GREAT NEWS, SedNet is selected to become member of the Enlarged Soil Expert Group on the implementation of the EU Soil Strategy for 2030.
Thus, great opportunities for SedNet to raise appropriate links to/with sediment management in EU soil policy development.
The first meeting of the Enlarged Soil Expert Group is scheduled in Brussels on 4 October 2022. To see further please click here.
A Small Step for SIMONA, a Big Leap for the Danube Basin Harmonised Sediment Quality Monitoring: Standard Sediment Sampling Kit Delivery Started
SIMONA: EU Interreg Danube Transnational Programme Project: Sediment-quality Information, Monitoring and Assessment System to Support Transnational Cooperation for Joint Danube Basin Water Management
The delivery of the SIMONA Standard Sediment Quality Sampling Kit to each of the 12 Danube Countries (government agencies responsible for sediment quality monitoring under the Water Framework Directive) started last week. The first kit was delivered to the General Directorate of Water Management (OVF), Budapest, Hungary.
The main conclusions of SIMONA published in the latest issue of DanubeWatch magazineDanubeWatch is the official magazine of ICPDR – International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (See P.9). Including: significant gaps exist in the sediment quality sampling, laboratory and evaluation procedures in the Danube Basin; sediments are highly site-specific requiring site-specific monitoring approach; long-term regular sediment quality monitoring at selected key sites is essential; introduction of inter-laboratory trials and regular training on sampling and analysis is an immediate need.
Find out more!
– Project Website
– Project Video
Two-day event organized by the SedNet CE workgroup on the 5th and 6th of July 2022
As mentioned in the newsflash from March the SedNet CE workgroup will organize a field trip to visit the Room for the river project on the river Waal (starting and ending in the city of Tiel) on the 6th of July 2022 (registration at SedNet Secretariat). We are happy to extent the invitation to a two-day event, starting on the 5th of July in Delft. Here we will work on the four topics from the SedNet White paper on Circular Economy and Beneficial Use (BU) of Sediments.
If you want to join, please inform the SedNet Secretariat if you come for both days, or only for the workshop (5thof July) or field trip (6th of July). For substantive questions you can contact Arjan Wijdeveld.
Agenda
05-07-2022: Workshop at Deltares, visitors address Boussinesqweg 1 in Delft
– 09:30 walk in
– 10:00 plenary start, recap of the purpose of the Sediment in a CE white paper
– 10:30 division in four workgroups to work on four topics
– 12:00 lunch at Deltares
– 13:00 continuation of workgroup session
– 15:00 break
– 15:30 plenary come together with progress, discussion topics and to-do’s for the summer
– 16:30 closure
– 18:00 dinner in Delft (location will be confirmed)
The hotel and local transport must be arranged by the participant.
Renting a bicycle is a good option, Deltares can also be reached by bus (line 40 – stop “Vrijenban”).
06-06-2022: Site visit, starting in the harbor of Tiel
– 08:19 train from Delft to Tiel (2 hours),
(08:19 train Rotterdam – transfer Rotterdam to Utrecht – transfer Utrecht to Tiel and a 1.5 km walk to the harbor)
– 10:30 welcome on board of the RWS 1
– 10:45 start site visit
– 13:00 hours lunch (picknick)
– 16:30 back in harbor – end of field visit
Transport must be arranged by the participant. If using public transport, the train table and purchase of on-line tickets can be done at the NS website (travel from Delft to Tiel).
List of participants on the four topics in the white paper:
Registration list sixth meeting WG Sediment in a Circular economy (WGCE6) | |
Name | Topic |
Lauren Iacobucci | Definitions of BU concepts |
Valérie Cappuyns | Definitions of BU concepts |
Karsten Lehmann | Definitions of BU concepts |
Ronald Rutgers | Definitions of BU concepts & Incorporating CO2 and CH4 in sediment in CE |
Lauren Iacobucci | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options and/or Definitions of BU concepts |
Julia Gebert | Beyond the initial mass balance |
Maria Barciela Rial | Value to ecological potential |
Jim Warner | Incorporating CO2 and CH4 in sediment in CE |
Ronald Rutgers | Incorporating CO2 and CH4 in sediment in CE |
Valérie Biernaux | Greenhouse gasses |
Richard Lord | Greenhouse gas |
Ronald Rutgers | Definitions of BU concepts & Incorporating CO2 and CH4 in sediment in CE |
Bruno Lemiere | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options |
Jos Wieggers | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options |
Cristina Zago | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options |
Mathieu Henry | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options |
Jurgi Areizaga Casares | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options |
Jakub Borovec | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options |
Eric Stern | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options |
Lauren Iacobucci | Setting up a synthetic catalogue of beneficial use options and/or Definitions of BU concepts |
Eric van Hullebusch | to be filled in |
Polonca Ojsteršek Zorčič | to be filled in |
Tristan Debuigne | to be filled in |
Emmanuel Branche | to be filled in |
Marco Pellegrini | to be filled in |
Harald Bjørnstad | to be filled in |
Marco Wensveen | to be filled in |
Győző Jordán | to be filled in |
It is with great sadness that we became aware that Prof. Dr. Wim Salomons passed away on Thursday the 3rd of February 2022:
In memoriam for Wim Salomons, an online memorial was created to collect all our memories of Wim in a single place.
