people in conversation holding low-cost hardware

The FDRI Innovation team is led by @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in partnership with UKCEH 🙌🏽

Discover our learnings from the recent workshop and sign up to FDRI's newsletter here: fdri.org.uk/news/low-cos...

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⏰ Don't miss out! You can still secure an online place for the #FDRI Floodplain Flows workshop next month (in-person places now full)

#hydrology

Map of the Plynlimon catchments, streams, and the monitoring sites in this dataset © - UKCEH

When did hydrologists become historians? #FDRI has released 35 years of hi-res data from the Plynlimon Research Catchments!

Read about our process of unearthing 35 years of measurements and what it means for understanding river processes: https://f.mtr.cool/grqzmwiqsd 🧪

Aerial view of flooding, River Severn. Image by Nick Everard, UKCEH

How do we effectively measure floodplain flows? 🌊

Join a free, interactive workshop from #FDRI and @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social with experts from UKCEH, JBA Consulting and more.

Open to all! In person in Edinburgh or online (Feb 2026).

Sign up: fdri.org.uk/get-involved...

#hydrology

Learn from Simon about impressive #FDRI efforts to provide quality controlled near-real time data on how our catchments/rivers are responding hydrologically.

Live data from the Upper Severn, Upper Tweed and Chess catchments will help tackle floods and droughts as part of #FDRI 💧

Simon Stanley from UKCEH explains what happens to FDRI data once it's captured in the field.

Check out our video!

🎥 Our new webinar introduces UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2 and shares what’s next for FDRI data.

Watch here 👉 youtu.be/JMZYzlLA_h8

Thanks to all the partners and the community effort making these datasets possible 👏🏼

#FDRI #Hydrology #EnvironmentalScience

Example of data visualisation from CAMELS GB, including box plot, bar chart and map

Lunchtime webinar with #FDRI: Large-sample hydrology datasets

🗓️ Wed 22 Oct | 🕐 13:00–14:00

Join UKCEH, Bristol Uni & Environment Agency for updates on new high-res hydrology datasets UKFlows15 & CAMELS-GB v2.

Includes examples of use and a Q&A!

🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/HoDLfyS

#hydrology #data

Thanks to these key individuals to helping #FDRI improving knowledge of floods and droughts.

Learning about a wide range of meteorological and soil sensor systems from members of the excellent @ukceh.bsky.social #FDRI team.

An enjoyable day with @ukceh.bsky.social Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure #FDRI field and digital colleagues exploring data collection on the banks of the River Thames.

Catchment processes during drought: a multi-disciplinary workshop

Next steps: a national drought event in 2026 that turns ideas into action.

Full workshop report: www.gov.uk/government/p...

#DroughtResearch #FDRI #WaterSecurity #ClimateAction @gemmacoxon.bsky.social

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Person standing in river monitoring low flows

The result? Four top priorities:

🌡️ Monitoring & data collection
🚰 Drought management & interventions
🌍 Understanding drought processes
💬 Water demand & public engagement

#FDRI is building the infrastructure & community to make it happen—open data, expert training, innovation, collaboration.

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Two FDRI team members monitoring low flows in the Severn catchment

💧 The future of UK drought research is taking shape.

The Environment Agency and #FDRI partners @bristoluni.bsky.social and UKCEH brought together 48 experts to tackle gaps in understanding catchment processes during #drought conditions and identify the most urgent research priorities.

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Prospectus An update on the new FDRI Digital Research Infrastructure

The 2nd project, involved facilitating two workshops to understand technical user needs of digital interfaces e.g. websites about data and APIs, to co-design these for #FDRI national capacity work #UKCEH are leading. Learn more about our digital infrastructure
publications.ceh.ac.uk/story/prospe...

Illustration of characters interacting with different digital systems

💧 ☀️ Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure: Join our free online user interface workshops to help shape the design of the #FDRI digital systems.

💻 Register now for workshops on 8 or 14 May: buff.ly/flwzm89

#UIUX #hydrology 🧪

Developing novel tracer-based methods to investigate how pressures on upland wetlands alter flood and drought resilience at Heriot-Watt University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Developing novel tracer-based methods to investigate how pressures on upland wetlands alter flood and drought resilience at Heriot-Watt University, listed on FindAPhD.com

🎓 #PhD opportunity – apply by 12 May!
Study how land use & climate change affect upland wetlands’ role in flood & drought resilience using novel tracer + modelling methods.

Part of the ECOWILD CDT and contributing to #FDRI

🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪 @nickeverard.bsky.social

Great to see David's overview of the #FDRI #digital-research-infrastructure. Please have a look and let us/me know if you like the format (challenging to convey env sensors, data, people, and impact...David did well) #UKCEH #Floods and #drought Prospectus 2025
publications.ceh.ac.uk/story/prospe...

Illustration of characters interacting with different digital systems

Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure: Join our free online user interface workshops to help shape the design of the #FDRI digital systems.

💻 Register now for workshops on 8 or 14 May: fdri.org.uk/news/UI-work...

#UIUX #hydrology 💧🧪

Decorative image with a large mid green circle background overlaid with some data, weather, environment and technology themed sketch style icons in black. Top left the text for the link: www.epimorphics.com in mid green text. Epimorphics supporting UK CEH and FDRI with data standards for sensor metadata models, improving flood and drought resilience.

We're proud to be collaborating with @ukceh.bsky.social on this vital programme, supporting better data, metadata and standards to enhance flood and drought management.
#FDRI #FloodManagement #DroughtManagement #Metadata #Collaboration

Sharing knowledge on sensor metadata models | Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure

Great to see @ukceh.bsky.social sharing important updates on the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) programme, focusing on sensor metadata models:
fdri.org.uk/news/sharing...
#FDRI #FloodManagement #DroughtManagement #Metadata #Collaboration

Screenshot of FDRI UI presentation, agenda

Exciting things happening and being shared in @ukceh.bsky.social software/data engineering team incl #FDRI week notes by talented Dom Ginger nerc-ceh.github.io/fdri_words/w... UI example from week 9 (summarising new #React front end stack). A great way for others to keep up with digital fdri.org.uk

Screenshot of Jupyter notebook, comparing two datasets for Severn catchment.

Thanks, @jamiehannahydro.bsky.social, for exciting early @climatecocentre.bsky.social meeting yesterday about exploring gridded met data for UK and Ireland. Jamie was impressed by Tom Keel's impressive #FDRI explorations github.com/Thomasjkeel/...

Come join us and have a crucial role in UK hydrogeology. Primary focus to lead the BGS component of the NERC FDRI programme and opportunity to manage a wide range of UK hydrogeological projects, build networks and contribute to the groundwater community! #hydrogeology #groundwater #FDRI

Diagram of 'components of a hydrological data commons' with various inputs and outputs.

This summer the UK government announced the next phase of the important Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure project-another reason I joined #UKCEH. Matt leads a team of talented data and software engineers to help connect the field observations with end users. #FDRI His diagram: fdri.org.uk

Our Chess Smarter Water Catchment team are delighted to share their contribution to #TheRippleEffect, a digital series with @CIWEM.

Watch the full story and find out more about maximising the potential of citizen scientists here: https://bit.ly/3TAlFjN

#FDRI #citizenscience