• Request for Nominations for the 2009 Langbein Lecture

The Langbein Lecture Committee of the AGU Hydrology Section seeks additional nominations for the 2009 Langbein Lecture to be given at the Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The Lectureship is awarded for ...lifetime contributions to the basic science of hydrology and/or unselfish service promoting cooperation in hydrologic research. Additional considerations may be the candidate's renown as a lecturer and/or as an educator. Please send your nomination by 15 July 2009 to the Committee Chair:
Professor Arturo Keller
3420 Bren Hall
Bren School, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131, USA
Tel: +1-805-893-7548
Fax: +1-805-893-7612
Email: keller@bren.ucsb.edu
• New Early Career Scientist Award
  At the 2008 Fall Meeting the Hydrology Section considered and approved an Early Career Hydrologic Sciences Award. This was forwarded to the AGU Honors and Recognition Committee and then to the Council which also gave approval. It is important for the advancement of hydrological science to promote a culture where we identify and support talent throughout at all stages of a career. Currently, AGU awards in hydrologic science are skewed toward senior scientists and students. Other than the Union level Macelwane Medal, there is no award for early career hydrologic scientists. What is needed is an award for excellent and significant early career contributions to hydrological science through research, educational or other activities....The goal of this award is to recognize that the awardee's research, educational or other accomplishments, or the societal impact of his/her work, are outstanding for a scientist at his/her stage of career, and to acknowledge that the awardee shows exceptional promise continued contributions to the hydrological sciences. The award citation will read In recognition of significant early career contributions to hydrologic science. This summer we seek nominations for the very first Early Career Hydrologic Sciences Award. See Announcement below.
• Request for Nominations for the 2009 Early Career Hydrologic Sciences Award

The AGU Hydrology Section seeks nominations for the 2009 Early Career Hydrologic Sciences Award. The award recognizes that .... the awardee's research, educational or other accomplishments, or the societal impact of his/her work, are outstanding for a scientist at his/her stage of career, and to acknowledge that the awardee shows exceptional promise of continued contributions to the hydrological sciences. Nominees must be Member or Affiliate of the Hydrology Section and within 6 years of earning the PhD at the time of nomination deadline. Please send a nomination letter, the candidate's two-page curriculum vitae, a list of publications up to two pages long, and up to three letters of support, by 15 July 2009, to the Committee Chair:
Professor Thorsten Wagener
Civil and Environmental Engineering
226B Sackett Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA16802
Tel: +1-814-865-5673
Fax: +1-814-863-7304
Email: thorsten@engr.psu.edu
• Request for Nominations for AGU Fellowship

Nominations come from the AGU membership generally and are vetted by Section committees. Any member of the Union, whether or not a Fellow, may nominate another member for Fellow. Election is by a committee of Fellows. The Hydrology Section Fellows Committee is chaired by President-Elect Dennis Lettenmaier. The Union is requesting nominations for AGU Fellows, to be submitted electronically, by 1 July 2009. Further information can be found at http://www.agu.org/about/honors/fellows/fellguides.shtml including guidance on how to assemble a more successful nomination package. Regarding the package, you can also contact Dr. Lettenmaier for advice at:
Professor Dennis P. Lettenmaier
202D Wilson Ceramic Lab, Box 352700
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2700
Tel: +1-206-543-2532
Fax: +1-206-616-6274
Email: dennisl@u.washington.edu
• Fall Meeting Session Deadlines

There is still time (through 12 June, 2009) to submit session proposals for the 2009 Fall Meeting. See the web site: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/session_proposals.php" It is a good idea to contact the Hydrology Technical Committee chair (contact information at http://hydrology.agu.org/comm/stac.html) associated with your proposed topic and/or H Section Meeting Chair Tom Meixner, especially if you have questions or need advice.
Professor Tom Meixner
Hydrology and Water Resources
Room 122 JW Harshbarger Bldg. #11
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: +1-520-626-1532
Fax: +1-520-621-1422
Email: tmeixner@hwr.arizona.edu
• Deadlines Change
  At its December meeting the Hydrology Section Executive Committee voted to revise the deadlines for Section Awards, moving them forward in the year. This year's deadline for the Hydrologic Sciences Award and Langbein Lecture is July 15. The new deadlines are reflected in the above nomination requests. The main reason for advancing the deadlines is to allow more time between notifying awardees of their honor and the abstract deadline for the Fall Meeting, in order to improve the probability that awardees can attend the meeting. We plan to move the deadlines up further, to mid-May or June, next year and beyond.
• Future Focus Task Force (FFTF)
  AGU Council, the governing board of AGU, is considering significant governance and structural changes, forming the FFTF last fall to plan these changes. Members include section members George Hornberger and Rosemary Knight. The task force, assisted by professional consultants, has been meeting with various constituencies, and will submit report to the Council and Union at the Joint Meeting in Toronto.

