During the second day Yiwei Guo presented the advancements of her PhD project, with a presentation entitled “Effects of extreme flood events on river morphology and riparian vegetation”, receiving good feedback from the audience and interest for her future results.

On Wednesday 16 Michael Nones chaired and took part in the event for Young Professional entitled “Mentoring Course on Journal Paper Writing”, where IAHR past and current Editors (including Michael) discussed the articles written by six young researchers and provide feedback and tips to facilitate their future publications. Additional details on this event are available at www.iahr.org/index/detail/1459, while the recordings will be available on the IAHR website.

In the last day, Michael Nones was involved in co-charing the Special Session “Sustainable sediment management in reservoirs” together with Zhongwu Jin from the Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute (CRSRI). During this session five presenters shared example of monitoring, modelling and managing sediments in reservoirs, providing example from China and Japan.

Besides the conference, during the trip there was also opportunities for exchanging ideas and discussing future collaborations with three different research groups: the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of the Tongji University in Shanghai, and two CRSRI section: the Department of Soil and Water Conservation and the River Research Department. In addition to discussion with these groups, Michael Nones was also invited to visit the Yangtze River Flood Protection Physical Model, the world’s largest river engineering physical model, where the middle and lower Changjiang River reaches, measuring more than 1200 km, are scaled on a 1:400 horizontal scale and 1:100 vertical scale.