Dr. Ing. Francisco Martínez-Capel

Research Institute for Integrated Management of Coastal Areas (IGIC)

Professor

My Profile

About

Francisco Martinez-Capel (Paco) is Associate Professor and senior researcher in the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), and performs research and technical support with a cross-disciplinary approach since 1996, on environmental flows assessment, habitat modelling, relations between flow regime and communities in freshwater ecosystems, and effects of climate change on environmental flows and water resources management. He has participated in approximately 40 national and international projects and published more than 60 scientific papers in international journals. He is now an associate editor in The Journal of Ecohydraulics, the International Journal of River Basin Management, and the Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research.

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Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Ecohydraulics
Working Group on Nature Based Solutions
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
Committee on Water Resources Management

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
JAWER Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2020-04-01	Now
Committee on Ecohydraulics	Past Chair	2018-08-20	2020-06-16
JOE Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2018-08-01	Now
JOE Editorial Board	Editorial Board member	2017-01-01	2018-01-20
JRBM Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2017-01-01	Now
Committee on Ecohydraulics	Chair	2016-02-01	2018-08-20
Committee on Ecohydraulics	Vice Chair	2014-08-04	2015-08-04
Committee on Ecohydraulics	Member	2009-01-01	2014-08-04

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Climate Change Adaptation in a Mediterranean River Basin Based on Eco-Engineering Decision Scaling	2022
Flood events as restoration tools	2022
Habitat evaluation for the endangered fish species Lefua echigonia in the Yagawa River, Japan	2019
Application of Sefa, System for Environmental Flow Analysis, to Assess the Habitat Availability for Competing Fish Species in a Spring-Fed Urban Stream in Tokyo, Japan	2018
Environmental Flows Considering Trade-Offs Between Socio-Economics and Habitat Needs for Native European Eel and Invasive Species in the Context of Global Change	2018
Expert-Knowledge or Data-Driven Fuzzy Models? A Comparison Employing the Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta L. )	2018
DEM Generation in a Mediterranean River Using Structure from Motion Algorithm on Hd Video Recorded from a UAV (Palancia River, Spain)	2017
Microhabitat competition between Iberian fish species and the endangered Jucar nase (Parachondrostoma arrigonis; Steindachner, 1866)	2017

My Videos

Title	Year
[S1-1] Special Session on Integrating Ecohydraulics and Ecohydrology in Environmental Flow Assessment and implementation (1)	2022
[S1-3] Special Session on Integrating Ecohydraulics and Ecohydrology in Environmental Flow Assessment and implementation (2)	2022
[S1-8] Effect of Climate Change on Ecology	2022
Opening Remarks for the 2nd JOE Webinar	2022

IAHR Awards

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