As Part of London Rivers Week 2023 Robin Hood volunteers attended training session to learn how to gather and contribute data to the national Modular Rivers Survey.
Training took place on the River Roding, hosted by the River Roding Trust. The volunteers recorded physical habitat data using the MoRPh Rivers field survey method for Citizen Scientists.
MoRPh river survey method and data provide a user-friendly open research resource that can be used to:
- build understanding of how rivers and streams physical features and natural processes provide vital functioning habitats to support diverse aquatic wildlife
- help fill the gap in evidence for the physical condition of London’s rivers
- learn lessons from the outcomes of river restoration projects all across London
- understand relationships between aquatic wildlife and the functional habitats they depend upon.
On completion of the training, the volunteers used their new skills and online tools to survey the River Lea in the vicinity of the Robin Hood Garden. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the problems and threats facing the River Lea, its wildlife, habitat and biodiversity, and contribute data to the wider picture of the Lea catchment and rivers nationally.
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