Initial compilation of areal site data in a forestry-dominated torrential headwater catchment as a basis for an integral catchment management.
Abstract
Within the framework of the Protection Forest Centre Traunkirchen at the Forest Campus Austria, there is a cooperation agreement between the four partners BMLRT/Dep. III/4 — Torrent and Avalanche Control and Protection Forest, Österreichische Bundesforste AG, Austrian Research Centre for Forests and the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna — with the primary objective of promoting a joint protection forest policy in Austria. One of the objectives of the work plan of the Protection Forest Centre Traunkirchen is to establish a model catchment in the Rindbach basin near Ebensee (Upper Austria). This torrential-model catchment is to serve in the long term (>30 years) to convey the geological, hydrological, hydraulic, forestry and construction interrelationships under natural conditions, as a natural laboratory and as a training area for practical training courses. In the course of the submitted project MEZG-Rindbach, an interdisciplinary team of scientists will collect basic data which, in the context of integral natural hazard management, will record the relationships between natural hazard processes, vegetation condition and dynamics, site conditions (soil, geomorphology, geology, climate) and the management of (protective) forests. In addition to the provision of all collected data and their meta-information, which serve as a basis for subsequent analyses or re-surveys, another aim of the three-year project is to present “best-practise” models or simulations of the above-mentioned interrelationships.
Natural Environment Laboratory Natural Hazard Processes Protective Forest Vegetation and Site Conditions
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Project staff
Christian Scheidl
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Christian Scheidl
christian.scheidl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87116
Project Leader
01.05.2022 - 30.09.2025
Franz Holzleitner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franz Holzleitner
franz.holzleitner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91522
Sub Projectleader
01.05.2022 - 30.09.2025
Roland Kaitna
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roland Kaitna
roland.kaitna@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87113
Sub Projectleader
01.05.2022 - 30.09.2025
Manfred Josef Lexer
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Manfred Josef Lexer
mj.lexer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91316
Sub Projectleader
01.05.2022 - 30.09.2025
Georg Nagl
Dipl.-Ing. Georg Nagl B.Sc.
georg.nagl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87123
Project Staff
01.05.2022 - 30.09.2025
Christian Zangerl
Univ.Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.sc.nat. Christian Zangerl
christian.j.zangerl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87211
Sub Projectleader
01.05.2022 - 30.09.2025
Markus Beck
Dipl.-Ing. Markus Beck Bakk.techn.
markus.beck@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.05.2022 - 30.09.2025
BOKU partners
External partners
Federal Forest Office (BFW)
kerstin.michel@bfw.gv.at
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