Category Archives: River restoration

Grant for Master’s study in Hydrology

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Simon Dixon

I’ve come across details of an excellent grant/award scheme for people looking to do an MSC in river and hydrology related courses with a view to moving into river/water management. The scheme is jointly run by the British Hydrology Society, … Continue reading →

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Can we justify preserving landscapes for heritage?

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Simon Dixon

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 →

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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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How do we use wood in river management?

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Simon Dixon

The presence of in-stream wood in rivers is a fairly complex and chaotic management issue. It’s not neat and tidy and to a degree wood in a channel is unpredictable, both in its effects and its behaviour. Wood moves around … Continue reading →

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River Management Career Profiles

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Simon Dixon

Following on from our very popular blog looking at and reviewing the available MSc courses for entry into the field of river management I’m excited to launch a new mini-series on the blog today looking at careers in the river … Continue reading →

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The dynamics of large wood in forest rivers – part 2

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Simon Dixon

In a previous post I described the main findings from a recent paper I had accepted in the journal Water Resources Research. The study looked at the movement of pieces of large wood by using numbered aluminium tags and repeatedly … 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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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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The Inaugural England River Prize

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Trevor Bond

Trevor Bond introduces the Inaugural England River Prize! 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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