Presentations from SUSHP 2023

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Playlist from day 1 | Playlist from day 2 | Playlist from day 3

Presentations

Plenaries

Plenary 1: Emerging policies, regulations, and international sustainability standards

Welcome
Anders Iversen

Opening
Jakob Granit

The role of hydropower in the green shift
Martin Brittain

The Role of Hydropower in Clean Energy Transition: A World Bank Perspective on Environmental and Social Standards (ESS)
Pravin Karki

KEYNOTE: Hydropower and EU policy on water management, biodiversity, and climate adaptation
Wouter van de Bund

Going forward, the only acceptable hydropower is sustainable hydropower – a bold statement, but can it be followed up with action?
Pablo Valverde

EU Hydropower balances targets for climate and environment
Anne Bolle

Green for real? Have you asked the eel?
Åsa Renman

Plenary 2: Lessons learned, regionalwise best practises and sustainable management of water

An Overview of Environmentally Sustainable Hydropower in the United States Viewed Through the Lens of EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities
Brenda Pracheil

Approaches for Sustainable Hydropower use in Austria
Gisela Ofenböck & Franz Greimel

Overview of mitigation measures implemented in France to reduce ecological impacts of hydropower
Veronique Gouraud

National plan for revision of hydropower in Sweden
Anders Skarstedt

An overview of emerging management practise to reduce ecological impacts from hydropower in Norway
Oda Bjærke

Balancing increased capacity and flexibility with environmental values in a proposed redevelopment of an existing hydropower scheme
Marie Egerrup

KEYNOTE: Mitigation measures revisited – environmental effects, costs and endurance
Ulrich Pulg, Sebastian Stranzl & Christoph Hauer

Plenaries 3 & 4: Good governance and long-term changes of the water resources systems

KEYNOTE: Effects of planned hydropower dams and barriers on river connectivity in the Balkan region
Mauro Carolli et al.

Climate change in the context of Environmental flows and changed hydrology in three basin areas in Sweden
Åsa Widén, Roland Jansson & Birgitta Malm-Renöfält

Methods, indicators and solutions for sustainable hydropower
Atle Harby, Tor Haakon Bakken & Line Sundt-Hansen

Mapping the natural values and ecological rehabilitation potential of Sweden’s bypassed river reaches
Birgitta Malm Renöfält et al.

Multidecadal trends in brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations in regulated and unregulated river
Laurence Tissot et al.

Governance responses to tightening environmental requirements for hydropower – Finland, Germany and Sweden
Antti Iho

Long term changes in riverscapes in rivers regulated for hydropower.
Knut Alfredsen et al.

Increasing biodiversity in heavily modified rivers without affecting production or balancing capacity of hydropower – strategy and examples of case studies
Erik Sparrevik

Plenary 5: Evident based solutions for sustainable management of hydropower impacts

KEYNOTE: IEA Roadmap for best practise solutions for hydropower and fish
Ana Adevo Bustos & Marcell Szabó-Mészáros

Restoration of flood-maintained ecosystems
Birgitta Malm Renöfält & Roland Jansson

Using turbulent eddies to guide fish: The Fishpath Project
Ana T. Silva et al.

A critical review of best practice mitigation towards low ecological impacts from large hydropower in Europe and the US
Jo Halvard Halleraker et al.

KEYNOTE: Opportunities and challenges for sustainable hydropower in the European Union and in Europe
Emanuele Quaranta

Flexible hydropower ensures the security of electricity supply - Growing challenges due to accelerated climate targets and energy crisis
Gottfried Gökler et al.

Sustainable sediment management for hydropower: Results of the CD-Laboratory "Sediment research and management"
Christoph Hauer

Research priorities in hydropeaking
Daniel Hayes et al.

