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The Cambridge Partner (co-ordinator)

The group at Cambridge coordinates the FLOBAR2 project and includes members of the Department of Geography and of the Department of Plant Sciences.

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The members of the research team include:

Project co-ordinators
Professor Keith Richards (Geography-geomorphology/hydrological modelling) ksr10@cam.ac.uk
Dr. Francine Hughes (Geography-riparian ecology/environmental flows) fh13@cam.ac.uk

Researchers

Mr. Adrian Hayes (Geography- instrumentation designer) ah224@cam.ac.uk
Ms Rachel Horn (Geography PhD - flow resistance modelling) rph28@cam.ac.uk

Associated Researchers

Dr. Shaojun Xiong (Now at University of Umea, Sweden) (Floodplain woodland ecology) shaojun.xiong@eg.umu.se
Dr. Mark Winfield
(Now at NHS, Salisbury, UK) 		(Cytogenetics) mark.winfield@salisbury.nhs.uk
Dr. Nadia Barsoum
(Now at CNRS, Toulouse, France) 		(Riparian ecology) barsoum@ecolog.cnrs.fr

The work of FLOBAR2 at a glance...

FLOBAR2 has four main objectives. The work towards these four objectives has been divided into 7 sub-projects (known as work packages and labelled WP1-7):

Objective 1: To develop scientific guidelines for the application of river flow prescriptions which benefit floodplain ecosystems while maintaining acceptable levels of flood control.(WP1)

Objective 2: To quantify aspects of the relationships between hydrological inputs to a floodplain and plant response measured in terms of water consumption, growth and the diversity of regeneration strategies.(WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP5)

Objective 3: To investigate the flow resistance associated with woody riparian vegetation using field studies and mathematical and numerical modelling.(WP6)

Objective 4: To investigate and compare the effectiveness of selected institutional arrangements for restoring floodplain environments at different spatial scales and in different national/local settings. (WP7).

The Cambridge Research team will be involved in the work of all workpackages except for WP2.