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About us

Riverment has been active since 2007 (formerly as Prothea) and develops environmental assessment projects for governments and utilities on water resource management. The main projects completed or in progress concern the development of innovative systems for biomonitoring, for the assessment of the ecological and hydromorphological water status and for the environmental assessment for the construction of works. Riverment has carried out projects in Italy, Cyprus, Serbia, Canada and Mozambique.

Riverment is now working with Puglia Region to carry out the Hydromorphological Monitoring Plan of the region. It is also involved in assessing the ecological water quality of water streams in several construction works projects in Lombardia, Liguria and Veneto regions.

For the Government of Cyprus it has worked to develop the ecological quality assessment system for temporary rivers for two of the BQEs foreseen by the WFD: benthic invertebrates and diatoms. Riverment was consultant for the Canadian Rivers Institute to analyze the situation concerning the Ecological Flow and to propose guidelines to define it. Recently it has participated in MAES project for the development of a conceptual environmental flow model for large rivers. In Italy, for Lombardia Region it was responsible for the evaluation of the experimentations related to the definition of the Ecological Flow, while for ARPA Lombardia it provided advice on the analysis of biological data collected during the sediments flushing events from reservoirs. For Parco Nord Milano, Riverment participated to the restoration of Seveso river and has provided services related to river and water quality monitoring before and after the restoration. Together with CNR-IRSA it organizes training courses related to CARAVAGGIO method for the detection of hydromorphological and habitat characteristics. Riverment has carried out dozen of applications of CARAVAGGIO in rivers of Italy (Perennial and Mediterranean streams) and Cyprus and dozen of applications of IDRAIM methodology (MQI) in Italian streams.

Moreover, Riverment carries out activities of citizen science and environmental education about river ecology. Riverment educational projects involve middle and high schools' students, citizens and companies. One of its projects has been awarded with the Mention of Honor at the Water Planet National Award.

David G. Armanini

David Armanini is Science Director at the Canadian Rivers Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Western University in Ontario, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at the University of Milan. He has carried out numerous studies of Environmental Impact Assessment for the development of infrastructures and has carried out projects in America, Africa and Europe. In the academic field he is author of 12 publications subject to peer review and has been reviewer for numerous scientific journals. He has developed and published a tool based on benthic macroinvertebrates to determine the relationship between ecological characteristics and flow types for Canada and was involved in the development of the Atlantic Canada Reference Condition Model, a method for the ecological classification of water courses based on macroinvertebrates. In Italy he is co-author of the publications related to the Italian sampling method for macroinvertebrates.

Managing Director

d.armanini@riverment.com

Daniele Demartini

Daniele Demartini is graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Milan and he is specialized in hydrobiology, river ecology and hydromorphology. Daniele was consultant for the Lombardy region in the context of all the experiments related to the Environmental Flow. Daniele has many years of field work experience gained in numerous Italian and international projects, carried out with Riverment. Daniele has also been involved in scientific research for nearly ten years in collaboration with the CNR-IRSA, Water Research Institute and he is co-author of various methods for the evaluation of ecological quality included in the national regulatory framework (DM 260/2010), including the Italian method of sampling for macroinvertebrates and CARAVAGGIO method, for the detection of hydromorphological and habitat characteristics.

Water Consultant

d.demartini@riverment.com

Federica Colombo

Federica Colombo is graduated in Biodiversity and Evolutionary biology at the University of Milan. She has done internships in some Lombardy regional parks, where she gained experience about water streams and wet lands biodiversity and complexity. Moreover, she helped to organize events of citizen science related to environmental and naturalistic topics.

In Riverment Federica is gaining experience in field work such as macroinvertebrates sampling and identification and hydromorphological water bodies characterization (CARAVAGGIO).

She is also involved in environmental education activities in middle and high schools.

Water Consultant

f.colombo@riverment.com