The detailed programme of the 4th I.S.Rivers Conference is available: discover all the communications below.
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- The opening and closing plenary conferences will be led by our keynote speakers
- The oral presentations of the authors selected by our review committee are divided into 4 rooms according to the themes of the conference, for a total of 28 sessions which subjects are detailed below
- Several poster sessions are planned on Tuesday and Wednesday to allow the participants and authors to talk freely about the papers
- 3 workshops are available on guest list and will take place on Monday 4th of July 2022 (optional)
- 4 technical tours are available upon registration (limited number of places) and will take place on Friday 8th of July 2022 (optional)
- A welcome cocktail will be held on Monday evening and a closing cocktail will be held on Thursday evening
- The gala evening is scheduled for Wednesday evening
- Various events will take place in parallel to the conference (more details on our dedicated page) including the exhibition Visages du Rhone (“Faces of the Rhône river”): a visit is organized by us with a departure at 18:30 from the university
- An exhibition on the topic of river transportation will be on display on Thursday at the University as part of the conference.
Conference proceedings and individual abstracts will be available in late June 2022.
Tuesday 5th of July
Erik Orsenna
Economist, author, member of the Académie Française and Chair of Initiative for the future of great rivers.
France
Environmental fragility, human fragility: a necessary global approach – the example of rivers
Ralph Schielen
Senior advisor on Hydraulics, Morphology and Water Management at Rijkswaterstaat
Netherlands
Challenges in the Rhine-Meuse delta: mitigating climate change and anthropogenic interventions
Vikrant Jain
Professor and Head of Natural Science at the Indian Institue of Technology, Gandhinagar
India
A human-centric approach for river management in the Anthropocene: an example from the large Ganga River system, India
Session chaired by Jean-Luc Probst and Yves Meinier
Ayrault S., Evrard O., Coynel A., Debret M., Gardes T., Winiarski T., Perceval O., Van Der Perk M., Grosbois C.
France
What are the key factors influencing sediment quality along Western European rivers?
Mondamert L., Labanowski J., Bourrain X.
France
Comparison of metallic and organic contaminants temporal trajectories recorded in sedimentary archives of the Loire basin
Belgium
Modelling a severe transient anoxia of continental freshwaters due to a Scheldt accidental release (sugar industry)
Deliège J-F.
Belgium
Assessment of the impact of gold mining on the quality of water resources in the Lom Basin: Multivariate statistical analysis, water quality index and spatial interpolation
Nguyen Truong A., Minh Tam L., Troger R., Wiberg K., Némery J., Nguyen Phuoc D., Baduel C.
France
Emerging contaminants in a tropical estuary impacted by a megacity: spatial distribution and risk assessment
Session chaired by Carole Barthélémy and Jean-Louis Michelot
Brierley G.
New-Zealand
Let rivers be rivers: using Maori knowledge to reframe river management in Aotearoa New Zealand
Wantzen K.
France
River culture in China and India, a comparative perspective on its origins, challenges, and solutions
Senegal
The Casamance River and the hold of the sacred, geographical study of sacred river spaces
Mexico
Gender and sediment extraction in the Usumacinta river basin, Mexico
France
“Cap sur le Rhône”: a network of actors and collective projects to tell the story of the river’s complexity
Session chaired by James Brasington and Baptiste Marteau
France
Using Young-of-the-Year fish assemblages for bio-indication: a management and restoration tool for large navigated rivers systems
Mourier B., Peteuil C., Fretaud T.
France
Interest of geophysical methods to determine the evolution and the spatial distribution of sedimentary deposits upstream of run-of-the-river dams (Upper Rhône, France)
Schenk K., Leite Ribeiro M., Bartosova A., Giardino C., Bresciani M., Matta E., Ruther N.
Switzerland
HYPOS, an online decision support tool for sediment management in reservoirs
Petitjean S., Bourcier P., Versanne J., Thomas Archambeau D.
France
Monitoring water quality by aquatic drone: development and experimentation on hydroelectric dam reservoir
Boutron O., Elger A.
France
DEMETHER, a numerical model and a management support tool of aquatic vegetation
Session chaired by Hervé Piégay and Christine Weber*
Barthélémy C., Cottet M., Gramaglia C., Lamouroux N., Lusson M., Navratil O., Piégay H.
France
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective to disentangle complex effects of restoring ecological continuity in riverine socio-ecosystems
Barreteau O., Barthelemy C., Camenen B., Cauvy-Fraunié S., Comby E., Datry T., Johannet A., Le Lay Y., Moatar F., Navratil O., Némery J., Piégay H., Piola F., Puijalon S., Sauquet E., Simon L.
