Session 2: Managed Dyke Realignment Design
TransCoastal Adaptations is hosting a three-part Managed Dyke Realignment workshop series as part of our project Making Room for Wetlands: Implementation of Managed Realignment for Salt Marsh Restoration and Climate Change Adaptation in Nova Scotia.
This workshop will focus on three components of Managed Dyke Realignment and will bring together key researchers and practitioners from Europe and North America. The purpose of this workshop is to connect practitioners and share Managed Realignment Best Practices, lessons learned, and innovations in design and monitoring. Through knowledge sharing with European counterparts, we hope to establish managed realignment as a key nature-based adaptation strategy.
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SPEAKERS
Dr. Jon French - Estuary-Scale Hydrodynamic Impacts of Managed Realignment
Professor Jon French recently completed a 5-year term as Head of UCL Department of Geography, where he also directs the Coastal and Estuarine Research Unit. His interests include coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and morphodynamics, hazards to coastal infrastructure, and climate change adaptation modelling. Recent projects have included ‘Integrating Coastal Sediment Systems’ (iCOASST) (NERC); ‘Toolkit to improve resilience of critical ports and dependent national supply chain systems against extreme storm surge events’ (NERC); and ‘Coastal resilience in the face of sea-level rise’ (NERC SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme). Jon has extensive consultancy experience in areas including estuary hydrodynamics and modelling; flood defence management; port dredging; submarine geohazards; and critical infrastructure at the coast.
Joshua Kiesel - Effective Design of Managed Realignment Schemes Can Reduce Coastal Flood Risks
Joshua Kiesel is a coastal and marine geographer interested in the ecology and functioning of oceans and coasts. He is a lecturer and PhD student at the Department of Geography, Kiel University. His work focuses on coastal restoration and specifically the effectiveness of wetlands in reducing flood risk. Since November 2020, he is working in the ECAS-Baltic project, exploring the potential of ecosystem-based coastal protection for the German Baltic Sea coast. His expertise involves airborne- and ground-based coastal and marine vegetation surveys, field measurements and modelling of coastal hydrodynamics, as well as GIS and statistics based data analyses. In summer 2015, he joined the research expedition with the German research icebreaker RV Polarstern to the central Arctic Ocean and the North Pole, where he measured sedimentary oxygen uptake rates and associated environmental drivers in shelf and deep-sea sediments.
Dr. Stijn Temmerman - Eco-Geomorphic Modelling to Support Design of Tidal Marsh Creation by Managed Realignment
Dr. Stijn Temmerman is a geographer studying impacts of global change on coasts and river landscapes, and how ecosystems and human society can mitigate and adapt to global change. Coasts and river landscapes are hotspots of biodiversity and human activity that are impacted by sea level rise, changing storm and rainfall patterns, floods and erosion risks, human landscape engineering, etc. Living himself just above sea level, he likes to contribute to science-based solutions to mitigate global and local impacts on coastal and riverine socio-ecological systems. This involves studies on nature-based mitigation of climate impacts, such as flood risk reduction by marshes and mangroves; climate change mitigation by carbon storage in tidal wetlands; resilience of coastal ecosystems to sea level rise, storms and human impacts.
Jennie Graham - Panelist
Jennie Graham is the Vice President and Senior Restoration Specialist at CB Wetlands and Environmental Specialists (CBWES Inc.), and primarily focuses on hydrology restoration design, with expertise in GIS analysis, field methodologies, and project management.
