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Category Archives: Chalk streams
Can we justify preserving landscapes for heritage?
This is a post I’ve mulling over for nearly a year on and off. As a society we now commonly restore rivers to improve water quality or for ecological benefits, and as recent posts on here have demonstrated we may … Continue reading
A geomorphological assessment of Constable’s landscapes
John Constable is recognised as one of the great English Romantic landscape painters and many of his paintings are of rivers. In a slightly tongue-in-cheek post I want to explore the geomorphology of some of his chosen subjects to demonstrate … Continue reading
Posted in Anglian, Chalk streams, Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrology, River Management, River restoration
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Monday morning – a poem about cows pooing in rivers
Originally posted on The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog:
So it’s good to have a healthy laugh at yourself once in a while, right? Nice to be able to just let go and be creative. A PhD can be pretty…
Posted in Chalk streams, Geomorphology, Water quality
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The fluvial geomorphology of East Anglia: a history lesson
East Anglia has some of the most interesting geomorphology in the whole of the UK. Trev Bond explains why. Continue reading
Posted in Anglian, Chalk streams, Geomorphology
Tagged chalk streams, channel change, channel evolution, East Anglia, East anglian, East of England, Essex, fluvial geomorphology, glacial geomorphology, glaciation, gravel, history, legacy, lowland rivers, Norfolk, outflows, planform, river basin management, sediment, shallow gradient, substrate, Suffolk
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Threats to English chalk streams – Part 2
Originally posted on The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog:
Four more threats to English chalk streams, following on from the previous blog post in this series: catchment-scale land-use change; allochthonous nutrient inputs; urbanisation; and neglect. Catchment-scale land-use change As well as…
Posted in Chalk streams, Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrology
Tagged cattle, chalk, chalk streams, england, english, environment, land-use change, neglect, rivers, runoff, streams, urbanisation
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Threats to English chalk streams – Part 1
Originally posted on The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog:
So far in this blog series we’ve looked at what English chalk streams are, where they come from, and why they’re important. In this fourth installment (the first of a two-parter),…
Posted in Chalk streams, Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrology
Tagged cattle, chalk, chalk streams, england, english, environment, land-use change, neglect, rivers, runoff, streams, urbanisation
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Why are English chalk streams important?
Originally posted on The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog:
We’ve looked at where chalk streams come from and their characteristics. Now it’s time to consider why English chalk streams are important. The ecological significance of England’s chalk rivers is internationally…
Posted in Chalk streams, Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrology
Tagged biodiversity, chalk, chalk stream, ecological, ecology, ecosystem services, Environment Agency, Hampshire, itchen, Lawton Report, river, River Itchen, salmon, stream, trout, Winchester
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The characteristics of English chalk streams
Originally posted on The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog:
In the first post of this series we considered the history and origins of English chalk streams; where they were and where they’d come from. In this post we’ll look at…
Posted in Chalk streams, Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrology
Tagged chalk, chalk streams, conservation, diversity, ecology, england, geomorphology, habitat, Hampshire, hydrology, itchen, management, otters, redshank, river, salmon, trout, wading birds, water meadows
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An introduction to England’s chalk streams: origins and history
Originally posted on The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog:
If you’ve ever spent any amount of time in the English countryside, you’ve probably come across a chalk stream or two. Spanning from the River Hull in Humberside to the River…
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Tagged chalk, cultural history, england, english, grazing, history, landscape, legacy, river, stream, water meadow
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