River Restoration - Form and Function

This course focuses on fluvial geomorphology, the study of the processes that operate in river systems and the landforms which they create or have created. Understanding fluvial geomorphology can lead to improved outcomes in waterway management.

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Course curriculum

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What is fluvial geomorphology and why is important?
- Introduction and course overview
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- Identify the areas of waterway management where understanding the basis of geomorphology can lead to improved outcomes
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- Principles of fluvial geomorphology
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- Spatial scale in stream systems
- Classifying streams in different regions
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Stream processes
- Introduction to the drivers of geomorphic form and processes
- Introduction to Lanes Balance diagram and channel change processes
- Introduction to open channel flow
- Riparian vegetation and stream processes
- Introduction to channel incision
- Introduction to meander migration
- Introduction to avulsions
3

Waterway management
- Introduction to waterway planning framework
- Objective setting
- System understanding
- Options for management
- Monitoring and evaluation
4

Application of river processes, engineering and restoration
- Sediment management programs
- Environmental flows assessments
- River restoration
- River diversions
- Urban stream naturalisation

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Instructor(s)

Instructor

Misko Ivezich

Misko is an environmental engineer with core interests and skills in the complex interactions between hydrology, hydraulics and fluvial geomorphology. Misko has strong geomorphic field assessment skills having inspected hundreds of waterways across eastern Australia. In addition he is highly proficient in terrain, hydrologic and hydraulic modelling. The combination of his on ground experience and modelling expertise means he has an innate ability to understand how changes in processes, from the local scale to the catchment scale, will impact the condition and trajectory of rivers. Following widespread flooding in both south-east Queensland and north-east Victoria in recent years Misko has worked on a range of projects assessing the causes of channel change. Much of this work has focused on assessing the roles previous restoration works and riparian vegetation played in exacerbating or limiting stream stability. Consequently, as a river restoration designer he couples analytical engineering theory with his experiences of what has previously worked to increase stream stability.