Overview
Monday, 7th November – 1st Day of the Symposium
Thursday, 8th November – 2nd Day of the Symposium
Wendesday, 9th November – Field Trip
Thursday, 10th November – 1st Day of the Advanced Trining Course
Friday, 11th November – 2nd Day of the Advanced Trining Course
Book of abstracts (with Addendum) – download
Detailed programme: Symposium
Tuesday, 8th November |
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4th SESSION: Ecohydrology for water resources resilience and development
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9:00 – 9:20 |
Ecohydrological assessment and implementation of environmental flow regimes to support sustainable development of East African rever resources |
9:20 – 9:40 |
Structural and functional responses in macroinvertebrate communities to flow driven changes in hydraulic and physical conditions in the Mara River, Kenya |
9:40 – 10:00 |
Spatial and temporal variability of macroinvertabrates assemblages and the influence of ecohydrological variables along Sigi River, Tanzania |
10:00 – 10:20 |
Reserve assessment in the transboundary Mara River Basin, Kenya and Tanzania |
10:20 – 10:40 |
Holistic regional management of multiple water quantity, quality and other stressors in Africa using PROBFLO |
10:40—11:00 |
Quantifying the impact of sand-mining and associated dynamics on water sources in rural south Africa |
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5th SESSION: Ecohydrology for the enhancement of self-purification potential of rivers and lakes
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11:30 – 11:50 |
Microbial biofilms as one of the key elements for self-purification processes in riverine ecosystems |
11:50 – 12:10 |
Papyrus as a tool in Ecohydrology |
12:10 – 12:30 |
Heavy metals accumulation by aquatic macrophytes from lake Hawassa, Ethiopia: Phytoremediation for water quality improvement and mitigating downstream pollution |
12:30 – 12:50 |
Ecological Conditions and Ecosystem services of Wetlands in Lake Tana Area |
12:50 – 13:10 |
Comparative infiltration role of different land use cover: opting for potential recharger in African water roof basin |
13:10 – 13:30 |
Ecohydrological biotechnologies as a key to the pesticides contamination reduction |
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6th SESSION: Institutional challenges and Ecohydrological integrative problem solving
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14:30 – 14:50 |
Linking Ecohydrology and Integrated Water Resource Management: Institutional Challenges for Water Management in Pangani Basin, Tanzania |
14:50 – 15:10 |
Lake naivasha ecohydrology under anthropogenic stress. past, current challenges and options for the future |
15:10 – 15:30 |
Dry spells in the Ichkeul Basin: diagnosis of droughts using daily data |
15:30 – 15:50 |
Water budget closure hypothesis and ET estimation at the basin scale |
15:50 – 16:10 |
Multi-stakeholder partnership in addressing integrated water resource management in the context of ecohydrology focused on Upper Awash River |
16:10 – 16:30 |
Enhancement of sustainability potential of a floodplain reservoir through a multi-dimentional approach |
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7th CLOSING SESSION |
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The Way Forward Declaration System integration best practices – Assel Biofarm Park
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Wendesday, 9th November |
Field trip – Asella BioFarm Park
In the years 2008-2012 the International Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences – European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology under the auspices of UNESCO partnering with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia and other national partners with financial support from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland’s Polish Aid Programme, implemented several ecohydrology-based demonstration solutions for integrated water resources and sustainability in Ethiopia.
The symposium field trip will be organized on the 9th of November to Asella, Oromia, Ethiopia, where on a limited space various ecohydrology-based developments and ameliorations to prevent reservoir siltation, eutrophication, dioxin-induced toxicity of water, erosion control, and agriculture and fisheries productivity enhancement methods were develop in collaboration with Bio Economy Africa, Asella Branch. Asella BioFarm Park is a demonstration used for training of communities and farmers in ecological methods of farming and water resources management, based on understanding of water and agro-ecosystems. Since 2013 the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, Ecohydrology Project Office, has been monitoring, optimizing the system and using it as an ecohydrology demonstration site.