Pollutant and sediment mobility in river systems: monitoring studies to identify human impacts

School for Young Scientists “Pollutant and sediment mobility in river systems: monitoring studies to identify human impacts” was hosted by the Faculty of Geography at the Lomonosov Moscow State University on 25-27 November 2020. It was based on extensive online lectures given by leading experts in the field of water and sediment quality, environmental monitoring and applied hydrogeochemestry.

This website contains all of the details and materials for the school, along with resources for further learning and practice. The materials shared here are free and open source and may be shared and adapted under the Creative Commons License.

Expected audience: bachelor, master and PhD students, young scientists in hydrogeochemestry, ecology, hydrology and other areas.

All registered participants of the school will get a certificate of the attendance (upon request). Please note the LOC will follow the presence of the participants during lectures. We reserve the right to reject the certificate delivery in case of “no show”.

The School is organized with the financial support from the Russian Science Foundation (grant No 19-77-30004).

Feedback

Organizing Committee expresses gratitude for the lecturers who participated in the event. We were very proud to introduce to young scientists of Russia leading experts in the field of water quality and river sedimentation. Thank you, participants, for intensive discussions after lectures, questions and feedback.We are happy that with almost 400 registered participants, the school got significant interest both in Russia and abroad. Also, we see advantages of a new type of online format, but hope that the next events will take place in traditional in-situ (or hybrid) format.

On behalf of Organizing Committee
Dr. Sergey Chalov

Md. Humayain Kabir

MEGAPOLIS 2020 School for Young Scientists was really great. It presents the complete picture of problems facing most of the large/small river basins in the world. I've learn a lot for this school. I will be happy to work with you in near future.

Antonella Nucera

Thanks for the brilliant event.

Pankaj Kumar

It was awesome experiance to join the event.

Adeyemi O. Olusola

I am grateful to the organizers for accepting my registration to attend MEGAPOLIS2020. I enjoyed the discussions and made some jottings. I was looking forward to the discussion on tropical rivers by Edgardo and I was impressed.

Dr. Pintu Das

It has been very informative and I learned a lot. Awesome presentation! Thanks & Regards.

Ikpe Udom

Thank you for the opportunity to attend the MEGAPOLIS 2020 school for young scientists. The topics were well researched and relevant and the presentations excellent. I benefitted greatly and hope to mobilize our research group members to attend next time it comes up.

Dr. Azuka C.V.

I will like to start by appreciating the organizers of this course for young scientists. The course has enabled me to learn new things that will reshape and refocus my career as a scientist in the future. I am really grateful participating in this event.

Dr. M. Imran Azam

Thank you very much for arranging such wondering workshop. The formate and content was perfect, all experts presented and share their research with new ideas.

Suvendu Roy

Overall, it was great experience to listening every experts. Thanks for organizing such a great program.

Guseva Olga

I'd want to say thanks a lot for organization of the event. I listened to all repots with great interest. It was not only very informative but also extremely useful for studying English (for me at least). I wish you to continue your great work and my suggestion for further school: geochemical issues of studying landscapes and urban territories.

Emily Kemp

The event was insightful, professionally organized and useful. The option to watch sessions in different time zones and rewind if necessary was a great idea.I found the lectures interesting and the lecturers approachable and helpful. While I enjoyed all the sessions, my favorites were lectures by Prof. Salomon Kroonenber and Dr Caroline Clason. I hope to have the opportunity to attend more of such seminars.

Schedule

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Moscow time
11:00 MSK = 3:00 CDT = 9:00 CET

25th November			Youtube link
17:45-18:00		Opening ceremony
18:00-18:45	Dr. Björn Helm	Particle-bound pollution from urban areas: significance, assessment and management	Watch
19:00-19:45	Dr. Sergey Chalov	Assessing suspended sediment patterns over large rivers using remote sensing techniques	Watch
26th November
11:00-11:45	Prof. Salomon Kroonenberg	The death of Western Europe’s largest river Eridanos (and its recent resurrection)	Watch
12:00-12:45	Prof. Adrian Collins	Exceedance of modern background sediment loss to rivers in England and Wales and scope for closing the gap using best management	Watch
17:00-17:45	Dr. Matthias Vanmaercke	Quantifying gully erosion and its impacts on sediment fluxes at regional scales: research needs and recent advancements	Watch
18:00-18:45	Dr. Caroline Clason	The downstream impacts of retreating glaciers on water quality and security	Watch
19:00-19:45	Dr. Sagy Cohen	Recent advances and future direction in global fluvial sediment modeling	Watch
27th November
16:00-16:45	Prof. Edgardo Latrubesse	Sediment sources, sinks and human impacts on large south American rivers	Watch
17:00-17:45	Prof. Jeff Nittrouer	Hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes in the lowermost Mississippi River: insights into the role of non-uniform flow for affecting timing and magnitude of material movement, and applications for building deltaic land surfaces	Watch
18:00-18:45	Prof. Daniel Karthe	Water quality problems in the Mongolian subbasins of the Selenga - a Nexus perspective	Watch
19:00-19:45	Prof. Martina Flörke	Integrating monitoring and water quality modelling to assess human impacts	Watch