This three-day stream restoration workshop was jointly sponsored by Stillwater Sciences and the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics (NCED). The workshop included two days of presentations/discussions and one full-day field trip to restoration sites. The first day of the workshop focused on physical modeling studies in support of improved stream restoration design. The last day of the workshop was be a stream restoration forum that also served as the annual NCED Stream Restoration Group forum. In between these two days, we held an all-day field trip to examine stream restoration projects within rivers in the Central Valley and Sierra foothills.

Handouts

Workshop Agenda

Flume Project Description

Merced River Restoration Project Description

NCED Spawning Gravel Refresher
by Peter Wicock, (NCED)

Scaling Big Rivers: A long-term rehabilitation strategy for Central Valley alluvial rivers.
by Scott McBain, McBain&Thrush

Presentations

Day 1:

Introduction
by Pete Downs, Stillwater Sciences

Introduction
by Leonard Sklar, SFSU

Introduction
by Peter Wilcock, NCED

Experiments on fine sediment infiltration into gravel deposits
by Yatao Cui, Stillwater Sciences

Overview of Experiments on Gravel Augmentation
by Jeremy Vendetti & Peter Nelson, UC Berkeley

2D Experiments in Gravel Augmentation
by John Wooster, Stillwater Sciences

Variable Discharge and Channel Morphology by Glen Leverich, SFSU

Stream Lab - by Jeff Marr

Slide Creek: Creating spawning habitat in a steep, canyon stream. by Christian Braudrick, UC Berkeley

American River Pump Station Project by Kris Vyverberg, Department of Fish and Game

Channel-floodplain rescaling following gold dredging : Lower Merced River, California
by Pete Downs, Stillwater Sciences

Day 2:

Field Trip

Day 3:

Coming soon on theNCED website