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Environmental science for a better world, where people and nature prosper 💧🌳🌍 🎙️ Counting The Earth podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast 📰 Newsletter sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/ukceh-news
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Useful summary of EP Wales #microplastics event last December. Full presentations, including my own on the RSVP tool for microplastic sample volume predictions and my colleague @ukceh.bsky.social Felicity Hayes' talk on airborne microplastics in moss across the UK! epwales.org.uk/plastic-in-t...

🎧 Resistance Rising: 1.14 million - new podcast episode coming soon! Alice & Sue are a sewage treatment works to explore the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance (#AMR) 🦠 🔔 Subscribe on your favourite podcast app! www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... @hollytipper.bsky.social 🧪

#Training with UKCEH: Machine learning with Python Interactive online course - develop practical skills to address complex environmental data challenges! ℹ️ 17-20 June | From £449 🚨 Sign up before 31 March for early bird discount! buff.ly/FuM5luS 🧪

🌍 Ammonia pollution harms ecosystems, air quality & human health—so accurate monitoring is essential. We've worked with Limosaero Ltd to test NH3 sensors on UAVs for air quality measurements. Last week at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, we shared findings—great discussion & interest! #innovation

Despite its vital role in carbon storage & flood protection, UK salt marsh is still being lost. "It's only now that we're recognising everything they do and how important they are." UKCEH’s Annette Burden contributes to @mongabay.bsky.social's #saltmarsh film news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0...

Nice Friday news... Paper lead by my colleague Sarah Roberts @ukceh.bsky.social just published in Environmental Science Nano. Species sensitivity distributions for silver #nanomaterials in soils for risk assessment. 🪱 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

We're hiring! Could you help us develop botanical skills across Northern Ireland & grow participation in the National Plant Monitoring Scheme? Apply by 13 April for this great new part-time (3 days pw) post bsbi.org/vacancies/tr... @ukceh.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social

This time next week we will be enjoying the UK Butterfly Recorder meeting #UKBRM Lots of interesting talks and the first chance to see the official UKBMS results from 2024. Book your free space here -

The new FIT Count season is nearly here 🎉🎆👏 From 1st April onwards, when weather is good, enjoy spending 10 minutes counting the insects that visit flowers - wherever you can find flowers, and as often as you wish, to help monitor #pollinators. Full details on our website ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

Egg-citing news this week from the Isle of May! 🥚 See more detail via @steelyseabirder.bsky.social isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/s... #seabirds #ornithology #SignsOfSpring

⛈️ Early warnings of floods & droughts save lives. Ahead of #WorldMeteorologicalDay on Sunday, UKCEH chief executive Dr Stuart Wainwright stresses the importance of science & partnerships for making early warnings better around the world wmo.int/site/world-m... #EarlyWarningsForAll

Web developer job at BRC / @ukceh.bsky.social "seeking a technical specialist who is enthusiastic about the work of the Biological Records Centre in capturing, visualising, and sharing large-scale and long-term biodiversity datasets to underpin research" ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...

Fantastic news! Congratulations Fiona and colleagues on making the Harper prize shortlist 👏🏼 Indeed well done to all those shortlisted @journalofecology.bsky.social

Despite its vital role in carbon storage & flood protection, UK salt marsh is still being lost. "It's only now that we're recognising everything they do and how important they are." UKCEH’s Annette Burden contributes to @mongabay.bsky.social's #saltmarsh film news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0...

We're excited for the first-ever national gathering dedicated to atmospheric chemistry in the UK! Abstract submissions now open - see all the details ⬇️

Super excited about this!! Are you an atmospheric chemist? Then come along to this new conference supported by @ncas-uk.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social and @nceoscience.bsky.social

Reminder! ✨ Paid 6-week summer internships with UKCEH! ➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience? ➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges 📅 30 June – 8 August 2025 📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...

📣 Join keynote speaker Robin Boyd at #FutureProofingSurveys! Robin is a quantitative ecologist at @ukceh.bsky.social & will share insights on the use & misuse of non-probabilistic sampling in recreational fishing surveys 🐟 🌏Submit an abstract by 24 March to join Robin👉 bit.ly/futureproofingsurveys

Professor Giancarlo Biagini (@giancarlo1-618.bsky.social) has today attended a meeting with LSTM colleagues and UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology (@ukceh.bsky.social) to share research highlights and identify opportunities to work together to address challenges in climate and environmental health.

