Abstracts due April 30 for ICOLD 2021!

Readers should note that ICOLD 2021 has two separate Call for Abstracts. The first Call for Abstracts is for the Congress and authors submit their abstracts to CDA. The second Call for Abstracts was advertised in the March newsletter and is for the Symposium.

Please see below for the details for each of the Calls for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts – CONGRESS
ICOLD holds a Congress every three years with a focus on four technical questions that address international issues. The attendance is typically 1,000 to 1,500 participants from 60 to 70 countries.

As the Canadian national committee, the Canadian Dam Association (CDA), submits papers to ICOLD for consideration in the program. Selected papers will be published in Transactions of the Congress, along with a General Report summarizing the state of practice. This publication becomes the leading international reference on the topic. Invited authors will make presentations at the Congress.

The next ICOLD Congress will be held in Marseille, France from June 4 to 11, 2021. The questions to be addressed during the Congress were determined during the 2019 Annual Meeting held in Ottawa. Canadians are invited to share our knowledge and fully participate to this international event.

The schedule for submission of papers for the ICOLD 2021 Congress is :

• April 30, 2020 – Abstracts are submitted to CDA;
• May 22, 2020 – Authors are notified of acceptance;
• August 17, 2020 – Draft papers are submitted to CDA for review;
• September 21, 2020 – Final papers are submitted to CDA.

QUESTIONS FOR THE 27th ICOLD WORLD CONGRESS, MARSEILLE, JUNE 2021

104 - CONCRETE DAM DESIGN INNOVATION AND PERFORMANCE
a/ Innovations for arch dam analysis, design and construction; including RCC arch and arch-gravity dams.
b/ Innovations for design, construction materials and placement methods, flood management during construction and performance of concrete dams, including RCC and cemented material dams.
c/ Innovations for raising existing concrete dams.
d/ Innovations for extremely high concrete dams.
e/ Operational performance of concrete dams during the life cycle, including under extreme conditions.

105 - INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS CONCERNING DAMS
a/ Recent lessons from incidents and accidents concerning dams during the life cycle, including during construction.
b/ Evaluation of the flows and flood, estimation and quantification of the consequences, including social, economic and environmental aspects, in case of failure or incidents
c/ Emergency planning: regulation, organisation, information of the population and examples of implementation.
d/ Governance of the safety: definition of the responsibilities, periodic reviews, implementation tests, organisation of lessons learned implementation.

106 - SURVEILLANCE, INSTRUMENTATION, MONITORING AND DATA ACQUISITION
a/ Long term performance of existing surveillance systems including reliability and accuracy; importance of visual inspections.
b/ New technologies in dam and foundation instrumentation and monitoring.
c/ Data acquisition and processing to evaluate the behavior of dams, predict and identify incidents.
d/ Understanding and handling of large quantity of data, including artificial intelligence approach.

107 -DAMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
a/ Impacts of climatic change on existing dams and reservoirs and remedies; case studies and costs.
b/ Impacts of climatic change on needs and designs of dams, reservoirs and levees (water storage, floods mitigation, oceans raising…).
c/ Favourable impacts of dams on climatic change, including greenhouse gases reduction by optimisation of hydroelectric production. Needs, potential and cost of energy pumped storage.
d/ Unfavourable impacts of dams and reservoirs on climatic change: evaluation of greenhouse gases emissions by reservoirs and dam construction.

How to submit an abstract for the CONGRESS
Please follow the instructions below:

• Title in English AND in French: Make the title of the abstract brief, clearly indicating the nature of the proposed subject.
• Names of the authors: Submit the full given name(s) and the family name. Do not include degrees or professional titles.
• Abstracts can be in English or French and should be no longer than 200 words.
• Please send the abstract to Congress2021Abstracts@cda.ca

Questions?
Should you have any questions about submitting an abstract for the 2021 Congress, please contact CDA’s Director-at-Large for ICOLD, Michel Tremblay, at director-at-large.icold@cda.ca

 

Call for Abstracts - SYMPOSIUM
The French Committee of Dams and Reservoirs has selected the theme “Sharing Water: Multipurpose of Reservoirs and Innovations” for the Symposium to be held in Marseille, France from June 4 to 11, 2021.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts on any of the given themes. All accepted papers will be published electronically in the Symposium Proceedings.

Themes include:

Theme 1: Territorial and Water Multi-Purpose Issues
1A. Evaluation of current and future resources and needs
1B. Evaluation of socio-environmental and bio-diversity benefits and impacts, positive and negative externalities
1C. Analysis of resilience and adaptability of projects to respond to climate change and changing uses. Decision making methods for choosing a solution, cost-benefits analysis at a regional scale
1D. Lessons learnt from recent water resource crises (drought, floods…)

Theme 2: Governance and Funding
2A. Institutional aspects, stakeholder commitments and inter-relationships
2B. Financial aspects, project funding
2C. Participatory approaches, stakeholder involvement
2D. Special cases of cross-border assets

Theme 3: Innovative solutions in reservoir uses
3A. Multi-usage hydraulic projects: energy storage, hydropower, hybrid solutions with other renewable intermittent energies, irrigation, navigable waterways, water supply, floods mitigation, protection against marine submersions...
3B. Combining structural and non-structural solutions
3C. Integrating a project into a territory with multiple reservoirs
3D. Complementarities and synergies with intermittent renewable energy, related issues

Theme 4: Operating multi-usage facilities
4A. Hydrology for resource management at short and medium term
4B. Tools for operation related decision-making including risk management
4C. Short, medium and long-term operation simulation and modelling
4D. Water sharing criteria, trade-off between uses, operation compatibility of additional uses
4E. Performance evaluation of asset management methods

Authors are asked to consider the following:

• Innovative aspects (methods, tools, governance, etc.),
• the assessment of the performance of the adopted solutions,
• the problems encountered and how they were solved,
• Abstracts and full articles can be written in English or in French,
• Submitted abstracts must be original. Abstracts previously published or presented at an international scientific meeting cannot be submitted.

How to submit

• The abstract submission can be done through the submission & registration platform. Please note that this submission requires that the main author creates an account on the submission & registration platform.
• The length of the abstracts should not be more than 200 words, plain text.
• Title in English AND in French: Make the title of the abstract brief, clearly indicating the nature of the proposed subject.
• Names of the authors: Submit the full given name(s) and the family name. Do not include degrees or professional titles.

Deadline
Abstracts are due April 30, 2020.

Contact
If you have any questions regarding abstract submission, please contact
abstracts-papers@cigb-icold2021.fr

Additional information can be found on the website http://cigb-icold2021.fr/en/symposium/call