The deadline for the submission of abstracts is extended until the 6^th of March 2023

From the 6th until the 8th of September 2023 the SedNet conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal.

At the conference we invite abstracts for a series of sessions aiming to explore different challenges and proposed solutions related to this theme. Among other topics, we explicitly welcome case studies from practice that preferably engaged stakeholders and that included how policies and plans were developed for the range of interlinked issues experienced along the continuous journey of sediment from upland to the depositions sites. This includes how to quantify and manage sediment movement, how to assess sediment quality, sediment health and ecosystem service provision, how excess sediment can be re-used, etc.

Special attention will also be given to challenges posed by anthropogenic influences, resource exploitation and climate change, and how we can truly apply an integrated management approach that enables the sediment continuum.

The proposed thematic sessions are:

1. Sediment quality guidance and sediment quality assessment

2. Circular economy – sediment as a resource

3. Sediment in coastal and marine management

4. Climate change and sediment pledge (joint session with PIANC navigating a changing climate)

5. Sediment management concepts and sediment policy

6. Climate change and sediments: direct and indirect consequences and opportunities

7. Sediments health: what is it and how to achieve it?

8. Zero pollution in the soil-sediment-water nexus

9. Sediment literacy

Please find below the document for the first announcement of the conference and the Final Call for Abstracts. Here you will also find the template for submission of abstracts.

For questions please contact the SedNet Secretariat.

Dear WGCE members,

Herewith we would like to inform you about the closing event of the Interrreg NWE project Suricates. This project is about sediment management, circular economy and climate change adaptation.

The Suricates Project Partners will present the results of their activities since project commencement in 2018. You are welcome to take part in the closing event which takes place at the Polytech-University of Lille (FR) on 15 December 2022. They offer both on-site and online access to our Closing Event, but registration is mandatory using this Framadate survey. There will be a limited number of 80 people able to attend on-site and of 80 people online. Send your individual confirmation by 12 December 2022.

Please click the buttons below to find more information about the event and the program.

One year ago, at the COP26 international climate meetings, Navigating a Changing Climate (in which PIANC is a partner) and SedNet, launched their COP26 Sediment Management Pledge. The Pledge recognises climate change as an existential threat and sets out how sediment managers can contribute to both decarbonisation and strengthened climate-resilience. The Pledge recognises climate change as an existential threat and sets out how sediment managers can contribute to both decarbonisation and strengthened climate-resilience.

PIANC organizes a webinar as part of a series of events being organised to mark one-year since the launch of the COP26 Pledge. During this webinar the development of a Blue Carbon Market in Australia will be examined to highlight the opportunities it offers for waterborne transport infrastructure.

Click on the link below to read more about the webinar and to register for the webinar:
https://storycatchers.webinargeek.com/a-market-approach-to-blue-carbon-and-opportunities-for-waterborne-transport-infrastructure