change mini-conference, Northwest Regional Floodplain Management Association (NORFMA), 25th April 2013, Salem, Oregon, US.