Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme i CASP www

Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (i. CASP) www. icasp. org. uk @Yorkshirei. CASP

Area covered by i. CASP – River Ouse drainage basin

What is i. CASP? A partnership programme funded by the Natural Environment Research Council Aim: to generate £ 50 million+ of benefits to Yorkshire’s economy by: • influencing investments, • identifying cost savings, • and creating new products and jobs.

i. CASP Themes Promoting the resilience of the region’s cities Mitigating drought and flood risk in the context of climate change Improving the delivery of flood forecasts Developing approaches to improve ecological and chemical status of surface and groundwaters, and water quality entering treatment works • Enhancing carbon sequestration in soils and woodlands • Supporting sustainable agriculture • •

Partnership

Key Success Measures • Value Creation – generating £ 50 million of benefits for Yorkshire • Science-user engagement – creating a network of catchment management experts • Policy formation and implementation – informing policies/strategies that relate to catchment management • Practical benefits – producing materials that help environmental science to be used

Legacy • Resilient region • Strong regional i. CASP network • Important player in future regional growth & investment decisions • Become a national capability UK i. CASP ? • International export – globally leading integrated catchment solutions © Les Firbank

What is an i. CASP project? Use existing environmental science from partner universities to help catchment management by: • Translating existing data, models, knowledge and/or expertise into tools, solutions and approaches; • Embedding new knowledge through secondments; • Advancing academic outputs into commercially-viable products and services.

Research • • • • Flood and drought risk mitigation Opportunity mapping for integrated catchment solutions Urban green infrastructure and sustainable urban drainage systems (Su. Ds) Natural flood management Flood risk perceptions Impact of flooding on SMEs Barriers/opportunities to adapting to increased flood risk Flood forecasting and climate resilience Weather and climate forecasting and projections Understanding flood dynamics through hydrological modelling Communicating climate information with different stakeholders Peatlands Carbon Drainage Burning Socio-economic valuation of ecosystem services

Research Sustainable agriculture • Land management and hydrological functioning of soils • Soil and crop resilience to drought and flooding • Soil organic matter – yields, water and carbon • • Water quality Slowing the spread of invasive non-natives Ecological response of rivers to moorland burning, instream woody debris, extreme floods and water abstraction Nitrate contamination on groundwater Occurrence, fate and effects of pesticides in catchments Developing novel sensors Sediment, nutrient and contaminant transfer from soils to water Urban diffuse pollution to support Su. DS Upland management and water quality © Les Firbank

Project scope Geographic scope: • Delivering benefits to Yorkshire • Specifically within the Yorkshire River Ouse drainage basin • Made up of the Aire, Calder, Derwent, Don, Nidd, Ouse, Swale, Ure, Wharfe catchments • Influence at national and international levels is encouraged. NERC-funded research only? • Existing research that has largely been NERC-funded • Can use non-NERC funded elements (from different disciplines) which help to apply environmental sciences • Budget can be used for academic time from different disciplines.

Example i. CASP Project Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire

i. CASP UKCP 18 Project May Process Impacts Understand users’ operational context Capture regional climate-dependent decisions and information needs timeline Reconcile user needs with UKCP 18 products Co-development and trial of UKCP 18 sample products (case studies: surface flood risk management; drought risk assessment) September • Development of new tools, technologies or protocols for climate risk management • Inform Met Office user guidance when data is released • Strengthen regional network • Demonstrate rationale for including assessment based on UKCP 18 within business case development and investment planning • Build capacity in use of new data

Project Development Two methods 1. Co-design workshops 2. Ideas directly from academics and/or user organisations

Project co-design workshop themes 2017 Workshops • Peatland restoration and valuation • Natural Flood Management • Agricultural land use and delivery of public goods • Green infrastructure business cases • Yorkshire Flood Alleviation Schemes Others to be defined for 2018

i. CASP staff Joseph Holden Director Robert Munroe Programme Manager Finn Barlow-Duncan Impact Officer - Matches up research with user needs Marie Ferré Impact Evaluator - Support project and programme impact monitoring and evaluation Susan Ballard Communications Officer - Support communicating science and project results Dave Hodgson Deputy Director Janet Richardson Impact Translation Fellow - Complete the majority of the work in i. CASP projects Benjamin Rabb Impact Translation Fellow - Complete the majority of the work in i. CASP projects Jane Rowling Administrator - First point of enquiry and support on organising meetings

Contact us through: i. CASP@leeds. ac. uk Keep up to date through: www. icasp. org. uk @Yorkshirei. CASP