A mine of information on current land use and water research.

Bob Harris: Note the date for the DTC conference on 10 June at Stoneleigh Park. Click on the NEWS section of the DTC website for  http://www.demonstratingcatchmentmanagement.net/

The articles are: ·      Second Phase of DTC gets underway ·      What will it take to encourage the uptake of farm mitigation measures? ·      New Research Programme in the Hampshire Avon ·      Training the next generation of researchers and catchment managers ·      Improving stream conditions downstream of Moorland mitigation features? ·      Ireland’s Challenges in Sustainable Intensification ·      Agricultural Catchments Programme – Ireland ·      Linking Bottom Up understanding with Top Down planning ·      Catchment Management in Action: Integrating land and water management in the Eden exploring opportunities for business ·      Monitoring dissolved nitrous oxide concentrations in field drains from arable lands ·      Diatom Communities as indicators of diffuse N & P condition within the Eden DTC sub-catchments. ·      Avon/Tamar Stakeholder Meeting ·      Predicting Faecal Indicator Organism concentrations – the Cloud to Coast project ·      Scaling up from the DTC experimental areas ·      Hampshire Avon DTC: measure-scale mitigation monitoring work ·      Ecosystem Function: A useful tool in the box for monitoring changes in in-stream health. ·      Expert report calls for long term planning to protect UK food and water supplies ·      First Announcement of the DTC Conference

Have a great Easter!  Bob Harris  http://www.demonstratingcatchmentmanagement.net/