Bulletins
This month check out upcoming training courses RRC are offering over the rest of the year. Join us for the 'Developing a Catchment-wide restoration plan' training to find out how to identify pressures and impacts across a catchment, and prioritise restoration projects for catchment-wide benefit. Also, book your place now on the River Habitat Survey Certification course taking place in Cardiff in March 2020! Plus, read up on our newest member of the RRC team, Hannah, who will be working on the MICS project to identify effective ways of measuring the impact of citizen science on the environment. Thanks to our 2 student interns who worked with us over the summer to develop 2 apps to help record data to improve monitoring of river restoration projects. Thanks for all your hard work!
This month we are happy to announce we are advertising a few more training courses before the end of 2019. Find out more and book your place on these upcoming courses including 'Developing a Catchment-wide Restoration Plan', plus the next 'River Habitat Survey Certification course'. Also, have a look at some of the photos and blogs from recent Member site visits to the River Otter Beaver Trial near Exeter, and the Tichborne Restoration Project in Hampshire. Plus we are holding another site visit in the South later this year - why not book your space now on the upcoming site visit to the New Forest Wetlands Project on 16th October?! Furthermore, check out recent river restoration news, and get in touch if you know of any potential or recent barrier removal projects.
This month we look at the upcoming training courses over the rest of 2019. Also, upload your recent projects to the RiverWiki, and add them to the NRRI to add to this growing database of now more than 5,000 projects over the last 20 years! London Climate Action Week is being held in the first week of July 2019. Find out what events are taking place and take part in these visits and practical workshops. Plus, check out news and events and the recently launched Job Adverts webpage to advertise all river restoration related opportunities.
Have a look at the upcoming training courses and site visits on offer in this month's edition of the RRC Bulletin. Plus, we acknowledge the 2019 UK River Prize winners 'the New Forest Wetlands Project', and look back at feedback from the 2019 RRC Conference. Also - check out our recently launched Job Adverts webpage where you can advertise your river restoration related job opportunities, and look for opportunities.
This month we announced the keynote speaker for the 2019 RRC Conference, and the 2019 UK River Prize Finalists. Have a look at the upcoming RRC training courses including 'Developing a Catchment-wide River Restoration Plan' and 'Mapping for Natural Flood Management'. Plus, watch this space for the Manual of River Restoration Techniques update.
In this months issue, read about the upcoming RRC training courses and site visit, and the improved and updated webpage of events for Catchment Delivery. These free events aim to bring together catchments, stakeholders and partnerships to work in an integrated way towards improving the environment for people, wildlife and land management, whilst encouraging best practice. Plus, we are advertising the 2019 River Champions nominations which are still open until next Monday March 4th! Furthermore, please get in touch if you have any news or events you would like added to the RRC website.
In the first edition of 2019, we are advertising conference early-bird bookings which are closing in 2 weeks! Also, there is still time to apply for the 2019 UK River Prize, plus nominate a 2019 River Champion. Check out our upcoming training courses including Introduction to Hydromorphology (Level 1), Hydromorphology for river restoration (Level 2) and River Habitat Survey Certification. We also have a couple of updated webpages on the RRC website. Have a look at the NFM Roadshow 2018 Ouputs webpage for all presentations on NFM and Working with Natural Process; as well as the updated 2019 Integrated Catchment Delivery events webpage advertising lots of free events covering a range of topics.
This is the last bulletin issue of 2018, announcing the release of RRC Conference 2019 Early-bird bookings; 2019 UK River Prize applications open, and the chance to book onto the upcoming River Habitat Survey Certification course in March 2019. Plus, we acknowledge another 2018 River Champion for their continued hard work and effort working to restore the lower Erne River. Check out recent river restoration news and events, with more listed on our website.
This month we focus on the upcoming 2019 RRC Conference in Liverpool. Have a look at the sponsorship packages available, and take advantage of early-bird rate sponsorship. Plus, conference programme and bookings coming soon! Congratulations to all the winners of the Wild Trout Trust Conservation Awards 2018. Check out recent river restoration news, and take a look at the hard efforts of Chris McArthur, a 2018 River Champion who helps the Essex and Suffolk Rivers Trust.
Thank you for all your presentation abstracts over the past couple of months! We will be selecting presentations and planning the conference programme over October, and hope to be able to release the first draft programme for the 2019 Conference, at the beginning of November. Also, have a look at our upcoming training courses and book your place now. Plus, lots of river restoration news and events.