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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr. Heide Friedrich
DTSTART:20190215T133000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Heide Friedrich\n13:30 – 14:30 – Dr. Heide Friedrich\n
 Senior Lecturer\, University of Auckland\, New Zealand\n\nWater\, energy a
 nd food: Hydraulic engineering perspective \n\nAs a society\, the challeng
 es we face to look after our water resources and to provide the associated
  water infrastructure are bigger than ever. We are becoming increasingly a
 ware of and understand complexities\, for example associated with flooding
 \, and in turn feel more powerless each time communities are affected by f
 looding. Sedimentation is identified as one of the significant flood hazar
 ds\, we now know that sediment loads behave significantly different in rec
 ent times due to land-use change\, dam constructions and human impact on d
 rainage systems. Water\, energy and food security are intrinsically linked
 \, needing innovative solutions\, by for example acknowledging the need fo
 r interdependent analytics to study hydraulic processes that encompass var
 ious scales and processes\, which are all adapting to climate change effec
 ts.\n \nIn this talk\, Dr Friedrich will provide an overview of her colla
 borations inside and outside academia. She will discuss her work on sedime
 nt dynamics\, near-boundary flow dynamics and ecohydraulics. Sediments and
  their transport are imperative to the health of river systems\, yet sedim
 ent transport and turbulence are not just engineering problems per se\, bu
 t need a combined social and engineering system approach to allow for the 
 growing demand on our limited water resources and acceleration in technolo
 gical advances. Finally\, she will present a personal vision on the import
 ance of partnerships and relationships to tackle present water system chal
 lenges\, such as hydrological alterations induced by climate change\, our 
 improved understanding of ecosystem connectivity and increasing population
  densification in flood-prone areas. Multidisciplinary and collaborative r
 esearch approaches are required to ensure resilient water systems.
LOCATION:GC C3 30 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GCC330
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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