Are you in interested in meeting up with experts across various disciplines to explore the latest sediment science? If so, why not join the two day 'Sediment Matters' conference at Edge Hill University on Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 June. The event will showcase how sediment interacts in our river catchments around the themes of water quality, ecology, and Natural Flood Management, with speakers from both industry and academia. The conference is delivered in partnership with NERC: Natural Environment Research Council and funded through a Knowledge Exchange NERC Fellowship grant awarded to Janet Richardson, former Impact Translation Fellow with Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP and chair of Sediment Matters. Sessions will cover Natural Flood Management and reducing fine grained sediment Modelling and Monitoring of sediment Water Quality and Sediment Sediment and Ecology There will be lots of opportunities for networking and a chance to explore the latest advancements in sediment dynamics, with a specific focus on how these insights can inform decision-making. You'll leave with a greater understanding of what is needed for the future, and connected with a network of engaged professionals working in the multi-disciplinary area of sediment. To book https://bit.ly/3UREJuX #sediment #conference UK River Restoration Centre (RRC) Canal & River Trust Debbie Coldwell The Aire Rivers Trust Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Iain McDonell Joseph Holden Cat Scott University of Leeds
Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP
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We bring together academics & experts from catchment management & use environmental science to address challenges
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iCASP is a six year programme, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, hosted by University of Leeds. Our aims are to: Generate £50million+ of benefits to Yorkshire’s economy from influencing investments, identifying cost savings, and creating new products and jobs Create a network of catchment management experts Inform policies and strategies Produce materials that help environmental science to be used by practitioners. Our catchment area is facing some complex and costly challenges: flooding and drought, soil and water degradation, loss of agriculturally productive land and important ecosystems. iCASP projects are designed by partnerships of academics and experts from organisations active in catchment management. We find ways to use existing environmental science more effectively to address challenges they are working on in rural and urban areas. These include: reducing flood and drought risk; improving the resilience of cities to climate change; preserving valuable areas of peat in the moors; developing sustainable agriculture; and devising business cases for greening city developments and making more space for water. We connect many different organisations including local authorities, businesses, charities, utilities and community groups with academics. Together with our partners, we are helping to deliver a environment that is more resilient to climate change in the future. This will help generate green economic growth in the region. iCASP will facilitate the growth of a strong and sustainable regional network to pioneer a more integrated approach to catchment management and develop knowledge and expertise to share nationally and internationally. We are confident we can help to deliver multiple benefits by working with catchment-wide partnerships taking an integrated water and and land management approach.
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If you're involved in peatland restoration work, you may be interested in a Data Standards Workshop organised as part of WaterLANDS & PeatDataHub at University of Leeds. It is on Thursday 23 May, 10am - 4pm and the aim is to develop data standards for peatland monitoring. The agenda includes updates by the #GreatNorthBog, National Trust and a chance for you to share what you currently or would like to monitor and challenges faced. There will be breakout sessions on Metadata Mapping, protocols, different parametres measured and vocabulary used. Lunch will be provided. For more information or any questions email waterlandsuk@leeds.ac.uk To book your place visit https://bit.ly/3ww85G4 #peatlands #datastandards #monitoring IUCN UK Peatland Programme Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Yorkshire Water Rachel Kipling Peatland ACTION Yorkshire Peat Partnership Environment Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Global Food and Environment Institute, University of Leeds
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Climate change, flooding and communities: Working in Yorkshire, lived in Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and Vanuatu before!
It would be great to get wide engagement in this online survey for people involved in developing Blue Green Infrastructure in Yorkshire (UK), so the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP can develop a training programme to address needs. https://lnkd.in/eXbB_TFu Let me know if any questions!
