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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - HYDRALAB-PLUS (HYDRALAB+ Adapting to climate change)

Teaser

Summary

Because of climate change, many countries around the world face more extreme river discharges and higher seawater levels and more frequent storm events. Experimental research, particularly at large scales, is an indispensable step to provide sound and sustainable solutions. New approaches and nature-based solutions are needed to avoid high-risk erosion and inundation events. Experimental research from our project will provide knowledge and tools to manage these problems more effectively.

The overall aim of HYDRALAB+ is to strengthen the coherence of experimental environmental hydraulic research by improving the infrastructures so that they can not only facilitate progress in the discipline, but also to better address climate change adaptation issues.

HYDRALAB+ is an Integrating Activity, combining in a closely coordinated manner networking activities, trans-national access and joint research activities:

- \'Networking Activities\' aim to involve the wider community and stakeholders in the process of generating deliverables of the project.
- Facilities from 10 leading institutes are available to the scientific community for promising research projects under the umbrella of â€˜Transnational Accessâ€™.
- \'Joint Research Activities\' will help to improve the research infrastructure services by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and focusing on morphological and ecological interactions at different time scales of forces related to climate change, while attention is given to measurement techniques, data management and the re-use of data.

Work performed

Main results Network Activities:

Four out of six scheduled HYDRLAB+ Workshop Events have been completed:
- During the first event, 26-29 January 2016 in Hull, meetings were held with the facility owners and hydraulics community. The event included the JRA start-up meetings.
- The second event - 15-19 September 2016 - was organised in Gdansk. During a workshop with policy makers, there were detailed discussions on the links between research and policy making with official representatives from Romania, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands presenting regional and national experiences of managing climate change adaptation. Furthermore a workshop on re-use and exchange of data was organised.
- The third event, 15-19 May 2017, was organised by the University of Cantabria. In Santander the workshop \'Industry & Innovation\' was organised to exchange experiences in the field of measurement technics.
- The fourth event, 22-26 January 2018, was organised by CNRS. In Grenoble the interaction between policy and research was discussed in the workshop \'Climate Change Adaptation; Policy and Research\'.

Within the framework of building a virtual HYDRALAB community a strong online presence, both through the website content and also through social media was created via Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Social media was used to generate more engagement and interaction outside the original HYDRALAB+ research community.

Main results Joint Research Activities:

JRA1, Representing Climate Change in Physical Experiments (RECIPE) by UHull

Following the completion of the critical review which was the main output of JRA1 during the first reporting period, our activities have focused on:
- Completing the protocols for representing variability and unsteadiness in flume facilities - deliverable 8.2 - which was submitted in May 2018.
- Holding and advanced workshop to discuss new approaches to scaling morphodynamics in time, which took place during the Grenoble event in January 2018. This was an important set-up forward in the preparation and discussion of the content for deliverable 8.3.
- A series of mesocosm experiments have been completed to develop protocols for measuring plant stress which will be described in in deliverable 8.4.
- Experiments have been undertaken with scaled braided rivers and vegetation as well as chemical surrogates and biofilms both to improve our understanding of how to effectively scale biology in time. This work is the fundamental input into deliverable 8.5.

Work has followed the planned schedule with no delays. A number of conference presentations have been given and the key results from the critical review have been published in a peer-reviewed journal article.

JRA2: Cross disciplinary Observations of Morphodynamics and Protective structures, Linked to Ecology and Extreme events (COMPLEX) by UPC

During the second reporting period the COMPLEX work has included:
- Improvements of the observational equipment at complex boundaries.
- Preparing hydraulic facilities for mix grain size sedimentary bodies.
- Adapting environmental facilities to incorporate vegetation and biologically actives sediment surfaces.
- Developing experimental methodologies for evaluating hard and soft engineering solutions in mobile bed experiments with a biota component.

JRA3; Facilitating the Re-use and Exchange of Experimental Data (FREE Data) by HRW

â€˜FREE Dataâ€™ main aims are to develop tools and protocols for the effective sharing of data that allows effective flux and exchange with numerical modelling and field case studies. The activities are to contribute to the creation of a free market in open data, which can be used, reused and redistributed by anyone (OpenDefinition.org).
During the second reporting period 5 out of 7 deliverables were submitted, comprising a data management plan, a data standards report, data repository rules and tools for hydraulic data interrogation and experimental expertise knowledge transfer.
Data

Final results

HYDRALAB+ results will improve the performance of experimental research infrastructures in Europe to better address common climate change adaptation issues. The work will help to establish design criteria and performance limits for flexible interventions.
Improved and more effective testing of coastal defense structures will provide more knowledge for sustainable adaptation to climate change. Novel approaches will enable biota to be represented in experiments where they previously could not be used and in other experiments reduce experimental time by removing the need to wait for biofilm growth. Further JRA1 â€˜RECIPEâ€™ work on using lightweight sediments will also reduce experimental time enabling more cost-efficient use of infrastructures and improve our understanding of long-term environmental change.
In JRA2 â€˜COMPLEXâ€™ we have selected a combination of sediment sizes with sea grass and rigid/flexible structures that yield a limited number of tests that will enable improvement of present engineering applications.