France
Generalizing local knowledge for informing global approaches: lessons from the Rhône Long Term Socio-Ecological Research platform.
USA
Tracking Monitoring and Performance Measures at the Watershed Scale
Biron P.
Canada
Integrating hydrogeomorphological principles and human benefits in river restoration: framework proposal for projects management
Borgwardt F., Funk., Haidvogl., Meulenbroek P., Muhar S. Rauch P., Tschikof M., Under G., Weigelhofer G.
Austria
Integration of the meta-ecosystem approach into a socio-ecological framework for restoring large rivers
Session chaired by Nicolas Flipo* and Thomas Pelte*
Crochemore L., Montginoul., Sauquet E.
France
Water uses and climate change in the Rhône basin: quantification of the impact of different adaptation strategies on the resource
USA
Adapting California’s Water Governance to a Changing Climate
Buffin-Bélanger T., Biron P., Choné G.
Canada
Preliminary flood risk assessment in Quebec and risk evolution related with increasing discharge
USA
Drought stress of Riparian Woodlands from Groundwater Decline and Climate Change: Ecosystem Indicators at Multiple Scales
Session chaired by Anne Chin and Emeline Comby
Evette A., Rivière-Honegger A., Vukelic S.
France
Develop rivers through soil bioengineering: a solution for the city of tomorrow?
USA
Nature-based solutions to reduce flood risk: Perspectives from France and the US
Bubeck P., Kuhlicke C.
Germany
Factors shaping public attitude towards nature-based solutions based on theories of risk and place: the case of dike relocation projects along the Elbe River
France
Education to the flooding risk: how to build the citizen’s resilience to climate change?
Session chaired by Martin Pusch* and Delphine Danancher*
Nguyen T A., Saliman R., Gratiot N., Strady E., Nguyen Tuyet T N., Baduel C.
Vietnam
Seasonal distribution of phytoplankton in a tropical estuary under high urban pressure
Garnier J.
France
Reservoirs change pCO2 and water quality of downstream rivers: evidence from three reservoirs in the Seine Basin
Samie R., Monteil C., Sanchez Perez J. M.
France
Using SWAT model to study suspended sediments and nitrates regulation by wetlands in the Vienne watershed
Franquet E., Stolzenberg N., Fruget J-F., Marion L., Souty-Grosset C., Anneville O., Cavalli L., Faure J-P., Corget N., Josserand F., Banaru D.
France
Ecosystem based approach of a Lower Saone River section to assess the impact of invasive or expanding species
Session chaired by John Stella* and Isabelle Eudes*
Rollet A-J., Lasne E.
France
Dynamic of biogeomorphological processes in moderate energy system : the example of the Sélune river.
France
Response of gravel bank plant communities to restoration of alluvial margins on the old Rhone of Péage-de-Rousillon (Isère-Ardèche, France)
Dufour S., Le Coeur D., Bernez I.
France
Three years after hydroelectric dam removal: how spontaneous vegetation colonize the neo-valley of the Sélune river (Normandy)?
Evette A.
France
Long and short term effects of anthropogenic developments on the riparian communities of the Rhône
Wednesday 6th of July
Session chaired by Thomas Polin* and Stanley Gregory
Houbrechts G., Gautier E., Peeters A., Dépret T., Gilet L.
France
Impact of anthropogenic weirs on the sediment continuity of rivers in the Seine basin and the Ardennes massif
Le Coz J., Lauters F., Pierrefeu G., Stepanian J., Laible J.
France
Sedimentary issues and monitoring of dam flushing operations: The Lower Isère River case in 2021
France
Update of sediment flows (coarse, sands, fine) of the Rhône and the contributions of its tributaries. What sediment continuity to to be targeted for the Rhône ?
Benitez J-P., Dierckx A., Baeyens R., Coeck J., Pauwels I., Mouton A., Archambeau P., Dewals B., Pirotton M., Erpicum S., Ovidio M.
Belgium
The effect of a hydropower station associated with a navigation canal on the Atlantic salmon smolt: identification of impacts and remedial actions
Beaufils M., Cattaneo F.
Switzerland
Ecological connectivity on the French-Swiss upper Rhône River: upstream fish passage at two successive large hydroelectric dams for potamodromous, partially migratory species
Session chaired by Anne Honegger*
Jautzy T., Boivin M., Raté T., Briand Y.
Canada
Improving our knowledge and developing tools for stakeholders in Quebec: building a regional hydrogeomorphologic overview
Riffon O.
Canada
Development of a participatory approach to process-based urban river restoration: the socio-Natural trajectory of the rivière à Mars in Saguenay, Québec
Abrami G., Gouy V., Carluer N., Armani G.
