Sunday (Optional Meet & Greet) You are welcome to join instructors and TAs at a traditional ‘bouchon’ restaurant in Vieux Lyon (details TBA, no-host).

 

Monday (Begin at ENS Lecture Hall, Lyon)

8h : River Restoration Overview : Connectivity and Flow Regimes (Kondolf)

9h15 : Student Introductions

9h45 : Pause Café (coffee break)

10h15 : Evolution of Rivers; Regional Context and Issues (Piégay)

11h30 : Introduction to Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology (Kondolf and Piégay)

12h : Lunch on ENS Campus

13h : Imagery, DGPS, GIS, & Sedimentology Lab Tour (Piégay and others)

14h : Depart for Pierre Bénite

14h30 : SITE VISIT: Constructed side channel and minimum discharge augmentation in the Rhône River (Lamouroux)

16h30 : Depart for Bollène

18h : SITE VISIT: Lez River: Flood Hazard, Floodplain Reconnection?

18h45 : Depart for Institut Beaumont

19h30 : Check-in

20h30 : Dinner Provençal in the Courtyard

 

Tuesday (at l’Institut Beaumont)

8h : Geomorphology I : Channel Form and Process (Kondolf)

9h : Evolution of PreAlpine Rivers (Liébault)

10h : Pause Café (coffee break)

10h30 : Riparia, the Role of Vegetation in River Systems (Dufour)

11h30 : Applying fluvial geomorphology in catchment-scale restoration planning: the fluvial audit and multi-criteria assessment.  (Sear)

12h30 : Lunch at l’Institut

13h30 : Depart for Toulourenc River to visit two contrasting tributaries.

14h30 : FIELD EXERCISE : Facies mapping, long profile and cross-section surveys, subsurface  sampling techniques

18h : Optional Swimming, or return directly to l’Institut

19h30 : Dinner in Courtyard

21h : Evening program (films)

 

Wednesday

8h : Geomorphology II: Channel Adjustments and Hungry Water (Kondolf)

9h : ‘Espace de Liberté’ and other River Management Concepts (Piégay)

10h : Pause Café

10h30 : Wood in Rivers (Piégay)

11h30 : Hydrology & Hydraulics, Flood Frequency Analysis for Toulourenc & Ouvèze

12h30 : Lunch in Courtyard

13h30 : Depart for Ouvèze River

14h : FIELD EXERCISE : Canopy cover, dendrochronology, habitat measurements

16h : The Roman Bridge of Vaison, Origins and effects of the 1992 flood

17h : Free time to hike, read, rest, etc.

18h30 : The terroir and wines of the Côtes du Rhône and Côtes du Ventoux, recent land-use trends (and tasting wines from divers terrains: Châteauneuf du Pape, Gigondas, Vacqueyras)

19h30 : Dinner in the Courtyard

21h : WORKSHOP 1: Student Problem Presentations and Discussions

 

Thursday

8h : European River Restoration; Urban to Rural (Binder)

9h : North American River Restoration Case Studies (Kondolf)

10h : Pause Café

10h30 : Adaptive Management (Jenkinson)

11h30 : SMALL GROUP : Lez River Management and Restoration Design

12h30 : Lunch at l’Institut

13h30 : Depart for Lez River

14h30 : Project tour and discussion

16h30 : Depart for Gigondas

17h : Tour of historic Gigondas cave, tasting

18h : Scenic drive back to l’Institut Beaumont through the Dentelles

19h30 : Dinner Provençal in the Courtyard

 

Friday

8h : Lessons from large river restoration programmes in North America

9h : Restoring lateral and vertical connectivity through floodplain reconnection: experiences from North America (Tompkins)

10h : Pause Café

10h30 : WORKSHOP 2: Student Problem Presentations and Discussions

12h30 : Lunch in courtyard

13h30 : Stream restoration in the UK: evolving priorities (Driver)

14h30 : Prioritizing Restoration Actions (Kondolf)

15h : Conclusion, adjourn.

16h : Free time, optional trip to Mt Ventoux, Dinner on own in Vaison/Malaucène

 

Saturday (optional Field Trip in/around Lyon)

7h : Depart for Lyon

10h : Ain River : former channel restoration, sediment augmentation near Varambon (Rollet, Piégay)

12h30 : Picnic Lunch

14h : Yzeron River : Urbanization-induced incision and downstream aggradation, proposed levee set-back and renaturalization (Schmitt)

16h30 : Arrive at Lyon Part-Dieu rail station : Au revoir et  à la prochaine!