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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · 6d

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?)

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic article. Who said citizen science was a recent phenomenon.

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · 14d

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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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.

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Dr Linda Speight @lindasp8.bsky.social · 28d

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

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British Hydrological Society @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

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Liz Bagshaw Glaciology @lizbagshaw.bsky.social · Jul 18

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....

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

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UK Water Resources Portal

A web tool for displaying water resources and drought information from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

ukwrp.ceh.ac.uk

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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Map of UK showing river flows as percentage of average

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Steve Thackeray @thackers.bsky.social · Jul 10

📢 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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Senior Freshwater Ecologist

Salary - £48,414 - £51,377 Hybrid working (50/50) Permanent We reserve the right to close this advert early if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early. We are seeking a highly ...

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 12

Because she likes crisps?

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | LinkedIn

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | 2,488 followers on LinkedIn. Solutions focused research into climate, biodiversity & water issues on the islands of Ireland & Great Britain | The...

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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · May 21

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. 🌐🧪

Critical Zone Connections Webinar Series - Spring 2025

International Critical Zone Network of Networks CZ Connections Webinar Series 2025: Critical Zone Research Networks Driving Collaboration and Discovery April 15 - May 13, 9:00 AM Pacific Time (PT)...

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · Mar 27

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...

Data-driven approaches to hydrological science

Throughout the course you will learn about recent advances in data-driven approaches to hydrological science from leading experts who collect, manage, study, apply and communicate hydrological data to...

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Jamie Hannaford @jamiehannahydro.bsky.social · Mar 12

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/...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Mar 26

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... 🧵

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Feb 20

✨ 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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Please share widely!

Aerial view over an oil palm plantation at a rainforest edge and the text Summer Internship Programme 2025 Apply Now!

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · Feb 4

Fantastic! Let's get it working on hydrographs. If I can read them, surely AI can.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Feb 4

Has the latest version of Google Gemini changed the game for LLMs being able to help with weather data rescue?

@brohan.org says yes!

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Rainfall observations page, and ML transcription

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jan 29

Climate change and rising water use could mean much drier English rivers in summers by 2100, risking water scarcity 💧🧪.

See a comprehensive UKCEH-led analysis and new web tool that visualises projected changes.

🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

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Dried up bed of river Mole in England during July 2022

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Elizabeth Cooper @drlizcooper.bsky.social · Jan 20

PAID summer internships available for undergrads or postgrads with numeracy, programming skills and an interest in hydrology/environmental science. Based at @ukceh.bsky.social through the NERC HydroJULES programme.

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Hydro-JULES Internship programme | HydroJules

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · Jan 27

Datasets here:
catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/18886f9...

catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/cf66055...

Full dataset of modelled flows on its way.

Dataset Record: CS-NOW: Gridded future projections of natural and artificially influenced river flows (1980 to 2080)

catalogue.ceda.ac.uk

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · Jan 27

This will be a massive benefit to open and reproducible hydrological science.

Many thanks to colleagues @ukceh.bsky.social, Ricardo and Environment Agency for their hard work.

Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · Jan 27

As well as the future projections of water use.

catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/cf66055...

Dataset Record: CS-NOW: Gridded future projections of natural and artificially influenced river flows (1980 to 2080)

catalogue.ceda.ac.uk

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · Jan 27

But perhaps most monumentally of all, we have finally, after many years of trying, been able to publish a dataset of actual abstraction data.
catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/18886f9...

Dataset Record: Gridded actual groundwater, surface water and tidal water abstraction, discharge and Hands-off Flow datasets for England (1999 to 2014)

catalogue.ceda.ac.uk

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