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Young Persons Chair

Congratulations to Niall Allen who will be taking over the role of YP Chair following the AGM on the 28th of April.  

CPD Event 

The dates of up-and-coming YP CPD events can now be found on the BDS website here. The next event shall be on the 27th March 2025 – Flood Forecasting and warning for reservoirs.

ICOLD

28th ICOLD Congress and 93rd Annual Meeting - Chengdu, China, 15th to 23rd May 2025

The 28th ICOLD Congress and 93rd is fast approaching. This promises to be a very interesting event, particularly bearing in mind some of the impressive dams that have and are currently being constructed in China. For all those attending could they let the BDS know, that way we can reach out and make sure everyone is invited to any BDS gatherings whilst we are there. 

BDS Young Professional Bursaries for this years ICOLD Congress and Meeting

The BDS would like to encourage as many of its members to attend this event as possible. Full details of the event can be found on the event website: The 28th ICOLD Congress and 93rd Annual Meeting

To facilitate the attendance of BDS Young Professionals at this event the BDS is delighted to be able to once again offer five bursaries of £1,000 each (subject to the terms and conditions). A separate email has been sent to all YP members and applications are to be received by 14th March 2025. If you have not received the email and are interested in applying, please contact BDS here.

Bulletin Updates

The bulletins approved in New Delhi (Bulletin 199 to Bulletin 206) have been put in ‘preprint’ version on the website (in the Publication section). 

To download these bulletins, please go to the publication page of the ICOLD website here https://www.icold-cigb.org/GB/publications/bulletins.asp

ICOLD Newsletter

Please follow this link to the latest ICOLD newsletter, this document contains lots of useful information including an introduction to the ICOLD Congress in China. 

31st European Working Group on Internal Erosion and 6th on Overtopping and Erosion

The 31st EWG on IE and the 6th EWG on OOE will be taking place at the University of Brno between 23rd and 28th June 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 15th February 2025. More details can be found on our Events page. More information can be found here.

Dolgarrog centenary commemorations – a call for help

This November marks the centenary of the flooding of Dolgarrog in North Wales caused by the failure of two reservoir dams in 1925. Sixteen people died that night: six children and ten adults. This event was a significant prompt for the introduction of legislation to demand minimum standards needed to protect people from dam failure. This is a call for BDS members to help support a variety of planned commemoration events, more information on how we can offer our support and who to contact can be found under the following link.

Earthworks 2025

The Earthworks Conference 2025 is being held at the University of Birmingham between the 16th and 17th September 2025. More information can be found here