An increasingly important impact to rivers worldwide: extraction of sand and gravel for construction. This webinar provides insights into the issue from a global context, featuring these speakers and topics:
Luis Roberto Hernandez Angulo & Céline Duwig – Modeling the functioning of the largest urban center of the Altiplano (Bolivia) and the potential role of extractive activities
Dr Vikrant Jain – Hydro-geomorphic impacts of anthropogenic stresses on the Yamuna River, India
Dr Santiago Paul Yépez Figueroa – Linking in-channel mining pressure with geomorphological impacts in the Biobío River: the added value of hyper-temporal nanosatellite and UAV observations
Gabriel Melun – Impacts of Alluvial Mining Activities on Small Rivers in French Guiana
Baptiste Potet – Morphosedimentary Restoration Strategy of the Dordogne River: Contributions from the LIFE Dordogne River Project
The webinar is based at the University of Lyon. It’s free but you need to register in advance at this link:
(Note that the webpage lists the time in central European time; in California the webinar time is 8am – 10am.)