IRTCES News:  The 10^th International Symposium on River Sedimentation (10^th ISRS) was successfully held in the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia on August 1 to 4, 2007. 237 participants from 30 countries and regions attended the important series technical event.

The 10th ISRS was organized by the Moscow State University, sponsored or cosponsored by 18 institutes or organizations including the UNESCO, Federal Agency of Water Resources of Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources, Federal Agency of Science and Innovations, World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER) and International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES). The central theme of the Symposium is: Effects of River Sediment and Channel Processes on Social, Economical, and Environmental Safety. The problems of soil erosion and fluvial processes, sediment yield forming and sediment transport are the part of general problem of water and earth resources rational usage and protection. The Symposium is to consider sediment transport and accumulation, riverbed processes and river sedimentation, river mouth and estuarine problems, environmental sedimentation, soil and water, and sediment information, pollutant transfer and piling up in rivers and reservoirs, small rivers degradation and disappearance, river engineering, river structures reliability and stability.

The papers were presented and discussed in plenary sessions and 7 parallel sessions, which including: (1) Processes within drainage basins as sources of river sediment: study, modeling, and forecasting under natural and anthropogenic conditions; (2) An estimation of natural and anthropogenic factors contribution into changes of river sediment yield; (3) River sediment yield estimation for studying and modeling river channel processes; (4) Sediment yield in river mouths; (5) River sediment in the environment; (6) Management of river sediment formation and transport processes; and (7) Land-Sea Interactions: Coastal Environmental Changes.

A technical tour cruising down the Moskva River from Novospassky Bridge to Serebryany Bor was organized. During the tour, the hydraulic structures, embankments and bridges, observed the waterways management and visited one of the Moskva-Volga channel locks were visited.

During the closing ceremony held in the afternoon of August 4, Prof. R.S Chalov, the representative of the LOC handed over the Symposium banner to Prof. Chunhong HU, the representative of the permanent Secretariat. Then Prof. HU handed over the symposium banner to Prof. G.R. Basson, the representative of the 11th ISRS. Prof. Basson welcomed all participants meeting again in South Africa in the September, 2010！

The symposium proceedings with 6 volumes was published by the Moscow State University. A total of 374 scientific papers from 38 countries and regions were included into the proceedings.