Conference Topics

The conference will cover a wide range of topics concerning mountain hydrology, cryosphere and related topics. The meeting will be dedicated to the following topics but not limited to:

• Mountain hydrology, hydrological modeling, glacio-hydrological modeling

• Groundwater hydrology, isotope hydrology, aquatic ecology, water quality and wastewater

• Transboundary issues of water resources, water resources management

• Hydro-meteorology in agriculture

• Cryosphere, climate change, cryospheric changes and their impacts on water resources, tourism and society  

• Glacier mass balance, glacier surface and energy balance modeling

• Debris-covered glacier and rock glacier, sedimentation

• Permafrost hydrology and mapping

• Water-induced disasters, snow and ice avalanches, glacial lake and glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), landslide and landslide damming outburst flood (LDOF)

SPECIAL SESSIONS:

1. Third Pole Climate Initiative- Session Chairs: Prof. Dr. Woo Kyun Lee, and Dr. Sonam Wangyel Wang, Korea University, Korea

2. From observation to action: Role of data services in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and resilience building in mountain environments - Session Chairs: Dr. Stephan Dietrich, Dr. Luna Bharati, ICWRGC, Germany and Dr. Stefan Schneiderbauer, UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, Italy 

3. Snow Hydrology in a Changing Climate - Session Chairs: Dr. Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, Dr. Esteban Alonso-González, Dr. César Deschamps-Berger, Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Spain; Dr. Chris DeBeer, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

4. Updated Observations of Glacier Changes in HMA and their Hydrological Implications - Session Chairs: Prof. Xiaojun Yao, Northwest Normal University, China, and Prof. Shiyin Liu, Yunnan University, China 

5. Glacier and Glacial Lake Destabilizations and their Related Hazards in HMA- Session Chairs: Prof. Qiao Liu, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS, China, and Prof. Xin Wang, Hunan University of Science & Technology, China

6. Cryosphere and Society (ICIMOD) - Session Chair: Dr. Arun Bhakta Shrestha, ICIMOD

7. GLOFs in the HMA: Understanding the Risks, Challenges, and Mitigation Strategies (ICIMOD) – Session Chair: Dr. Huili Chen, Loughborough University, UK

8. Hydro-meteorology and its observations over mountains for modeling and agriculture – Session Chair: Dr. Dhiraj Pradhananga, The Small Earth Nepal (SEN)/Tribhuvan University; UNESCO Chair in Mountain Water Sustainability, Dr. Deepak Aryal, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology/Tribhuvan University, Mr. Dinkar Kayastha, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) and Dr. Someshwar Das, South Asian Meteorological Association (SAMA)