The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences
The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences
Innovative Trends to Reshape the Water Science, Technology and Engineering
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer TimeWater Science, Water Technology, Water Engineering
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Welcome from the Chair
2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water–Energy Nexus;
3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports;
4. Urban Water, Systems Efficiency, and Smart Water Grids and Technology;
5. Numerical and Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences;
6. Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation.
Program Overview
ECWS - 8 Program (DAY1)
ECWS-8
S1. Rivers, Dams and Reservoirs
Date: 14 October 2024 (Monday)
Time: 9:30 (CEST, Basel) | 03:30 (EDT, New York) | 15:30(CST Asia, Beijing)
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Time in CEST |
Speaker |
Title |
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09:30-09:40 |
Prof. Helena M. Ramos |
Welcome Speech from the Event Chair |
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09:40-09:50 |
Dr. Lampros Vasiliades and Dr. Luis Garrote |
Welcome from the Session Chairs |
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09:50-10:05 |
ATHANASIOS KARANTAKIS |
Identification, Delineation and Mapping of Riparian areas. |
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10:05-10:20 |
Gepraxia Tsiatsiari |
Ecosystem Services of Riparian areas of Pinios River basin. |
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10:20-10:35 |
Eleftheria Tzimika |
Impact of the dam breach mechanisms and characteristics on dam break flood wave and flooded area. Application in Tsiknias dam. |
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10:35-10:50 |
THEODORA KALARYTI |
Effect of submerged vegetation on spatial structure of open-channel flow |
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10:50-11:05 |
Daniel Carril Rojas |
Improving hydrological dam safety analyses by using 2D hydrodynamic simulation to estimate the magnitude of historical floods with uncertainty |
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11:05-11:20 |
Sara Araújo |
Unveiling the Mystery of Biofilm Formation: Insights from Klebsiella isolated from Hospital Wastewater vs. Surface Water |
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11:20-11:35 |
Zuhal Zengin |
Bacterial Community Composition in a Deep Lake During Spring Turnover with Toxic Cyanobacteria Bloom |
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11:35-14:30 |
Break |
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ECWS-8
S5. Numerical Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences
Date: 14 October 2024 (Monday)
Time: 14:30 (CEST, Basel) | 08:30 (EDT, New York) | 20:30 (CST Asia, Beijing)
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Time in CEST |
Speaker |
Title |
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14:30-14:40 |
Prof. Dr. Junye Wang |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
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14:40-15:10 |
Prof. Dr. Aitazaz A. Farooque |
Application of Advanced Modelling Techniques for Sustainable Water Management.
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15:10-15:25 |
Sergio Ricardo López-Chacón |
Interpretation of variables in a machine learning model for short-term streamflow prediction. |
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15:25-15:40 |
Suhaila Kamal |
Assessing stream flows and dynamics of the Athabasca River basin using machine learning. |
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15:40-15:55 |
Mohamed Naim |
Meteorological Drought Management in the Mediterranean: Integrating Satellite and Reanalysis Data for Enhanced Early Warning Systems in the Tensift River Basin. |
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15:55-16:10 |
Melvin Alfonso Garcia-Espinal |
Synthetic Year Generation for Irrigation Systems: Optimizing Networks using a Distribution-based Methodology in MATLAB. |
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16:10-16:25 |
Alberto Enrique Molina Lozano |
Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Degradation of Dyes in Water Using Pulsed Electrodeposited CeO2-TiO2 Nanorod Photoanodes. |
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16:25-16:40 |
Veera Gnaneswar Gude |
PREDICTING PER- AND POLYFLUORO-ALKYL SUBSTANCE UPTAKE BY AGRICULTURAL CROPS USING MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS. |
ECWS - 8 Program (DAY2)
ECWS-8
S6. Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation
Date: 15 October 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
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Time in CEST |
Speaker |
Title |
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09:00-09:10 |
Prof. Dr. Athanasios Loukas
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Welcome from the Session Chair |
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09:10-09:25 |
Prof. Rodrigo Maia |
Integrated System for Flood Forecast and Warning in a transboundary river. Perspectives from an Iberian Peninsula Case |
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09:25-09:40 |
Stylianos Voudouris |
Assessing the vulnerability of water resources to drought by applying the Standardized Drought Vulnerability Index (SDVI) to the Lake Karla basin. |
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09:40-09:55 |
Mike Spiliotis |
A Fuzzified Multicriteria Approach for Water Resource Management Based on the French School of Multicriteria. |
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09:55-10:10 |
Aikaterini Lyra |
Propagation of Climate Model Variability to Coastal Groundwater Simulations under Climate Change |
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10:10-10:25 |
Isa Ebtehaj |
Advanced Flood Classification Using Rapid Machine Learning Techniques: Insights from Saint-Charles Station, Quebec. |
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10:25-10:40 |
Marios Mpillios |
Regional frequency estimates of annual rainfall maxima and sampling uncertainty quantification. |
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10:40-10:55 |
Gülşah Kılıç |
Flood Risk Map For Büyükçekmece District Based On Socioeconomic Factors. |
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10:55-11:10 |
ALEXANDRA MEGAHED |
THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGES ON THE HYDROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE ZARQA MAIN HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN (DEAD SEA) |
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11:10-14:30 |
Break |
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ECWS-8
S2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water-Energy Nexus
S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports
