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We have sponsored a home work project with Get Kids into Survey. Our mission is to ensure every young person knows about surveying as a career

A guide to the optimum time of year to gain maximum results from a river or watercourse survey.

Research into river systems has shown how human intervention influences the biodiversity of rivers. At a time when the recovery of nature is critical in the battle to reverse climate change, river corridors provide an excellent starting point to make biodiversity gains which could spread exponentially into the floodplains and beyond. This paper looks at […]

by Mike Hopkins MCInstCES, Managing Director Our home, planet earth, is dying. It is difficult to avoid hearing this statement if you read the papers or watch television. As of May this year, 2,100 science organisations and governments in 39 countries had declared a “Climate Emergency”. There is a clock ticking, counting down the time […]

Our surveyors have concerns about nutrient pollution in UK rivers. As a way of contributing to the knowledge and the clean-up of nutrient pollution, water samples are taken and tested for phosphate levels at sites that our surveyors visit. These readings are for a point in time and would vary depending on several factors. The […]