The “Karlsruher Flussgebietstage” is a biannual international symposium held at the Institute of Water and River Basin Management (IWG) of KIT.
The symposium is a platform for the scientific exchange on specific issues of river basin management.
The forthcoming meeting in 2013 will focus on solids in river basins. Solids play an important role in both ecosystems and techno sphere. They serve as transport vehicle for various pollutants and directly influence water quality, habitat conditions and biogeochemical cycles.
The impact on river ecosystems is largely determined by the sources and rate at which solids are delivered to surface water bodies, their residence time in the river systems and their physico-chemical composition.
Thus the “Karlsruher Flussgebietstage 2013” will be centered on sources and transport processes of solids and particulate contaminants in river basins, considering modeling approaches, data availability, new monitoring techniques and management strategies.
Sources and Transport Processes
Understanding the fine sediment budgets of river basins
Desmond Walling, Exeter University, Great Britain
Frank Glante, UBA Dessau, Germany
Alpine areas as source of nutrient emissions into river systems
Matthias Zessner, TU Wien, Austria
Transfer of sediments in catchment ecosystems on various scales
Ulrike Scherer, KIT, Germany
Receiving water impacts from waste water systems
Peter Krebs, TU Dresden, Germany
WFD-Explorer: A tool to calculatethe effectiveness of WFD measures
Erwin Meijers, Deltares, Netherlands
Monitoring TechniquesMonitoring of rivers and catchmentsusing remote sensing techniques
Stefan Hinz, KIT, Germany
Monitoring of suspended loads inwaterways
Gudrun Hillebrand, BfG, Germany
Acoustic turbidity as online monitoring tool for rivers and sewer networks
Anne Pallarès, Université de Strasbourg, France
Management StrategienSediment management in river basins - case Elbe
Peter Heininger, BfG, Germany
Sediment management ceoncept of the Port of Hamburg
Axel Netzband, HPA, Germany
Suspended solid management in urban systems
Stephan Fuchs, KIT Germany
