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This half day online conference, hosted by the Urban Flood Resilience Research Consortium, looked at the latest landscape-led approaches to managing water in large scale developments and new communities. This is a great way to incorporate water landscapes into projects from the initial stages. |
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Gemma Cranston (University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) started the webinar by explaining more about the webinar series. The Catchment Leadership Network aims to drive a step change in the level of activity on catchment management. |
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CIEEM held a webinar today on mapping river habitats from the air, and the use of drones for field surveys. The webinar started with a quick poll to determine how many of the audience had previously used aerial data to map habitats. The results came back with 45% of the audience having used this method before, and 55% having not used this before – a pretty even split! |
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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. |
Guest blog - Fiona Bowles, Hamish Moir, Ben Eardley, John Phillips, Will Bond & Matt Parr
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Matt Fry from UKCEH gave a presentation on making catchment data more available to end users across the UK and for researchers, and also trying to make research data more available generally. This aims to deliver data in ways to make it more directly useful, and Matt focused on hydrology data, and how to make water quality and other freshwater data available alongside each other. |
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This afternoon, CaBA and the Rivers Trust held another webinar session as part of their Catchment Data & Evidence Forum 2020. This webinar was about data to support nature restoration. |
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CaBA and the Rivers Trust held a webinar today, on data sharing between CaBA and water companies. Dave Johnson (Rivers Trust/CaBA) opened the webinar by mentioning the biggest gaps in the CaBA data package. These are water company data, without which we can only partially understand hydrology; and monitoring data. The CaBA package includes Environment Agency monitoring data, but it is important to use more partnership data, plus information from water companies. |
Today I attended the virtual Catchment Data & Evidence Forum 2020, run by the Catchment-based Approach and the Rivers Trust.
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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. |