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Tag Archives: rivers
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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The Inaugural England River Prize
Trevor Bond introduces the Inaugural England River Prize! Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrology, River Management, River restoration
Tagged award, channel, ecology, prize, river restoration, rivers, RRC, streams
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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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The EU RESTORE Rivers Wiki
Trev takes some time to introduce and explain the European RESTORE Rivers Wiki; a valuable tool for river managers Continue reading
Posted in River restoration
Tagged enhancement, Europe, rehabilitation, restoration, RESTORE, rivers, Wiki
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Logjams during floods
A lot of my research work at University of Southampton is related to the effects logjams in rivers have on flood behaviour. The recent heavy rain and flooding in the South provided me with an opportunity to get out into … Continue reading
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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