Overview of U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office R&D to Advance Sustainable Hydropower
Dana N. McCoskey

Closing remarks
Jakob Granit

Wrapping up
Anders Iversen

Parallel sessions

Session 1: Hydropeaking and sustainable flexibility from hydropower

New approaches for a sustainable hydropeaking management: The HEM-Peak model and the role of channel evolution, river morphology and sediment dynamics
Christoph Hauer

Mitigating hydropeaking impacts and enhancing fish habitat by hydromorphological adaptions of the river bathymetry
Sissel Hauge Mykletun

Sustaining hydropower production and salmonid populations: Ecological models for assessing hydropeaking and habitat restoration scenarios
Mahboobeh Hajiesmaeili & Louis Addo

Unravelling the complex relationship between artificial flow fluctuations and cyprinid fish: a comprehensive analysis
Daniel Hayes

Session 2: Connectivity, barrier and solutions

An overview over upstream fish passages past barriers in Norway
Sebastian Stranzl et al.

Impact of weirs and hydropower regulation on brown trout, invertebrates and people in an inland river; expanding the concept of environmental design.
Line E. Sundt-Hansen et al.

Behaviour of post-spawned Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) migrating past a hydropower dam.
Olivia Simmons

A framework to identify cost-effective mitigation measures using Influence Diagrams
Ana Adeva-Bustos

Bidirectional use of a natural fishpass
Walter Reckendorfer

Passage Efficiency of Downstream Moving Fish at a Bypass Gate with Bottom and Top Opening
Luiz G. M. Silva

Session 3: International hydropower, sustainability and the use of LCA

Mass fish mortality events: a (novel?) threat to hydropower in tropical systems
Luiz G. M. Silva

Uncertainty and complexity in ecological and social mitigation of hydropower in developing countries
Leah Bêche

Analysis of flow variation in the Kelani River due to the impact of the Laxapana Hydropower System in Sri Lanka
Sajana P. Hemakumara & R.D.T. Kaushalya

CoolHydro – mitigating extreme temperature events in hydropower catchments
Lennart Schönfelder et al.

Hidden effects of water impoundment on surrounding vegetation and water consumption
Fernando Jaramillo

Biodiversity footprint of hydropower : introducing aquatic pressures into the Product Biodiversity Footprint (PBF)
Agnes Barrilier et al.

Session 4: Hydropeaking, flexibility and impacts downstream HP outlets

The ecological effects of sub-daily flow variability on riverine fishes – a systematic review
Bryan Bozeman, Paul Matson & Brenda Pracheil

Effects of spatio-temporal variability of hydropeaking on juvenile fish
Kevin Merl et al.

Hydropower and hydromorphological impacts in freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) rivers: ecological bottlenecks and potential mitigation measures
Marie-Pierre Gosselin et al.

Session 5: Connectivity, barriers, and integrated solutions

Fish passage facilities in a new hydropower plant at Hvammur in River Thjorsa, Iceland
Sigurdur Gudjonsson

Turbine Design for Fish Inclusion
Sterling Watson & Abe Schneider

A new method for passing substrate over weirs
Tom Jacobsen

Evaluation of vertical connectivity in regulated river reaches using a multiparametric measuring approach
Markus Noack & Alcides Aybar Galdos

The benefits and challenges of using environmental nucleotides for fish passage species detection and enumeration
Kristine N. Moody et al.

Modelling fish recruitment potential of lithophilic fish in restored rivers by means of functional habitat and population dynamics modelling
David Farò & Christian Wolter

Session 6: Reservoirs, their role in the future energy system and the effects of environmental contraints

Physical environmental impacts on a hydropower reservoir under different operational modes
Ana Adeva-Bustos et al.

Optimal Integration of Hybrid Pumped Storage Hydropower to increase renewables penetration and reduce CO₂ emissions
Alban Kuriqi et al.

Application of remote sensing for monitoring fish spawning sites of a large hydropower plant reservoir in a lowland region
Linas Jurevicius

Green Lidar in Lakes
Raffa Ahmed et al.

An assessment of the impact of environmental constraints on utilization of Norwegian hydropower flexibility for integration of wind and solar power
Viviane Aubin et al.

Determining the hydrological implications of regulation on Swedish lakes with space observations
Fernando Jaramillo et al.