Welcome to the Summer edition of our quarterly newsletter. You can now sign up for our exciting Annual Confluence which will be held this Autumn when we will share our news and have lively debates about the burning issues and catchment priorities for you across the region. Enjoy reading our Bulletin, if you have any suggestions for … Read more
Pictured: Flooding incident at Barnsdale Road Around 6,600 homes in the Wakefield district are permanently at risk of flooding from sudden storms. It’s actually surface water flooding that poses a bigger threat to the area than rising river levels as parts of the district’s drainage system could easily be overwhelmed by heavy rain. This is … Read more
Photo caption: Jonathan Moxon (2nd from left) at Roundtable event in Malaysia It’s not every day you set off to Malaysia to talk about the work you do to reduce the risk of flooding in West Yorkshire and discover that global leaders are grappling with the exactly the same issues. When Programme Manager Jonathan Moxon … Read more
Pictured: River Aire in Leeds Welcome to the Freshwater Quality Programme spring 2024 newsletter, which has been produced by the Champion team based in water@leeds, University of Leeds. The newsletter provides updates from the Champion team and the five research projects within the programme, which each focus on different aspects of water quality. To find … Read more
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Pictured: – Visit to Fleet Moss, photo by Laura Harrington Laura Harrington and Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald), the UK Artists in Residence for WaterLANDS, have been busy during their first year exploring the Great North Bog – the UK Action Site which is a network of peatlands in Northern England – and getting to know … Read more
Pictured: Listening event – photo by Laura Harrington Last weekend (Saturday 17 February) Laura Harrington took part in a peat coring and ‘listening walk’ event with Durham Wildlife Trust, site lead Rebecca Clarke, sound artist Tim Shaw, Dr Antony Blundell from University of Leeds and Josh Cohen at St Cuthbert’s Moor Nature Reserve in Durham. … Read more
The Skell Valley Team hosted the Natural Flood Management (NFM) Community of Practice’s winter meeting at Fountains Abbey, which focused on Payments by Results. The day featured presentations on the progress of the Skell Valley Project (led by the National Trust) including NFM and opportunity maps undertaken by the University of Leeds. During the workshop … Read more
Welcome to the winter edition of our quarterly news bulletin. iCASP will be seven years old at the end of January. We are delighted to have had your wonderful help with creating an extensive network of partners over that time. New doors have opened and exciting research opportunities and impact have been realised. If you didn’t receive a … Read more
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