Events & Courses

The science of rain, rivers and reservoirs spans from ‘clear gold’ water, to ‘black gold’ oil.  Following in the footsteps of the successful first Rain, Rivers and Reservoirs workshop in Sao Paulo, Brazil in September 2015, this workshop brought together geoscientists and civil engineers with different backgrounds to generate new interdisciplinary approaches to key problems in our adjacent subject areas. 

• Modern and Ancient Rivers
• Floods and Flood Controls
• Modern Rivers
• India

Keynote speakers were

• Professor Mike Blum (University of Kansas) - 'Organisation and Reorganisation of Drianage and Sediment Routing Through Time: Examples from the Mississippi System, Geological Past to Near Future'
• Professor Jim Best (University of Illinois) - 'Describing Fluvial Systems: linking process to deposits and some considerations of grain size and scale'
• Paul Mellon (Transport Scotland) & Alistair Chisholm (Arup) - 'The Queensferry Crossing: Bridge Foundations in an Estuarine Environment'

Field Trip

• Post Conference Field Trip: Spirelacks Adandoned Surface Coal Mine, Ayrshire: Carboniferous Geology, Ancient and Modern Water Issues led by Graham Leslie (BGS) and Dom Tatum (HWU)

Read the SCARP (Scottish Carboniferous Research Park) article in the August 2016 issue of Geoscientist.

Programme, abstract book and speaker presentations

Convenors

For further information about this past conference or information about Rain, Rivers and Reservoirs III in India, please email Patrick Corbett