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Desk-based assessment for river restoration planning & catchment management
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Desk-based assessment for river restoration planning & catchment management

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Introductory
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October 9 - November 7, 2024 Short Course Online

Overview

There is a lot of information you can look at prior to heading out on site, to provide you with a better understanding of your catchment, target your field surveys and identify potential restoration measures. This one-day course will help you find, collate, display and interpret existing data for your river restoration projects or catchment strategy. Existing data on flood risk, geology, terrain, land use etc. provide evidence and justification for projects and help target field work and restoration action. As part of the course, we will discuss the data required to achieve project priorities, we will show you how to find, download and display available datasets, and help you analyse them and produce meaningful outputs. We will use a case study example to practice and demonstrate how to apply a desktop assessment to pressure and impact evaluation for building a river restoration strategy.

River Restoration Centre

Desk-based assessment for river restoration planning & catchment management

We have developed this course to hold as a hybrid learning course, with material uploaded to an online learning platform for delegates to work through in their own time over a 4-week period. Following this, we will hold a 1.5 hour discussion session online for all attendees on the course to join and discuss the material.

At a glance

  • This course is open to anybody with a basic knowledge in river restoration and hydromorphology. Although not required, prior attendance of the Introduction to Hydromorphology (Level 1) course or the Developing a Catchment-wide restoration plan course can be beneficial. No prior knowledge of GIS or data analysis techniques is required for the course
  • Opening October 9th 2024, with compulsory online discussion session November 7th 2024, 10:00 - 11:30
  • Booked delegates will be emailed on October 9th, with links to login to the learning platform and work through the material
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