Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)

2017 / 3. szám - MANAGING WATER QUALITY (ONGOING PROJECTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES) - Baranya Sándor - Józsa János - Kéri Barbara - Bakonyi Péter - Habersack, Helmut - Haimann, Mariene - Holubova, Katarina - Lukac, Miroslav - Tuchiu, Elena - Vartolomei, Florin - Aussendorf, Michael: Danube Sediment Management Restoration of the Sediment Balance in the Danube River (további szerző: Christoph Maier)

Sándor Baranya et al: Danube Sediment Management - Restoration of the Sediment Balance in the Danube River

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“DANUBE FLOODRISK” SEE project focused on the most cost-effective measures for flood risk reduction. The approach developed within that project (i.e. the methodological background) can well support the methodology to be used in the DanubeSediment project. “SedAlp” focused

on the integrated management of sediment transport in Alpine basins. The project included piloting actions and contributed to sediment monitoring in Alpine catchments, in order to understand spatial and temporal variability of processes.

THE AUTHORS

SÁNDOR BARANYA Associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Dept, of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering. He graduated from BME and has a PhD degree in the field of river engineering. His research focuses on the development of riverine sediment transport modelling and monitoring methods.

JANOS JOZSA, Rector of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He graduated in the predecessor institute, the Technical University of Budapest in 1981 as civil engineer specialised on hydraulic engineering. His research focuses on the hydrodynamics of lakes and rivers with special attention on wind induced currents, mixing processes and numerical modelling. He is the Head of the Water Management Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

BARBARA KÉRI, graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics as an infrastructural-civil engineer MSc specialized on both Water and Hydro-Environmental Engineering and Highway and Railway Engineering. After graduation she worked in the field of waterway management within via Donau - Österreichische Wasserstraßen Gesellschaft mbH as a project manager for over 4 years. Since 2017 she is the project manager of the DanubeSediment project at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

PÉTER BAKONYI, graduated from the Budapest University of Technology in 1973. Defended his university doctorate in 1981 and his PhD inl997 at BUT. He has got 12 years of teaching experience at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at BUT. Joined VITUKI in 1985. In 1992, he was nominated managing director at VITUKI Consult and held this position till 1996. Then he returned to VITUKI where his highest position was Director General. Retired in 2013.

HELMUT HABERSACK, holds currently a UNESCO Chair on “Integrated River Research and Management”, coordinating the “World's Large Rivers Initiative”, and is a Full Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Modelling at the Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria. He is the Head of the Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, and the Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Advanced Methods in River Monitoring, Modelling and Engineering. He has over 20 years of experience in river engineering, flood risk management, hydropower, navigation, sediment transport and river restoration.

MARLENE HAIMANN, senior scientist, graduated from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Since her graduation she is employed at the Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering (BOKU) and was working on several research-projects with a focus on suspended sediment transport. She was also involved in the compilation of the Austrian guideline on monitoring suspended sediment transport.

KATARINA HOLUBOVA, Head of the River Morphology and Hydrology Department, Slovakian Water Research Institute (WRI). She graduated from the Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering where she also obtained doctoral degree. She has extensive experiences in applied research of the river processes focusing specific issues of the sediment transport - erosion/sedimentation, morphological monitoring and assessment, river/wetland restoration and flood protection.

MIROSLAV LUKAC, graduated from the Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering. Senior researcher at the Water Research Institute in Bratislava, Department of Hydrology and River Morphology. He has been involved in numerous projects and studies focused at the hydrology and hydraulics of surface water flow, sediment transport, river restoration, flood hazard and flood risk assessment.

ELENA TUCHIU, is the Director of the Management Plans Department in the National Administration “Romanian Waters” (NARW). She graduated the Bucharest University. She coordinates the implementation of water related EU legislation and she is involved in the process of elaboration and updating the National Management Plan and coordination of River Basin Management Plans elaboration. At the Danube District level, she is member of specific expert/task groups: River Basin Management, Pressures and Measures and Nutrients of the 1CPDR.

FLORIN VARTOLOMEI, geographer, graduated from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography. He has a long experience in teaching (in Hydrology, Oceanography, Physical Geography, GIS and Cartography) and working in research projects cofunded from national and European funds. During the last years he is working for the National Administration “Romanian Waters” on Department of Management Plans and Schemes. He holds a master degree in sustainable management of water resources and a PhD degree in the field of hydrology.

MICHAEL AUßENDORF, geoecologist, works at the Bavarian Environmental Agency (LfU) since 1994. He has been acting in different environmental working areas like soil protection, monitoring of air pollution and flood protection. At present he is working in the department of public relations. Besides directing the LfU participation in DanubeSediment, Michael is involved in the development and management of communication projects.

CHRISTOPH MAIER, works at the Bavarian Environment Agency (Landesamt für Umwelt, LfU) as a project manager. Holding a degree in spatial planning issued by the University of Dortmund, Christoph has 15 years of experience in European project management in the area of sustainability projects. Before joining LfU for the DanubeSediment project he was working for the European Association of elected representatives for mountain regions (AEM) and the Alpine Research Institute (AFI).