International Symposium on Ecohydrology (LATSIS)

The LATSIS Symposium is an interdisciplinary intermediate-size research conference on ecohydrology and sustainable water resources use. The conference will bring together international experts and young researchers in the fields of surface hydrology, soil and plant ecology, environmental complexity, water resource management, in a setting highly suitable for scientific discussion and interaction (which has become typically impossible at large scale conferences). LATSIS invites leading scientists in traditionally separated fields. The conference will also be an invaluable means to establish communication and collaboration between group leaders and promising young researchers (including PhDs and postdocs). There will be ample room for scientific interaction between scientists. This conference will be the stage for intensifying and strengthening links between the different disciplines and to bridge the gap towards the fields of hydrology, ecology, engineering and complex system science.

Topics to be covered

1. Hydrologic drivers of biodiversity


2. Robustness and sustainability in savanna and networked ecosystems


3. Hydrologic cycle and CO2 exchanges


4. Biogeochemical cycles and nutrient dynamics, vegetation structure and hydrologic fluxes


5. Planetary ecohydrology


6. Land-atmosphere interactions and ecohydrology


7. Stream ecology and hydrologic fluctuations


8. River networks as ecological corridors


9. Economic models of endogenous growth


10. Soil moisture dynamics and feedbacks on environmental processes and cycles


11. Hydrological consequences of land cover and CO2 exchanges


12. Environmental sustainability and ecohydrology


13. Atmospheric boundary-layer and exchanges with vegetated surfaces


14. Geophysical fluid dynamics and transport phenomena


15. Sustainable management using ecohydrology


16. Streamflow, vegetation and sediment interactions in streams


17. Societal and ecosystem water needs


18. Ecohydrological feedbacks and the stability and resilience of ecosystems


19. Ecohydrology of wetlands


20. Linkages between hydrologic and biogeochemical processes and large-scale transport phenomena


21. Statistics of extrems and ecohydrology

Important deadlines

May 25th (extendend!), 2010 Abstract Poster submission

June 1st, 2010 Acceptance notification

September 1st, 2010 Poster submission

June 1st, 2010 Registration Open

September 15, 2010 Registration Closed

For more information about the LATSIS symposium, please go to latsis2010.epfl.ch.