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Looking into Selly Park Flooding
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
Posted in Flooding, Geomorphology, Hydrology, River Management, Urban rivers
Tagged flood risk, flooding, fluvial geomorphology, geomorphology, hydrology, river management, rivers
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What about beavers?
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
River Management Career Profiles: Water Consultant
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
Posted in Careers, Flooding, Hydrology, River Management, Uncategorized
Tagged careers, river management
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The dynamics of large wood in forest rivers – new research paper
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
Autumn, leaves, blocked drains and flooding
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
Posted in Flooding, Hydrology, Politics, Urban rivers
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What are environmental flows?
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
Posted in Flooding, Hydrology, River Management, River restoration
Tagged environmental flow, environmental flows, hydrology
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What is a river without rain?
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
Posted in Flooding, Hydrology, Meteorology
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Room for the River – Dutch flood control
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
Posted in Flooding, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Politics, River Management
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How wood in rivers affects flood risk
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
Posted in Flooding, Geomorphology, Hydrology, River Management, River restoration
Tagged flood control, flood defence, rivers
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Uttarkhand floods in India
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
Posted in Flooding, Hydrology, Meteorology, Politics
Tagged flooding, geomorphology, hydrology
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