SCIMAP is a risk-mapping framework designed to identify where in the landscape diffuse pollution is most likely to be originating. SCIMAP does not try to make quantitative predictions in real world units (e.g. mg l-1)…
Linda Pope, Environment Agency The Water Framework Directive requires the Environment Agency assesses the ecological status of all waterbodies, determine the pressures which are causing waterbodies to not achieve good ecological status and put in…
SCIMAP was presented at the Land Use and Water Quality conference in The Hague. You can download the pdf of the poster here.
This video gives an overview of the SCIMAP approach to diffuse pollution risk mapping in under seven minutes. For a fuller, more detailed video, please see this video. There are also a wide range of…
https://vimeo.com/63326111/ Ashar Aftab, Durham University This interdisciplinary research combines recent advances in science and innovative economic incentives to develop forward-looking and practically implementable spatially targeted policies to regulate agricultural externalities. The substantial efficiency savings from…
https://vimeo.com/63326113 Magda Bieroza , Lancaster University Lancaster University is developing further and integrating the risks from fine sediment, phosphorus and nitrogen losses from catchments using the SCIMAP approach pioneered by Durham and Lancaster Universities. We…
https://vimeo.com/62857760 Alistair Maltby, Director North, The Rivers Trust The earliest principles of the rivers trust movement were based on managing catchments as watersheds, and the twelve principles of the ecosystems approach. In the agricultural dominated…
John M Douglass, Environment Agency. A good SCIMAP-sediment model will identify probable critical source areas of fine sediment within a catchment at a field scale. It does this by estimating relative erodability of soils and…
Shore, M. 1,2, Melland, A.R.1, Murphy, P.N.C.1, Jordan, P.3, Mellander P-E.1, Mechan, S.1, Shine, O.1, and Shortle, G.1. 1: Agricultural Catchments Programme, Teagasc, Johnstown Castle, Wexford, Ireland 2: School of Environmental and Biological Sciences,…
Nick Paling, Westcountry Rivers Trust. If we can determine which pressures are exerting negative impacts on the water quality in our aquatic ecosystems and identify their sources in a catchment, then we can develop a…