watermark_hackathon (2)

RiverHack: connecting peopleland-water
for healthier rivers
Dates:
Friday 14th October 7pm-onwards
Saturday 15th October 9am-8pm
Location
Oxford Hackspace
Oxford Centre for Innovation
New Road
Oxford, OX1 1BY
Challenge
to use your coding skills and creative thinking to help deliver the best information to end users
like anglers canoeists and others members of the public interested in water quality, or make a
forecast on water quality near the river you live. We've focused this challenge on forecasts and
visualisation of water quality.

Existing knowledge gaps among the
communities
Environmental community’s concerns
Technology
Forecasting and predicting impacts
Awareness raising about
environmental issues
Building skills
Data/Information
Create a network of people who can
take action
Take remedial action on negative
impacts
Awareness raising about
environmental issues
Capacity development

Example of citizen science project
Citizen scientist data in catchment scale monitoring
Thames Water Blitz - 645 measurements on 16
September 2015
Basin averaged phosphate
concentrations
Thames Blitz 16/9/2015
Streams and rivers (n= 620, units

Example of government datasets
• EA water quality data
• Rivers Trust data/maps
• National Biodiversity Network
•
Ordnance Survey Opendata product
•
WFD climate data
•
National Statistics
• CEH NRFA river flow data

Context of RiverHack
Research
tools/models
Citizen science
Government
data
Water quality
forecaster
An additional tool to bring together
information on rivers to various communities.

Partners