News for Chess Smarter Water Catchment

Wild about Chesham Moor

Thanks to our friends at Maydencroft, and the amazing volunteers at the Chesham Environmental Group, the restored site at Chesham Moor is being given a head-start in its recovery: The whole site has been seeded with three special mixes of native seed; 100sqm of wildflower turf, containing 29 different varieties of wild flowers and 4...

Riverfly Open Day 2024

by Hannah Parry-Wilson, Citizen Science Co-ordinator

On Saturday 5th October, we held our annual Riverfly Open Day at the Boxmoor Trust Centre, starting with talks about research on freshwater invertebrates and followed by a field visit to the River Bulbourne to practice our Riverfly field skills. In front of an audience of potential and existing local Riverfly monitors from the Chilterns...

SWC Stakeholder Event

On Monday 30th of September the River Chess Citizen Science team held a stakeholder event to share challenges and success of the catchment-focussed citizen science programme.   The event was structured around presentations from our staff, partners and citizen scientists in the morning, and demos of river survey methods in the afternoon after an excellent...

Riverfly Update

by Hannah Parry-Wilson

Riverfly is a citizen science method of investigating water quality and chalk stream health by recording the presence and abundance of riverflies.

Update on River Chess Smarter Water Catchment

Read the River Chess Smarter Water Catchment Team's latest update on how the project is progressing and how they are working to create a place where people are working together to protect and improve the water environment for everyone.