New fully-funded PhD project working on flooding, climate change, catastrophe modelling and the re-insurance industry: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/cli... Work with @floodre.bsky.social Erica Thompson and I.

Our new free to access paper from Josiah Judson's PhD showing how alley width and slope position of agroforestry trees in the UK influence soil functioning www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @pippachapmn.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

Third paper from Qiuyu Zhu's PhD now out. Qiuyu coupled Spatially Distributed TOPMODEL to a hydrodynamic model to see how different NFM techniques interact. This allows us to study flood effects at larger catchment scales. Free access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We shouldn't say peatlands act as sponges...but they can slow flow and dampen droughts. Our new paper led by Kirsten Lees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Read our article published in Nature Water about what has made our Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social such a success. Free access here: rdcu.be/eHWAM @springernature.com @researchleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

Fab work by our PhD student Resti Salmayenti who has published her first thesis paper in Environmental Research Letters showing how drainage and land cover interact to affect fire occurrence in Indonesian peatlands. Our paper is open access here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Great work by our PhD student Yu Liu who has shown in AGU Advances that recent forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon causes substantial reductions in dry season precipitation. Open access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wetland fragmentation is strongly associated with high population densities. African wetlands store an estimated 54 ± 11 Gt of carbon (surpassing Europe’s 12–31 Gt). If drained, they could release 260 MtC / yr, nearly ten times the carbon sequestration of pristine wetlands (27 MtC /yr).

Our paper in Nature Communications presents a new 10 metre resolution map of wetlands across Africa. The work was done through Sani Garba's PhD study and provides an excellent basis for future analysis and conservation. The paper is open access www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper published from my PhD student Di Wu showing that polystyrene microplastic pollution adversely impacts female zebrafish more than males www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @carterlj.bsky.social Free version here if you have a paywall: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/220647/

Nice new open access paper from my PhD student Qiuyu Zhu on science of natural flood management over last 30 years showing good evidence for both continued investment in NFM and in research to optimise NFM actions wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We welcome applications for this great project on flooding: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/qua... Deadline 13 January 2025.

Check out our new UK NERC-funded doctoral training centre in climate change uncertainty and risk - funded projects now available for applicants: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk Hosted by University of Leeds in collaboration with Exeter and UCL

New fully funded PhD project available on peatland windfarms and carbon impacts from disturbance supervised by @catmoody.bsky.social and I yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the... Deadline for applications = 8 January 2025

A few hours left to apply for a peatland research fellow position with us: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Our new paper out in Nature Communications led by Dafydd Elias sheds new light on how plant litter, microbes & soil minerals interact to develop mineral-associated soil organic carbon = crucial for long-term soil C storage rdcu.be/d0T4Q @natureportfolio.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social