EP41E
Working with Natural Processes to Restore Rivers and Floodplains I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2005 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Lee Harrison, NOAA, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Conveners:  Timothy J Beechie, NOAA, Seattle, WA, United States, John M Buffington, US Forest Service, Boise, ID, United States and David Ayres Sear, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Lee Harrison, NOAA, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, John M Buffington, US Forest Service, Boise, ID, United States and Desiree D Tullos, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Mathias J Collins, NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region - Gloucester, Gloucester, MA, United States
08:00
Ecosystem Response During the Removal of the Elwha River Dams (Invited) (58845)
George R Pess1, Mike McHenry2, Martin C Liermann1, Raymond Moses2, Keith Denton3, John McMillan4, Samual Brenkman5, Jeffrey Duda6, Roger Peters7, Joe Anderson8 and Thomas Quinn9, (1)NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Port Angeles, WA, United States, (3)KPD Consulting LLC, Sequim, WA, United States, (4)Trout Unlimited, Port Angeles, WA, United States, (5)National Park Service, Port Angeles, WA, United States, (6)USGS, seattle, WA, United States, (7)USFWS, Lacey, WA, United States, (8)WDFW, Olympia, WA, United States, (9)University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, seattle, WA, United States
08:15
Towards the Application of a River Management Approach Encompassing most Natural Process Drivers : Lessons Learned from Freedom Space for Rivers in Quebec (Canada) (63292)
Pascale Biron1, Thomas K Buffin-Belanger2 and Simon Massé2, (1)Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)University of Quebec at Rimouski UQAR, Rimouski, QC, Canada
08:30
Restoring natural geomorphic process to river environments influenced by practical design constraints (79619)
Hamish J. Moir, University of the Highlands and Islands, Rivers and Lochs Institute, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
08:45
Process-Based Restoration and the Rise of the Stage Zero Channel As a Stream Restoration Goal (65613)
Michael M. Pollock, NOAA Seattle, NWFSC, Seattle, WA, United States
09:00
Comparing effects of active and passive restoration on the Middle Fork John Day River, NE Oregon (74456)
Patricia F McDowell, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
09:30
Flood duration and chute cutoff formation in a wandering gravel-bed river (71408)
April Sawyer, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States; cbec ecoengineering, West Sacramento, CA, United States
09:45
A numerical investigation of the impacts of river and floodplain restoration on the process of floodwave attenuation (Invited) (69594)
Mark C Stone, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States