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We are pleased to announce that the Water Travel Awards for 2019 were granted to the following three excellent applicants:
Ms. Parisa Hosseinzadehtalaei, Ph.D. researcher in KU Leuven; Dr. Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Postdoctoral Associate at Virginia Tech; and Dr. Komali Kantamaneni, researcher at Solent University. Each awardee will receive 800 Swiss Francs to attend an international conference in 2019.
Ms. Parisa Hosseinzadehtalaei will present her work entitled “Future Changes in European Pluvial Flooding under Climatic and Non-Climatic Factors” at the 38th IAHR (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research) World Congress, which will be held on 1–6 September 2019 in Panama City, Panama.
Dr. Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf will present his work entitled “Using the Enhanced Expert System for HSPF (HSPEXP+) to Implement Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) for TMDL Uncertainty Analysis” at the 2019 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, which will be held on 19–23 May 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Dr. Komali Kantamaneni will present her work entitled “Proposed Topic: Coastal Water Vulnerability in Andhra Pradesh, India” at WRE 2019 (The 5th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment), to be held on 16–19 July 2019 in Macao, China.
The evaluation process is very difficult, as there are abundant excellent applications for the awards. We would like to thank all the applicants for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their time devoted to evaluation. On behalf of Water, we congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.
Prof. Arjen Y. Hoekstra Chair of the Evaluation Committee
Prof. Y. Jun Xu Prof. Athanasios Loukas Prof. Adriano A. Bordalo Prof. Helena Margarida Ramos Dr. Kevin B. Strychar The members of the Evaluation Committee
Water 2019 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Bernhard Jonathan Sattler
Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Paula Catalina Ortiz Blanco
Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Tamara Leite
School of Agriculture (ISA), University of Lisbon, Portugal
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Dr. Sajjad Ahmad
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Dr. Tao Zhang
China Agricultural University
Prof. Juraj Parajka
Winner
Giuseppe Francesco Cesare Lama
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Details
Binod Rayamajhee
School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Australia
Details
Solmaz Fathololoumi
School of Environmental Science, University of Guelph, Canada
Details
Award Committee
Dr. Yujue Wang
Chairman
Dr. David Dunkerley
Dr. Bommanna Krishnappan
Prof. Dr. Sajjad Ahmad
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Winner
Sabolc Pap
Environmental Research Institute, NHC, UHI
Xuexiu Jia
Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory (SPIL) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology Technická 2896/2, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Angelos Alamanos
National Water Forum of Ireland. Centre for Freshwater and Environmental Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Maria Filomena Camões
Faculdade de Ciencias Universidade de Lisboa
Dr. Marina Manca
CNR IRSA
Prof. Enedir Ghisi
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Winner
Nnanake-Abasi Okon Offiong
International Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability Research, University of Uyo, Uyo, NIGERIA
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan
Polytechnic of Health (Indonesia)
Shawna Andrea Foo
Arizona State University
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Dr. Marina Manca
CNR IRSA
Dr. Kevin Strychar
Prof. Maria Filomena Camões
Faculdade de Ciencias Universidade de Lisboa
Winner
Amen Al-Yaari
Sorbonne university
Alex Chee Yu Yeung
The University of British Columbia
Qianqian Zhang
McMaster University
Award Committee
Prof. Arjen Hoekstra
Chairman
University of Twente
Prof. Adriano A. Bordalo
ICBAS-University of Porto
Prof. Dr. ATHANASIOS LOUKAS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Prof. YiJun Xu
Louisiana State University
Prof. Enedir Ghisi
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Dr. Steve Pueppke
Michigan State University
Winner
Parisa Hosseinzadehtalaei
Hydraulics Division, Department of Civil Engineering, KU Leuven
Dr. Komali Kantamaneni
Solent University
Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf
Virginia Tech
Winner
Xueming Chen
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Details
Yi Yang
Department of Environmental Sciences, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, USA
R. Iestyn Woolway
Climatology at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
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