The Young Hydrologic Society (YHS) is a bottom-up initiative to stimulate the interaction and active participation of young hydrologists within the hydrological community.

Founded in October 2012, the YHS is currently run by a team of enthusiastic MScs, PhD students and post-docs from several universities across the world. The YHS board members manage the day-to-day YHS activities: organising conference sessions, creating blog posts and running the YHS social media.

YHS is organised as a group of committees supported by the President and Vice-president. Each board member usually serves a two-year term.

The following committees now have open positions:

• Blog: The members of the committee write blog posts, invite contributions to the blog and serve as editors and reviewers. Multiple vacancies.
• National Branches: The members of the committee support new and established national YHS branches and national representatives where necessary. Multiple vacancies.
• Outreach: The members of the committee manage the YHS platforms on Bluesky, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn. That includes sharing YHS news, early career events and job opportunities. Multiple vacancies.
• Conferences: The members of the committee coordinate YHS-led networking events, short courses and sessions at national and international conferences. For that, it can rely on the support of the entire board and the EGU – IAHS Early Career Representatives. Multiple vacancies.

We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic people! We welcome applications from all Early Career Hydrologists. To define an “Early Career Hydrologist” we adopted the definition suggested by EGU: “An Early Career Scientist (ECS) is a student, a PhD candidate, or a practising scientist who received their highest certificate (e.g. BSc, MSc or PhD) within the past seven years. The seven-year period can be extended to allow for periods when the scientist was not working in science because of, but not limited to, caring and/or parental responsibilities, disability, personal illness, community obligations or national service”.

If you have any questions about the positions you are welcome to contact current or former chairs.

Election procedure:

• Open call for candidates until 20th March 2025. Interested candidates are invited to apply by sending a 200-word statement of purpose for the role along with a 2-page CV to younghydrologicsociety@gmail.com.
• Based on the applications a short list for each open position is created by the current President+Vice-President. Based on the short list, the current YHS board selects the new YHS members.
• The new committee members are announced by late April and will start their 2-year term from early May 2025.