PhD Defense - Daniel Sidler
Congratulations to Daniel Sidler, who successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled Three-dimensional observation of immediate behavioral response of benthic freshwater copepods to hydro- and thermopeaking.
This thesis studies the swimming behavior and small-scale motion of benthic cyclopoid copepods in response to sharp variations in flow discharge and in water temperature mimicking the hydro- and thermopeaking waves caused by the release of water from hydropower plants. Measurements were conducted in a laboratory flume, and the trajectories of freely-swimming copepods were reconstructed by means of three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry. The laboratory flume features a transparent sediment bed that enables the tracking of small benthic organisms not only in the water column but also in the sediment bed.