Presented by Greg Jennings, PhD, PE, Jennings Environmental, Asheville, NC. June 3, 2024
Will Harman, PG, Stream Mechanics, presents Assessment and Management of Beaded Streams in the Arctic Coastal Plain. Ken Lai from SWCA Consulting will moderator the discussion.
Economic Restoration and Using Ecology as a Model for Restoration, presented by John Giordanengo, AloTerra Restoration Services, Fort Collins, CO. John is the author of “Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies” published 2022. Restoration strategies are driven not simply by a passion for accomplishing successful ecological results but also by a deep understanding of soils, ecology, botany, hydrology, and the integration of these disciplines in a restoration setting. April 8, 2024.
Sue Niezgoda, PhD, PE, Gonzaga University Civil Engineering, discusses Part 2 of 2 “Beaver Dam Analogs Mimicking Nature’s Ecosystem Engineer To Improve Riverine Ecosystem”. Ken Lai, SWCA, moderated the discussion. March 18, 2024.
Sue Niezgoda, PhD, PE, Gonzaga University Civil Engineering, will discuss Part 1 of 2 “Beaver Dam Analogs Mimicking Nature’s Ecosystem Engineer To Improve Riverine Ecosystem”. Ken Lai, SWCA, will moderate the discussion. March 11, 2024.
A presentation by Wade Burcham, 5020 Engineering Resource Group, Mobile, Alabama at RiverSHARED's Monday Tech Talks on January 22, 2024
A technical discussion - The Answer is in the River: Regional Curves to Support Stream Restoration Initiatives in Southern Ontario by Trevor Chandler, a fluvial Geomorphologist working with Ecoreg Solutions out of Guelph, ON
A continued discussion about "Regional Curves to Support Stream Restoration Initiatives in Southern Ontario” from November 27, presented by Trevor Chandler, Ecoreg Solutions, Guelph, ON. Moderated by Wade Burcham, 5020 Engineering Resources Group Incorporated.
The talk will be presented by Jason R. Vogel, PhD, PE, Professor, Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Director, Oklahoma Water Survey University of Oklahoma. Ken Lai from SWCA will be this week’s moderator.
A Continued Discussion - Floodplain Management - moderated by Ken Lai, SWCA.
David Bidelspach, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration, discusses shear stress and stream restoration designs. February 24, 2020.
Stage Zero is the initial, pre-disturbance condition in the ‘Stream Evolution Model’ (SEM). David Bidelspach, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration, discusses Channel Evolution Models (CEM) and designing for stage zero. March 9, 2020
Regional Curves are commonly are utilized by practitioners of natural-stream design to confirm or refute selection of the field-identified bankfull channel. Mike Geenen presents an update on building regional curves. April 6, 2020.
Calculating and delineating watersheds with QGIS and TAUDEM. A presentation by Greg Taillacq, Tailwaters Limited. May 4, 2020.
A discussion of USACOE Definition of Risk Analysis by David Bidelspach, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration. June 15, 2020.
Dave Bidelspach, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration, discusses Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, or MCDA in river restoration. MCDA is a valuable decision-making tool. It is most applicable to solving problems that are characterized as a choice among alternatives. June 22, 2020.
David Bidelspach, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration, Mike Geenen & Bob Hamilton, TNC discuss a lost cost approach to stream restoration on ephemeral channels. June 29, 2020.
David Bidelspach, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration, discusses Beaver Dam Analog Systems (BDA). BDAs are intended to simulate natural beaver dam ecohydrological functions including modifying stream hydrology and enhancing stream-riparian hydrological connectivity. July 27, 2020.
Barbara Doll, PhD, PE, NC State University & NC Sea Grant, leads a technical discussion on innovative grade controls. March 20, 2023.
Mark Southerland, Tetra Tech, presents Biological Response to Stream Restoration - April 17, 2023