We're recruiting for a Research Farms Data Manager to support digital data recording and reporting across @rothamsted.bsky.social field trials, helping ensure farm research data is captured securely and accurately for research and reporting. Apply here: jobs.rothamsted.ac.uk/vacancies/86...
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Working with hydrological data? We want to help improve access to hydrological datasets through the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure digital platform!
Join our feedback session on notebook-based access to FDRI's gridded time series data with Python & R.
🧪 Sign up: tinyurl.com/4ya8xuj8
This provides a wealth of information on the dynamics of water fluxes for a range of soil types and land covers.
Fantastic new @ukceh.bsky.social dataset now out: 30-minute actual evapotranspiration from 45 sites for up to 10 years, with measurements co-located with rainfall and multiple soil moisture measurements from our @cosmosuk.bsky.social network over the same period: catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/c0...
We're developing new cloud-hosted datasets to provide faster access to key hydrological data. This session will help us improve the way we're doing this. We would love feedback from UK hydrologists.
👀 We have some great 💰 paid 💰 summer internships coming up @ukceh.bsky.social, including one working with FDRI datasets ("How do UK floods happen?")
Check out this job at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH): www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Working at CEH is great, and FDRI is a game changer project, please share!
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Flood Studies Report maps spread out
It's been 50 years since the Flood Studies Report was published, a seminal work involving forerunners of UKCEH & @metoffice.gov.uk.
Adam Griffin reflects on 5 decades of groundbreaking science to improve flood and rainfall frequency estimation in the UK.
Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/flood-studie... 🧪
Shows no understanding of how this data is being used (despite them spending money on consultations if I remember rightly).
The EA have made some disastrous updates to its Water Quality Data Explorer and API which are a bit of a tragedy for #opendata. No bulk downloads, limits on data access, removed endpoints that are essential to actually use the data.
environment.data.gov.uk/water-qualit...
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Want to build your own environmental sensors? Join FDRI’s free Environmental Sensing Workshop 16 - 17 Feb 2026 at Chess Catchment. Build & test hydrological sensors w/ @imperialcollege & us! Travel & accommodation funded. Apply: https://f.mtr.cool/fajftaotue
Great to see some thorough road testing of citizen science-friendly methods, and by citizen scientists! These techniques are already producing good quality data at scale.
Does the current monitoring / data infrastructure allow for individuals to contribute in this way? Will Wunderground data be accessible in 150 years time? (Is it even accessible now?)
Fantastic article. Who said citizen science was a recent phenomenon.
UK Users of Hydrology. Tell us your training needs. We'd like to hear from all users of hydrology - research to practice - and not just floods. Complete our short (<10min) survey about key skills in hydrology. Help the hydrological community prepare for future challenges. Complete before October 17th 2025. Link in Post. Environment Agency. Flood Hydrology Improvements Programme.
Calling all UK users of hydrology - drought to floods, student to retired, research to practice.
Tell us your training needs and help shape the future of UK hydrology.
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Two exciting opportunities to help shape UK flood hydrology just opened:
1. Join the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) for the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap
2. Contribute to research ideas on the big questions for hydrology in a changing climate
Find out more shorturl.at/7bO9w
BHS AGM
TUESDAY 16th SEPT | VIRTUAL
Time and registration details to follow.
This year’s AGM programme brings exciting developments from:
- the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap
- the FUTURE-FLOOD project
- to the Flood and Drought Research Infrastructure (FDRI) initiative
BHS members needed for AGM!
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Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
Today is the Cryoegg's first operational birthday 🎂 It's been chirping away under the Greenland ice sheet every day since @matt-peacey.bsky.social chucked it down a moulin. Stand by for papers....
While early July has seen some summer downpours, many areas have remained dry, with further heatwave conditions.
View the latest conditions on the UK Water Resources Portal: ukwrp.ceh.ac.uk
3/3 #WaterResources #UKWeather
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The UK Hydrological Summary confirms heightened risk of drought impacts this summer — especially in eastern Britain.
June was the warmest on record for England and 2nd warmest for the UK overall. Rainfall showed stark regional contrasts, with some areas seeing less than half of average.
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📢 Job alert!
UKCEH are looking for a Senior Freshwater Ecologist to join their Aquatic Ecosystems Group, based at their Edinburgh site!
💦🧪 @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco
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Because she likes crisps?
New PhD - full funding for UK/Irish applicant - start Jan 26 - Design and evaluation of multi-functional Blue Green Infrastructure under climate change tinyurl.com/42s8rade: Clare Walsh, Vassilis Glenis & myself, Newcastle Uni. Part of Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water lnkd.in/e5g6nz6V
Next week! The Critical Zone Network of Networks webinar series continues on May 27. These online events are scheduled for the morning time in Europe. Up next: Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) in the UK. Presented by Alejandro Dussaillant and Gareth Old. 🌐🧪
FDRI @ukceh.bsky.social has released details of our new (free!) training offering "Data Driven Approaches to Hydrological Science" to be delivered 14th-16th July with @gemmacoxon.bsky.social
www.ceh.ac.uk/training/dat...
New paper: climatology and trends in UK flash #drought, led by Ivan Noguera-Corral @ukceh.bsky.social and with @drmalikotanguy.bsky.social. Most flash droughts work has been focused on drier parts of the world, but also important here in a wet country! hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...
Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists.
But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned.
With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data.
#RainfallRescue began... 🧵
Aerial view over an oil palm plantation at a rainforest edge and the text Summer Internship Programme 2025 Apply Now!
✨ We have EIGHT amazing summer internships with our National Capability for Global Challenges scheme!
Work with UKCEH scientists on topics like ozone pollution, modelling, satellite imagery, soil health & more.
🔗 Apply by 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
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