As part of West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WYFLIP), we're carrying out an online survey to address a critical capacity & skills gap to reduce flood risk and improve flood resilience across Yorkshire. The results will help us to understand the needs of flood risk managers and be used to put together a blue green infrastructure training programme. The aim is to upskill our workforce so that we can provide more resilient infrastructure, deliver projects which have a positive impact on the environment and address the challenges of climate change. This will ultimately result in greater support for businesses, landowners and economic benefits for the region and beyond. There will be a focus on the Flood Water Management Act 2010 Schedule 3 and climate resilience and readiness (with an initial focus on green skills). Organisations who support Blue Green Infrastructure Projects in Yorkshire including local authorities, Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency, rivers trusts and charities, are being sent the survey, with a Yorkshire-wide training programme planned for later in the year. The new training programme will be delivered by a team of flood and water research, innovation and skills development providers hosted by water@leeds University of Leeds and drawing on other Yorkshire universities via Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP The WYFLIP project, led by Environment Agency was awarded £286,293 in local levy funding by the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to deliver this skills audit and training programme for Yorkshire Risk Management Authorities and their partners over the next two years - and to resource the programme management of WYFLIP. If you want to find out more about the project email us wyflip@leeds.ac.uk and please pass it on to any appropriate colleagues. If you work in flood risk management please help us by completing the survey https://bit.ly/3WOhuUj - and it would be great if you could spread the word to relevant colleagues. #flooding #floodresilience #bluegreeninfrastructure #WYFLIP Environment Agency Andy Bray Sam Ramsden Calderdale Communications Katie Kimber Flood Innovation Centre LivingWithWater Jonathan Moxon
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The Yorkshire Natural Flood Management Community of Practice is on the road to Derbyshire this summer for a site visit hosted by Don Catchment Rivers Trust. Members will have the chance to learn about NFM in the Upper Rother catchment and the "Slow the Flow to the Calow" project, implemented in Grassmoor Country Park in 2022. This will be followed by a site visit to the park. The CoP meeting will be Thursday 6 June at Grassmoor Community Centre in Chesterfield. In the afternoon, there will be a workshop to gather feedback on the national Environment Agency NFM Programme, aiming to share experiences and insights on applying for funding and any barriers. This event is invitation only but if you or your colleagues are interested in joining please email icasp@leeds.ac.uk. Finally, as part of the West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WYFLIP) Dr Laura Harrison University of York is leading a project about green social prescribing and is looking for examples of any NFM or SuDs initiatives currently happening - or planned within the next 1-2 years - in Kirklees or Wakefield local authority areas. If you know of any please email icasp@leeds.ac.uk A full description of the green social prescribing project can be found here: https://lnkd.in/e79Y-gaY under work package 2. #NFM #naturalfloodmanagement Jonathan Moxon Debbie Coldwell Sam Ramsden Joseph Holden Clare Martynski Carl Fisher Laura Buckley Helen Batt Iain McDonell Slow The Flow Katie Kimber Samuel T. Laura Farquhar
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If you work in flood risk management, you can help iCASP by completing this survey to look at capacity and skills gaps for flood risk management and flood resilience in Yorkshire https://bit.ly/3WOhuUj .
As part of West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WYFLIP), we're carrying out an online survey to address a critical capacity & skills gap to reduce flood risk and improve flood resilience across Yorkshire. The results will help us to understand the needs of flood risk managers and be used to put together a blue green infrastructure training programme. The aim is to upskill our workforce so that we can provide more resilient infrastructure, deliver projects which have a positive impact on the environment and address the challenges of climate change. This will ultimately result in greater support for businesses, landowners and economic benefits for the region and beyond. There will be a focus on the Flood Water Management Act 2010 Schedule 3 and climate resilience and readiness (with an initial focus on green skills). Organisations who support Blue Green Infrastructure Projects in Yorkshire including local authorities, Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency, rivers trusts and charities, are being sent the survey, with a Yorkshire-wide training programme planned for later in the year. The new training programme will be delivered by a team of flood and water research, innovation and skills development providers hosted by water@leeds University of Leeds and drawing on other Yorkshire universities via Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP The WYFLIP project, led by Environment Agency was awarded £286,293 in local levy funding by the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to deliver this skills audit and training programme for Yorkshire Risk Management Authorities and their partners over the next two years - and to resource the programme management of WYFLIP. If you want to find out more about the project email us wyflip@leeds.ac.uk and please pass it on to any appropriate colleagues. If you work in flood risk management please help us by completing the survey https://bit.ly/3WOhuUj - and it would be great if you could spread the word to relevant colleagues. #flooding #floodresilience #bluegreeninfrastructure #WYFLIP Environment Agency Andy Bray Sam Ramsden Calderdale Communications Katie Kimber Flood Innovation Centre LivingWithWater Jonathan Moxon
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Senior Programme Manager Strategic Programme Generation & Delivery - Environmental Hazards and Health at NERC: Natural Environment Research Council
It is great to see the involvement of the early career researchers and the progress being made on these exciting projects as part of the Freshwater Quality programme. Details on how to sign up to the programme newsletter and webinar series can be found in the post.
