Ecohydraulics & Climate-Aware Restoration

Inaugural lecture on "Ecohydraulics" by PD Dr. Sebastian Schwindt

Inaugural lecture on "Ecohydraulics" by PD Dr. Sebastian Schwindt on March 16, 2026 (15h00 CET). -- Contents of this video -- 00:05:50 - Table of Lecture Contents 00:06:19 - Fundamentals of…

Waves on the Rhine River after ship passage

The second wave train of a ship hitting a restored sand beach at the Rhine River, Germany

Tsunami-like wave rolling into a bay of the Rhine River after ship passage

This video shows the last wave train of a ship rolling into a bay of the Rhine River

Simulation of a Flood wave with Telemac v8p4

Animation created with QGIS and KDENlive. Data and full modeling tutorial available at https://hydro-informatics.com/numerics/telemac/telemac2d-unsteady.html

Polygonize: Raster to Polygon with QGIS

Convert a raster to a shapefile (vector) dataset with QGIS. The used data is available at https://hydro-informatics.com/geopy/use-qgis.html#polygonize Lecturer: Sebastian Schwindt -- Contents of this…

Wave-driven sand transport over dunes

Vectorize (raster to shapefile) & rasterize (shapefile to raster) with Python and GDAL

Convert geospatial raster (grid) data sets to line and polygon shapefiles (vectorize), and vice versa (rasterize) with OSGeo (GDAL) in Python and materials provided at…

Raster handling with Python and GDAL

Read, create, and modify geospatial raster (grid) data sets with GDAL in Python and materials provided at https://hydro-informatics.com/jupyter/geo-raster.html The jupyter notebooks can be git-cloned…

New Ecohydraulics Interview: Andrés Vargas Luna – Vegetated Rivers

Andrés Vargas Luna – Vegetated Rivers We have another interview video up on the Ecohydraulics channel, giving a short glimpse into the people, ideas, and river-brain behind the field. No need to overcook it: grab a…

International Symposium on Ecohydraulics (ISE) 2026 / Lausanne, Switzerland – Update: Early-bird Deadline Extended

Early-bird deadline extended: more time to sort your Lausanne plans Good news for everyone still wrestling with travel forms, budget approvals, train tickets, flight prices, hotel tabs, institutional portals, or the…

New Ecohydraulics Interview: Knut Alfredsen – Cold Rivers

Knut Alfredsen Interview: Cold Rivers The Ecohydraulics video channel has landed another interview, this time with Dr. Knut Alfredsen from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). If your scientific…

Gregory Pasternack Appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ecohydraulics

Prof. Gregory Pasternack (University of California, USA) Gregory Pasternack, Professor of Watershed Hydrology at the University of California (USA), is appointed new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ecohydraulics! This…

IAHR ISE-SED 2026 — Extended abstract submission now open!

The International Symposium on Ecohydraulics (ISE 2026) to be held at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, has opened the call for extended abstract submission with deadline set for October 31st 2025. All key information is…

X-posting: Joint Committee on Fisheries Engineering and Science – 2025 Webinar Series: Restoring Fish Passage on the St. Croix River

JOINT COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE 2025 Webinar Series Restoring Fish Passage on the St. Croix River: Engineering and Ecological Perspectives Forming the border of Maine and New Brunswick, the St.…

X-posting: Fish Passage Conference 2026. Requesting proposals for sessions, workshops and taking award nominations

This is a message from the organizers of the Fish Passage Conference 2026:   Dear Fish Passage Community, The organizing committee is thrilled to share our progress. We are now requesting proposals for sessions –…

“Dear esteemed researcher …” sssshhh – how to block scientific spam mails

A new paper is finally published and everyone is pleased — especially questionable faky-scientific agents that scrape your email address from your paper and flood your inbox. Some even persuade researchers to…