MAKING SPACE FOR WATER CONFERENCE
Restoration of blanket bogs; Flood risk reduction and other benefits
23 April 2015, University of Manchester, Renold Building
Programme
09:30 Arrival
09:55 Welcome
Chris Dean (Moors for the Future Partnership Manager)
10:00 Guest speaker
Neil Davies (Deputy Director for Strategy Delivery, Environment Agency)
10:10 Background to the Making Space for Water project
Jonathan Walker (Moors for the Future Partnership)
All sessions chaired by Jane Chapman
(Assistant Director Land Management, Peak District National Park Authority)
SESSION 1 - HABITAT AND WATER QUALITY
10:15 Favourable condition of blanket bogs
Richard Pollitt (Natural England)
10:30 Re-vegetation, diversity and erosion potential (POC)
Mike Pilkington (Moors for the Future Partnership)
10:50 Restoration and water quality (DOC)
Martin Evans (University of Manchester)
11:10 Break
SESSION 2 - FLOOD RISK
11:30 Restoration and storm-flow in peatland headwaters
Tim Allott, Emma Shuttleworth, Martin Evans (University of Manchester)
12:10 Modelled predictions for downstream catchments
David Milledge (University of Durham)
12:30 Gully block design and storm water storage
Nick Odoni (University of Durham)
12:50 Lunch
SESSION 3 - MULTIPLE BENEFITS, VALUATION AND FUTURE FUNDING
13:30 Guest speaker: Payments for ecosystem services in practice: opportunities and
challenges
Colin Smith (Economic Advisor, Ecosystems Strategy and Evidence, Defra)
13:50 Connecting knowledge sources for shared land-use decisions
Dylan Young (University of Leeds)
14:10 An assessment of ecosystem services
Jim Rouquette (University of Northampton)
14:30 Valuing the Dark Peak; towards a payment for ecosystem services scheme
Jasper Kenter (University of the Highlands and Islands)
14:50 The next steps – whole catchment research
Jonathan Walker (Moors for the Future Partnership)
15:00 Guest speaker
Neil Davies (Deputy Director for Strategy Delivery, Environment Agency)
15:10 Farewell
POSTERS
Tracing peatland geomorphology: sediment and contaminant movements in eroding and
restored systems
Emma Shuttleworth et al (University of Manchester)
Evaluating the impacts of re-vegetation of bare peat on blanket peat water tables
Emma Shuttleworth et al (University of Manchester)
Monitoring within the Catchment Restoration Fund project
Tia Crouch (Moors for the Future Partnership)
Monitoring the impact of blanket bog restoration on vegetation and hydrology over 10
years
Sarah Ross (Penny Anderson Associates)
Restoration, hydrology and geomorphology at Thomason’s Hollow/Featherbed Moss
Jill Labadz (Nottingham Trent University)