Projects
Record (Restored Corridor Dynamics)
Assessment and Modeling of Coupled Ecological and Hydrological Dynamics in the Restored Corridor of a River
River restoration is an essential tool to
achieve "good ecological status” of water courses as required by European
and Swiss legislation. Although the number of restoration projects has
increased in recent years, scientific understanding of the underlying
principles determining how hydromorphological variability in restored corridors
of rivers relates to
- ecosystem functioning,
- biodiversity and
- water
quality
is still limited. Our objective is to increase mechanistic
understanding of coupled hydrological and ecological processes in near-river
corridors. For this purpose, we are
- instrumenting a restored and a channelized
section of the Swiss River Thur as large-scale field experimental sites, where
we will quantify how the relevant variables influence (ground)water quality,
ecosystem functioning and biodiversity;
- performing controlled experiments at the
field sites and in the lab;
- developing process-based models of coupled hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological processes, facilitating transfer to other river systems undergoing restoration.
for more information about Record:
http://www.cces.ethz.ch/projects/nature/Record
http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/index.php/Record:Home
Swiss Experiment
The project Swiss Experiment is a collabrative research platform des CCES
(Competence Center for Environmental Sustainability) ot the ETH domain. Goal is the development and implementation of sensors and methods with focus on automatisation of
- data generation
- linking meta data and monitoring data,
- data processing (validation, interpretation) and
- data visualisation.
for more information about Swiss-Experiment:
http://www.swiss-experiment.ch
http://atom.research.microsoft.com/sensewebv3/sensormap/