Joseph
Wheaton

PROJECT

Operationalizing Riverscapes Consortium Services into Practice

"The Riverscapes Consortium is an international collaboration of researchers, managers and practitioners aiming to raise awareness of threats and solutions for rivers similar to what the IPCC did for climate.

The purpose of the project is to innovate the deployment of Riverscapes Consortium data sets, models and tools into broad adoption by European practitioners, managers and researchers to help improve riverscape health. Specifically, this project will facilitate a strategic collaboration between the applicant and the researchers of the graduate school H₂O’Lyon to implement a shared web interface for accessing riverscape data sets, models and tools.

This effort is about innovation – getting the products of our science into practice and management to solve urgent societal challenges. We propose to build capacity with researchers at H₂O'Lyon to deploy tools to tackle the challenges of restoring and conserving healthy, resilient riverscapes by engaging with European practitioners."

Joe Wheaton is a Professor of Riverscapes at Utah State University's Watershed Science Department.

He co-founded the Restoration Consortium at Utah State University, the international Riverscapes Consortium, and has worked since 2000 in riverscape restoration as both a researcher and practitioner.

He is the lead author of the Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes Design Manual and a principle and co-founder of a design-build restoration firm, Anabranch Solutions.