Thank you for attending Confluence23; please find below the featured presentations, workshop slides and our video from the day.
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Morning Presentations
Introduction to the Upper Rother and Fountains Abbey projects
Dr Debbie Coldwell, Don Catchment Rivers Trust and Nabil Abbas, National Trust
Impact of iCASP
Viki Hirst, independent consultant
West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme and successful funding bids – PFR and LoRaWan
Ed Norfolk, Bradford Council and Paul Madison, Wakefield Council
Afternoon Presentations
Biodiversity and peatlands restoration with Great North Bog
Guest speaker – Chief Executive Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Rachael Bice
WaterLANDS – citizen science work
Dr Joshua Cohen, University of Leeds
Enhanced surface water flood forecasting and monitoring
Prof Cathryn Birch
ECOMIX – UK Freshwater Quality Programme
Dr Alistar Boxhall, University of York
Yorkshire Natural Flood Management Community of Practice
Emma Wren, Mott MacDonald Consultancy and Jonathon Moxon, Leeds City Council
Workshops
What is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? How can it be used in the environment? By iCASP Impact Translation Fellow, Andrew Johnson
Green finance for ecosystem restoration and nature recovery: A critical view by Prof Julia Martin-Ortega, Dr Ruth Bookbinder and Research Fellow Dr Joshua Cohen