Natural Flood Management - a research survey to get involved with

Natural Flood management was in the news over the winter, when the town of Pickering was apparently 'saved' from serious flooding by alternative types of channel management which were less about building walls and more about working with the catchment to change the way that it responded to a precipitation event.

This new Research survey from Kate Smith at the Countryside and Community Research Institute uses some interesting visualisations to explore the River Isbourne. It provides a Google Tour with plenty of management information which makes it a self-contained case study for older students potentially.

It could however also be used by teachers of older students in particular as a useful, practical and detailed end of year activity (it being the last week of term for many as I post this)
Start up the survey and you will be prompted to download a KMZ file which will open in Google Earth / Google Earth Pro (the desktop version that you needed to download not the new web browser version)

Why not download the tour, and take part in the survey too, so that you help out in the way that these sorts of resources are used for future dissemination of research ideas...

We do like to be beside the seaside...

Thanks to all who responded with their favourite UK Seaside Resort to a vote that I added to various social media at the weekend.
I asked for the favourite UK resort and some words to explain why.

The 'winner' of the popular vote from the 93 people who replied was Brighton

'Runners-up' were Southwold, Cromer and Whitby.

Hopefully over half term, we'll get the chance to visit some of them.

Here's a word cloud of the reasons why they were the favourites - as voted by adults... I'm going to ask the students next and see what they say....

For those interested in the full list of resorts and reasons, here are they below. 
Apologies for anyone who may have been missed off the list as I had three or four streams of responses to collate.

Seaside Resorts

Adventure Landscapes

Thanks to all those who contributed to my survey on Adventurous activities that had been carried out and the link with places, towards the end of the summer holiday in preparation for the new term...
Here are all the results summarised from Google Drive...

Adventure Landscapes - Results of survey

Mentimeter

MENTIMETER is a tool for gathering answers to surveys.

It's a free tool.

Choose your question, and provide the possible answers to choose from, then choose a design from a choice of two options.

The website will then create a poll...
This has an ID which people can vote on using a weblink, or using smartphones.
You can also create an iFrame which shows the details and the results (as below)

There is also a link generated where people can see the results, as well as an admin link....

Please feel free to try it out and see your answer instantly recorded...

I shall be using this tool later in the month in Salazburg itself, home to the film 'Jaws'....