We have had an exciting couple of months at CBESS working on our end of project outputs; a carbon predication tool for ecosystem managers and a complimentary citizen science app.
University of Cambridge
Winter 2015-16: CBESS’ first data paper published and other news
Bangor University and University of Cambridge have had a very productive winter, in this season’s progress report Bangor are the focus. In the spring we will focus on Cambridge and their experiences of influencing professional stakeholders with CBESS science.
University of Cambridge: science, art and CBESS – over a pint
Pint of Science; a science festival is bringing learning to your local. The festival takes place over three evenings in May and happens simultaneously in the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, USA, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Australia. The 2015 Festival hosted 500 speakers in 68 pubs across 12 cities and 20 universities
University of Cambridge: stormy geomorphology
Dr Tom Spencer (of CBESS) is organising a one day international scientific meeting (11 May) looking at geomorphic contributions in an age of extremes.
CCRU: largest ever saltmarsh flume experiment
Large-scale flume experiment shows that salt marshes reduce the height of waves during storm surge conditions by nearly 20%
CCRU: the salt marsh experiment
Salt marshes as sea defences
Salt marsh ecosystems are important to the local, regional, and global community for many reasons, these include providing a buffer against waves and tidal currents.
Summer 2013: what have we been doing?
In January and February 2013 the CBESS Team spent two weeks in the Essex Marshes and Morecambe Bay, respectively (the first of two field campaigns). Rain, hail, ice, snow and wind were overcome in order to collect enough samples at four spatial scales to quantify the biodiversity and related ecosystem services in two very different bio-geographical regions.
University of Cambridge: salt marshes as sea defences
The Cambridge Coastal Research Unit (University of Cambridge) is monitoring the sea defence function of saltmarshes at two saltmarsh sites in Morecambe Bay and three in Essex.
INTERCOL 2013
The Cambridge Coastal Research Unit (University of Cambridge) will be presenting preliminary findings of their measurements at the INTECOL 2013 conference in London on Wednesday 21st August in the session on Marine Ecology with an oral presentation on “Dynamics of the coastal protection service of salt marshes across a UK west coast – east coast gradient”.
BBC News at Ten
If you missed it Dr Iris Moeller was on BBC News at Ten, talking about the importance of natural sea defences like salt marshes in light of the 60th anniversary of the great flood the devastated east and south-east coasts of England.