You can read about all the progress being made by the five exciting projects in our Freshwater Quality Programme - each looking at a different aspect of water pollution - in our 2nd newsletter which has just been published. It features spotlights on three of our early career researchers from two of the projects - ECOMIX and PACIFIC. Dr Kishore Jagadeesan is a research associate in the Environmental Chemistry and Public Health Research Group, University of Bath. With a background in analytical chemistry and data analysis, his expertise lies in wastewater fingerprinting for public health assessment, focusing on identifying biomarkers and analysing mass spectrometric data of emerging chemical contaminants. He is working on PACIFIC which focuses on understanding the link between the sources of chemical pollutants and their pathways, fate, and ecological impacts in freshwater ecosystems. To find out more about the project https://lnkd.in/er9Cmf5t Dr. Rana Al-Jaibachi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield. She is currently examining the impacts of chemical pollution on freshwater macroinvertebrates. Through an in-depth exploration of these aquatic organisms, she aims to provide valuable insights into the overall health of freshwater ecosystems and the potential consequences stemming from chemical pollutants. Dr Rana is supporting the ECOMIX project based University of York which is developing a novel assessment framework for assessing the real impacts of chemical pollution in UK rivers. It is identifying and managing hotspots of risk, helping to halt the decline in freshwater biodiversity. To find out more about the project - https://lnkd.in/ejMqttWv To read the newsletter visit https://lnkd.in/eD9YyXPW If you join our mailing list, you will be invited to our popular series of monthly online freshwater quality webinars. These allow researchers, practitioners, businesses and policy makers to come together to share knowledge, discuss issues and keep up to date with key research findings. https://lnkd.in/eDXAGsbk Our next webinar at 11am, Wednesday 15 May, will feature Penny Johnes, project lead from QUANTUM which is looking at the impact of livestock farming on rivers. You can email us about the programme freshwater@leeds.ac.uk Pictured is Dr Rana Al-Jaibachi #waterquality #freshwater #research Kay Heuser Joseph Holden NERC: Natural Environment Research Council Andrew Tyler The Rivers Trust Environment Agency Scottish Environment Protection Agency Global Food and Environment Institute, University of Leeds Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Our WaterLANDS team based University of Leeds is working with Northumberland Peat Partnership to run a two part workshop for land managers to generate knowledge about the Northumberland uplands. The workshop will be held on Saturday 11 May, 10.45am - 3pm and Saturady 18 May, 10.45am - 1pm with refreshments and lunch provided. The aim is to understand in what ways these landscapes are important to people practically engaged with them on a daily basis, and how this might relate to different ways of using the land, including peatland restoration. We hope that land managers will share their knowledge and experience during facilitated discussions, and a site visit. You are welcome to bring along family and friends also involved in land management - although for health and safety reasons, we cannot accommodate children under the age of 18. You need to sign up by Thursday 9 May using this link: https://lnkd.in/eqJEkz7D For questions email J.B.Cohen@leeds.ac.uk and Alex.Robinson@northwt.org.uk This event is part of WaterLANDS project, funded by Horizon 2020, which aims to restore peatland across Europe. The agendas are:- May 11th: 10:45 Meet at Moss Peteral Farm, Greenhead, Brampton, CA8 7HY (directions available here: https://lnkd.in/eaAYrDDM) Tea, coffee and pastries provided 11:00 – 12.30 Introduction and facilitated discussion and exercise on the importance of local environments. 12:30-13:00 Lunch provided 13:00-13:15 Travel to walking site 13.15 -14.30 Walk at the site of proposed peatland restoration, with time to discuss what we are seeing in connection to the morning’s discussions. 14.30-14.45 Travel back to venue 14.30-15:00 Wrap up and introduction to workshop part 2 May 18th 10:45 Meet at Greenhead Village Hall, Greenhead, Brampton, CA8 7HE Tea, coffee and pastries provided 11.00-12:30 Future ways of managing land, including any potential for restorative measures. 12:30-13:00 Wrap up and reflection on the workshops. #peatland #peatlandrestoration #Northumberland Yorkshire Peat Partnership IUCN UK Peatland Programme Environment Agency Global Food and Environment Institute, University of Leeds The Wildlife Trusts Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
