The international symposium on Integrating monitoring and modelling for understanding, predicting and managing sediment dynamics continues the series of symposia organized under the auspices of the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE), which is one of the ten commissions of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). The first ICCE symposium was held in Florence, Italy more than 30 years ago, and recent symposia have been held in Moscow, Russia in 2004, Dundee, United Kingdom in 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2008, Warsaw, Poland in 2010, Chengdu, China in 2012 and New Orleans, USA in December 2014. The 2016 ICCE Symposium will be held at Rothamsted Research, near Exeter, UK.