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EcoPeak4Fish Kick-off meeting
Check out how it went our kick-off meeting that took place both online and onsite on October at CERIS webpage.
Field work completed for the EcoPeak4Fish Task 1
The field work of EcoPeak4Fish concerning Task 1 (Fish ecology and microhabitat assessment) has ended last week. For two weeks – one in Spring (the spawning period) and the other on Late-summer (the growing period) – the research team from the EcoPeak4fish was able to sample and quantify microhabitat use and availability of fish species …
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Save the Date 28th October
The kick off meeting of the EcoPeak4Fish project will be held in hybrid mode, online and onsite at IST University of Lisbon, respecting the Portuguese public health recommendations. The event will take place in the afternoon. Besides the invited talks, we will present the project overview, goals, case studies and expected outcomes. At the end, …
EcoPeak4Fish Logo
The logo of EcoPeak4Fish project is based in the ancient Chinese philosophy, yin yang. The fish in one side and hydropower in the form of a turbine on the other side. This concept intends to demonstrate how seemingly opposite forces may actually work together and be interconnected. Each of the forces may give rise to …
Field work
On the 20th of May we went to the north to select candidate reference and hydropeaking-affected sites to study fish microhabitat use in near-natural rivers and in rivers affected by hydropeaking. We have selected the hydropeaking-affected sites downstream Bragado HPP at Avelames River and Covas do Barroso HPP at Covas River. Regarding the reference streams …
Kickoff meeting
The EcoPeak4Fish had its kick-off meeting on early-March 2021 via Zoom platform due to present restrictions related to the Covid pandemic. After a brief introduction of all team members, P.I. Isabel Boavida presented the foundation and overall structure of the project, followed by each of the task leaders who presented the works foreseen in the …