Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers (2025)
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
Session 1: Artificial Intelligence, Breakup, Remote Sensing (Student Papers)
Forecasting river ice breakup timing using hydrometeorological and morphological parameters: a case study of the Chaudière River
Ehab Zidan, Tadros Ghobrial, Yuntong She
1.40 MB
A Continuum-Based Mesh-Free Particle Model for Ice-Water Dynamics
Faramarz Jelvehgar, Ahmad Shakibaeinia, Mojtaba Jandaghian
1.38 MB
Preliminary Quantification of Historical Ice Jam Volumes through Hydraulic Modelling
Gautam Basnet, Jennifer Nafziger, Vincent McFarlane, Nadia Kovachis
1.08 MB
Developing A River Ice-Jam Flood Risk Assessment and Mitigation Framework Using System Dynamics
Rasa Moeini, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
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Continuous monitoring of formation and release of ice accumulation on a water intake trash rack during the 2023-2024 winter
Sean Boyd, Tadros Ghobrial, Amandine Pierre, Mark Loewen
1.64 MB
Characterization of ice coverage in the St. Lawrence River using satellite imagery and an operational ice status index
Denise Sudom, Corwin MacMillan, Armina Soleymani, Yifan Qu, K. Andrea Scott
1.08 MB
Session 2: Breakup, Flood Mapping, Ice and Infrastructure (Student Papers), Remote Sensing
A Comparison between machine learning approaches for forecasting Ice Jam Flood occurrence: A case study on the Chaudière River
Amirhossein Salimi, Tadros Ghobrial, Hossein Bonakdari
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Predicting ice jam formation at a confluence using hydraulic modelling and empirical relations: A case study on the Sainte-Anne River, Québec
Laurence Charbonneau, Tadros Ghobrial, Jennifer Nafziger
1.01 MB
Developing a preliminary labelled multi-modal satellite remote sensing dataset for automated river ice monitoring with artificial intelligence
Nafeez Islam, Jennifer Nafziger, Vincent McFarlane, Nasim Hajari
1.65 MB
Challenges of Forecasting Extreme Ice-Jam Flood Events Using Machine Learning Models: A Case Study at Fort McMurray
Zavier Berti, Jennifer Nafziger, Nadia Kovachis
4.55 MB
In-situ compressive strengths of floating and grounded lake ice
Arash Rafat, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Allan Strandberg, Homa Kheyrollah Pour
1.20 MB
Influence of Tributary Dynamics on Ice Jam Formation and Risk Reduction Strategies: A Case Study of Netley Creek and the Lower Red River
Sergio Alejandro Gomez Munoz, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Bin Luo
4.09 MB
Session 3: Under ice water Quality Modelling, Remote Sensing, Tsunami and Ice
Assessing the effect of ice cover on suspended solids and metal transport using River1D
Julia Blackburn, Yuntong She, Wenming Zhang, Sharafi Ferdaus
1.54 MB
Potential of the new satellite SWOT (Surface Water Ocean Topography) for monitoring lake and river ice
Mélanie Trudel, Gabriela Siles, Samuel Foucher, Sylvain Biancamaria, Toumia Ghribi, Anthony Mandeville
1.03 MB
Tsunami run-up into ice covered rivers: several attempts for field survey and numerical modeling in Japan
Takaaki Abe, Yauhiro Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki Hotta
3.16 MB
Poster Presentations
Preliminary evaluation of GNSS-IR signals and radar altimetry for characterization of winter hydrometry of Québec rivers
Gabriela Siles, Gabriel Duquet, Scott Bedart, Dave Purnell, Pascal Matte, Mélanie Trudel
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Modeling nature-like ice control structures designed to protect river restoration projects
Mark Jordan, Peter Koons
607.86 KB
Experimental Assessment of Hydrodynamic Behavior of Booms in High-Velocity Flows
Faezeh Fooladimahani, Shawn Clark
574.11 KB
Icing and blisters: Exploring the mid-winter complexity of subarctic streams
Benoit Turcotte, Stephanie Saal, Tyler de Jong, Ashley Dubnick, Médéric Girard
