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Resilience of leaky barriers in Natural Flood Management at the RRC conference

Resilience of leaky barriers in Natural Flood Management at the RRC conference

Zora van Leeuwen presented her poster “A Method for Assessing the Resilience of Leaky Dam Networks” online at the 21st River Restoration Centre conference.

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New paper: Geomorphological effectiveness of floods to rework gravel bars: insight from hyperscale topography and hydraulic modelling

New paper: Geomorphological effectiveness of floods to rework gravel bars: insight from hyperscale topography and hydraulic modelling

A new paper by Reid et al., supported by the JBA Trust, explores how a 2D flow model can be useful in understanding the evolution of bars in a high energy gravel-bed river.

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Flood impacts brought to life through science and technology

Flood impacts brought to life through science and technology

A team of scientists and academics from Lancaster University, JBA Trust and the Environment Agency attended the Manchester Science Festival on 21 October 2017 to raise awareness of the devastating risks and impacts posed by flooding.

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Training day for ‘Healthy Weirs’ volunteers

Training day for ‘Healthy Weirs’ volunteers

The JBA Trust continued its support for the ‘Healthy Weirs Project’ in Derbyshire by supporting a training day for volunteers on 14 October 2017 in Belper.

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National analysis of rapid rates of rise (“flash floods”) in gauged river flows

National analysis of rapid rates of rise (“flash floods”) in gauged river flows

As part of our support for the Flooding From Intense Rainfall research programme, we have been working on identifying exceptional “rapid-rise” events, a type of flash flooding, in gauged river flow records throughout Great Britain.

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Presentation: National analysis of bridge scour failure risks

Presentation: National analysis of bridge scour failure risks

Professor Rob Lamb, Director of JBA Trust, gave a presentation on our collaborative research at the ITRC’s meeting…

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Publication: Flash floods from intense rainfall

Publication: Flash floods from intense rainfall

David Archer, supported by JBA Trust, and Hayley Fowler of Newcastle University publish a paper about chronologies of historical flash floods

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Scholarships for Flood and Coastal Risk Management 2015/16

Scholarships for Flood and Coastal Risk Management 2015/16

JBA Trust is fully funding tuition fees for places on Lancaster University’s postgraduate courses in Flood and Coastal Risk Management.

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Two-dimensional flow modelling for river bar analysis

Two-dimensional flow modelling for river bar analysis

JBA Trust is working with Richard Williams from Aberystwyth University to apply rapid two-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling to analyse river bar reworking

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Scouting day raises flood awareness in Rochdale

Scouting day raises flood awareness in Rochdale

Cubs, Scouts and Explorers from across the Rochdale borough have taken part in a day of flood awareness activities, supported by the JBA Trust.

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