Date: 22nd Oct, 2026 - 22nd Oct, 2026

Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Venue: Zoom

Organiser: GEMS Event Management

Phone: 02 9744 5252

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Description:

This seminar, presented in collaboration with the River Basin Management Society (RBMS), explores a practical pathway for applying the River Styles Framework to urban and highly modified streams by demonstrating how geomorphic principles can remain central to river management even where channels have been engineered, constrained or entirely reconstructed. Drawing on examples from a range of urban settings, the presentation will show that the Framework provides a robust and flexible means of characterising river form and function, assessing condition, evaluating recovery potential, and identifying realistic management priorities in urban riverscapes.

Urban streams are increasingly the focus of water sensitive urban design and nature-based solutions that seek to improve liveability, biodiversity, flood resilience and water quality. However, many interventions are implemented without a coherent understanding of the physical template that underpins river behaviour. This seminar demonstrates how the River Styles Framework can provide that template, enabling practitioners to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic geomorphic features, interpret altered processes, and develop evidence-based rehabilitation and management strategies.

The presentation highlights how the River Styles Framework can be applied without modifying its core procedures, while explicitly recognising urban controls and constraints. The River Styles Framework offers a powerful tool for integrating geomorphology into urban planning, stream rehabilitation and blue-green infrastructure design.

Who Should Attend?

·    Catchment and waterway managers

·    Urban planners

·    Waterway and restoration practitioners

·    Landscape architects and urban designers

·    Local, State and regional government officers

·    Community groups and citizens

·    Environmental engineers

·    River scientists and postgraduates