Report from the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE)
ICCE Activities
Conference / conference session organization
Paolo Porto was the local organizer of the IASWS (International Association for Sediment Water Science) International Conference held in Taormina (Italy) in June 2017. (website:
Adrian Collins led a workshop on sediment source fingerprinting at the International Conference on Hydro-sedimentology, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, June 2017
Adrian Collins was Co-convenor, oral and poster sessions on Emerging technologies and advances in identifying catchment sediment sources, American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, December 2017
Forthcoming ICCE Conferences
The 2018 ICCE symposium "Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Dynamics: Measurement, Modelling and Management” will be jointly held in Moscow with "The Second International Young Scientists Forum on Soil and Water Conservation”. This joint meeting is organized and hosted by Sergey Chalov.
3rd National Hydrological Congress, 19–21 September 2018, Warsaw, Poland - which is planned to include also topics on: soil erosion and sediment transport
Recent publications
Altieri, V., De Franco, S., Lombardi, F., Marziliano, P.A., Menguzzato, G., Porto, P. (2018). The role of silvicultural systems and forest types in preventing soil erosion processes in mountain forests: a methodological approach using cesium-137 measurements. Journal of Soils and Sediments (in press). DOI: 10.1007/s11368-018-1957-8.
Bagarello, V., Ferro, V., Pampalone, V. Porto, P., Todisco, F., Vergni, L. (2018). Predicting soil loss in central and south Italy with a single USLE-MM model. Journal of Soils and Sediments (in press). DOI: 10.1007/s11368-018-1953-z.
Ballabio, C., Borrelli, P., Spinoni, J., Meusburger, K., Michaelides, S., Begueria, S., Klik, A., Petan, S., Janecek, M., Olsen, P., Aalto, J., Lakatos, M., Rymszewicz, A., Dumitrescu, A., Tadic, M., Diodato, N., Kostalova, J., Rousseva, S., Banasik, K., Alewell, C., Panagos, P. (2017). Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe. Science of the Total Environment 579: 1298-1315. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.123.
Biddulph, M., Collins, A.L., Foster, I.D.L., Holmes, N. (2017). The scale problem in tackling diffuse water pollution from agriculture: insights from the Avon Demonstration Test Catchment programme in England. River Research and Applications 33: 1527-1538.
Capra, .A, Porto P., La Spada, C. (2017). Long-term variation of rainfall erosivity in Calabria (Southern Italy). Theoretical and Applied Climatology128 (1-2), 141-158.
Chalov S., Golosov V., Tsyplenkov A., Theuring P., Zakerinejad R., Märker M., Samokhin M. A. (2017). toolbox for sediment budget research in small catchments // Geography, environment, sustainability. 10(4):43-68.DOI:10.24057/2071-9388-2017-10-4-43-68
Chik, A. and 10 others 2017. NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT - 2017 Research Insights for Decision Makers Canadian Water Network
Cogliandro, V., Krajewski, A., Rutkowska, A., Porto, P., Banasik, K. (2017). Effect of forest fire on lag time of direct runoff of rainfall in a small catchment in Calabria. Sylwan161(8): 677-684.
Collins A., M. Stone, Horowitz, A. and Foster I. (2017). Integrating monitoring and modelling for understanding, predicting and managing sediment dynamics ICCE Symposium 2016 – Integrating monitoring and modelling for sediment dynamics, Okehampton, UK, 11–15 July 2017 Editor(s): PIAHS Volume 375.
Collins, A.L., Foster, I.D.L., Gellis, A., Porto,P., Horowitz, A.J. (2017). Sediment source fingerprinting for informing catchment management: Methodological approaches, problems and uncertainty. Journal of Environmental Management 194, 1-3.
Collins, A.L., Pulley, S., Foster, I.D.L., Gellis, A., PortoP., Horowitz, A.J. (2017). Sediment source fingerprinting as an aid to catchment management: A review of the current state of knowledge and a methodological decision-tree for end-users. Journal of Environmental Management 194, 86-108.
Collins, A.L., Zhang, Y., McMillan, S., Dixon, E.R., Stringfellow, A., Bateman, S., Sear, D.A. (2017). Sediment-associated organic matter sources and sediment oxygen demand in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC): a case study of the River Axe, UK. River Research and Applications 33: 1539-1552.
Evans, R., Collins, A.L., Zhang, Y., Foster, I.D.L., Boardman, J., Sint, H., Lee, M.R.F., Griffith, B.A. (2017). A comparison of conventional and 137Cs-based estimates of soil erosion rates on arable and grassland across lowland England and Wales. Earth-Science Reviews 173, 49-64.
