Thames Eel Project Workshop
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Author: James White, RRC |
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Webinar: Developing and deploying low-cost, distributed monitoring to evaluate NFM
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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. |
Webinar: Reimagining Irish Rivers: working with nature
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This week I attended the ‘Reimagining Irish Rivers: working with nature’ conference online. This was a partnership between The Rivers Trust, Local Authority Waters Programme, European Green Leaf, and Maigue Rivers Trust. |
Rivers Trust Conference
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The last 2 days I have attended the online Rivers Trust Conference – ‘Water at the heart of climate resilience’. Loads of interesting information was shared, and I’ve tried to collate a summary of all the panel discussion sessions, and projects and schemes which were presented! Day 1: |
Webinar: Nature-Based Solutions Report Launch
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Today RRC attended a webinar hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG), focusing on the launch of the Nature-based Solution Report from RSPB and Cambridge Econometrics. Fiona Harvey chaired the webinar, opening the session by highlighting that Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are a beneficial approach to mitigating the impacts of climate change, and how there is an economics concept to NbS. |
Restoring our Rivers: Removing Barriers to Fish Migration
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Earlier this week, I attended an online talk from Catie Gutmann Roberts, Bournemouth University. Catie’s research looked at the movement and diet of barbel on a stretch of the Severn/Teme which was impacted by barriers to flow. |
What's going on in river restoration in Wales?
Guest blog - Natural Resources Wales
Natural Flood Management: Land Manager’s perspective
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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. |
CIEEM Conference: Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources: Bringing our Rivers back to Life
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Earlier this week, on World Wetlands Day, CIEEM held an online conference looking at a range of topics focused on river recovery and bringing our rivers back to life. Penny Lewns, Vice President of CIEEM opened the morning session, with Max Wade, CIEEM President chairing the afternoon. |
Our Water Environment: restoration in the River Avon catchment, Cairngorms National Park
Guest blog - Jos Milner, Tomintoul & Glenlivet Landscape Partnership