With half the Northern Rivers suddenly an expert on how water moves across the landscape, there will be a chance to hear from some real experts at the next Science in the Pub, to be held on Thursday 3 September at the Federal Hotel in Alstonville.
This event is being delivered through Richmond Landcare Inc.’s ‘Nature Based Solutions: Building Flood Resilience in the Lismore Catchment’ project and is an opportunity for the community to learn more about the science behind using strategically targeted revegetation as a Nature-based Solution for flood resilience in the Wilsons River catchment.
There will be a particular focus on a pilot NBS project focusing on the Terania and Tuntable creeks, in the upper sub-catchments of the Wilsons River catchment, which has received funding from the federal government.
Organisers say they will be bringing experts from Macquarie and Southern Cross universities to the Science in the Pub event to unpack the science around nature-based solutions and how they are modelled, in clear, practical terms.
Everyone is invited to come along, ask questions, test assumptions and leave with a clearer understanding of what hydrodynamic models can tell us about flood behaviour.
Doors open at the Federal Hotel in Alstonville at 5.30 pm with nibbles, followed by presentations and discussion from 6–8.30 pm.
Tickets are $5 and can be purchased here: https://events.humanitix.com/science-in-the-pub-hydrodynamic-modelling.
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