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Today I attended the Floodplain Reconnection (Stage 0) GIS data release webinar hosted by the Dorset Catchment Partnerships. The webinar introduced the Environment Agency's Floodplain Reconnection (Stage Zero) Opportunity map GIS layers. Natural Flood Management lead Aly Maxwell and consultant hydrogeomorphologist Peter Stone explained how the layers have been created and used in project planning for multiple benefits. |
Author: James White, RRC
Guest blog - Andrew Griggs, CatchmentCARE
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CatchmentCARE Project improving water quality |
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Author: James White, RRC |
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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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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
Guest blog - Natural Resources Wales