2017年8月13~8月18日，海岸灾害及防护教育部重点实验室博士研究生包沐曦、戴玮琦，以及硕士研究生陈伟秋、蒯宇前往马来西亚吉隆坡参加了第37届IAHR（International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research）国际会议。学生分别在大会上作了题为：“Experiment study of gravels stability with barely submerged and submerged foliage plants”, “Effects of the large-scale reclamation of tidal flats on the hydrodynamic characteristics, sediment transportation and topography in the Jiaojiang Estuary, China ”, “Experimental study on stable thickness of concrete slab revetment on inner slope of dikes”和“Mapping tidal residual currents and suspended sediment concentration pattern in the Yongjiang estuary, China using a numerical model”的口头报告，并与国际同行进行了深入交流。
IAHR大会每两年举办一次，在国际水利学界享有学术盛誉，一直吸引着国内外的代表。本次会议主题包括：River and Sediment Management、Flood Management、Environmental Hydraulics and Industrial Flows、Coastal, Estuaries and Lakes Management、Urban Water Management、Water Resources Management、Hydroinformatics/ Computational Methods and Experimental Methods七个方面。本次会议由来自60多个国家和地区的代表1200余人参加，大会共收到论文摘要1370余篇，收录全文910余篇。
