A short presentation by Dr Bob Evans from Anglia Ruskin University on the relevance of the DART project to the wider community

1. Building Bridges – establishing
effective collaboration networks
Bob Evans
Visiting Fellow
Global Sustainability Institute
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge

2. Building Bridges
Other side bridge – who?
Agriculture, soils, hydrology
Do they want to talk?
Dialogue
Common ground

3. Some thoughts
Three points:
• Glad we didn’t get it wrong
• What happens to the rain?
• Access to data

4. Glad we didn’t get it wrong
PSMD + AWC
Anon
Anon
CUCAP

5. Glad we didn’t get it wrong - BUT
• Do evaporation and transpiration occur
at predicted rates (e.g. Maff Tech Bull 1967)
or do constraints kick in(e.g. MORECS)?

6. What happens to the rain?
• Can Potential Soil Moisture Deficit explain:
– When Runoff occurs
– When Drains flow
– Stream flow
Copyright Evans 2013
Copyright Evans 2013

7. What happens to the rain?
• When do nitrate and pesticides reach rivers?
Wissey stream flow to PSMD
2003-2008 r = c. - 0.7 (range - 0.5 to -0.9)
Metaldehyde in rivers
Max value
2.4 ug/l
Data supplied by Environment Agency
Anglian water

8. Access to Data
• NEED to mine the data
• FREE access to Data
• EASY access to Data
• Easily useable
Thank you