Ferro, V., Porto, P. (2018). Applying hypothesis of self-similarity for flow-resistance law in Calabrian gravel-bed rivers. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 144(2), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001385.
Forber, K.J., Ockenden, M.C., Wearing, C., Holloway, M.J., Falloon, P.D., Kahana, R., Villamizar, M.L., Zhou, J.G., Withers, P.J.A., Beven, K.J., Collins, A.L., Evans, R., Hiscock, K.M., Macleod, C.J.A., Haygarth, P.M. (2017). Determining the effect of drying time on phosphorus solubilisation from three agricultural soils under climate change scenarios. Journal of Environmental Quality 46, 1131-1136.
Foster, I.D.L., Boardman, J., Collins, A.L., Copeland-Philips, R., Kuhn, N.J., Mighall, T.M., Pulley, S., and Rowntree, K.M. (2017). The potential for gamma-emitting radionuclides to contribute to an understanding of erosion processes in South Africa. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 375, 29-34.
Golosov, V., Collins, A.L., Tang, Q., Zhang, X., Zhou, P., He, X., Wen, A. (2017). Sediment transfer at different spatial and temporal scales in the Sichuan Hilly Basin, China: synthesizing data from multiple approaches and preliminary interpretation in the context of climatic and anthropogenic drivers. Science of the Total Environment 598, 319-329.
Granger, S.J., Heaton, T.H.E., Pfahler, V., Blackwell, M.S.A., Yuan, H., Collins, A.L. (2017). The oxygen composition of phosphate in river water and its potential sources in the Upper River Taw catchment, UK. Science of the Total Environment 574, 680-690.
Heppell, C.M., Binley, A., Trimmer, M., Darch, T., Jones, A., Malone, E., Collins, A.L., Johnes, P.J., Freer, J.E., Lloyd, C.E.M. (2017). Hydrological controls on DOC: nitrate resource stoichiometry in a lowland, agricultural catchment, southern UK. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21, 4785-4802.
Janes, V.J.J., Nicholas, A.P., Collins, A.L., Quine, T.A. (2017). An analysis of the fundamental physical factors influencing channel bank erosion: results for contrasting catchments in England and Wales. Environmental Earth Sciences 76, 307.
Krajewski, A., Sikorska, A., Banasik, K. (2017a). Modeling Suspended Sediment Concentration in the Stormwater Outflow from a Small Detention Pond. Journal of Environmental Engineering 143(10). doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001258.
Krajewski, A., Wasilewicz, M., Banasik, K., Sikorska, A.(2017b). Operation of detention pond in urban area-example of Wyscigi Pond in Warsaw. Environmental Engineering V: 211-215.
MacLean, K., Stone, M.Droppo, I. Smith, R. (2018). Erodibility and transport behaviour of dreissenid mussel deposits in an annular flume. Submitted to Journal of Soils and Sediments
Manjoro, M., Rowntree, K., Kakembo, V., Foster, I., Collins, A.L. (2017). Use of sediment source fingerprinting to assess the role of subsurface erosion in the supply of fine sediment in a degraded catchment in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Environmental Management 194, 27-41.
Mathers, K.L., Collins, A.L., England, J., Brierley, B., Rice, S.P. (2017). The fine sediment conundrum: quantifying, mitigating and managing the issues. River Research and Applications 33: 1509-1514.
Meusburger, K., Porto, P., Mabit, L., La Spada, C., Arata, L., Alewell, C. (2018). Excess Lead-210 and Plutonium-239+240: Two suitable radiogenic soil erosion tracers for mountain grassland sites. Environmental Research 160, 195-202.
Murphy, J.F., Jones, J.I., Arnold, A., Duerdoth, C.P., Pretty, J.L., Naden, P.S., Sear, D.A., Collins, A.L. (2017). Can macroinvertebrate biological traits indicate fine-grained sediment conditions in streams? River Research and Applications 33: 1606-1617.
Ockenden, M.C., Hollaway, M.J., Beven, K.J., Collins, A.L., Evans, R., Falloon, P.D., Forber, K.J., Hiscock, K.M., Kahana, R., Macleod, C.J.A., Tych, W., Villamizar, M.L., Wearing, C., Withers, P.J.A., Zhou, J.G., Barker, P.A., Burke, S., Freer, J.E., Johnes, P.J., Snell, M.A., Surridge, B.W.J., Haygarth, P.M. (2017). Major agricultural changes required to mitigate phosphorus losses under climate change. Nature Communications 8:161.
Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Spinoni, J., Ballabio, C., Meusburger, K., Begueria, S., Klik, A., Michaelides, S., Petan, S., Hrabalikova, M., Olsen, P., Aalto, J., Lakatos, M., Rymszewicz, A., Dumitrescu, A., Tadic, M., Diodato, N., Kostalova, J., Rousseva, S., Banasik, K., Alewell, C. (2016). Monthly Rainfall Erosivity: Conversion Factors for Different Time Resolutions and Regional Assessments. Water 8(4). doi: 10.3390/w8040119.
Pietron, Jan; Nittrouer, Jeffrey; Chalov,Sergey; Dong, Tian; Nikolay Kasimov Shinkareva, Galina ; Jarsjo, Jerker (2018). "Sedimentation processes in the Selenga River delta: implications for sequestering sediment-bound metals." Hydrological Processes 32 (2), 278-292.
Porto, P., Cogliandro, V., Callegari, G. (2018). Exploring the performance of the SEDD model to predict sediment yield in eucalyptus plantations. Long-term results from an experimental catchment in Southern Italy. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 107(1), 012020.
Pulley, S., Foster, I.D.L., Collins, A.L. (2017). The impact of catchment source group classification on the accuracy of sediment fingerprinting outputs. Journal of Environmental Management 194, 16-26.
Pulley, S., Van Der Waal, B., Collins, A.L., Foster I.D.L., Rowntree, K. (2017). Are source groups always appropriate when sediment fingerprinting? The direct comparison of source and sediment samples as a methodological step. River Research and Applications 33: 1553-1563.
Rennie, C.D., Aberle, J., Lemmin, U., Moore, S.A., Muste, M., Rickenmann, D., Wren, D.G. (2017). Ch. 5 Sediment Transport. In Muste M. et al., Experimental Hydraulics: Methods, Instrumentation, Data Processing and Management, Vol. 2: Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques, pp. 261-307. ISBN: 978-1-138-03815-8.
Rickenmann, D. (2017). Bedload transport measurements with geophones, hydrophones and underwater microphones (passive acoustic methods). In: Gravel Bed Rivers: Processes and Disasters, edited by D. Tsutsumi and J. B. Laronne, Wiley, 185-208.
Rickenmann, D. (2017). Bed-load transport measurements with geophones and other passive acoustic methods. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 60th Anniversary State-of-the-Art Reviews, 143(6), 03117004-1-14, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001300.
Rickenmann, D. (2018). Variability of bed load transport during six summers of continuous measurements in two Austrian mountain streams (Fischbach and Ruetz). Water Resources Research, 54, 107–131.
Rickenmann, D., Fritschi, B. (2017). Bedload transport measurements with impact plate geophones in two Austrian mountain streams (Fischbach and Ruetz): system calibration, grain size estimation, and environmental signal pick-up. Earth Surf. Dynam., 5, 669–687.
Rickenmann, D., Antoniazza, G., Wyss, C.R., Fritschi, B., Boss, S. (2017). Bedload transport monitoring with acoustic sensors in the Swiss Albula mountain river. Proc. IAHS, 375, 5-10, doi:10.5194/piahs-375-5-2017.
Romanescu G, Chalov S, Stoleriu CC, et al. Geomorphologic map of the 1st Mutnaya River, Southeastern Kamchatka, Russia // Journal of Mountain Science 14(12). 2373-2390.
Roth, D.L., Finnegan, N.J., Brodsky, E.E., Rickenmann, D., Turowski, J.M., Badoux, A., Gimbert, F. (2017). Bed load transport and boundary roughness changes as competing causes of hysteresis in the relationship between river discharge and seismic amplitude recorded near a steep mountain stream. J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 122, 1182–1200, doi:10.1002/2016JF004062.
Sear, D.A., Pattison, I., Collins, A.L., Smallman, D.J., Jones, J.I., Naden, P.S. (2017). The magnitude and significance of sediment oxygen demand in gravel spawning beds for the incubation of salmonid embryos. River Research and Applications 33: 1642-1654.
Silins U, Emelko MB, Adamowicz WL, Anderson A, Boxall PC, Collins AL, Dupont DP, Dyck M, Krishnappan BG, Stone M.(2017). Towards integrated source water management in Alberta. Final Project Report submitted to Alberta Innovates (AIEES and AIBIO), 61 p., July 2017.
Silins U, Stone M, Emelko M, Adamowicz W, Anderson A, Dyck M, Collins AL, Sear D, Dupont DP. (2017). The future of water supply and watershed management in Alberta: Best source to‐tap practices for source water protection in the eastern slopes. Project Progress Report submitted to Alberta Innovates, 19 p., July 2017.