France
Building collective action at a watershed level to reduce the impact of phytosanitary products on water quality: lessons from a participatory approach.
Valette P., Wallart S.
France
The Garonne Landscape Observatory: a tool for geohistoric knowledge at the service of the territories of the valley.
France
Human-river interactions on a timeline: monitoring the Rohrschollen Island (Rhine River) trajectory
Session chaired by Stephan Krause* and Laurent Simon
Germany
Operationalizing ecosystem services for decision making with the River Ecosystem Service Index (RESI)
Jouon S., Vivier A., Bouquet S.
France
Ecosystem services generated by rivers in very good ecological status: example of the Léguer (22) and the Estéron (06), rivers labeled “wild river sites”
Germany
Monetary Valuation of German Floodplain Ecosystem Services ; a meta-analysis
Weingartner R., Zappa M.
Switzerland
Power production VS Good river status: HYDROpot_integral as a tool to simultaneously assess hydropower potential and ecological potential
Lucia A., Tockner K., Zarfl C.
Germany
Integrated Impact Assessment for Sustainable Hydropower Planning in the Niger and Volta Catchments (West Africa)
Session chaired by Jérémie Riquier and Frédéric Liebault*
Gob F., Dépret T., Virmoux C., Govin V.
France
Sedimentary dynamics of a meandering river in the Seine basin
France
Evaluation of the time required for the evacuation of coarse sediment in bypassed Rhône: the example of Donzère
France
Restoring fluvial dynamics of the river Allier on the Ile des Cailloux
Piégay H.
France
A trajectory-based BACI framework to assess the effects of gravel augmentation on thermal functions in gravel-bed rivers
Barillier A., Beisel J-N.
France
Long-term dynamics of macro-invertebrate communities after gravel augmentations in the Old Rhine River (France)
Session chaired by Jean-Michel Olivier and Raphaela Schinegger*
Pressiat F.
France
Downstream migration routes of European silver eels through a hydroelectric scheme in the Rhône River
Nzau M., Renardy S., Benitez J-P.
Belgium
Seasonal and daily rhythms of movements of fish fauna within the River Meuse equipped with modern migratory fish-passes
Brasier W., Pressiat F., Aigoui F.
France
Evaluation of the donzere dam fishway efficiency (Rhone river). Approach based on hydraulic expertise, monitoring of fish passages by rfid tagging and video observation
USA
Population increases of nonindigenous American shad in the Columbia River
Rebière D., Mercier O., Sagnes P.
France
Evaluation of the biological efficiency of a fish passage device equipping a road hydraulic structure
Session chaired by Rebecca Lave and Olivier Edjeryan*
Chemery J-B.
France
Social utility at the service of a Rhône river restoration project: issues, method and experience feedback
Lespez L., Oiry A., Drapier L.
France
(Re)appropriating the valley after the dismantling of a dam: the importance of the transition phase (Sélune, France) (Selune River, France)(France)
Romania
Assessing the position of actors in river restoration at various scales in Romania
Bricard A., Biré L., El Arch Y., Faure L., Picon G., Porral M-C.
France
The hydropower concession renewal of the Rhône river: who is involved for which development of the river?
Roux-Michollet D.
France
The strategic mobilisation of environmental history: a case study of the Upper Rhone
Session chaired by Cybill Staentzel and Sara Puijalon*
Moiroud C., Wichroff E., Gerbaud A., Miquet A., Bourse A., Amoureux A.
France
Experimentation of alluvial benches management reconciling biodiversity and hydraulic safety: example of the Rhone in Chautagne
Le Bouteiller C., Evette A., Dommanget F.
France
Hydrogeomorphological processes of rivers and plant invasions. What interactions in the case of Asian knotweeds?
Damoiseau S., Leitao M., Braga G., Denux O., Richard N., Jugé P.
France
Multitaxa monitoring in floodplain habitats of a dynamic river: test of a monitoring protocol for the Loire river and its floodplain – first results
Demarchi L., Michel K., Piégay H.
France
Hyperspectral and LiDAR remote-sensing for the monitoring channel bathymetry and the health of riparian forests
Greulich S., Janssen P., Rodrigues S.
France
Ecological strategies of herbaceous communities along flooding and light gradients in the side channels of le lower Loire River (France)
Session chaired by Oldrich Navratil* and Olivier Pillonel
France
GABIODIV project: innovation for the ecological rehabilitation of the urbanized banks of Lyon’s major rivers
Collas F.
The Netherlands
Longitudinal Training Dams (LTDs): An Ecosystem-based Approach to River Management
France
Devitalization of damaging plant species on anthropised river banks
Rampini M.