Created a project page on my website for my new piece Moth x Human. Blogs and things coming soon. 🦋 #mothsmatter #biodiversity #datasonification #music #climatechange www.elliewilsonmusic.co.uk/mothxhuman @ukceh.bsky.social @ocmevents.bsky.social

Radioecology #training with UKCEH - covers all aspects of radiological environmental (non-human biota) assessment A mix of live sessions & self-guided learning! NB: the live sessions are 7-9am BST to suit learners from South East Asia. 3-20 June 2025 | from £1099 Sign up:

👀 Perspectives...a new video filmed at Bolton Fell Moss with UKCEH scenario developer Dr Anita Lazurko, from the @lunz-hub.bsky.social Resonance project. Anita discusses the challenges of changing land use & bringing in perspectives from all scales. buff.ly/p30elbe 🧪

🌍 Accelerating action for nature 🌿 Next week's Nature Action Dialogues in Cambridge convenes leaders from business, finance & conservation to drive action on halting & reversing nature loss. UKCEH’s Prof Paula Harrison, co-chair of the IPBES #NexusAssessment, is among the speakers buff.ly/q5fMZnk

A great view from the office, if you have a head for heights 🫣 UKCEH's Stella Linnekogel (l) & Dr Abby Wallwork (r) @lancasteruni.bsky.social have been high above the canopy measuring greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical tree leaves & twigs in #Panama (more on our Instagram!) #FieldworkFriday 🧪

Reminder! ✨ Paid 6-week summer internships with UKCEH! ➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience? ➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges 📅 30 June – 8 August 2025 📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...

💧The latest UK Hydrological Outlook is now available, providing an assessment of likely river flows and groundwater levels for March and the March–May period. 🔎 More details: hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook #WaterResources #hydrology 🧪 🌊

Pleased to welcome @britsciassoc.bsky.social to our Wallingford site during #BSW25 We discussed potential collaborations and our public engagement work, including honey monitoring, outreach with flood & droughts science, air quality science in Kenya, and water quality #CitizenScience

fantastic job going at @ukceh.bsky.social Wallingford site. ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

It was lovely to catch up with Jemimah Gacheru from Kenya Meteorological Department today. Jemimah was visiting Leeds during her secondment at @ukceh.bsky.social .

Thanks to excellent @ukceh.bsky.social Dom Ginger (and colleagues) for our new Dev Book Club. What a book to started with: Martin's classic 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications'. Ch1 is essential reading for all interested in designing digital applications. www.oreilly.com/library/view...

Great to present the STORMS project at today's DAFNI -DINI (Data Infrastructure for National Infrastructure) showcase funded by DSIT Clear consensus that data sharing infrastructures are key for sustainable growth & better outcomes for society and the environment. Progress made but more to do!

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/...

🐧 What is fieldwork like in #Antarctica? From glacier meltwater sampling to algae growth experiments and a Christmas Day 5K, Alanna Grant tells us more about her recent trip south for the BIOPOLE project @biopole.bsky.social 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #PolarScience @bas.ac.uk @ukri.org

UKCEH scientists @lorihandley.bsky.social and @danread.bsky.social contributed to a new @royalsociety.org policy explainer on environmental DNA #eDNA 🍯 It includes the UKCEH National Honey Monitoring Scheme as an example of how DNA analysis can be used used to address environmental challenges ⤵️

🎓 Train the trainer: Learn how to deliver engaging, interactive training courses both in-person & online! 26 & 27 March (Lancaster) 11 & 12 June (Oxfordshire) Find out more and sign up: www.ceh.ac.uk/training/tra... #Training #ProfessionalDevelopment

🔥 Climate change made the fires during the UK's record-breaking heatwave in 2022 at least six times more likely, new research involving @metoffice.bsky.social and UKCEH shows Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪 🧵 1/

🕙 Reminder! Tomorrow Tuesday March 11, 10am GMT #WomenInSTEM 🧪

🏅 Do you know an inspiring ecologist making an exceptional contribution to science and society? Nominations for the @britishecologicalsociety.org's prestigious BES prizes are open until 7 April ⤵️