Spring 2020 newsletter
We’ve issued our Spring newsletter which covers April to July. If you didn’t receive a copy you can access it online; you can also sign up here to have future versions sent straight to your mailbox
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We won an award…
At its very heart, iCASP has been designed to be about working in partnership with others across the region to generate benefits, create jobs and products, to save money and ensure that existing environmental research can be used to address the many different challenges we face. So, we were delighted to win the University of … Read more
Confluence 2020 – open for registration
Join us for Confluence 2020, which will be delivered through two webinars and a series of video project updates this year. We invite all partners, academics, stakeholders and those with an interest in catchment management to join us. The two themed webinars will each cover several iCASP and iCASP-partner projects, including the links between them … Read more
The iCASP workstreams
There are seven iCASP workstreams, six of which focus on delivering solutions to problems across the catchment; the seventh overarches the whole programme. The six solution-focused workstreams are carbon sequestration, climate resilience, drought & flood risk mitigation, flood forecasting, sustainable agriculture and water quality. An iCASP project will typically have elements of several workstreams within … Read more
Confluence 2020
Due to the current Covid-19 situation, the Confluence event we had planned for Friday 26 June will no longer be going ahead as a face to face meeting. Instead there will be series of webinars and video updates of projects. We are currently finalising the details. If you would like to be kept notified, please … Read more
Natural flood management measures in the landscape: a blend of research expertise and volunteering
As well as the various natural flood management (NFM) projects we have running within the iCASP programme at the moment, we also provide information and guidance to other organisations with their NFM projects. A key aspect of this is providing advice about initial and ongoing monitoring of NFM measures. This means it’s possible to understand … Read more
Winter 2020 newsletter
We’ve just issued our winter newsletter to give you an update on what we have been up to over the last few months. You can access the Winter 2020 Newsletter and also previous issues from the last two years. To get the newsletter direct to your mailbox 4 times a year, please subscribe
Combining water data across Hull and East Riding
It would be hard to have missed the vast quantities of water across parts of the UK over the past few months, but when water isn’t so obvious other ways are needed to track where water is, how much there is and what it is doing. Monitoring of water is routine and carried out by … Read more
Surveying across Yorkshire to understand levels of Property Flood Resilience
A new survey has just been launched by The Yorkshire Property Flood Resilience Pathfinder project to understand levels of Property Flood Resilience (PFR) across Yorkshire. This project is one of three national projects commissioned by DEFRA and is led by the City of York Council partnering with several local stakeholders including Yorkshire Water, Living with … Read more
Confluence 2020 – have your say
Confluence 2020 will take place on Friday 26 June at Nexus, University of Leeds – so please, save the date! We want to involve partners and stakeholders in shaping the agenda so are keen to understand your views on what we can most usefully schedule into the agenda and cover throughout the day. We anticipate … Read more