Switzerland
Re-opening of two rivers in gallery during the transformation of an industrial area
Session chaired by Jain Vikrant and Barbara Belleti
Bouchard M., Bérubé J., Fantino G.
Canada
Hydrogeomorphological processes restoration 25 years after the major Saguenay flood event, Quebec – Implementation of regional monitoring in Eastern Quebec in collaboration with river managers
Pellizzaro H., Perrin C., Michaud A., Collomb D., Rouquet P., Granovsky S., Grandhaye V., Couret L.
France
Flood risk and river mobility studies on river “gave de Pau”
Piton G., Chapuis M., Passy P., Martins C., Kuss D.
France
Major floods of the Vésubie and Roya Rivers (Alps, France) in October 2020: hydrogeomorphological caracterisation and management perspectives
United Kingdom
Natural Sediment Management (NSM): the most important component of Natural Flood Management (NFM)
United Kingdom
Does re-meandering have an impact on flood risk reduction? A detailed case study from the Eddleston Water restoration project, Scotland.
Session chaired by Marie-Anne Germaine and Marie-Pierre Camproux Duffrène*
Gonzalez Besteiro A., Bailly G., Gallardo Zavaleta V., Medina L.
Mexico
Local development of a natural ressource and environmental management: what the Usumacinta river sediments tells us (Tabasco, Mexico)
Booth E., Lave R.
USA
Integrating Social and Biophysical Research to Support Community Flood Resilience in the Driftless Area (USA)
Italy
River restoration can greatly benefit from Citizen Science
France
Climate adaptation strategies: coproduction of Knowledge and shared solutions
Session chaired by Isabelle Jacquelet and Mathias Kondolf*
Romania
Evidence of hydromorphological alteration under present-day sand mining and management works. Case studies on Romanian rivers
Nava L.
Mexico
The law of river sediments: considerations from the case of the Usumacinta River in Mexico
Roux-Michollet D., Charruau P.
Mexique
Setting up a sediment monitoring system from a socio-ecological perspective for the adaptive governance of the Usumacinta watershed in Mexico
United Kingdom
Integrating channel evolution into river management: towards a functional decision-support framework
Session chaired by Christiane Zarfl and Jeff Opperman*
Sierings B., Stoffers T.
The Netherlands
The effects of habitat restoration in river floodplains on fish diversity and behaviour
Geerling G., Verreth J., Nagelkerke L.
The Netherlands
Understanding habitat heterogeneity as driver for the diversity and abundances of young-of-the-year riverine fishes
Potet B., Chanseau M., Peress J., Briand C.
France
LIFE Dordogne River, a pilot project for the ecological sediment management of large rivers in France and Europe
Riquier J., Castella E., Lebrun C., Mayor H., Tissot N., Lamouroux N., Olivier J-M., Piégay H.
France
Characterizing and predicting the use of alluvial habitats by aquatic communities for a better management of large river ecosystems
Mora C., Bearez M., Moiroud C.
France
Challenges and complexity of setting up operational monitoring of the effects of ecological restoration works on the alluvial margins of the Rhône
Thursday 7th of July
Session chaired by Peng Gao and Ralph Shielen*
Coviello V., Comiti F.
Italy
Alteration of sediment fluxes and morphological changes in Alpine rivers
Molina B., Ivarez-Rodriguez J.
Spain
A diachronic analysis of trajectories of change in the Duero River (Spain) reveals imbalances in past and current fluvial dynamics
Lascaux J-M.
France
Assessment of control factors and sensitivity of anthropized river to prioritize geomorphological restoration actions (Dordogne River, France)
Bertoldi W., Vitti A., Cekrezi B., Zolezzi G.
Italy
Recent morphological trajectories of the near-natural Vjosa river and its tributaries at the catchment scale
Walusiak E., Radecki-Pawlik A., Liro M., Hajdukiewicz H., Zawiejska J.
Poland
Island development in a passively restored mountain river: the Raba, Polish Carpathians
Session chaired by Olivier Radakovitch* and Valérie Auguste*
Rudolf F.
France
Freight transport on inland waterways and the Rhine low water crisis in 2018: a concerted search for adaptation solutions
France
Sharing the resource in the Drance basin: How to debate the future?
France
Implementation of an approach to initiate a 15-20 political vision for the future of the Val de Saône in connection with climate change
Perin M.
France
Let’s talk about climate: exploring change along the Rhône river
Session chaired by Marina Coquery and Sébastien Rohais*
Lynch I, Sambrook Smith G., Kukkola A., Schneidewind U., Kelleher L., Gomez-Velez J., Wazne M., Mermillod-Blondin F., Simon L., Dendievel A-M.
