BBC’s Countryfile team visit the Eden
On January 16th Countryfile’s Ben Laidlow (Director) and John Craven (Presenter) paid the Eden a visit as part of a feature about organic farming and water quality across Britain.
Morland InfoSheet now available
An information sheet on the water quality of the Morland catchment in water year 2012 is now available. You can download the pdf or read more:
April 2, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
MSc research on diffuse pollution in the River Eden catchment using SCIMAP by Steph Dixon
Steph Dixon has completed her MSc by Research that looked at how to incorporate temporal issues associated with rural diffuse pollution within the SCIMAP risk mapping framework. The full Masters by Research thesis is on the Durham University e Thesis site at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6895/ The Effects of Land Management and Predicted Climate Change on Hydrological Connectivity [...]
March 27, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Invasive crayfish found in the River Eden
At the beginning of this year, the presence of a population of North American signal crayfish was confirmed in a tributary of the River Eden. This population poses a potential threat to the endangered native white clawed crayfish, as it is a resistant carrier of the fungal disease called crayfish plague.
February 14, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Dacre Beck water chemistry
The graph shows recent data from the monitoring site at the Pow Beck catchment outflow. This graph shows recent trends in stream temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, ammonium, turbidity and chlorophyll-a.
February 7, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Pow Beck water chemistry
The first graph shows recent data from the monitoring site at the Pow Beck catchment outflow. The graph shows recent trends in ammonium, nitrate, total phosphate, Soluble Reactive Phosphorus and water level.
February 7, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Will Cleasby on Farming Today
Will Cleasby from the EdenDTC project was on Farming Today. You can hear it on the BBC iPlayer or download the mp3 file.
December 3, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Colleagues from INRA, France, visit the Eden
Philippe Merot and Anne Monchy, from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), visited the Eden catchment and Lancaster University on the 26th and 27th of November 2012.
November 28, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
“Monitoring agricultural diffuse pollution in the Eden” – journal article available online
Monitoring agricultural diffuse pollution through a dense monitoring network in the River Eden Demonstration Test Catchment, Cumbria, UK G.J Owen*, M.T Perks**, C.McW.H Benskin†, M.E Wilkinson*, J Jonczyk* and P.F Quinn*
September 24, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
