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Professor Willi H. Hager is a hydraulic Ms. Marina Narinesingh is an Attorney-at-law engineer supervising hydraulic research at the and was called to the bar in 2006. She received Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and her education at the University of Waterloo, Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich. He has Ontario, Canada and at UWI, St. Augustine. Her authored more than 500 scientific papers with practice over the past eight years has focused on over 220 in peer-reviewed journals, and environmental and planning law issues through published books in Dam Hydraulics, public interest litigation. Ms.Narinesingh is also a Wastewater Hydraulics, Energy Dissipation, part time lecturer at UWI, St.Augustine. She Environmental Engineering, History of currently sits on the Green Fund Advisory Hydraulics, and Retention Basins. He holds Committee and Board of Directors of the Asa memberships in the International Association Wright Nature Trust. Engineering Institute for Environment Engineering and Research in collaboration with (IAHR); the Swiss Association for Wastewater Dr Mary Alkins-Koo is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil and Engineering (VSA); was Editor of the Journal Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science Environmental Engineering of Hydraulic Research (2006-2011); Associate and Technology at the UWI. She holds a BSc Faculty of Engineering Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (UWI), an MSc in Conservation from University The University of the West Indies (JHE, ASCE) and is a Fellow of the American College London and a PhD in Zoology from UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). St Augustine. She teaches freshwater biology and ecology, human ecology and environmental Professor Gyan Shrivastava is a hydraulic issues. Her research interests are in freshwater Dam engineer and lecturer of Hydraulic Engineering invertebrates, river ecology, bio-monitoring and at UWI. He received his education at the assessment. She was co-author of the EMA 2004 Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, State of Environment Report ‘Report of an Hydraulics Imperial College in London and at UWI, St. Assessment of the Northern Range of Trinidad, Augustine. He has worked for many years in Trinidad and Tobago’. the Commonwealth Caribbean in the design and construction of hydraulic structures. He is To register and for further information a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Member of please go to: [email protected] the Institution of Civil Engineers, London and a Registered Engineer in Trinidad and Tobago, . Or contact: Dr. Pramenath Narinesingh has been Engineering Institute, lecturing in the Department of Civil and Continuing Engineering Education Centre, Environmental Engineering at the UWI, St. Block 1 - Kenneth S. Julien Building, Augustine Campus since August 2010. He Faculty of Engineering, holds a BSc in Civil Engineering (UWI), an The University of the West Indies, MSc in Hydraulic Engineering (UNECSO-IHE), St. Augustine, Trinidad. and a Ph.D in Fluvial Geomorphology (UD, Tel: 662-6267, 662-2002 ext. 82175 or 82197 USA). Dr. Narinesingh’s MSc. thesis entitled Fax: 662-6267, 662-4414 Nature Restoration and Floodplain e-mail: [email protected] or Sedimentation is referenced in the ASCE [email protected] January 14th &15th, 2015 Manual of Sedimentation Engineering (2010). He is also a registered engineer in Trinidad website: http://sta.uwi.edu/eng/ei/index.asp and Tobago. THE SEMINAR TARGET AUDIENCE PRESENTERS’ SUMMARY

Welcome to the second meeting in the series The seminar is geared towards engaging 1) Professor of Hydraulics on Water, Rivers, and the Environment by the engineering practitioners and technicians in: Dr. Willi H. Hager, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. Department of Civil and Environmental Civil, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Institute. Our Engineering and management. 2) Professor of Hydraulic Engineering theme – Dam Hydraulics - focuses on the Water Resources Agency, Departments of Dr. Gyan Shrivastava of UWI. hydrology and hydraulics of dams, the threats Drainage Division and Highways Division, and of dam failure, loss of storage and useful life Regional Corporations. 3)Environmental and Planning Issues Ms. due to sedimentation, the potential impact on Designs of embankments, retention and Marina Narinesingh of UWI. the riverine ecology, and the role of stake detention structures, flood management and water management. 4) Senior Lecturer in Ecology holders in protecting the environment and the Dr. Mary Alkins-Koo of UWI. public interests. Land developers Students and lecturers in the fields of water 5) Researcher in sedimentation resources management and flood control will Dams create reservoirs of water that serve a Dr. Pramenath Narinesingh of UWI. variety of purposes including providing water also find the topics enlightening. for homes and industry, irrigation for farming, SEMINAR DETAILS sports and recreation, hydro power, pollution January 14 &15, 2015 th control and even flood management. There are Wednesday 14 January 2015 Venue: Faculty of Engineering common design considerations in Detention Dams in Context Fee: $ 2,200.00 and Retention Basins as in the design of Environmental Democracy Dams such as hydrological and hydraulic Full Time Registered UWI Visit to the Hollis Dam & Reservoir ½ day considerations since they all impound Students: $600.00 sediment and water. Their designs are equally Thursday 15th January 2015 challenging given the highly variable nature of Hydrodynamics of Dam-Break Waves storm events both in intensity and duration. January 13, 2015 Fresh water Ecology of the Northern Range Optional Field Trip: Fluvial The construction of dams has paved the way Sediment Dynamics of Dams for the development of our present society, Geomorphology & Sedimentation however, at an unknown cost to the Fee: $500.00 Students $250.00 environment including reduction of migratory fish population, changes in riverbed Includes Course Materials, lunch morphology, loss of floodplain ecology and and refreshments on both days. fertility, changes in wetland hydrology and habitat, loss of coastlines and reduction of many stakeholders assets such as fisheries, and wetland expansion. Since Dams are usually expensive state-funded projects that have high impact on the land and the environment, the spotlight will be on the public and stakeholders participation. http://www.wasa.gov.tt/Images/ArenaPics/Arena5_lg.jpg

The ecological system and its sensitivity to Optional Field Trip – 13th January, 2015 environmental changes will also be examined Exploring the Northern Range fluvial as reservoirs and detention systems usually lie geomorphology, hydraulic structures and Narvet Lower Dam http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/kmpStM5hQ7M/hqdefault.jpg in the flow path of channels. sedimentation.