AGU Meeting Information

• Help plan a special session at one of the annual meetings. See how to organize a special session .Index Terms
• The 2009 Joint Assembly will take place 24-27 May, 2009, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• List of 2009 Chapman Conferences
  • Chapman Conference on Arsenic in Groundwater of Southern Asia, 24-27 March 2009, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
  • Chapman Conference on Effects of Thunderstorms and Lightning in the Upper Atmosphere, 10-15 May 2009, University Park, Pennsylvania.
  • Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change, 15-19 June 2009, Columbus, Ohio.
  • Chapman Conference on Biological Carbon Pump of the Oceans, 1-4 September 2009, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England.
  • Chapman Conference on Examining Ecohydrological Feedbacks of Landscape Change along Elevation Gradients in Semiarid Regions, 5-9 October 2009, Sun Valley, Idaho.
  • AGU is always looking for good ideas from the section for Chapman Conferences,especially for conferences that might involve folks from other sections!

• The 2009 AGU Fall Meeting will take place 14-18 December 2009 in San Francisco, CA.
• Session Proposals will be due in late summer 2009.
• The 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting will take place 22-25 February, 2010 in Portland, Oregon.
• The 2010 Meeting of the Americas will take place 8-13 August, 2010 in Foz do Iguassu, Brazil.
• Session Proposals will be due in late fall 2009.
• For a full list of AGU meetings, see Future AGU Meetings .

Other Organization Meetings of Interest

• List of Gordon Research Conferences
• Environmental & Water Resources Institute of ASCE

• Complete list of conferences.
• World Environment & Water Resources Congress 2009, 17-21 May 2009, Kansas City, Missouri.

• AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference, 9-12 November 2009, Seattle, Washington.
• Other AWRA Mettings.
• Have one you wish listed? Email rees@ecs.umass.edu

Other News:

• AGU Executive Director
  As you read in EOS, Fred Spilhaus retired at the beginning of the year and the AGU Council appointed an Interim Director, Robert Van Hook, to oversee the transition. During Fred's long tenure the Union grew to 55,000 members, Hydrology became one of the three largest Sections of the Union, and we spun off WRR from JGR. Thank you, Fred.
• WRR Editorial Board
  Under the able leadership of Soroosh Sorooshian, AGU completed a successful search for a new Board, which was officially appointed by Union President Tim Grove at the beginning of March. We welcome Praveen Kumar as the new Editor in Chief, and his board of Tissa Illangasekare, Graham Sander, John Selker, and Tom Torgersen. They will be joined by Hoshin Gupta in December 2009. The board will serve until December 31, 2012. Tom returns after serving with the previous board, along side of Marc Parlange, Scott Tyler, Amilcare Porporato, and Brian Berkowitz. Thank you for your important work on WRR.
• AGU Director of Publicatios WRR is only one of the journals and books that AGU publishes. At the end of April, Judy Holoviak retired as Director of Publications after more than 40 years of service. Barbara Meyers Ford from Meyers Consulting Services has been appointed Interim Director of Publications.
• Spring Joint Meeting Organizing Committee Expanded. The Spring Joint Meeting Organizing Committee has been expanded to two people. Tim Scheibe has joined Chair Tom Bullen.

• WATERS Network releases strategy for national environmental observatory network.
  The WATERS Network announced in Spring 2008 their draft strategy for building a large-scale, distributed environmental observatory network that will transform scientific understanding of the Earth's water and environment. The science, education, and design strategy document is now available at Watersnet.org. The WATERS team invites and is actively seeking input on this document. Comments may be submitted at http://blog.watersnet.org .

• Rapid Communications in Water Resources Research provides a quick way to publish. See the WRR web page for more information.

