Julian Shield joined us for five weeks in September 2019 to research Extreme Event Attribution. He found that 40 of the 41 heatwaves investigated between 2011 and 2017 were attributable to climate change.
JBA Trust’s physical models were used to help demonstrate and explore engineering, flood risk and hydraulic concepts at Peterborough STEM Festival on Saturday 12th October.
JBA Trust are delighted to have received a new Flowmeter Wading Set, donated by the Canal & Rivers Trust.
JBA Trust was pleased to support an event for young farmers who are increasingly interested in the environmental impact of farming and its effect on hydrology and flood management
The JBA Trust large hydraulic flume was in action at the Greater Peterborough University Technical College freshers’ event on 9th September 2019. The event introduced year 10 and year 12 students to local employers to give them an idea of how their studies could be used in careers in industry.
We have installed an automatic weather station at our Broughton Park office, near Skipton in North Yorkshire. Data recorded at this station is freely available for use by schools, universities and communities.
New paper reports a probabilistic analysis of the risk to the British railway network from scour at bridges
JBA Trust is fully funding tuition fees for places on Lancaster University’s postgraduate courses in Flood and Coastal Risk Management starting in the 2019-20 academic year.
Work experience student, Abigail Brook-Petty, joined the JBA Trust for a week to learn about how new visualisation techniques can help people learn about flood risk.
We were very pleased to support the Key Stage 2 geography curriculum at Christchurch Primary School in Skipton on Wednesday 3rd July, where Year 5 and 6 pupils have been learning about local and international rivers, the journey of a river, river features and flooding.
