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Free app will help track UK’s dragonflies
‘iRecord Dragonflies’, a new app to help monitor the UK’s dragonflies and damselflies, is launched today.The new app will help people to identify dragonflies and damselflies and record sightings to...
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Between a bog and a hard place
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology's Prof Chris Evans writes about his work with peat bogs and leaky carbonMuch of the water we drink in the UK comes from our uplands, and a lot of this water is...
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First Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum
The lakes of the English Lake District are some of the best studied in the world. They are home to some of the longest monitoring records of lake ecosystems anywhere, going back more than 70 years, and...
View ArticleCEH awarded three new projects to help deliver NERC strategy
Scientists at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) are involved in three new projects, announced today, under the NERC highlight topics route.Dr Dave Spurgeon will lead a £1m project on...
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Flood Estimation Handbook web service goes live
Today, a new FEH web service is launched which provides online access to the catchment descriptors and rainfall model outputs used in the FEH methods. These data have previously been available on a...
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The Force Awakens for Cumbrian Lakes monitoring
Excitement is growing for Star Wars:The Force Awakens (opening on 17 December 2015 in the UK), but it’s not just fans of the space opera saga looking forward to Episode VII's appearance on the big...
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Science needs for water security in India
We’re running a three day workshop in Delhi, India this week exploring the future research needs and challenges which will underpin sustainable management of the Ganga. The ‘Future Ganga’’ workshop,...
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Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment
Scientific challenge: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment is driven by antibiotics released in the urine of humans and animals into sewage and ultimately the receiving rivers. AMR is also...
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Future Ganga: Science Needs for Water Security
BackgroundThe Ganga basin extends over an area of 1,000,000 km2 and is home to over 450 million people. Rapidly increasing population, rising standards of living and exponential growth of...
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UK Lake Restoration
Scientific challengeLakes are vulnerable to a wide range of often interacting environmental pressures, such as climate change, pollution and land use change. At the same time, they provide essential...
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Bigger cities lead to higher river flows
With all the recent heavy rainfall and flooding in many parts of the country the impacts of urban growth on river flows has again been a topic of debate. The video below shows the dramatic impact, in...
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New UK-China partnership for water research
In January the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) signed a Memorandum of Agreement to collaborate on water resources research with the General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower...
View ArticleIndia-UK Water Security Capability Exchange Initiative
Senior water managers and decision makers from India will take part in a high level capability exchange initiative to share knowledge on water security and the Ganges clean-up.The visit is being...
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India-UK exchange initiative to focus on water security and river clean-up
Senior water managers and decision-makers from India are visiting the UK this week (15th-19th February) as part of a high level exchange initiative to share knowledge on water security and river...
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National Fish Tissue Archive
Scientific challenge: Our ability to assess what is happening in the environment is often hampered by a lack of information about past conditions. Storing samples for the future allows today's samples...
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India-UK Water Security Exchange Initiative - report
In February 2016, the UK invited a delegation of senior water managers and decision makers to take part in a high level exchange initiative to share knowledge on water security and the Ganga clean-up....
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Reflecting on 2015's International Year of Soils
When the United Nations designated 2015 as the International Year of Soils (IYS), the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) jumped at the opportunity to showcase our own soils work.In Scotland the...
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eLTER H2020
Scientific challenge: Don't miss the eLTER Transnational Access scheme - funding to conduct research at selected field sites. Closing date: 31 March 2016. See video below.Europe needs a distributed,...
View ArticlePresentation to the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee at Westminster
Presentation to the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee at WestminsterProfessor Andrew Johnson of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) presented to the UK’s Hazardous Substances Advisory...
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Freshwater futures (aka lake ecology for Key Stages 1 and 2)
For British Science Week 2016 (11-20 March) I was invited to visit a local school (Quernmore Primary School) to talk to the children about my job as a scientist, what it means and what I do at work. I...
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