Time: 14:30 (CEST, Basel) | 08:30 (EDT, New York) | 20:30 (CST Asia, Beijing)
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Time in CEST |
Speaker |
Title |
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14:30-14:40 |
Dr. Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
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14:40-14:55 |
Dr. Oscar E. Conrnando Herandez |
Novel Tools for Analysing Filling and Emptying Operations in Water Distribution Networks. |
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14:55-15:10 |
Cristian Alexander German |
Computational Enhancement of Water Distribution Network Analysis and Optimization Models through Topological Simplification. |
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15:10-15:25 |
Duban A. Paternina-Verona |
Computational Fluid Dynamics for Simulation of Large-Scale Pipeline Filling Processes. |
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15:25-15:40 |
João Soares Tavares Coelho |
Multi-criteria optimization modeling of hybrid energy solutions for the water–energy nexus. |
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START |
S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports |
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15:40-15:50 |
Dr. Borja G. Reguero and Dr.Cristina Sousa |
Welcome from the Session Chairs. |
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15:50-16:15 |
Dr. Luis R. Vieira |
Emerging Pollution in Estuaries, Coasts and Ports: Innovative Solutions and Stakeholder Action to Tackle Marine Litter |
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16:15-16:30 |
Asimakis Nestoras Karagiannis |
Assessing Coastal Vulnerability to Oil Spills Using GNOME and GIS Analysis. |
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16:30-16:45 |
ALEXANDRA G. ASPIOTI |
The effect of wind on tidal circulation in the Gulfs of Patras and Corinth. |
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16:45-17:00 |
Vânia Amorim |
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) on marina surface waters from the Douro River, Portugal |
ECWS - 8 Program (DAY3)
ECWS -8
S4. Urban Water, Treatment Technologies, Systems Efficiency and Smart Water Grids
Date: 16 October 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
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Time in CEST |
Speaker |
Title |
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09:00-09:10 |
Dr. Marco Ferrante and -Prof. Carmen Teodosiu Session Chairs |
Welcome from the Session Chairs. |
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09:10-09:25 |
Tiago Correia |
Towards Net-Zero Carbon in the Water Sector: The case of Maderia Island's water supply system. |
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09:25-09:40 |
Cristina M. Monteiro |
IMPACT OF URBAN GREEN ROOFS ON DOWNSTREAM SYSTEM DESIGN. |
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09:40-09:55 |
Alessio Chisari |
Optimizing Energy Use in Water Supply Networks: Minimizing Pump Consumption and Ensuring Water Quality. |
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09:55-10:10 |
Camila Garcia |
EVALUATION OF SDGs USING INDICATORS IN URBAN WATER SYSTEMS. |
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10:10-10:25 |
Iolanda-Veronica Ganea |
Eco-Innovative Magnetic Nanostructures: Pioneering Solutions for Mining Wastewater Challenges. |
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10:25-10:40 |
Rana Waqar Aslam |
A Novel Approach to Urban Groundwater Quality Assessment: Combining Geospatial Analysis, Geostatistics, and Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Water Quality Indices. |
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10:40-10:55 |
Roberto Gueli |
Energy Optimization for Water Distribution Networks. |
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10:55-11:10 |
PELİN SOYERTAŞ YAPICIOĞLU |
Techno-economic performance assessment of malt-dust-derived biochar application for municipal wastewater treatment: A water reuse strategy. |
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11:10-11:25 |
Iris Correia |
Adsorption studies of ibuprofen by alginate spheres containing activated carbon and first trials using wastewater treatment plant effluent as matrix. |
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11:25-14:30 |
Break |
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14:30-14:40 |
Dr. Marco Ferrante and -Prof. Carmen Teodosiu |
Welcome from the Session Chairs. |
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14:40-14:55 |
Fabiano Castrogiovanni |
ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT THROUGH THE COMBINATION OF A SELF-FORMING DYNAMIC MEMBRANE WITH ELECTRO MBR. |
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14:55-15:10 |
Amir Noori |
Pressure Reduction Forecasting in Urban Water Distribution Systems Using EPANET and Machine Learning Models. |
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15:10-15:25 |
Dean Song |
The acid and base catalytic oxidation of permanganate towards antibiotic pollutants. |
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15:25-15:40 |
João Pedro Magalhães |
Local Scale Integrated Approaches for Enhancing Water Reuse: Constructed Wetland Case Study |
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15:40- 15:55 |
Alex Javier Garzón-Orduña |
Optimization of Drinking Water Network Management: Traditional and Innovative Approaches for Leak Detection and Management. |
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15:55-16:10 |
Santhana Krishna Kumar Alagarsamy |
Magnetic nanoparticles decorated with synthetic zeolite derived from coal fly ash: Application to removal of heavy metals and organic dyes. |
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16:10-16:25 |
Dan Dai |
Water quality and Ecosystem Services degradation in intensively urbanized arid regions versus Wastewater Treatment infrastructure development plans. |
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16:25-16:40 |
Lin Guo |
The effect of citric acid on enhancing metal (Cu2+, Ni2+and Pb2+ ) uptake in duckweed. |
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16:40 - 16:55 |
Ana Rita Pereira |
Impact of Methylparaben on Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Colony Biofilm Architecture and Tolerance to Chlorination and Antibiotics. |
Live Session Recordings
Day 1| S1. Rivers, Dams and Reservoirs
S5. Numerical Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences
Day 2 |S6. Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation
S2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water-Energy Nexus
S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports
S4. Urban Water, Treatment Technologies, Systems Efficiency and Smart Water Grids
Book of Abstracts
The online version of the ECWS-8 book of abstracts including program and all abstracts is available to browse and download!
