Dear Colleagues, We invite your participation in an AGU session intended to bring together physical and biological scientists working in fluvial environments:
EP037: Working with natural processes to restore rivers and floodplains The link to the session is https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8877 Session Description: In rivers throughout the world the natural process drivers that produce complex river and floodplain habitats have been disrupted, resulting in simplified ecosystems. Emerging practices among restoration planners and practitioners involve working with key physical processes (large floods, planform adjustment, wood recruitment) and biota (beaver, fish, vegetation) to restore the form and function of rivers. The effectiveness of such restoration actions will vary depending on the scale of the restoration activity and the capacity of the river system for change in response to new perturbations. This session explores the processes that produce diverse aquatic and riparian ecosystems, and the degree to which these processes can be managed to increase the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of river restoration (i.e., letting the river do the work). We seek presentations highlighting both the mechanics of complex processes and evidence of working with natural processes to restore river functionality across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Invited speakers include: Janine Castro (USFWS, Portland, OR) Nikolai Friberg (Aarhus University, Denmark) George Pess (NOAA, Seattle, WA) Mark Stone (University of New Mexico) Best regards, Tim Beechie (NOAA, Seattle, WA) John M. Buffington (USFS, Boise, ID) Matt Collins (NOAA, Gloucester, MA) Lee Harrison (NOAA, Santa Cruz, CA) Hamish Moir (CBEC Eco-Engineering, Alford, Scotland) David A. Sear (University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom) Desirée Tullos (Oregon State University, Corvalis, OR) -- Lee Harrison, Ph.D. NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Office: 805.893.2260 Cell: 805.407.2632 [email protected]
