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09 Jun 2023

Scottish FRM2023 Conference - conference outputs

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The Scottish FRM2023 Conference took place in Perth in February this year. The topic of the conference was "Water Resilient Places". It was a 2-day conference which over 200 people attended (both in person and online). There were 59 speakrs and a...
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09 Jun 2023

Peatland ACTION - films now available on YouTube

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Peatland ACTION has recently launched a suite of films to help encourage more landowners to get involved in peatland restoration, and promote the value of the work that peatland contractors do to make that happen. The films can be accessed via a...
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09 Jun 2023

River Restoration Centre - upcoming training courses

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The River Restoration Centre (RRC) have a long history of running river related training events (inc. on the topic of NFM). The RRC have just released a number of training events that will take place over the next 6-months. These included courses on...
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02 Jun 2023

Eddleston Water Community engagement and sharing best practice in Catchment Restoration.

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Chris Spray (University of Dundee and Tweed Forum) has written a case study for the Ecosystem Knowledge Network based on Tweed Forum's experiences of working on the Eddleston Water Project, entitled Putting People first: Community engagement and...
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21 Mar 2023

Field visit of Japanese catchment Research team to Eddleston

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On 14 th March, The Eddlston Water project was visited by a tem of 14 researchers from 4 universities across Japan who together work on a catchment approach to flood risk management. Representing a variety of disciplines, the research team is led by...
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23 Feb 2023

Eddleston Water designated UNESCO Ecohydrology Demonstration Site

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The Eddleston Water project, Tweed Forum and Scottish Government's long-running empirical study of the effectiveness of Natural Flood Management (NFM) has just been designated by UNESCO as one of their new Ecohydrology Demonstration sites, becoming...
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23 Feb 2023

Nature Restoration Fund 2023 - current round is live

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The Helping Nature strand is now open for Expessions of Interest, which must be submitted by Monday 6 March 2023 . NatureScot invite protects requesting a grant of £25k - £250k to be delivered over a maximum of two years. The priorities under...
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24 Jan 2023

Paper published reviewing temporary storage areas in headwaters

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A focus review paper on mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas (TSAs) in headwaters has been published in the journal WIRES (Wiley Interdiciplinary Reviews) Waters. TSAs represent a category of soft-engineered...
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19 Jan 2023

Environment Agency produces Natural Flood Management Programme evaluation report

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A report has been produced by the Environment Agency that evaluates their Natural Flood Management programme. Between 2017 and 2021, £15 million of government funding was invested in 60 pilots across England. The report looks at 4 phases of NFM...
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12 Dec 2022

PhD opportunity on NFM in Scotland

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Are you interested in researching natural flood management? We're currently advertising a PhD focussed on land use change and natural flood management at the Eddleston NFM pilot site in the Scottish Borders. A great opportunity for someone with a...
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12 Dec 2022

Eddleston Water study Highly Commended in Nature of Scotland Awards

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Scottish Government's Eddleston Water project was Highly Commended in the annual Nature of Scotland Awards in Edinburgh last month. Project Managers, Tweed Forum, along with partners in SEPA, Dundee university and BGS joined other colleagues at the...
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