Steeb, N., Rickenmann, D., Badoux, A., Rickli, C., Waldner, P. (2017). Large wood recruitment processes and transported volumes in Swiss mountain streams during the extreme flood of August 2005. Geomorphology, 279, 112-127,
von Boetticher, A., Turowski, J.M., McArdell, B.W., Rickenmann, D., Hürlimann, M., Scheidl, C., Kirchner, J.W. (2017). DebrisInterMixing-2.3: a finite volume solver for three-dimensional debris-flow simulations with two calibration parameters – Part 2: Model validation with experiments, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 3963-3978,
Withers, P.J.A., Hodgkinson, R.A., Rollett, A., Dyer, C., Dils, R., Collins, A.L., Bilsborrow, P.E., Bailey, G., Sylvester-Bradley, R. (2017). Reducing soil phosphorus fertility brings potential long-term environmental gains: a UK analysis. Environmental Research Letters 12, 063001.
Zhang, Y. Collins, A.L., Johnes, P.J. Jones, J.I. (2017). Projected impacts of increased uptake of source control mitigation measures on agricultural diffuse pollution emission to water and air. Land Use Policy 62, 185-201.
Zhang, Y., Collins, A.L., Jones, J.I., Johnes, P.J., Inman, A. and Freer, J.E. (2017). The potential benefits of on-farm mitigation scenarios for reducing multiple pollutant loadings in prioritisedagri-environment areas across England. Environmental Science and Policy 73, 100-114.
Zhang, Y., Collins, A.L., McMillan, S., Dixon, E.R., Cancer-Berroya, E., Poiret, C. and Stringfellow, A. (2017). Fingerprinting source contributions to bed sediment-associated organic matter in the headwater subcatchments of the River Itchen SAC, Hampshire, UK. River Research and Applications 33: 1515-1526.
Recent presentations, contributions delivered to meetings
Adrian Collins presented - Connectivity in agricultural landscapes: do we need more than a DEM? Lecture presented at the American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, December 2017
Adrian Collins presented -The scale problem in tackling the sustainability of agriculture with respect to water quality: insight from the Avon Demonstration Test Catchment: lecture presented at the Association of Applied Biologists conference on Sustainable Intensification, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, November 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Efficacy of on-farm interventions for managing sediment loss: invited keynote lecture presented at International Conference on Hydro-sedimentology, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, June 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Projected impacts of a bottom-up approach to managing diffuse pollution from agriculture: experience from Demonstration Test Catchments, UK: lecture presented at Land Use and Water Quality – Effect of Agriculture on the Environment, The Hague, The Netherlands, May 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Sustainable intensification: optimisation at multiple scales: lecture presented to Soil to Nutrition (S2N) institute strategic programme grant Advisory Group, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, January 2018
Adrian Collins presented - Impacts of different vegetation in riparian buffer strips on hydrology and water quality: lecture presented at BBSRC/NERC SARIC 3rd dissemination event, Oxford, November 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Field drain management and farm productivity: lecture presented to BGS staff as part of the ASSIST (Achieving Sustainable Agriculture Systems) institute strategic programme, Rothamsted Research, North Wyke, November 2017
Adrian Collins presented - TSARA: preliminary model farm results: lecture presented to TSARA (Targets for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture) project team, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, October 2017
Adrian Collins presented - A toolkit approach to assessing on-farm measures for diffuse pollution: lecture presented to Natural Resources Wales, Rothamsted Research, North Wyke, July 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Sustainable intensification – optimisation at multiple scales: lecture presented to Programme Advisory Group - Soil to Nutrition Institute Strategic Programme, Rothamsted Research, North Wyke, June 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Sustainable intensification – optimisation at multiple scales: lecture presented at the internal launch of the Soil to Nutrition Institute Strategic Programme, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, May 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Managing expectations of on-farm measures and delivering impact at landscape scale: lecture presented to the River Torridge farmer facilitation group, Rothamsted Research North Wyke, Okehampton, March 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Tools for guiding the sustainability of farming systems at different scales: lecture presented to international workshop, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, February 2017
Adrian Collins presented - Pollutant losses from agriculture and associated damage costs: lecture presented to students, MSc course on Sustainable Grasslands, University of Exeter, January 2017
Amelia Corrigan*, Uldis Silins, Mike Stone. Impacts of rapid harvest and subsequent haul road decommissioning on sediment production and ingress. Poster CGU Vancouver BC May 19-21, 2017.
