{"id":174,"date":"2020-10-23T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T10:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2021-09-21T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:30:28","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/home\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Classically, the physical conceptualisation of rivers focuses mostly on the interactions between water and sediment. However, by interacting with the flow and sediments, the <strong>riparian vegetation<\/strong> and the <strong>instream wood sustain <\/strong>the <strong>physical <\/strong>and <strong>ecological integrity <\/strong>of the <strong>river<\/strong>, in other words: its <strong>health<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to preserve and restore <strong>healthy and dynamic rivers<\/strong>, while <strong>mitigating <\/strong>potential <strong>flood risks<\/strong>, we want to better understand the feedbacks between <em>flow-sediment-riparian vegetation-wood<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We apply a <strong>multidisciplinary <\/strong>approach combining field surveys, remote sensing and Drones, laboratory experiments and numerical modelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work represents the intersection of physical, ecological, and social aspects of rivers, crossing disciplines such as <strong>biogeomorphology<\/strong>, <strong>hydromorphology <\/strong>and <strong>ecohydrology<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classically, the physical conceptualisation of rivers focuses mostly on the interactions between water and sediment. However, by interacting with the flow and sediments, the riparian vegetation and the instream wood sustain the physical and ecological integrity of the river, in other words: its health. In order to preserve and restore healthy and dynamic rivers, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002178,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}