Recognition

IAHR-APD Awards

The Division presents three awards at each regional congress: for distinguished individual contribution, for hydraulic heritage in the region, and for the best papers of the congress.

Presented at the 25th Congress · Incheon, Republic of Korea

2026 recipients

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Distinguished Membership Award

Yasuyuki Shimizu
Hokkaido University, Japan

Adrian Law Wing Keung
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Water Conservancy and Environmental Heritage Award

Soyanggang Dam
Republic of Korea — received on behalf of K-water by Mr Yu In-Seon

Best Paper Award

Paper title to be confirmed

Bomi Kim
Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea
Paper title to be confirmed

Akihiko Nakayama
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Paper title to be confirmed

Sujin Kim
The Seoul Institute, Republic of Korea
Paper title to be confirmed

Yushuang Sun
Yangzhou University, China

Award · established 2009

Distinguished IAHR-APD Membership Award

Presented to an individual whose sustained contribution to hydro-environment engineering and to the Division itself has been of exceptional value to the region.

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2026
Yasuyuki Shimizu · Hokkaido University, Japan
Adrian Law Wing Keung · National University of Singapore
2024
Gregory Shahane De Costa · Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, New Zealand
2022
Hyoseop Woo · Republic of Korea
2020
Bruce Melville · New Zealand
Kyung Soo Jun · Republic of Korea
2018
Jing Peng · China
2016
Hitoshi Tanaka · Japan
2014
Il Won Seo · Republic of Korea
2012
Lianxiang Wang · India
2010
Joseph Lee · China
Ashim Das Gupta · Thailand

Award

IAHR-APD Water Conservancy and Environmental Heritage Award

Presented to a hydraulic structure, system or site in the region of outstanding historical, technical or cultural significance.

2026
Soyanggang Dam · Republic of Korea
2024
Hankou Hydrological Station · Wuhan, China
2022
Grand Anicut / Kallanai · India
2020
Flood control and water utilisation facilities, Ishikari River basin · Japan
Tatsumi Aqueduct · Japan
Sayamaike Reservoir · Japan
2016
Parakrama Samudraya · Sri Lanka

Award

IAHR-APD Best Paper Award

Selected from the papers presented at each regional congress. Award papers are regularly invited for the JHER congress special issue.

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2026
Bomi Kim · Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Akihiko Nakayama · Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Sujin Kim · The Seoul Institute
Yushuang Sun · Yangzhou University
2024
Diagnosing non-stationarity of hydrological model structure using Bayesian model averaging · Liting Zhou, Xiaojing Zhang, Hairong Zhang, Huaming Yao, Pan Liu
Achieving SDG6 for sustainable water supply and wastewater management in Southeastern Europe · Elpida Kolokytha, Yannis Mylopoulos, Dionysis Latinopoulos, Jovan Despotović, Aleksandar Djukić, Branislav Babić
Experimental investigation on the filling process of a long-distance pressurized water conveyance tunnel · Songlin Han, Xiaoxia Hou, Zhixin Wang, Zhibing Jiang, Duan Chen
Exploring the effects of modifying stratification reality and biogeochemical model parameters on hypoxia using DN-4DVar · Takanori Nagano, Masayasu Irie
2022
Numerical modelling of ship waves and induced sediment resuspension in the Hooghly River, India · Mainak Chakraborty
Eliminating fixation of alternate bars by using impermeable groynes · Ryotaro Endo
Combined storm surge and river flow simulation for the Hooghly Estuary, east coast of India · B. Sridharan
Numerical investigations into wave attenuation characteristics of vegetation belt in terms of vortex shedding · N. Hari Ram
Application of IITM-RANS3D to wave-breaking and wave–structure interaction problems · Shaswat Saincher
2020
Variability in stage–discharge relationships in river reach with bed evolutions · Robin K. Biswas, Shinji Egashira, Daisuke Harada
Effects of submerged weir with an opening on bed deformation and flow structure under live-bed conditions · Hirotaka Une, Terunori Ohmoto
Uncertainties of machine learning in predicting the hydrological responses of LID practices · Yang Yang, Ting Fong May Chui
Reynolds number effects of internal solitary waves propagating on a uniform slope · Hai Zhu, Songping Mao, Decai Sun, Lingling Wang, Zhenzhen Yu, Cheng Lin
2018
Effect of climate change variables on the coastal wind prediction · Syamsidik
Effect of the combination of forest and the front-side moat along a river where a tsunami runs up · Yoshiya Igarashi, Norio Tanaka
Dominating factors influencing rapid channel migration during floods — a case study on Otofuke River · Tomoko Kyuka, Yasuyuki Shimizu
2012
Analysis of dispersion characteristic using tracer test in natural stream · Il Won Seo
2010
The structure of flows in suspended aquaculture canopies · David Plew