Our Project Manager Rupert recently led a cold but enthusiastic group visit to our River Og realignment project.
#meanders #chalkstream

The Trust made a splash on the Cranborne Chase this winter 💦.

Blocking this historically perched and channelised reach of winterbourne will encourage it to spill into the floodplain, re-wetting meadows and creating new complex ephemeral channels.

For the first time in 140 years, the Hamble Brook has a new wetland thanks to ChilternChalkStreams. 

“We hope this will pave the way for similar restoration projects throughout the wider Chilterns landscape,” said Elaine King.

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Giulio Biondi Tim Sykes ventured deep into nooks and crannies across the South Downs to bother aquatic invertebrates lurking in our hidden headwaters, then Jamal Kabir 🦋 Kieran Gething found the story in the data: specialist species galore! Great to see this out 🙌🍻

🚨 This is not a drill! The first peregrine falcon egg has arrived in the nest on our Newton building 🦅🥚

Do you think we’ll see another egg soon? 👀

You can watch the live camera here 👉 bit.ly/40nTLci 👈 Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust

Record sewage spills into England rivers and seas in 2023 bbc.in/4abP1v9

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Fantastic work Teresa Silverthorn : another excellent piece from her #Phd INRAE Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes EcoFlowS, demonstrating how #DryingRiverNetworks contribute to C cycling and CO2 evasion. Nice collaboration with colleagues from Drying River Networks and Climate Change. Stay tuned for her upcoming PhD defence!

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Humans have a long history of modifying rivers, in the past water meadows were a means to provide livestock with ‘the early bite’, by rerouting/ straightening the channel to the edges of a meadow. Farmers could ‘drown’ the meadow bringing on early fresh grasses for their sheep.

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Wonderful winterbournes
They may not always look amazing, but they are! Even when dry for many months of the year the riverbed, the plants that remain & tiny hidden invertebrates are all integral to the winterbourne being a functioning ecosystem.
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'Winterbournes are the powerhouse of our chalkstreams. The moment they start to flow water species colonise and drift downstream to supply the whole river system with new organisms; the moment they dry they become an entirely new habitat.' Well said Charlotte Hitchmough Action for the River Kennet (ARK)!

Post 3 Changing Weather Patterns
Now back in its historic channel, the Og is more resilient to more extreme weather patterns.
Rewiggled rivers, like our Og project slow the flow through the catchment.
The ecological benefits are already evident, look at the lapwing !!!

Natural Flood Management
Making space for water, storing it safely in the landscape is something that needs to be addressed across the country, as we face more extreme weather events.
1 NFM measure is reconnecting rivers to their floodplain, like our Og Rewiggling project. #NFM

Re-wiggling?
Freeing rivers from the artificial constraints imposed on them in the past by humans brings multiple benefits, from reducing downstream flooding to wins for wildlife.
Our River Og Rewiggling project - 1,000 metres of the Og has been returned to its natural path.

Congratulations Dr Gething Kieran Gething passing his PhD viva with flying colours today 🙌🥂🍻 Dept of Biosciences, Nottingham Trent University NTUScienceTechnology. Thank you deb finn and Jamie Martin for giving him a proper good grilling and Tim Sykes for sterling co-supervision.

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We're hiring two researchers for an Environment Agency Nottingham Trent University project developing methods to assess the health of small streams using plant communities 🌿
Based Dept of Biosciences, Nottingham Trent University
Lots of fieldwork 😎
We're seeking ££ to extend the roles

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Apply to our course on Taxonomic skills and field techniques for freshwater ecology and quality nhm.ac.uk/our-science/st… Natural History Museum Science NHM Botany Ewan Shilland Luis Moliner Cachazo 👨🏻‍🔬🪰🇪🇺