This webinar will explore techniques for in-field monitoring of the effectiveness of Natural Flood Management (NFM) interventions through the development and deployment of open-source, low-cost, DIY sensors, like FreeStation, and the associated tools for integration and analysis across sensors and sites.  

Case studies from the UK NFM programme and ReSET project funded by the European Innovation Council will be used to highlight the opportunities and challenges of low-cost monitoring in a range of UK settings.

This free online event is open to everyone.

Our speaker

Mark Mulligan is Professor of Physical and Environmental Geography at King’s College London and Honorary Fellow of UN Environment - World Conservation Monitoring Centre. He has worked with a large team of PhD students on a variety of topics in the areas of environmental spatial policy support, ecosystem service modelling and understanding environmental change. This research is at scales from local to global and with a particular emphasis on tropical (montane cloud) forests in Latin America and semi-arid drylands in the Mediterranean and Africa. He is developer of a range of open datasets at geodata.policysupport.org and open-access web-based spatial policy support systems at www.policysupport.org. These include hydroclimatic and land cover datasets and the WaterWorld hydrological and Co$tingNature ecosystem services modelling tools.

His research involves fieldwork around the world and he is also developer of a range of open source, web-connected, instruments for environmental monitoring through the FreeStation and FreeSensor initiatives.