1.56 MB
In situ measurements of ice growth and melt on two lakes and one reservoir in eastern Canada
Thomas Brady, Antoine Thiboult, Tadros Ghobrial, Daniel F. Nadeau
721.50 KB
Combining numerical modeling with morphological approaches to identify ice jams prone areas
Arthur Labrecque, Simon Lavoie-Lavallée, Jay Lacey, Mélanie Trudel
636.34 KB
Solar radiation dynamics during freeze-up period in the Pembina River
Nicolas Castro, Rick Sapkota, Vincent McFarlane
537.71 KB
A comparative analysis of RPA-based LiDAR and photogrammetry techniques for ice jam data processing on the Dauphin River, Manitoba
Rouzbeh Hoghooghi Esfahani, Shawn Clark, Alexander Wall
400.64 KB
Compilation of Historical Smoky River Breakup Observations to Inform Hydrological-Hydraulic Modelling
Hannah Tripp, Alyssa Sandeman, Steven Lund-Rachinski, Jennifer Nafziger, Yuntong She
688.42 KB
2024 Freeze-up Conditions along the Lower Churchill River in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Madison Stafford, Kevin Lees, Joe Groeneveld
146.61 KB
Examining Remotely Sensed Products Used in Operational Decision Support Services and how they have improved operations during the Alaska breakup Season
William Straka III, Crane Johnson, Celine Van Breukelen, Robert Busey, Michael Ottenweller, Qingyuan Zhang, Sanmei Li
100.02 KB
Ice Breakup Dynamics on the Kuskokwim River: Climatic Trends And Outlook Development
Sergio Alejandro Gomez Munoz, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Johnse Ostman, Crane Johnson
542.28 KB
Correction of the degree-day approach to take solar radiation into account in breakup forecast models
Benoit Turcotte, Pelchat Gabriel, Tadros Ghobrial
448.72 KB
The Influence of the Winter Season on Springtime Total Organic Carbon in the North Saskatchewan River
Sharafi Ferdaus, Monireh Faramarzi, Yuntong She, Wenming Zhang
717.25 KB
Session 4: Ice and Infrastructure – Part 1
Differential Head Monitoring at NYPA Intakes for Ice Management
Shiqiang Ye, Gregory Pedrick, Michael McNiven
3.30 MB
Ice Jam Risk Analysis for a Bridge Replacement Case Study
Fuad Curi, Storer Boone, Alan Keizur
381.83 KB
Evaluating Climate Change Impacts on Ontario River Ice Using Principal Component Analysis
Pouya Farokhzad, Fuad Curi
714.27 KB
Session 5: Ice and Infrastructure – Part 2
Development of a physical hydraulic model of the Sartigan dam ice control structure on the Chaudière River in Quebec
Amandine Pierre, Jude Benin Wendkudni, Tadros Ghobrial, Wael Taha
1.26 MB
Engineering challenges during the installation of a boom in deep water present at Kettle Generating Station on the Nelson River, Manitoba, Canada
Razek Abdelnour, Elie Abdelnour, Matthew Kilmer, Oluchi Eze, George Comfort
1.70 MB
Re-designing the Erindale Ice Control Structure
David Kynaston, Rob Amos, Tim Koen
2.28 MB
Can Hydraulic Structures Deal with River and Reservoir Ice?
Robert Ettema, Edward Kempema
1.28 MB
Session 6: Ice Jam Flood Mapping and Remote Sensing
Predicting River Ice Breakup Using SAR Satellite Data
Maria Yulmetova, Pradeep Bobby, Michael Lynch
1.28 MB
A proposed methodology to map ice-jam flood hazards in Quebec
Jason Duguay, Mélanie Trudel, Jay Lacey, Victoria Litalien, Mathieu Fouquet, Pascale Biron, Thomas Buffin-Bélanger, Sophie Latreille
7.07 MB
Integrating ice-scar elevations on riparian trees into stochastic modeling of ice-jam floods
Victoria Litalien, Sergio Croquer Perez, Maxime Maltais, Thomas Buffin-Bélanger, Élisabeth Lapierre, Zoé Martineu, Jason Duguay, Cheick Doumbia, Jay Lacey, Mélanie Trudel
2.40 MB
Investigation of Three Separate Breakup Processes and Related Flood Frequency Analyses for Application in Flood Mapping for the Yukon River at Dawson City, Yukon
Jeff Muirhead, Martin Jasek, Scott Dilling, Bethany Heppner, Holly Goulding
3.56 MB
Session 7: Ice and Climate Change
Using an operational index to foresee future ice scenarios in the Upper St. Lawrence River
