Temporary Rivers & Streams 2021

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