Site card
Greenchannel
Where:
Hydrobiology
Ubicación:
ETSI Montes, Forestal y Medio Natural
Typology:
Equipamiento científico-Tecnológico
Manager: María Dolores Bejarano
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Life-sized, river reach lab
Ecohydrology, hydrobiology
There is the need to understand the underlying physical, biological, and chemical mechanisms that govern stream processes and their response to natural and human disturbances. This knowledge is critical to develop science-based approaches for managing and restoring the degraded rivers. The Greenchannel is a unique research facility that brings together river scientists, engineers, and managers to explore river water and sediment flows and aquatic and riparian riparian communities
The Greenchannel is uniquely equipped to:
Conduct hydraulic, hydrological and instream and riparian ecological life-sized experiments under controlled conditions
Impose and repeat all kinds of hydrographs, including overbank floods
Quantify physical, chemical, and biological processes taking place both in the river and in the associated riparian areas from microscopic to reach scales
Provide verification for advanced computational models
Host highly visible formal and informal education
Life-sized, fluvial natural processes modelling
