Joint Workshop

National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics Stream Restoration Partners Group

Stillwater Sciences - Physical Modeling Experiments to Guide River Restoration Projects

July 6-8, Richmond CA

The 2006 NCED Stream Restoration Partners Group held its annual meeting through a joint workshop with the Stillwater Sciences meeting on physical model research in river restoration. The first day of the workshop focused on modeling studies in support of improved stream restoration design.  This included presentations of experimental research conducted by Stillwater Sciences, UC-Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and NCED, as well as presentations of other experimental research being conducted in support of stream restoration.  The last day of the workshop served as the annual meeting of the NCED Stream Restoration Partners Group.  In between these two days, was an all-day field trip to examine stream restoration projects.

Dates: July 6-8 (Thursday-Saturday)

Location: Richmond Field Station (RFS) of the University of California (Richmond is just north of Berkeley)

Agenda:

Wednesday July 5, 2006 – arrival in evening

Thursday July 6, 2006 – RFS.  Tour of RFS experimental facilities and presentations on experimental research in support of improved stream restoration

Friday July 7, 2006 – Field trip (transport via bus) to restoration sites
Departs RFS early and returns late evening after dinner

Saturday July 8 – RFS.  NCED Stream Restoration Partners Group Meeting. 

Agenda includes:
Initiative for consistency and certification in stream restoration training, demonstration of NCED stream restoration tools, movement toward a predictive stream restoration practice, and analysis of stream restoration decision-making methods.

Sunday July 9 – departure and travel

(For links to presentations given on Days 1 and 2, please go to the Stillwater Sciences website.)

Day 3 Presentations (NCED Stream Restoration Group forum):
Introduction
Peter Wilcock, NCED

Restoration for fish recovery
Ed Herricks, UIUC

Learning from doing: Monitoring and post-project assessment
John Elliott, USGS

Discussion: Prospects for coordinated post-project assessment
Jack Schmidt, Utah State University

Public preference in selection & location of water quality improvement projects
Nick Flores, NCED

Stream restoration tools: routing mixed-size sediment
Gary Parker and Peter Wilcock, NCED

Changing practice by changing stream restoration education and training
Karen Gran, NCED

Discussion
Peter Wilcock, NCED