Sustainable and Holistic Food Chains
for Recycling Livestock Waste to Land
for Recycling Livestock Waste to Land
Dealing with uncertain data
A workshop under the RELU Sustainable and Safe Recycling of Livestock Waste project
RELU Sustainable and Safe Recycling of Livestock Waste
Workshop: Dealing with Uncertain Data
Lancaster Environment Centre
21 March 2007
Attendees
- Chair: Michael Winter (Exeter)
- Steven Anthony (ADAS)
- Dave Chadwick (IGER)
- Rob Fish (Exeter)
- Kit Macleod (IGER)
- David Oliver (Lancaster)
- Phil Haygarth (IGER)
- Trevor Page (Lancaster)
- Tobias Krueger (Lancaster)
- Paul Scholefield (Lancaster)
- Will Medd (Lancaster)
- Stefan Krause (Lancaster)
- Nigel Watson (Lancaster)
- Andrew Crowe (Lancaster)
- Lisa Norton (CEH)
Agenda
| Title | Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Introduction | Prof. Michael Winter |
| 09:40 | Faecal Indicator Organisms | Dr Dave Chadwick |
| Part I. Uncertainties embedded within farmer survey data | ||
| 10:15 | Working with sentient beings: Some issues arising for the creation of certain knowledge | Dr Rob Fish |
| 10:55 | Discussion | |
| Part II. Simplifications of livestock distribution / movement data across farms | ||
| 11:40 | Livestock = defecation = pollution = not that simple? | Dr David Oliver |
| 12:00 | Re-mapping the agricultural census - cattle and grassland | Dr Steven Anthony |
| 12:20 | Discussion | |
| Lunch | ||
| Part III. Scaling up from farm to catchment and use of nationally available datasets | ||
| 14:00 | Exploring a few of the uncertainties of large scale data-based nutrient models | Dr Kit Macleod |
| 14:20 | Scaling-up social and natural attributes of FIO risks | Dr Rob Fish/Dr David Oliver |
| 14:40 | Discussion | |
| 16:00 | Summing Up | Prof. Michael Winter |