DAY 1: Involved some interesting discussions surrounding the evidence base for natural flood risk management (NFM) and how best to measure its effectiveness. Megan Klarr from the University of Leeds discusssed a community led data collection project funded by Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP) https://icasp.org.uk/about/ This involved monitoring effective storage before and after the installation of a woody dam by training members of the local community how to use structure for motion to analyse time lapse photography. Trevor Page from Lancaster University discussed the evidence for the significance of canopy interseption and wet-canopy evapouration on QNFM and how much of the rainfall hits the ground if the canopy is in the way. The school of Engineering at Newcastle university had a very interesting poster on modelling leaky barriers explaining what they are, the computational fluid dynamics, validation with hydrolic fume and the application of the river model, ( s.c.leakey2@ncl.ac.uk).
DAY 2: Field-trip to Cumbria, followed by lunch at the charming Strickland Arms!! Fifty participants travelled to a site above the village of Sedbergh to see the NFM micro-flume, figure 2.
Figure 1: The village of Sedbergh flooded by storm Desmond in 2015.
Figure 2: Micro-flume on a feeder channel to the river Lune whch runs through Sedbergh.
