Invitation for the GCOE seminar on stream ecology and restoration

-Program-

Title: River and floodplain restoration in the US and Japan
- Current accomplishment and problems, and future directions -

Middle Lecture Hall (S501), Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido
University

<Thursday, Oct. 22>

13:00-16:15
Guest speaker: Stanley V. Gregory
(Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, USA)
1. "Structure and function of river landscape
& Frontiers on rivers and riparian zone concepts"
2. "Progress of stream ecology in LTER for the past, present and future"

<Friday, Oct. 23>

13:00 Introduction of the speakers

13:10 Takashi Kimura (Hokkaido University)
"Variability in tributary-mainstem linkages for sediment transport in a
headwater catchment"

13:30 Hirokazu Urabe (Hokkaido Fish Hatchery)
"Influence of the habitat loss and degradation by dams: estimating the
potential recovery of
masu salmon population through habitat restoration"

13:50 Shigeya Nagayama (Aqua Restoration Research Center)
"Perspective on the Shibetsu River Restoration Project: insights from
natural meandering reach"

14:10 Recess

14:20 Yoichi Kawaguchi (Tokushima University)
"Geomorphic changes and fish responses to channel re-meandering in the
Shibetsu River,
northern Japan"

14:40 Junjiro Negishi (Hokkaido University)
"Evaluating floodplain environments using freshwater mussels as an
indicator species"

15:00 Daisuke Nakano (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
"Influences of Management of Rivers and Reserviors on Invasive Bivalve
Limnoperna fortunei
in Japan"

15:20 Recess

15:30 Stanley V. Gregory
"Long-term responses of fish populations to forest practices"

17:15 Concluding remarks

Organizer: Futoshi Nakamura
(Forest Ecosysmem Management Lab., Hokkaido University)

The poster is available from:
http://forman-eco.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html