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As part of West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WYFLIP), we're carrying out an online survey to address a critical capacity & skills gap to reduce flood risk and improve flood resilience across Yorkshire. The results will help us to understand the needs of flood risk managers and be used to put together a blue green infrastructure training programme. The aim is to upskill our workforce so that we can provide more resilient infrastructure, deliver projects which have a positive impact on the environment and address the challenges of climate change. This will ultimately result in greater support for businesses, landowners and economic benefits for the region and beyond. There will be a focus on the Flood Water Management Act 2010 Schedule 3 and climate resilience and readiness (with an initial focus on green skills). Organisations who support Blue Green Infrastructure Projects in Yorkshire including local authorities, Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency, rivers trusts and charities, are being sent the survey, with a Yorkshire-wide training programme planned for later in the year. The new training programme will be delivered by a team of flood and water research, innovation and skills development providers hosted by water@leeds University of Leeds and drawing on other Yorkshire universities via Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP The WYFLIP project, led by Environment Agency was awarded £286,293 in local levy funding by the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to deliver this skills audit and training programme for Yorkshire Risk Management Authorities and their partners over the next two years - and to resource the programme management of WYFLIP. If you want to find out more about the project email us wyflip@leeds.ac.uk and please pass it on to any appropriate colleagues. If you work in flood risk management please help us by completing the survey https://bit.ly/3WOhuUj - and it would be great if you could spread the word to relevant colleagues. #flooding #floodresilience #bluegreeninfrastructure #WYFLIP Environment Agency Andy Bray Sam Ramsden Calderdale Communications Katie Kimber Flood Innovation Centre LivingWithWater Jonathan Moxon
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Thank you to everyone who came to the West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme's (WYFLIP) Annual General meeting - it was a really productive and enjoyable event. Lots of great networking and lively discussions about innovative ways of tackling flooding. If you couldn't make it all the presentations are now on our website https://bit.ly/3y4mauL You can read about what's going on in the Programme as the spring bulletin is out now https://bit.ly/44m0y9l It features Spotlight on the Ousewem project Survey to identify skill gaps as part of the Blue Green Infrastructure Training Programme Updates from all the WYFLIP projects Blog about Programme Manager Jonathan Moxon presenting WYFLIP in Malaysia Lots of great photos - if you have more please share them. If you attended the event, we would really welcome your feedback https://bit.ly/3xZ2GYq And make sure you don't miss out on the next WYFLIP newsletter - by signing up now https://bit.ly/3PyzRqN #floodresilience #flooding #floodrisk Andy Bray Sam Ramsden Joseph Holden Priestley Centre for Climate Futures Katie Kimber Samuel T. Steve Wragg Living With Water
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https://lnkd.in/eQ-ezreU Great day today at the annual general meeting of the West Yorkshire #Flood #Innovation Programme's (#WYFLIP). Collaboration is key to developing #community #resilience to #floodrisk! Lots of interesting #NFM and #NBS projects are ongoing across our local regions. Which is great to see. Exactly why JBA Consulting developed our specific #naturalfloodmanagment training course hosted in Yorkshire! (May 15/16th) Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP | The Rivers Trust | #slowtheflow #catchmentmanagement Jonathan Moxon, Victoria Murray Practical #Feasibility and #Appraisal for #NFM Delivery. #TrainingCourse #economicanalysis #designandbuild
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