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water@leeds, the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and Opera North are delighted to present MELTWATER at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds at 7.30pm 27 September 2023. In the last two decades the rate at which the polar ice caps is melting has doubled. MELTWATER is an audio-visual performance which takes as its inspiration the sights and sounds...
water@leeds is delighted to announce that University of Leeds researchers have been awarded £435,115 from the Lloyd Register Foundation to research the best ways of communicating the threats of severe weather events across the globe. The research collaboration combines expertise from the School of Earth and Environment (Dr Andrea Taylor, Dr Yim Ling Siu and...
Thousands of pounds of Government funding is being invested in West Yorkshire to develop new research projects to help make the region more resilient to flooding and the impacts of climate change. West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WY FLIP)) has received £310,000 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Partners from five...
Five new research projects have launched to investigate how pollution impacts UK rivers. The projects form a UK wide Freshwater Quality Programme which is being co-ordinated by Programme Champions, Professors Joseph Holden and Pippa Chapman. Most UK rivers fail to meet good ecological status Scientists will: create new tools for monitoring freshwater pollution; study how...
As part of the Water Governance webinar series, the Water Value Research group presents four events in May 2021. Often in conversation with 'the arts', these will explore some of the possibilities and challenges of knowing and governing waters as relational, affective and political vital phenomena. Thursday 6th May 11 am-12.30pm BST Anthropologists Amber Abrams...
From October 2020, Prof. Julia Martin-Ortega (PI), Dr. Thijs Dekker and Dr. Martin Dallimer will lead the analysis of the socio-economic strand of the Horizon 2020 DRYvER project, providing critical information for the design and implementation of innovative nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to impacts on drying river networks. Rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands and...
An innovative project aims to demonstrate that landscape restoration could protect at-risk upland communities from flash flooding. Professor Joseph Holden, director of water@leeds at the University of Leeds, is co-investigator on the £1.2m project, which will investigate natural flood management methods as a low-cost way to reduce flooding in rural communities that are near steep...
Leeds has recently become a Core City in the EUROCITIES Water Working Group's Urban Water Agenda (UWA2030) Initiative, represented by a collaboration including Leeds City Council, University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett. Feedback is sought before 31st July from European cities of all sizes as well as stakeholders of the water sector, such as: water utilities...
LAPSE Land-atmosphere interactions over Brazil and evaluating coupled climate models, Co-I.(Newton Fund Climate Science for Service Partnership Brazil). PI Dominick Spracklen. Co-Is: Luis Garcia-Carreras, John Marsham, Wolfgang Buermann Emanuel Gloor. (February)
Julia Martin-Ortega has recently been awarded an Impact Acceleration Account fund from ESRC for the project entitled Economic benefits of peatland restoration: making the numbers count for policy. The project, worth £15,000, involves Julia and researchers from The James Hutton Institute (Anja Byg), Scotland's Rural College (Klaus Glenk) and Scottish Natural Heritage. Please find below a...