France
The 100 Plastic Rivers Programme
Poitou I., Nous C., Tassin B., Gasperi J.
France
Riverine Litter in a small Urban River in Marseille, France: Plastic Load and Management Challenges
The Netherlands
Macro- and mesoplastic abundance and composition in the water column of the river Waal
Vallier M., Mermillod-Blondin F., Mourier B., Piégay H., Winiarski T., Krause S., Simon L.
France
Assessing microplastic sources and transport pathways along gravel-bed rivers: Focus on the Ain River
Mabilais D., Ricordel S., Verdier L., Tassin B., Gasperi J.
France
Transfer processes of plastic macrodebris in the Loire estuary: trajectories and influencing factors
Session chaired by Teresa Ferreira and Maria Alp*
Capra H., Lamouroux N.
France
Response of fish and macroinvertebrate to rapid changes in hydraulic conditions due to hydropeaking
Zolezzi G.
Italy
Sediment supply as a key control on habitat change during managed floods: a proof of concept
Gailhard J.
France
Water releases on the Ain river (France) to limit warming of water accentuated by climate change
Vanzo D., Weber C.
Switzerland
Nervous habitats: effects of hydropeaking on the habitat persistency at the patch scale
Bartolomucci C., Diouf S., Guillard J., Lecomte E., Polblanc A., Rocle M., Grimardias D.
Switzerland
Ecological impacts on fish of a controlled sediment flushing from a large dam on the French-Swiss Upper-Rhône River.
Session chaired by Fanny Arnaud and Anne-Julia Rollet*
Piégay H., Li Z.
USA
Functioning adjustment of a braided river to different human activities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Nones M., Gargiulo M., Ruello G.
Italy
Exploitation of satellite data for the monitoring of river morphological evolution: a study case on Po river (Italy)
Italy
Recent river-floodplain dynamics in a large tropical river and its relation with local agriculture
Piégay H., Brasington J.
France
How large can be a braid plain? A worldwide scale comparison
Equator
Is the headward erosion a dowstream effect of Coca river damming?
Session chaired by Catherine Gramillet and Isabelle Michallet
France
What are the optimal scales of public action to prevent and manage floods? Two centuries of experience feedback in four river towns in France and Spain
Guevara S., Gralepois M.
France
The development of Flood Expansion Zones (ZEC) facing social and environmental inequalities: the case of the cities of the Middle Loire (France)
France
The promotion of river tourism, a lever for local development and territorial cooperation? Analysis of two experiences in France and Spain
France
In search of a territory-specific resource: the example of the Saône River in the Haute-Saône department
Session chaired by Philippe Janssen and Eléonore Vandel*
Gob F., Tales E., Thommeret N., De Milleville L., Letourneur M.
France
A new tool to characterize the socio-environmental dimensions of Urban rivers: Urban River Socio-environmental index (URBS)
Cattanéeo F., Jean P., Valentini A., Rostaing E., Lecomte E., Guillard J.
France
Bi-O-Rhône – Innovative fish monitoring of French-Swiss reservoirs
Carayon D., Coste M., Rosebery J.
France
Development and European intercalibration of a diatomic evaluation system of french Large Rivers’ ecological status.
Batista J S., Bevilaqua D R., Carvalho C. S. M., Guimarães F. W. S., Ferreira Savio J. F., Monteiro Maria T. F. , Miranda Sebastião A. F., Forsberg Bruce R., Schongart J., Wittmann F., Piedade Maria T.F., Lopes A., Adeney J. M., Junk Wolfgang J.
Brazil
A geochemical water quality index for the major Amazonian rivers
Session chaired by Nicolas Lamouroux and Jose Peress*
Rolan-Meynard M.
France
12 years of the demonstration sites network for hydromorphological stream restoration: assessment and perspectives
Steinmann A., Moritsch S., Hecher P., Blaas K., Comiti F.
Italy
Morphological assessment of river restoration projects in South Tyrol (Italy)
Switzerland
Implementation of restoration measures in Switzerland between 2011 and 2019
Sureau-Blanchet N.
France
Social utility, an opportunity for large water cycle projects ?
Jeff Opperman
WWF’s global lead freshwater scientist
USA
Protecting and restoring rivers in a global transitions and transformations period
Olivier Ejderyan
Geographer and leader of the Society and Innovation research group at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
Switzerland
Green energy or healthy rivers? Tensions in the governance of Swiss hydropower
Marie-Pierre Camproux Duffrène
Law professor at Strasbourg University
France
Assigning rights to rivers
Rebecca Lave
Geography professor at Indiana University
USA