A.M. Martens, U. Silins, H.C. Procto2, C.H.S. Williams, M.J. Wagner, E. Luchkow, M.B. Emelko, & M. StoneLong Term Impact of Severe Wildfire on Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains Entomological Society of Canada, Oct Winnipeg Manitoba
Amy Yang, Mike Stone, Kirsten Muller, Monica Emelko Evaluating Reservoir Sediment Contributions to Algal and Cyanobacterial Proliferation CAWQ
Caitlin Watt*, Micheal Stone, and Uldis Silins Abiotic controls of fine sediment on the mobility of phosphorus in gravel bed rivers. Oral Presentation CGU Vancouver BC May 19-21, 2017
Dieter Rickenmann (2018) “Fractional bedload transport at the Erlenbach stream determined by the impact plate geophone system”, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8–13 April 2018.
Dieter Rickenmann (2018) “Variability of bedload transport in two Austrian mountain streams”, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8–13 April 2018.
Dieter Rickenmann (2017) "Bedload transport measurements with Swiss impact plate geophones: examples of environmental signal pick-up unrelated to bedload transport", EGU Galileo conference, Ohlstadt, Germany, 6–9 June 2017.
Emelko MB, Silins U, and Stone M. Wildfire Impacts on Watersheds and Drinking Water Supply and Treatment. First Nations Health Authority and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Nov. 29, 2017. Invited address.
Emelko MB, Silins U, and Stone M. Wildfire Impacts on Watersheds and Drinking Water Supply and Treatment. First Nations Health Authority and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Nov. 29, 2017.
Emelko MB, Silins U, Stone M, Cooke C, Emmerton C, Kendel T, Skwaruk J. The 2016 Ft. McMurray Wildfire: Drinking water treatability challenges in an already-challenged system. Forests - Flames - Faucets Session @ Fire Continuum Conference, May 21-24 Missoula, Montana
Kelly McLean, Mike Stone, Ian Droppo, Ralph Smith (2017) Erodibility and transport behaviour of dreissenid mussel deposits in the near shore zone of Lake Erie, IASWS Meeting, Calabria, Sicily
Romeo F., Porto P., Mallamace, C., Muscolo A. (2018). Soil Biological Indicators and Caesium-137 to Estimate Soil Erosion in Areas with Different Forest System Management. EGU2018-16539, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8–13 April 2018.
Labate A., Porto P., Bombino G., Zimbone S.M. (2018). Effects of grade-control structures on channel evolution in sandy torrent beds: a laboratory study. EGU2018-5232, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8–13 April 2018.
Martens AM, Silins U, Proctor H, Williams CHS, Wagner MJ, Luchkow E, Emelko MB, & Stone M. 8 years later: long-term effects of severe wildfire aquatic ecology in Rocky Mountain streams. Forests - Flames - Faucets Session @ Fire Continuum Conference, May 21-24 Missoula, Montana
M.B. Emelko, M. Stone, U. Silins, C. Cooke, T. Kendel Wildfire impacts on drinking water treatment operations and costs in Fort McMurray, Canada UW Water Conference
M. Stone, M.B. Emelko, U. Silins Wildfire impacts on phosphorus dynamics in rivers: implications for reservoir management UW Water Conference
Michael Stewart, Uldis Silins, Monica Emelko, and Mike Stone Regulation of Post-Logging N Turnover and Mobile N by Solar Insolation in a Steep Mountainous Rocky Mountain Watershed Poster CGU Vancouver, May 19-21, 2017.
Sergey Chalovcontributed to the 1stJointResearchSymposiumLomonosovMoscowStateUniversityLudwig‐Maximilians‐Universität presented on «Integratedcatchmentstudies» (November 2017).
Sergey Chalovpresentedon« Spatialandtemporalpatternsofsedimentcascadeinfluvialsystem» XXXIImeeting of Inter-university council on fluvial processes (October 2017).
Silins U, Stone M, Herlein K, Emelko MB, Williams CHS, Martens AM, Wagner MJ, Hawthorn K. Long-suspended suspended sediment yields in wildfire affected mountain streams in southwestern Alberta. Forests - Flames - Faucets Session @ Fire Continuum Conference, May 21-24 Missoula, Montana
Stone M. (2017) Watershed Science on Fire: Insights from a long-term large scale watershed research platform in southern Alberta. Woo Water Lecturer at McMaster University November 18, 2017. Invited
Stone, M. (2017) Quantifying Impacts of Regional Scale Reductions in Road Salt: Applications on Urban Groundwater Quality, CWWA St Johns, NFLD