The United Nations has designated the 2020s as the decade of ecosystem restoration. Streams, rivers and their catchments are amongst the most threatened habitats globally, impacted by a cascade of pressures, including direct modification, catchment landuse changes, and climate change. Anthropogenic modifications and structures, including critical infrastructure such as dams, levees, and river training structures, when introduced into dynamic river environments, modify hydromorphological processes and impact the rivers’ resilience to a changing climate. To inform river management, we urgently require a thorough understanding of geomorphological, hydrological and ecological processes and their interactions with anthropogenic infrastructure. Restoration of riverscapes and their catchments is becoming increasingly important to dampen the effects of altered hydroclimatic regimes, yet more challenging to restore a moving target with altered flow and sediment regimes. Therefore, this session provides a platform to showcase research that integrates field studies, experimental work, numerical modeling, and hybrid approaches with the goal of improving our ability to model, assess, and manage geomorphological, hydrological and ecological change across multiple scales. We hope to initiate discussion among an interdisciplinary group of researchers of how to take into account a changing climatic baseline in future river restoration and evaluation of restoration success.
Speakers
- Slaven Conevski, NTNU, Norway
- Mirko Musa, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Mathieu Brun, Paris Cité, France
- Payam Sajadi, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Elisa Bozzolan, Università degli studi di Padova , Italy
- Shawn Chartrand, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Jiyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Lab, United States of America
- qing deng, South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, China
- Marthe Oldenhof, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Ricardo Carrillo, Umeå University, Sweden
- Gordon Gilja, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Manousos Valyrakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Antonija Harasti, University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, Croatia
- Gopi Chand Malasani, IIT Madras, India
- Ghazaleh Nassaji Matin, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- Francisco Javier Martín Rodríguez, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
- Mahmoud Omer Mahmoud Awadallah, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Magdalena Lauermann, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
- Janbert Aarnink, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- André Castelo Branco, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil
- Vikas Kumar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
- Ronald Pöppl, BOKU University Vienna, Austria
- Matthieu Prugne, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada
- Julie Rostan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- DANIEL REBAI, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Konstantinos Gkogkis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- George Kaloudis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Panagiotis Michalis, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece