Temporary Rivers & Streams 2021
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Online event
Our sixth Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting. Making the most of online delivery (via Teams), we welcome speakers from around the world.
About this event
09:00 Make yourself a cuppa and join us
09:20 Welcome to the meeting – Judy England
CHAIR Rachel Stubbington
Session 1: Experiences from Down Under… and beyond
09:30 Jon Marshall (Queensland Government, Australia): Sustainable management of water resources in Queensland’s temporary rivers
10:00 Alisha Steward (Queensland Government, Australia): Monitoring the condition of Queensland’s temporary rivers with beetles and spiders
10:15 Margaret Shanafield (Flinders University, Australia): Mechanisms of streamflow generation in Australian river networks
10:30 María Mar Sánchez-Montoya (University of Murcia, Spain): Biomonitoring using terrestrial invertebrate communities in dry Mediterranean streams
10:45 Chloe Hayes (Nottingham Trent University, UK): Biomonitoring using terrestrial invertebrate communities in dry chalk streams
11:00 Poster pitches
Rick Assendelft: Quantifying temporary streams dynamics with high spatiotemporal resolution data
Najibullah Sadid (University of Stuttgart): Flow regime and intermittency change in mountainous Kabul River basin
Soumaya Nabih (Fez, Morocco): Climate change alteration to the ecohydrological status of the intermittent Tsiknias River, Greece
11:15 Discussion / break
Session 2: Science and management: European perspectives
11:40 Toni Munné (Catalan Water Agency, Barcelona): Meeting the challenge of temporary river management in the Catalan River Basin
12:00 Dom Longley (Environment Agency, UK): Insights from annual fish monitoring in New Forest temporary streams
12:20 Mélanie Milin (University of Huddersfield, UK): Spatial and temporal responses of the ‘DEHLI’ index across UK river types
12:35 Kieran Gething (Nottingham Trent University, UK): Aquatic invertebrate community responses to agricultural impacts in chalk streams
12:50 Craig Macadam (Buglife, UK): Is England a global hotspot of temporary stream specialist species?
13:05 Tim Sykes (University of Southampton): Owner values of chalk stream winterbournes
13:20 Break
13:30 Breakout discussions
- Meeting challenges of temporary river management. Hosts: Judy England, Toni Munné
- Hydrological measurement of temporary flow. Hosts: Cath Sefton, Margaret Shanafield
- How can we assess ecological status during dry phases? Hosts: Chloe Hayes, Rafi Mazor
- Temporary rivers and people. Host: Tim Sykes
14:00 Break
Session 3: Project updates… and heading west
14:15 Thibault Datry (INRAE Research Institute, France): Securing the biodiversity functional integrity of drying rivers: the DRYvER project
14:45 Maggie Shelton (Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, UK): The Watercress and Winterbournes Landscape Partnership Scheme
15:00 Cath Sefton (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK): Assessing statistical models of temporary river intermittence: ASTRID project update
15:15 Adam Price (University of California, Santa Cruz): The drying regimes of non-perennial rivers and streams
15:30 Dan Allen (University of Oklahoma): Spatial patterns of temporal change in non-perennial flow regimes across the US
15:45 Raphael Mazor (South California Coastal Water Research Project) & Chad Loflen (California Environmental Protection Agency): A multi-method biomonitoring program for California’s variable non-perennial streams
16:15 Discussion panel of academics and managers - chair: Richard Chadd
16:45 Close