[Aqualist] Fwd: HEX 2014 Meeting in Bonn, June 2014

[Justine Kemp]

Dear All,
Those working in flood geomorphology or Quaternary palaeohydrology may be
interested in this LUCIFS/FLAG/GLOCOPH meeting, below.
Abstracts due 31 January 2014.

*HEX 2014 - Hydrological EXtreme events in historic and prehistoric times*

9th-15th June 2014, Dept. of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany

International conference with field presentations



At the current status of knowledge, hydrological consequences of the
ongoing climatic change can only be estimated based on assumptions of
future change. Magnitudes and frequencies of hydrological extreme events
will change from recent values. Consequently, forecasts on future
development based on recent observations and measurements and their
statistical analysis are hindered due to non-steady conditions. On this
background a view back in time offers a significant range of observations
of hydrological extreme events based on climatic changes in different
directions.  From a European perspective, the Medieval Climate Optimum and
the Little Ice Age illustrate ranges of climatic changes in historic times.
 From those days, reports, documents and traces of hydrological extreme
events like floods and droughts are handed down to nowadays.  These reports
and traces have an untapped potential for further analysis of magnitudes,
frequencies and process mechanisms for an improved understanding of the
relationships of climate change and hydrological consequences.  Due to the
different duration of written historic times in different cultures of the
world – one or two centuries in North America and several millennia
considering the ancient cultures e.g. in Egypt or China – the time range of
previous extreme hydrological events of further consideration leads back
into pre-historic times, consequently back into the Pleistocene.  The
following keywords span the range of topics for scientific sessions during
the conference:

• Past hydrological events and periods related to global change

• Development of refined global and regional chronologies on hydrological
events and periods

• Historical perspectives of current hazards

• Relevance of Pleistocene hydrological events for the presence and future

• Drought analysis - an underestimated problem and future challenge

• Implications of long term research in relation to forecasts and prognoses
for the future

• Interpreting human impact

• Estimation of previous and future damage and losses

• Extreme wave events in the past and future

• Extraterrestrial flows and floods

• New techniques and methods of investigation (dating techniques,
historical source analysis,

hydraulic interpretation of geomorphological and sedimentological
structures, …)



*Key note speakers:*

Victor Baker Extraterrestrial flow - why should we care?

Rudolf Brazdil 500-year floods and droughts in Central Europe based on
documentary evidence

and instrumental records

Paul Carling Sedimentology of mega-flood deposits

Rüdiger Glaser Historic climate changes represented by hydrological
extremes *(to be confirmed)*

Ken Gregory The development of palaeohydrological research - the first
sixty years

Dieter Kelletat Extreme wave events in the past



Further details like important dates, registration, abstract submission are
available from http://web.giub.uni-bonn.de/hex2014/

If you want to contact the local organiser directly, please send an email
to

hex-2014-contact at giub.uni-bonn.de


-- 
Dr Justine Kemp
Research Fellow
Australian Rivers Institute
 Griffith University
170 Kessels Road
Nathan
Qld 4111
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Email: j.kemp at griffith.edu.au