BRAIDSIDEEARTH

The Braided Side of the Earth: modelling the long-term morphological impact of dams on the gravel-bed braided rivers of New Zealand to support restoration of the heavily-impacted European rivers

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO 

 Organization address address: VIA CALEPINA 14
city: TRENTO
postcode: 38122

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Mirella
Cognome: Collini
Email: send email
Telefono: 390461000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Italy [IT]
 Totale costo 260˙121 €
 EC contributo 260˙121 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF
 Funding Scheme MC-IOF
 Anno di inizio 2015
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2015-04-01   -   2018-03-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

 Organization address address: VIA CALEPINA 14
city: TRENTO
postcode: 38122

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Mirella
Cognome: Collini
Email: send email
Telefono: 390461000000

IT (TRENTO) coordinator 260˙121.60

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river    dynamic    bed    expertise    niwa    thread    anthropic    restoration    dam    numerical    model    lower    benchmark    rivers    gravel    impacted    flow    zealand   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The present three-year project aims at predicting and quantifying the impact of dam construction and operation on highly dynamic, multi-thread river systems through the development of a novel, physically-based numerical morphodynamic model, which can be used as a decision support tool in river management and restoration. Gravel-bed rivers with braided and transitional morphologies were once common in alpine-piedmont regions of Europe, providing key services to the human society and sustaining biodiversity. Only few of them still preserve their unique fluvial landscape, because of multiple anthropic effects in the last century which caused narrowing, incision and overall transformation of river styles and functions. One of the main causes are artificial reservoirs, which alter flow and sediment regimes, thus impacting the hierarchy of controlling variables of river systems. Due to lower anthropic pressure, the gravel-bed rivers of New Zealand have experienced much a lower degree of alteration, and are thus an ideal benchmark to investigate restoration strategies that are a priority requirement of several EU Directives for the impacted European rivers. To this aim, during the outgoing phase at NIWA (Christchurch, New Zealand) I will investigate such benchmark by analysing the evolution of natural and dam-impacted New Zealand and European gravel-bed, multi-thread rivers, acquiring new expertise in river geomorphology. At NIWA I will use by my modelling background to develop a numerical model able to address the key controlling interactions for the study river systems, namely among flow, morphodynamics and riparian vegetation, at decadal time scales. My expertise in morphological modelling will be complemented at the return host (Univ. of Trento, Italy). Besides completing and diversifying my knowledge, the project will finally allow for an innovative, model-based quantitative assessment for the restoration of dynamic, multi-thread rivers affected by dam operations.'

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