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IRTCES NEWS: Prof. Hu Chunhong, Secretary-General and Deputy Director of the International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES), visited the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Center on December 10, 2012, together with Prof. Chen Jianguo and Prof. Liu Cheng, IRTCES Division Chief and Deputy Division Chief. Dr. Verne Schneider, Secretary-General of the U.S. IHP National Committee and Chief of the International Water Resources of the USGS, and Mr. John Gray, the USGS Sediment Specialist welcomed the visit. Prof. Hu introduced the IRTCES and its activities, briefed the advances of measuring techniques and researches on river sediment, and proposed future potential collaborations. Dr. Schneider and Mr. Gray reviewed activities under the Annex 4 of the China-US Protocol on Hydrology (Sediment Transport) and prospected future collaboration, introduced USGS sedimentation activities, and discussed future cooperation. Dr. Mark Landers, the Chief of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Program, shared technologies for measurement and analysis of sediment properties in US and China with IRTCES visitors through teleconference. Potential collaborations on sediment measuring techniques, database, sediment laboratory, data comparison, sediment simulation, technical training and reservoir sedimentation were discussed. IRTCES delegates also had a discussion with Dr. Matthew C. Larsen, Chairman of the U.S. IHP National Committee, and others.
A meeting among IRTCES delegates and Dr. William S. Logan, Deputy Director of the International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM), was also held in the USGS National Center. Both sides shared activities and programmes under the frame of IHP as UNESCO Category II centers, and discussed potential collaborations on information exchange, scientific research, technical training. Dr. Stanford Gibson from the Hydrologic Engineering Center of the US Army Corps of Engineer exchanged techniques on river sediment numerical modeling with Chinese visitors through teleconference. The ICIWaRM was created by a 2009 agreement between the US government and UNESCO hosted by the US Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources with mission of ��the advancement of the science and practice of IWRM to address water challenges��.
The IRTCES delegates had a technical tour to a reach of the Potomac River accompanied by colleagues of USGS and ICIWaRM.
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