Wim was of extraordinary importance for SedNet. He was one of its founding pillars.
Wim was the coordinator of the workshop in Geesthacht in the year 2000 where the idea for SedNet was born (see our last e-newsletter).
Furthermore, Wim was the 1st author of the SedNet booklet “Contaminated Sediments in European River Basins” which provides an excellent summary of the findings of the first 3 years (2002-2004) of SedNet. Conclusions in that booklet are still very valid to day and thus inspired the WFD CIS sediment document which is about to be launched (see our last e-newsletter).
Thank you very, very much Wim for what you have done for SedNet! We will never forget that.
SedNet would not have been what it is today without your crucial support in kick-starting it!
We assure you that your legacy will remain vivid in our network.
Dear Wim rest in peace!
SedNet Steering Group
SedNet officially started as a European Commission funded project in the year 2002.
Later this year we intend to mark our 20-years anniversary with something special, which we will keep as a surprise.
Per January 2022 the SedNet Secretariat will be run by Mrs Nan Su of DSBP in Rotterdam, NL.
Nan Su can be contacted for SedNet via secretariat@sednet.org
Climate change is an existential threat. In the lead up to COP26, commitment to tackling the climate and ecological emergencies has never been greater. There is a need for urgent action, across all sectors, to decarbonise – while at the same time strengthening resilience and adapting to the changing climate.
Sediment managers – scientists and researchers, water managers, port and waterway operators, flood protection managers and similar, as well as those in the dredging and construction sector – all have an important role to play.
Sediments are an integral part of aquatic systems, the building block for natural habitats and an inherent component of many ecosystem services. Sediments and their associated aquatic habitats – blue carbon stocks – also play a vital role in sequestering and storing carbon.
An outcome of the virtual workshop ‘Sediment management opportunities to address the climate change challenge’ hosted by Navigating a Changing Climate and SedNet is an ambitious but realistic – and very necessary – COP26 Sediment Management and Climate Change Pledge.
SedNet and the NavClimate partners ask organisations that recognise the importance of these issues and the need to work with these critical, inter-related natural processes, to endorse the pledge, and to work with us to identify and deliver solutions that benefit not only climate and nature, but also society and economy.
Many organisations are already (in the process of) endorsing this pledge. If your organisation is committed too and wish to have their logo added to the COP26 Pledge, please contact the SedNet Secretariat, confirming your endorsement of the Pledge and providing:
The COP26 Pledge has been launched on 8 November 2021 during COP26. See the Press Release.
Authors of abstracts that have been selected for oral or poster presentation at the 12th International SedNet Conference, held online from 28 June – 2 July 2021, are invited to submit an extended paper for a Special Issue of the Journal of Soils and Sediments “Sediment Challenges and Opportunities due to Climate Change and Sustainable Development”. This Special Issue is anticipated to be published in 2022.
Each author can submit one manuscript for publication. Please note that no more than one manuscript per participant will be considered.
Manuscripts should be prepared in the strict format of the Journal of Soils and Sediments. Recommended number of pages is 6 to 8. The instructions for authors can be found at:
https://www.springer.com/environment/soil+science/journal/11368
Authors can submit manuscripts and should select “SI: Sediment challenges and opportunities” as the article type when they submit their manuscript through the on-line Editorial Management system.
New deadline:
Manuscripts should be submitted by 20 November 2021.
12th International SedNet conference (online), from 28 June -2 July 2021
Sediment Challenges and Opportunities due to Climate Change and Sustainable Development
in partnership with BRGM and the Hauts-de-France Region
Simultaneous event with I2SM 7th International Symposium on Sediment Management
Presentations and abstracts of presentations are now available on the conference webpages.
It is anticipated that in 2022 a Special Issue of the Journal of Soils and Sediments will be published on the SedNet conference theme of 2021 “Sediment Challenges and Opportunities due to Climate Change and Sustainable Development”.
SedNet needs reviewers for papers (to be) submitted for this Special Issue.
If you are interested in reviewing papers, please contact the SedNet Secretariat and/or Dr. Jasmina Obhodas, and indicate your expertise to us:
