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Today I attended a NERC webinar on developing low-cost monitoring to evaluate Natural Flood Management (NFM). Marc Mulligan from Kings College London talked about how each NFM technique is different and will vary in design and scale. It’s important to consider geographical context, therefore Mark’s approach aims to monitor a wide range of interventions extensively rather than a single site intensively. |
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Today NERC held a webinar, with Dr Stewart Clarke (National Trust) presenting on Natural Flood Management (NFM) and the land manager’s perspective. Stewart opened his presentation by outlining what NFM means, including slowing the flow, temporarily storing it, and filtering water in wetlands and floodplains to try and improve water quality. |
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Dr Tom Nisbet from Forest Research, working on the Landwise NFM project, presented a webinar today on Woodlands and NFM. Tom went through the base mechanisms of how woodlands can effect flood conveyance. Reducing the volume of flood water at source by increasing evaporation |
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Gerard Stewart started the webinar, which is part of a webinar series to help practitioners share knowledge and experience in Natural Flood Management (NFM). 140 attendees dialled into the call today to hear Chris Utley from the Environment Agency give a presentation on getting the most for nature based flood risk reduction from ELMS. |
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Today I attended a webinar on peatland restoration for Natural Flood Management (NFM). 145 people attended the call, where Tim Allott from the University of Manchester presented on what restorative action could be taken to help benefit both the peatlands, and slow the flow of water and runoff, to benefit downstream flood risk. Tim started by discussing the advancement in the scientific understanding of peatland restoration, and the flood benefits downstream. |
Natural Flood Management and Integrated Catchment Management Roadshow – May 15th, Welwyn Garden City
Two weeks ago RRC held two training courses back-to-back focusing on Natural Flood Management (NFM).
Day 1 - Mapping Historical Floodplains using the Hydrogeomorphological Survey
The first of our Natural Flood Management courses was titled “Mapping Historical Floodplains using the Hydrogeomorphological Survey”. The aim of this course was to introduce a method for producing a map which represents inundation zones and flood pathways on a floodplain.