• Geophysical Research Letters publishes short, concise research letters that present scientific advances that are likely to have immediate influence on the research of other investigators. Check it out.

Recent Honors

• Congratulations to the 2008 Hydrologic Sciences Awardee, Desmond E. Walling of the University of Exeter, UK. He will be presented the 2008 Award "For fundamental contributions to understanding the behavior of fine grained sediment in the hydrologic cycle" at the Joint Meeting in Toronto. A full citation and response will be published in EOS later this year..

• Congratulations to the 2008 Langbein Lecturer
  William E. Dietrich
  Geomorphology: the Shock of the Familiar
  Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science
  University of California, Berkeley
  Bill gave an outstanding lecture at the Fall AGU Meeting on Geomorphology: The Shock of the Familiar. You can view a webcast, and you should, at http://www.agu.org/webcast/fm08/

• 2008 Horton Research Grant Recipients: We announced two new recipients at the Fall Meeting.
  • Cédric David, University of Texas, Austin. A Prototype Study of Continental Water Dynamics Using the Guadalupe River Basin.
  • Beth Weinmann, Vanderbilt University. The co-evolution of arsenic and aquifers: Linking shallow groundwater arsenic heterogeneity with sediment ages in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Nepal.

• New Fellows were announced in the winter. To be elected a Fellow of AGU is "a special tribute for those who have made exceptional scientific contributions. To qualify, the nominee must have attained acknowledged eminence in the Earth and space sciences. This honor may be bestowed on only 0.1% of the membership in any given year." The Hydrology Section had eleven new Fellows (including joint with other sections and focus groups) elected last winter. This is the most Fellows associated with the Hydrology Section ever awarded in any one year. Many will present at the Joint Assembly in Toronto on Tuesday AM May 26 (Sessions H21A and H22A, "The FellowsSpeak", jointly with Biosciences) and they will be recognized as well at the Hydrology reception on Monday evening, and at the Honors banquet Tuesday PM. The new fellows are:
  
  • Joe Berry*
  • Julio Betancourt
  • Tony Busalocchi*
  • Hoshin Vijai Gupta*
  • Wolfgang K.H. Kinzelbach*
  • Jeffrey J. McDonnell*
  • Chris Milly*
  • Ellen Mosley-Thompson
  • Patrick Mulholland
  • Matt Sturm*
  • Albert J. Valocchi*
  *Participating in the Tuesday special session in Toronto

• The Robert E. Horton Medal was awarded to Vijay Gupta at the Fall 2008 Meeting for "... redefining frontiers of scientific hydrology under multi-scale hydrologic processes and multi-scale hydrologic phenomena ". See here for more.
  Vijay K. Gupta
  Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
  Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
  University of Colorado at Boulder
  Boulder, CO 80309-0216

• Please send other items to Paula L. S. Rees ( rees@ecs.umass.edu)

CUAHSI News

• The USGS Hydrologic Measrement Facility (HMF) - CUAHSI cooperative rental agreement is in place (see http://www.cuahsi.org/hmf.html.
• Check out the cyberseminars (Cyberseminar Schedule)."
• Check out CUAHSI Vision Papers (Vision papers)..
• Check out CUAHSI Synthesis Papers (Synthesis papers)..

Honors and Awards (Archive & Information)

• Horton Research Grant for Ph.D. Students - Background & Application
• PDF version

• Union Medal and Award Recipients
• Hydrology Affiliated Recipients of Union Honors
• Bowie Medal
• Robert E. Horton Medal
• Macelwane Medal
• Excellence in Geophysical Education Award
• Recipients of Hydrology Section Awards
• Hydrologic Sciences Award
• Langbein Lecture
• Horton Research Grant
• AGU Fellows from Hydrology Section

Committees

• AGU main list - All section officers

• Section Executive Committee
• Standing, Technical & Advisory Committees

Bylaws

• Hydrology Section Bylaws

Hydrology-related www sites: Links

• Check out the AGU Cryosphere Focus Group website.

• AGU has a book series called Water Science and Application. Keep your eye on the book catalogue at the AGU Bookstore.

• The USGS has near-real time streamflow conditions in map form

• History of Hydrology taped interviews are available.

• AGU has a member lookup service.

• Back issues of WRR are available in electronic form to online subsribers from WRR Online. Current abstracts and submittal information are also available.

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