Institute of Geography
Topic
Hydro-geomorphic river response to small hydropower plant operation
PhD. program
Physical Geography, Geoecology and Geoinformatics
Year of admission
2024
Name of the supervisor
Ing. Anna Kidová, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
Annotation
A detailed reach scale model will be created by a set of field measurements and analyzes of data from remote sensing of river channel evolution will capture its significant geomorphological changes due to the operation of a small hydropower plant since 2000. The consequences of human interventions on river flows and artificial structures in river channels can determine negatively affect its natural development in the form of back-erosion processes, rapid channel incision into the bedrock, or complete loss of the ability of lateral migration of the river channel. It is therefore necessary to include approaches that provide objective scientific evidence for the application of appropriate river management practices when researching the development of an increasingly human-dominated landscapes.