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Tag Archives: hydrology
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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How do we use wood in river management?
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
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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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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I love rivers because..
I saw the following tweet on Valentine’s day Fill in the blank: I love rivers because ________________________! fb.me/2tk93VAMD — Adam Broadhead (@losturbanrivers) February 15, 2013 I thought about this for a while and decided that 140 characters would be no … Continue reading
Posted in Geomorphology, Hydrology
Tagged environment, fluvial geomorphology, geomorphology, hydrology
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Rivers flood
Trev Bond explains that rivers flood, and that this is entirely normal Continue reading
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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