The World Fish Migration Foundation, The United States Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy invite you to join us for a 3 hour, international webinar highlighting the need and opportunities to improve road and stream crossings to enhance the biodiversity of rivers across Europe!
January 19th, 2022 from 15:00-18:00 Central European Time (CET)
River fragmentation from constructed barriers poses one of the greatest threats to freshwater biodiversity and river ecosystem function. In Europe, there are an estimated 1.2 million barriers; over 200,000 of these are mapped culverts/road crossings.
Dams and weirs get much needed attention, but river fragmenting culverts and road crossings are more common and often overlooked. These structures have an outsized impact on critical headwater rivers and streams. It’s time to shed light on this critical issue!
We invite river and restoration practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and students, as well as road planning, maintenance, design and construction experts to join! The event builds on experience from projects across the US and Europe.
This Dam Removal Europe webinar is made possible by the World Fish Migration Foundation, US Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, Wetlands International, Oregon RFID, Biomark, and The Dutch Postcode Lottery.
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Program
15.00
Opening
By moderator Yurena Lorenzo from Wetlands International (Europe).
15:05
What is the problem with culverts and road-crossings?
Nat Gillespie, US Forest Service, USA.
15:13
200.000 culverts! An overview of Europe’s current status, policies and research needs regarding culverts and road crossings.
Carlos García de Leaniz and Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley, Swansea University, Wales.
15:43
Bob Gubernick, US Forest Service, USA.
16:13
The Deculverting Project. Interview in the field.
With Luke Bryant, West Cumbria Rivers Trust & George Heritage, Dynamic Rivers, UK
16:20
Mentimeter poll with the audience
BREAK
16:30
Culverts in Sweden and lessons learned from the REMIBAR project.
Sofia Perä, County Administrative Board of Norrbotten, Sweden.
16:45
Opening up headwaters in Maine (USA).
Joshua Royte, Nature Conservancy Maine, USA.
17:00
Stepping inside a culvert.
Interview with Mark Weinhold, US Forest Service, USA.
17:07
Restoring river connectivity in Finland by opening up and retrofitting culverts.
Jenny Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola, WWF Finland.
17:22
Guidance for practitioners!
Marq Redeker, CDM Smith, Germany & Stéphane WEIL, CATER Calvados Orne Manche, France.
17:27
How can ‘deculverting’ become business as usual in Europe.
Kim Aarestrup, Danish Technical University, Denmark.
17:42
Q&A, DISCUSSION AND CLOSURE
18:02
End
Registration and questions
For free registration follow this link to eventbrite. For questions regarding the program contact Nicole Friedman (nicole@fishmigration.org).
Language: English
Sponsor deals for companies:
The webinar is open for sponsorship from 5 additional companies. Please contact Herman Wanningen (herman@fishmigration.org) for information about sponsorships.
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