P E O P L E & P L AC E S
IAHR Member Rollin H.
Prof. Hitoshi Tanaka, Chair of IAHR Asia Pacific
IAHR member Shigeru Kawai has informed
Hotchkiss has been elected
Division, has recently been appointed to be the
the Secretariat that he will be retired shortly and
as President of EWRI. This
Vice-Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering
he will move to Otsu, Shiga prefecture. His
will enhance IAHR-EWRI
Tohoku University, Sendai.
e.mail address is shigekawai345@gmail.com
links. Congratulations.
Prof Tanaka and his family have notified us that
See you in Brisbane!
he and his family are fine although his institute in
The University of Oxford has
the university, one of the seven former imperial
appointed Jim Hall to be the
universities of Japan, is severely damaged.
next Director of the
Prof. John Pigram, former President of IWRA has passed away. Prof Pigram was a specialist in water policy and played a key role in water
Environmental Change Nicholas Odd has retired from HR Wallingford.
Institute. Prof. Hall is an
resource management in Australia.
expert in flood risk analysis, Dr. Hyoseop Woo has been
system modelling, uncertainty analysis and
Dr. Nikolas Kraus from Vicksburg was not an
elected as President of
adaptation to climate change and former
IAHR member but was he important in the
KWRA (Korea Water
Secretary of IAHR Probabilistic Methods
community - do you advise informing our
Resources Association) by a
Section. His new contact details are as follows:
community in the People and Places section of
general vote. The tenure
Prof. Jim Hall
Hydrolink?
started from March 1 and is
Environmental Change Institute
for two year. KWRA has about 3,000 members of
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Aldo Tamburrino from University of Chile has
water-related specialists in Korea For more infor-
South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY
passed through us some happy news regarding
mation visit http://eng.kwra.or.kr/.
01865 275846
to Prof. Yarko Ni単o, Vice Chair of the IPD
Email: jim.hall@eci.ox.ac.uk
Division. He has almost recovered communi-
Prof. Dr. Kunihiro Ogihara from the Tekisui
cation skills and he is full of energy and he is
Environmental Hydraulic Institute
slowly coming back to his university duties.
Tokyo Japan has passed away.