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Affiliations
The British Hydrological Society was originally co-sponsored
by the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institute of
Hydrology (now part of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology).
The Institution, with its headquarters in central London,
provides secretarial and administrative functions, including
membership and accounting services, and is the venue for many
of our national meetings; the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
supports publications, including the editing of the newsletter
Circulation.
BHS is an Associated Society of the ICE, and has a representative
on the Institution’s Water Board. The BHS President
is a member of the UK Government Inter-Departmental Committee
on Hydrology.
International links
Following an agreement made in 1990 with the Royal Society,
BHS acts as a link between the British hydrological community
and the International
Association of Hydrological Sciences. An Associate Committee
of the BHS, the UK
Committee for IAHS has the following main functions:
- To provide channels of communication and contact between
UK hydrologists and IAHS
- To encourage and co-ordinate involvement of UK hydrologists
in the activities of IAHS
- To assist in major IAHS events in the UK
- To provide advice on IAHS matters
- To make nominations for IAHS awards and prizes
- To make nominations for IAHS officers
- To ensure that the UK discharges its voting rights in
IAHS elections
BHS is an affiliated organisation of the European
Geosciences Union (EGU). Further informal links with EGU
exist through members and committee members of the Society
acting as session conveners and in other capacities in EGU.
Similarly further informal links are maintained with other
international societies with interests relating to hydrology.
BHS circulates details of meetings with hydrological interest
through its newsletter, and encourages members to attend them,
through the availability of travel grants.
National links
The Society maintains and continues to nurture relations
with learned societies in associated disciplines, particularly
the Institution of Civil Engineers (though its Water Board),
the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management,
the Royal Meteorological Society, the Hydrogeological Group
of the Geological Society, the British Dam Society, the British
Ecological Society and the British Geomorphological Research
Group.
In 2004, the Society became a founder member of EEON (the
Earth, Environment and Ocean Network) which is a new loose
association of UK societies concerned with the earth and environmental
sciences. The purpose of EEON is to facilitate communication
(a) between the individual societies, (b) between the societies
and the government and the research councils, (c) between
the societies and the media, and (d) between the societies
and international science organisations. EEON takes the form
of a steering group of correspondents representing each society,
working with an executive officer and it is based around a
website linking those of all of the societies involved. The
founder members were: The Geological Society, British Geomorphological
Research Group, British Geophysical Association, British Hydrological
Society, Challenger Society, Micropalaeontological Society,
Mineralogical Society and Royal Astronomical Society.
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