The 7th edition of the International Meuse Symposium will take place on Tuesday, 21st September 2021. It will be organized as online-conference.

We have collected interesting presentations for the 7th edition of the International Meuse Symposium. The talks will be organized in four sessions:

General session - reflecting the 2021 floods
Hydrology
River morphology and water quality
Management of river and river basin
Discussion: towards a common research agenda for the Meuse - how does the 2021 flood change our way of thinking?

Please send an e-mail to Bernhard Becker from the organizing committee for registration to the conference. We will collect registrations and send a meeting link a few days before the conference date.

Invitation and programme

Published on 31 August 2021 - updated 17 September 2021

Insights from the 2021 floods

Chair: Guillaume Thirel (INRAE)

Benjamin Dewals (Université de Liège)

The 2021 exceptional floods in the Meuse basin - insights from the Netherlands

David Kroekenstoel (Rijkswaterstaat)

Hydrology

Chair: Lieke Melsen (Wageningen UR)

Impact of climate change on the French part of the River Meuse - the CHIMERE 21 project

Guillaume Thirel (INRAE)

River morphology and water quality

Chair: Benjamin Dewals (Université de Liège)

Morphological river development in the Rur basin

Stefanie Wolf (RWTH Aachen University), Anna-Lisa Maaß (Dr. Pecher AG), Verena Esser (RWTH Aachen University)

Management of river and river basins

Chair: Bernhard Becker (Deltares)

Plan of approach for the management of exceptional low water events in the Meuse catchment area

Jean-Noël Pansera (International Meuse Commission)

Management of dynamic river banks

Eveline van der Deijl (Deltares)

Analysis tool for passability of fish at weir complexes in river systems

Erik Ruijgh (Deltares)

Plenary discussion