A Catchment of Data, a Flow of Evidence
The River Aire catchment area extends from the upper reaches of Skipton and the start of the Yorkshire Dales National Park right down to Castleford, the river winding its way through vibrant cities like Bradford and Leeds along the way. Greatly affected by flooding in recent years, the River Aire catchment is also home to one of the most ambitious Natural Flood Management (NFM) activities in the UK.
Rapid advances in sensors and wireless networks such as LoRAWAN, coupled with greater awareness of collecting and sharing data, present opportunities to design NFM monitoring systems. These systems can then improve the evidence base for NFM and be used to help create a better understanding of NFM activities. This will support future invesment in catchment management. The data will be fundemental - how it is used, who will use it, and how will they understand it. It will need to be accessible to all and should comform to data standards that will allow it to be robust whilst still being suitable for public engagement.
The workshop on the 19th September at ODI Leeds is to start the process of co-creating a NFM monitoring strategy for the Aire catchment that makes it a national/international flagship for NFM monitoring. It will bring together a variety of stakeholders involved in NFM work across the Aire catchment to address the following questions:
- What/where NFM is being planned/implemented?
- What monitoring is already planned/being done?
- What do we want to measure and why?
- What information/data do we need and how to analyse/present this?
- Is anyone already collecting this desired information and where?
Key dates
Weds 19 Sept 2018
9:30am - 3:30pm
First innovation working session to help set the context of NFM now and where it could go in the futureThurs 20 & Fri 21 Sept 2018
IoTUK Challenger North event, where NFM is a challenge for SMEs to respond to.
Spring 2019 - tbc
9:30am - 3:30pm
Second innovation working session to help create the action plan for NFM and data.
Wednesday 19 September 2018 - Agenda
Timings are subject to some change on the day.
9:30 - 10:00 | Welcome. Arrive. Meet, greet, and coffee. |
10:00 - 10:15 |
Introductions Overview of the day, the project, and expectations. |
10:15 - 11:00 | Setting the context Talks from iCASP and the EA. |
11:00 - 11:15 | Tea/Coffee break |
11:15 - 12:30 | NFM & Monitoring - Where is it happening and what is needed? Working in groups. Adding NFM projects and monitoring projects to a digital map. Discussing what is needed in terms of NFM and monitoring. |
12:30 - 13:30 | LUNCH |
13:30 - 14:45 | The Future Discussing what needs to stop, what needs to start, and what should continue. Also a discussion about future output - how do we make the data from NFM accessible and digestible to varying audiences? |
14:45 - 15:00 | Tea/Coffee break |
15:00 - 15:30 | Wrap up |
Resources
Open collab document
An open collaborative document to track questions, comments, suggestions, findings, etc
Draft NFM Guidance
First draft of the EA NFM monitoring guidance
The Data Spectrum
The Data Spectrum is useful in understanding open data and where it sits alongside other terms like big data, etc.
What is Open Data?
Various links to open data guides produced by the Open Data Institute.
Mapping Potential Natural Processes
Pages 58-59 are of particular interest
Countryside Stewardship
A brief PDF about countryside stewardship and flooding
Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme
Presentation slides
Yorkshire iCASP
Presentation slides
Spring 2019 (tbc) - Agenda
*Timings are subject to some change on the day*
9:30 - 10:00 | Welcome. Arrive. Meet, greet, and coffee. |
10:00 - 10:15 |
Introductions Overview of the day, the project, and expectations. |
10:15 - 11:00 | Recap of previous innovation session |
11:00 - 11:15 | Tea/Coffee break |
11:15 - 12:30 | TBC . |
12:30 - 13:30 | LUNCH |
13:30 - 14:45 | TBC |
14:45 - 15:00 | Tea/Coffee break |
15:00 - 15:30 | Wrap up |
Resources
Open collab document 2
An open collaborative document to track questions, comments, suggestions, findings, etc
Data page
A place to find currently available NFM data.
Partners
These workshops will be organised and facilitated by ODI Leeds, Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), and the Environment Agency, with the events sponsored by the Environment Agency in partnership with Leeds City Council through the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme, and water@leeds.