Paul Barrette, Denise Sudom
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Mapping and Ice Climatology of the Last Day of Backwater due to ice, “Last B date”, at a Subset of Hydrometric Stations across Canada: September 1, 1985 to August 31, 2015
Laurent de Rham, Daniel Peters, Yonas Dibike, Barrie Bonsal, Benoit Turcotte, Adrienne Tivy
4.46 MB
Session 8: Winter Hydrometry
Sediment Legacy of an Ice-jam Flood on Powder River in Southeastern Montana, USA
John Moody, Danny White, Glenn Gay
1.59 MB
Ice Thickness Forecasting on the Liard and Ndulee River Crossings in the Northwest Territories Using Snow-Ice Mass Balance Apparatus Devices and Machine Learning Models
Ian Turnbull, Michael Lynch
1.53 MB
Ice Thickness Forecasting on the Churchill River Using Machine Learning Models
Ian Turnbull, Michael Lynch
1.13 MB
Experiment on the ice jam phenomenon caused by snow accumulation in high-water channel
Tomomichi Hirata, Takaaki Abe, Nobuyuki Hotta
1.28 MB
Machine Learning-Based Estimation of Peak River Flows During Spring Ice-Cover Breakup
Apurba Das, Fuad Yassin, Oluwaseun Oyebode, Anna Howes, Joel Trubilowicz, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
1.13 MB
Session 9: River Ice Breakup – Part 1
The role of ice cover on momentum transfer in rivers of cold regions
Javad Souri, Trung Le
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Improving Ice-Affected Discharge Data at Water Survey of Canada Hydrometric Stations
Gregory Langston, Francois Rainville, Jean-Pascal Faubert, Stephanie Moore, James Bomhof
2.46 MB
Turbulent Dynamics in Ice-Covered Rivers: Insights from Continuous Acoustic Profiling in the Nelson River, Canada
Soheil Zaré, Colin Rennie
1.69 MB
Parameterizing Peak Mean Velocity using Manning’s Roughness Values and Simple Under Ice Applications
Jeff CW Wong
1.86 MB
Session 10: River Ice Breakup – Part 2
Development of a Decision-Support Tool to manage the Decelles Reservoir with reduced Ice Loads on the Spillway Piers
Wael Taha, Javier Patarroyo, Tammy Trugeon
1.03 MB
Exploring Effects of Weather Forecast Uncertainty on Ice Formation and Break-up Predictions
Brittany Peters, Sakshi Bali, Milan Bijeljanin, Aaron Smith
1.68 MB
Athabasca River: Patterns in river ice breakup progression from 1977 to 2024
Nadia Kovachis, Michael Brayall
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A physics-based, reach-scale model to forecast the timing and intensity of river ice breakup
Benoit Turcotte, Jennifer Nafziger, Zavier Berti
1.17 MB
Session 11: River Ice Breakup – Part 3
Two-Dimensional Ice Jam Modelling Using Weakly Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Hossein Mahdizadeh, Colin Rennie, Abolghasem Pilechi
1.08 MB
One-Way Coupling of REEF3D::SFLOW and SAMS for Predicting Ice Loads on Pillars/Piers in a Laboratory Channel
Tim Rohm, Raed Khalil Lubbad
1.41 MB
Simulation comparison of river-ice hydraulic models
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Gautam Basnet, Jennifer Nafziger, Kevin Lees, Spyros Beltaos, Julia Blackburn, Michael Brayall, Shawn Clark, Lucas Wazney, Sergio Gomez, Nadia Kovachis, Vincent McFarlane, Yuntong She, Madison Stafford, Fuad Curi, Joe Groeneveld
1.98 MB
Session 12: River Ice Freeze-up
Can we reconnect floodplains in a channelized river with frazil ice? A case study of the Lower Lemhi River Subreach 1 Rehabilitation Project
Jeffrey Fealko
3.28 MB
Identification and statistical analysis of freeze-up ice consolidations on the Peace River, AB
Martin Jasek, Jonathan Lamontagne
1.31 MB
Forecasting ice-jam flooding during river freezing
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Robert Briggs, Apurba Das, Sergio Gomez, Amir Ali Khan, Michael Lynch, Johnse Ostman, Thomas Puestow, David Streubel, Kyle Van Peursem
965.23 KB
Morphodynamics of hanging ice dams: interaction between flow, sediment, frazil ice and a solid ice cover
Gary Parker, Yuntong She
479.35 KB