AWS offers a diverse range of engaging and informative webinars designed to broaden your knowledge in the water sector. Our team of experts, industry leaders, and passionate educators from around the globe deliver captivating webinars covering a wide array of topics within the water and related sectors.
Past Webinars
Froude, Dude!
From first principles to present applications
Urban pipe network modelling
Hydraulic calculations that are important for pipe network modelling
Just for fun: recreational hydraulics
Applying hydraulic concepts to artificial whitewater parks, wave pools, waterslides and more!
Technological advances in the water sector
How technology is improving our ability to model and map the movement of water.
Lake modelling
Learn of the complexities of modelling stationary water
Fired up! Bushfire hydrology
Impacts on catchment hydrology and aquatic fauna
Energy losses at structures
Understanding energy losses associated with the contraction and expansion of water flow
Riprap sizing in HEC-RAS version 6.1
Advancing Australian riprap sizing methods with the Riprap Calculator now available in the latest release of HEC-RAS version 6.1.
Pumped hydro: The biggest batteries on earth!
The promises and challenges of using pumped-storage hydroelectricity
Tsunami and dam failure and non-Newtonian modelling
Learn how to model these high shock situations with confidence.
What the PMF?
What is the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) and should we be designing for it?
Natural dams – inherent risk factors
Exploring the impacts of ice dam and landslide dam failures
What’s new in HEC-HMS
Advances in rainfall runoff modelling
Next generation 2D hydraulic modelling
Is this the end of the 1D open channel modelling?
Geomorphology 101
Explore the role of geomorphology in project planning and implementation
Maximising the Accuracy of Hydraulic Models
What factors to consider where there is no calibration data to validate your hydraulic model
Estimating bridge hydraulics and scour
Best practice techniques and engineering practices for estimating bridge hydraulics and scour depths around piers and abutments.
Coastal Modelling 101
Oceans, coasts and estuaries - Taking a salty approach to your next project
Something’s fishy
Considering fish passage in hydraulic designs
Python applications for Hydrology and Hydrogeology
The open-source programming language Python has become an indispensable tool in science and engineering. What are its benefits for hydro(geo)logists?
Hydraulic model calibration to historical events
Develop accurate models with confidence
ARR Essentials
Advance your skills and approaches to assessing flood risk and climate change using Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR).
Developing rating curves from measurements and models
Techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of data over the full range of a system's flow regime
QGIS for groundwater applications
Preprocessing open data for groundwater analysis and modelling
Future of water quality modelling
Learn about new approaches to water quality modelling, with a focus on the use of smart particles that modify ambient water quality and have motilities that respond dynamically to environmental conditions.
Climate change impacts on extreme event hydrology
How should we account for the increasing intensity of extreme precipitation events when developing design hydrographs for drainage infrastructure?
Is rain-on-grid modelling accurate?
Rain-on-grid (or direct rainfall) modelling is quick and easy to setup, but is it accurate and what are the pitfalls?
It’s here! HEC-RAS 6.0, Part two
Step behind the wheel to test drive the most significant release of HEC-RAS in the last 4 years.
It’s here! HEC-RAS 6.0, what you need to know: Part one
Step behind the wheel to test drive the most significant release of HEC-RAS in the last 4 years.
2D and 3D Sediment Transport and Morphological Modelling
New methods for modelling mixed cohesive and non-cohesive sediments in riverine, estuarine and coastal environments.