List of Special Sessions

• Session 1: 5th Global Water Security Seminar: Water and Biodiversity
  Organised by Ministry of Water Resources of China and World Water Council
  Convenor: Chang Yuan
• Session 2: Adaptive Management of Riparian Vegetation in the Era of Climate Change (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Takashi Asaeda, Rohan Benjankar and Dongdong Shao
• Session 3: Advanced Measuring Techniques for Ocean Waves and Currents
  Convenor: Prof. Dong-Jiing Doong
• Session 4: Advanced Technologies Applied for Flash Flood Defence and Management (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Qiang Ma, Dedi Liu and Philippe Gourbesville
• Session 5: Advances on the Study of Vegetation in a Variety of Settings
  Convenors: Florian Cordier, Heidi Nepf, Damien Violeau, Vladimir Nikora and Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak
• Session 6: Concept of Adaptation – Coastal Measure and Climate Change
  Convenor: Yang Zi Qian
• Session 7: Current Research in Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Conducted in CFI Singapore
  Convenors: Koh Chan Ghee, Raymond Ong, Qian Xudong and Adrian Law
• Session 8: Dam Safety: Addressing Modern Challenges and Future Risk (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Ashutosh Sharma and Eduardo Mario Mendiondo
• Session 9: Debris and Driftwood Accumulation at Hydraulic Structures (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Davide Wüthrich, Isabella Schalko, Sébastien Erpicum and Elena-Maria Klopries
• Session 10: Earth Observation to Monitor Land and Water Ecosystems (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Michael Nones and Melissa Latella
• Session 11: Education and Professional Development: The Needs of Water Professionals in a Changing Environment and Society
  Convenors: Ioana Popescu, Reinhard Hinkelmann, Philippe Gourbesville
• Session 12: Emerging Issues for Water Management in Remote Regions with Interplay of Climate Change Social, Economic, and Environmental Factors (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Satoru Oishi, Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu, Elpida Kolokytha, Carlos de Oliveira Galvão
• Session 13: Enhancing Water and Social Resilience in Urban Areas: A call for City Water Leaders
  Co-organised with IAHR, UNESCO IHP, CRSRI, AUTH UNESCO cat.II CIMWRM
  Convenor: Elpida Kolokytha
• Session 14: Environmental Restoration and Protection in Seas and Coasts: Recent Cases from Spain
  Convenor: José Francisco Sánchez González
• Session 15: Flood Adaptation and Resilience (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Reza Ahmadian, Vasilis Bellos and Pierfranco Costabile
• Session 16: Flood Hazard Projections and Adaptation Strategies in Low Lying Coastal Areas (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Andrea Sulis and Ioan Nistor
• Session 17: Guidelines for Adaptation to Climate Change in Water Engineering
  Convenor: Roberto Ranzi
• Session 18: Impact of Climatic Extremes on River Systems (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Senlin Zhu and Yuankun Wang
• Session 19: Innovative Approaches to Urban Resilience: Addressing Flood Risks and Climate Adaptation (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Gensheng Zhao and Ana Margarida Bento
• Session 20: Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development in Latin America (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenor: Luiz H. Maldonado
  The session is being held jointly by the Latin American Division of Hydraulics of IAHR, the Brazilian Water Resources Association (ABRHidro), and Itaipu Binacional.
• Session 21: Integrated Flood Risk Management (IFRM): from Science to Practice (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Daniela Molinari and Stefan Haun
• Session 22: International Symposium on COastal Resources and Environment (CORE2025)
  Organised by: Hohai University, University of Auckland, Beijing Normal University and National University of Singapore
• Session 23: Nature-Based Solutions Connecting Science and Practise Workshop
  Convenors: Ellis Penning, Catherine Wilson, Gary Lei
• Session 24: Nature-Based Solutions for Water Security: Recent Progress in Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenor: Perrine Hamel
• Session 25: New Hydroinformatics Strategy And Application Of Catchment Digital Twin (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Qiang Ma, XiaoXiang Zhang and Philippe Gourbesville
• Session 26: Outfall Systems and Effluent Discharges (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenor: Majid Mohammadian
• Session 27: River Ethics and Water Engineering (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Philippe Gourbesville and Xin He
• Session 28: Safety Assessment for Instream Installations using Multi-Sensor-Based Remote Technology
  Convenors: Sung-Uk Choi and Chang Geun Song
• Session 29: Sediment Management for Reservoir Sustainability (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak and Eddy Langendoen
• Session 30: Socio-economic Challenges in Asia: Future Roles of Urban Water Network Modelling and Optimization (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Donghwi Jung and Alvin Chew
• Session 31: Surrogate Techniques for Monitoring Sediment Transport in Fluvial and Transitional Systems (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Slaven Conevski and Massimo Guerrero
• Session 32: Transport Dynamics of Plastic Pollution in Aquatic Environments (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Matthias Kramer and James Lofty
• Session 33: Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenors: Priyank J. Sharma, Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu and Achala Singh
• Session 34: Uniting for Water: Global Collaboration to Tackle Water Challenges (Abstracts submitted and received)
  Convenor: Intan Supraba
• Session 35: Water System Operation and Digital Twin
  Convenors: Xiaohui Lei, Chao Wang, Siyu Cai