Members' professional development

BHS is always trying to support its members in their professional development, and the committee has worked in consultation with the membership to take stock of how they can best achieve Chartered status if that is important in their careers.

A successful meeting on the subject in 2006 led to a summary of existing routes to Chartered status, available here (pdf document). Following the positive response to our questionnaire on Chartered status, the BHS Committee has now been told (see Circulation 94) that a new Chartered Hydrologist status will not be possible, and members will have to choose between the existing CEng, CEnv or CSci. The Society will work to support members through the most appropriate route to chartership.

Hydrological issues

BHS encourages members to use the society as a means of engaging with issues of contemporary hydrological interest.

The holding of international, national and regional meetings and the writing of newsletter articles provide well established means of achieving this aim, but two more deserve particular mention:

• Consultations: government departments, agencies and others organise consultation exercises from time to time. Members are encouraged to contact the Honorary Secretary if they are aware of consultations for which they feel a hydrology-focused response from the Society may be relevant and to which they may wish to contribute. Responses inevitably require a considerable input of members’ time, but have been used to provide a clear hydrological voice on relevant issues.
  
  Recent consultations and the BHS submissions
  
  
• Electronic discussion forum (BHS Mailbase) – this exists to facilitate rapid exchange of information among BHS members and other hydrologists. The list is used for a variety of purposes: The mailbase offers you the chance to post your hydrological questions, news or opportunities to other list members, to announce details of meetings and to engage in discussion on issues of immediate hydrological interest. Messages can be sent to the list only by list members, who are asked to keep any attachments to within 200kb, out of consideration for members using dial-up modem internet access, and not to use the Mailbase for advertising or non-hydrological messages.
  
  To join the BHS Mailbase, send an email to
  LISTSERV@jiscmail.ac.uk - leave the subject blank and in the message write
  
  subscribe BHS-HYDROLOGY FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
  
  replacing "FIRSTNAME" and "LASTNAME" with your own names.
  
  If you have any difficulty, please contact the list manager, Joe Pearce.
  
  An archive of past correspondence on the list can be found at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bhs-hydrology.html.

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