Poster Gallery
Event Chair
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Session Chairs
Dr. Lampros Vasiliades
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece
Dr. Luis Garrote
Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics, Energy and Environment Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Marco Ferrante
DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA CIVILE ED AMBIENTALE, Università di Perugia, Italy
Prof. Dr. Carmen Teodosiu
Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Prof. Dr. Junye Wang
Athabasca River Basin Research Institute, Athabasca University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Athanasios Loukas
Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel
Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Dr. Borja G. Reguero
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, USA
Dr. Cristina Sousa Coutinho Calheiros
1. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR/CIMAR) University of Porto, Portugal 2. Institute of Science and Environment, University of St. Joseph, China
Event Committee Members
CREA Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Italy
School of Water Resources & Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, China
Department of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Fernando Pessoa Research, Innovation and Development Institute (FP-I3ID), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Portugal
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
Antalya Bilim University, Turkey
Department of Civil Engineering, University North, Croatia
Department of Finance, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Italy
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering , Spain
Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Morocco
School of Environment Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, China
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Department of Marine Sciences, School of the Environment, University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria | ESTM · School of Tourism and Maritime Technology
Keynote Speakers
Department of Engineering School of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
afarooque@upei.ca
CIIMAR - Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Invited Speakers
Universidad de Cartagena., Cartagena, Colombia
Sessions
S2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water-Energy Nexus
S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports
S4. Urban Water, Treatment Technologies, Systems Efficiency and Smart Water Grids
S5. Numerical and Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences
S6. Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation
Registration
The registration for ECWS-8 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 11 October 2024.
Instructions for Authors
ECWS-8 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadline
1. Deadline for abstract submission:17 June 2024 31 July 2024
2. Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 30 June 2024 10th September 2024. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
- You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.
We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
1. WaterJournal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Water (ISSN 2073-4441, Impact Factor 3.0), with a 10% discount on the publication fee. Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ISSN: 2673-4931) in the Environmental Sciences Proceedings; if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IECBM2024 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Proceedings submission deadline: 1 December 2024
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title.
Full author names.
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
Abstract.
Keywords.
Introduction.
Methods.
Results and Discussion.
Conclusions.
Acknowledgements.
References.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Terms and Conditions:
Best Oral Presentation Awards
Authors: João Soares Tavares Coelho, Helena Ramos
ID: sciforum-102599
Title:Multi-criteria optimization modeling of hybrid energy solutions for the water–energy nexus
Link: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/18910
Authors: Daniel Carril Rojas, Ramtin Sabeti, Thomas R. Kjeldsen, Luis Mediero
ID: sciforum-097632
Title:Improving hydrological dam safety analyses by using 2D hydrodynamic simulation to estimate the magnitude of historical floods with uncertainty
Link: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/18657
Authors: Iram Naz, Rana Waqar Aslam, Abdul Quddoos, Aqil Tariq, Asif Sajjad
ID: sciforum-103240
Title: A Novel Approach to Urban Groundwater Quality Assessment: Combining Geospatial Analysis, Geostatistics, and Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Water Quality Indices
Link: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/19101
Best Poster Awards
Authors: Kylle Gabriel Cruz Mendoza, Marc Deo Jeremiah V. Rupin, Rugi Vicente C. Rubi
ID: sciforum-097547
Title:Mitigating the Global Potable Water Crisis: A Systematic Review of Emerging Urban Stormwater Conversion Technologies
Link: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/19170
Authors: José Ernesto Quintos Fuentes, Alban Kuriqi, Helena M. Ramos
ID: sciforum-097169
Title:Hydrogen and pumped energy storage impact in hybrid systems for small communities: Marruge case study
Link: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/18917
Authors: Moses Kayanda Kiteto, Cleophas Achisa Mecha
ID: sciforum-096961
Title:Hydrogen and pumped energy storage impact in hybrid systems for small communities: Marruge case study
Link: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/18918
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