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NFM Webinar: Peatland Catchments and Natural Flood Management

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.

Dam Removal Europe webinar

Today I tuned into a dam removal webinar hosted by Bart Geenen. More than 400 people worldwide joined river scientists and interested people on this webinar all about the impacts of dams and benefits of removal on fish migration.

CDUG webinar

Lucy Butler from the Rivers Trust, and Tamsin Appleton from Environment Agency held another CDUG meeting today to update us on what projects are currently being delivered, using maps and data.

How should local residents be involved in managing flood risk? Take part in a research study by Imperial College London

Guest blog: Tom Harrison, Imperial College London

England’s traditional approach to flood defence became well established throughout the twentieth century: the greater the threat of floods to our towns and cities, the higher we built the concrete barriers to keep out the floodwater. And for a time, this tact didn’t serve us too badly! But in the face of climate change and growing flood risk, building taller and taller flood walls was never going to be enough to hold back the flood…

In Conversation with Alastair Driver, Rewilding Britain

Last week Country Land & Business Association (CLA) held a webinar In Conversation with Alastair Driver, Director of Rewilding Britain. Alastair introduced what rewilding means and explained its benefits. Rewilding is large scale restoration of ecosystems and natural processes to allow nature to take care of itself. This offers a spectrum of restoration activity to aspire to.

Online training course

Stage 0 River Restoration Webinar with US & UK examples

Yesterday, some of the RRC team tuned into a webinar on Stage 0 river restoration, organised by EUROPARC Atlantic Isles, and run by Colin Thorne. Several presenters were involved and provided examples of Stage 0 restoration applied to US rivers in Oregon, before comparing to UK examples.

CaBA CDUG Forum on data updates

With the current Covid-19 situation, a lot of us are adapting to new working spaces and methods. Last week, the Environment Agency and Rivers Trust ran a successful teleconference providing a virtual forum for the Catchment Data User Group (CDUG). 43 participants from a range of organisations and authorities attended the telecom, offering the chance to share knowledge and experience, and update the group on data developments and usage.

Measuring the impact of citizen science

Is citizen science an important mechanism to inform and support society, governance, the economy, the environment, and science? The answer is yes, it probably is! But no one has really measured the impact…

The River Restoration Centre is working with 6 partners across Europe to develop tools and metrics to measure impacts of citizen science (MICS) on environmental projects www.mics.tools

PhD research - call for information/experience on leaky dams

PhD research - call for information, details and experience on leaky dam networks

Dear RRC Community,

I have a query about your experience of the resilience of leaky dam structures. I am a PhD student at the University of Leeds, studying the effectiveness of leaky dams at reducing downstream flood risk. I have installed and monitored 30 leaky dams in a headwater catchment in North Yorkshire to gain insights into impacts on storm peak timing and magnitude.

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