Category Archives: Flooding

Looking into Selly Park Flooding

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Simon Dixon

In June this year intense rainfall led to localised flooding in South Birmingham in and around University of Birmingham. One area which was particularly badly hit was Pershore Rd near the Birmingham Nature Centre. This area is near to the … Continue reading →

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What about beavers?

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Simon Dixon

My first research projects were on logjams, looking at their abundance, distribution, form and function. These logjams were naturally occurring as a result of wood being “recruited” to the channel via wind throw or overbank transport. However ever since I … Continue reading →

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River Management Career Profiles: Water Consultant

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Simon Dixon

This is the first in our new series of career profiles within the broad river/water management sector. Pete Harrison, is a Senior Hydrologist at the consultancy WSP (see link for their website). For this series we ask people to answer … Continue reading →

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The dynamics of large wood in forest rivers – new research paper

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Simon Dixon

I have a bit of cutting edge science for you today in the shape of a summary of a recently accepted paper of mine from the journal Water Resources Research. This paper covers a small side project from my PhD … Continue reading →

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Autumn, leaves, blocked drains and flooding

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Simon Dixon

I caught myself the other day engaged in some slightly odd behaviour. I was out in the road in front of my house cleaning leaves out of the gutter. Had I finally become the crazy old man I have long … Continue reading →

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What are environmental flows?

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Ben Gillespie

You may have heard about the current restoration efforts on the Colorado River: an eight week long ‘pulse flow’ is being released from Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border (USA). This pulse flow is designed to replicate spring snowmelt driven floods that … Continue reading →

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What is a river without rain?

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Ben Gillespie

This is a guest post by Ben Gillespie, a doctoral researcher at University of Leeds You would have to live in bubble not to realise that rivers in South West England have been flooding. These recent events have bought untold … Continue reading →

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Room for the River – Dutch flood control

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Simon Dixon

As I detailed in my previous post about the current flooding in the UK, the main focus at the present time should be on protecting lives and property. It is certainly not the time for blame and is too early … Continue reading →

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How wood in rivers affects flood risk

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Simon Dixon

UPDATE: This work was accepted for publication in the journal “Earth Surfaces Process & Landforms” on 12/02/2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.3919/abstract One of the key objectives of my PhD research at University of Southampton was to try and assess how changing volumes of … Continue reading →

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Uttarkhand floods in India

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Simon Dixon

In response to the devastating floods in the Uttarakhand province of India there has been an almost inevitable shift from the initial shock and horror towards attempts to apportion blame for the events. In many ways this is something that … Continue reading →

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