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A presentation on research progress from Dr Daniel Read, UK Centre of Ecology & Hydrology, who leads the PACIFIC project. PAthways of Chemicals Into Freshwaters and their ecological ImpaCts (PACIFIC) This £1.6 million project will identify new approaches for understanding the impacts of micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems, with an emphasis on the microbial communities that...
Join Professor Alistair Boxall, University of York who leads the ECOMIX project, for an update on progress. ECOMIX - 'Assessing and Managing the Impacts of Mixtures of Chemicals on UK Freshwater Biodiversity in a Changing World' is developing a novel assessment framework for assessing the real impacts of chemical pollution in UK rivers. It is identifying...
Dr Victoria Bell and Dr Stephen Lofts (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) will present an update on the Long-Term Large Scale-Freshwater Ecosystems (LTLS-FE) project, which is one of the 6 projects of the UK-wide NERC Freshwater Quality Programme. The project is undertaking analysis and future scenarios of long-term and large-scale freshwater quality and impacts. Historically, rivers...
Professor Penny Johnes and her team present an update on QUANTUM project progress. QUANTUM (Quantifying the combined nutrient enrichment, pathogenic, and ecotoxicological impacts of livestock farming on UK rivers) is one of the 6 projects of the UK wide Freshwater Quality Programme. Livestock farming is the dominant farming type and source of organic matter pollution...
Learn about CLEAR Neagh (Catchment-Level Environmental AMR & eDNA Reconnaissance for Lough Neagh), a new 18 month research project which is part of the NERC Freshwater Quality Programme. The project is generating scientific evidence to support the restoration of Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland’s largest and most iconic lake. The session will cover why the lake...
MOT4Rivers project update The MOT4Rivers team will showcase their latest research progress. The project led by Professor Andrew Tyler at University of Stirling, is part of the NERC Freshwater Quality Programme. The study, which was awarded funding of £2million from the Natural Environment Research Council, is investigating how pollutants interact with rivers and ecosystems, and...
'River water quality shaped by land-river connectivity in a changing climate’. A presentation from Dr Julia Knapp, Durham University which will be based on her related article in Nature: Li, L., Knapp, J. L. A., Lintern, A., Ng, G. C., Perdrial, J., Sullivan, P. L., & Zhi, W. (2024). River water quality shaped by land–river...
Monitoring to detect changes in water quality to meet policy objectives Professor Rich McDowell, will join us from the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand to present on his 'Nature' article: McDowell, R.W., Noble, A., Kittridge, M. et al. Monitoring to detect changes in water quality to meet policy objectives. Sci Rep 14, 1914 (2024)....
Bacterial Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of River Swimmers in the United Kingdom Presented by Elitsa Penkova, University of Exeter Elitsa is a PhD candidate focusing on understanding the public health risks from exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in rivers and other freshwater environments. Her research builds upon previous work on coastal...
A presentation on project progress by members of the LTLS-FE team: Theo Jackson (Rothamsted), Will Perry (University of Cardiff), and Mark Rhodes Smith (UKCEH). LTLS-FE is one of five projects within the NERC Freshwater Quality Programme and will be the first project to quantify the future impact of climate and socioeconomic change on freshwater biodiversity across the...