Webinars

List of HyPeak webinars

#15 HyPeak webinar - Hydropeaking effects on freshwater insects and their mitigation - 21st May 2025 

"Colorado River Ecosystem Response to Experimental "Bug Flow" Releases from Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona, USA" by Theodore A. Kennedy (USGS, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, USA)
"Can hydropeaking impair reproduction of stream insects? An experimental study on the effects of artificial dewatering" by Emmanuel Jaulin (INRAE, France) 

#14 HyPeak webinar - Hydropeaking effects on fish: from pattern assessment to mitigation - 6th February 2025

"Discharge and temperature alterations trigger behavioral responses in early-life stages of trout" by Robert Naudascher (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

"Hydropeaking mitigation based on stranding risk studies and impacts - case study River Lech" by Matthias Schneider (SJE Ecohydraulic Engineering GmbH, Germany)

#13 HyPeak webinar - Morphology and mitigation in Hydropeaking rivers - 6th November 2024

"Morphology matters, sediments dynamics, and habitat forming processes" by Christoph Hauer (BOKU, Austria)

"Identification of effective hydropeaking mitigation measures: lessons learnt from site studies" by Veronique Gouraud (EdF, France)

#12 HyPeak webinar - Hydropeaking in Northern region - 4th September 2024 

"Nordic Socio-Recreational Ecosystem Services in Hydropeaked River" by Zeeshan Tahir Virk (University of Oulu)

"Hydropower in the changing climate, A Nordic perceptive" by Christine Kaggwa Nakigudde (University of Oulu)

#11 HyPeak webinar -  Assessing Free Flowing Rivers -5th June 2024 

"An overview of the method proposed by the ECOSTAT core-group on FFR" by Andrea Goltara (CIRF Italy)

#10 HyPeak webinar - 3rd April 2024

"Sustainable Hydropower opportunities and priorities: focus on the European Union" by Emanuele Quaranta (European Commission Joint Research Centre)

#9 HyPeak webinar  - Hydropeaking research issues - 7th february 2024.

"A roadmap to guide hydropeaking research" by Daniel Hayes (BOKU, Austria) and Terese Venus (Uni Passau, Germany)

#8 HyPeak webinar  Hydropower and hydropeaking on different continents - Wednesday 27th of September 2023

"Hydropower development in emerging countries: tackling uncertainty to achieve effective (hydropeaking) mitigation" by Leah Bêche (Center for Hydropower Engineering, Electricité de France)

"Hydropeaking: hydropower operations and the water-energy nexus in Chile" byMarcelo Alberto Olivares (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Chile)

#7 HyPeak - Carbopeaking- 10th of May 2023

"Do Rivers Dream of Hydroelectric Carbon? Evidence, Drivers, and Potential Implications of Carbopeaking at Two (Very) Different Study Sites: the Zambezi (Zambia/Zimbabwe) and the Noce River (Italy)" by Elisa Calamita (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Eawag, Switzerland ) and Giulio Dolcetti (Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechani-cal Engineering, University of Trento, Italy)

#6 HyPeak Women’s Day webinar -  Innovations in hydropeaking research - 8th march 2023 

"Hydropeaking research in River Research and Applications" byRoser Casas-Mulet (Technical University of Munich, Germany) & Davide Vanzo (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

"Introducing HyPeak: An international network on hydropeaking research, practice, and policy" by Maria Cristina Bruno (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy) & Maria Alp (INRAE, France)

"Exploring pulsed flows in flume conditions: insights for fish habitat enhancement" by Maria João Costa & Isabel Boavida (CERIS, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

#5 HyPeak webinar – Multiple pressures in hydropeaked rivers: impact and best management of supersaturation - 11th of January 2023 

"Saturopeaking – what’s the matter with gas in water?" by Ulrich Pulg (NORCE/LFI, Norway)

"Sustainable solution for avoiding gas supersaturation - best practise on mitigating downstream impact from hydropower on fish" by Marcell Szabo-Meszaros (SINTEF Energy, Norway /IEA Hydro)

#4 HyPeak webinar – Hydropeaking studies in Tasmania and New Zealand - 16th of November 2022

 "Mitigating geomorphological hydro-peaking impacts in a World Herit-age Area in Tasmania, Australia" by Marie Egerrup (Hydro Tasmania, AUS) & Lois Koehnken (Technical Advice on Water) 

"Fish love batteries" by Jannik Haas (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ) 

#3 webinar – effects of hydropeaking on bio-physical processes -  8th of June 2022

"Hydropeaking in France" by Benoit Terrier (Agence de l'eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse)

"Assessing Flow Functionality in Hydropeaking Rivers" by Sarah Yarnell (Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis)

#2 webinar – sustainable hydropeaking management - 30th of March 2022

"Hydropeaking mitigation and management in Switzerland", by Dr. Lorenzo Gorla (BAFU/Switzerland):

"Required mitigation measures to address hydropeaking in line with EU guidelines", by Katarina Vartia (SWAM/SE, WG ECOSTAT), Jeanne Boughaba (DG ENV/EU COM) & Jo H. Halleraker (NTNU/NO, CIS ATG HYMO)

#1 webinar – hydropeaking impacts and mitigation in the Alps - 9th of February 2022

"Updates from the HyPeak research network by core group"  by M. Alp, M. Noack, M. C. Bruno, R. Casas-Mulet & I. Boavida, HyPeak Network

"Hydropeaking research and mitigation in Austria - status and future perspectives seen from a hydrologist" by Franz Greimel, Inst of Hydrobiology and water management (BOKU, Austria)

"What fish wants – last chance for Tyrol's Inn River". A film-documentary about hydropeaking and other challenges for the grayling and other species in the river Inn (Tyrol, Austria) made by filmmaker Christoph J. Walder (EcoTone)