Skip to main content

News

Search results for “”

Results 1 to 10 of 173

PGRs - apply for upto £500 to support your project

Date
Category

The next round of our biannual SPRING Competition is now open, with a deadline of 19 April 2024. SPRING - Supporting Postgraduate Research to Inspire the Next Generation is a postgraduate research funding competition developed by water@leeds which is open to all postgraduate research students whose research involves some aspect related to water. Maybe you work...

Climate change disrupts seasonal flow of rivers

Date
Category

Climate change is disrupting the seasonal flow of rivers in the far northern latitudes of America, Russia and Europe, posing a threat to water security and ecosystems, according to new research. A team of scientists led by the University of Leeds analysed historical data from river gauging stations across the globe and found that 21%...

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting and being replaced by vegetation

Date
Category

An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometres of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite records. The total area of ice loss is equivalent to the size of Albania and represents about 1.6 % of Greenland’s total ice and glacier...

Water, Sanitation and Health MSc alumnus selected as finalist in the British Council Alumni Awards 2024

Date
Category

An alumnus from the School of Civil Engineering has been selected as a finalist in the British Council Alumni Awards in the category of Science and Sustainability. We are delighted to announce that alumnus Mohamed Kamal, MSc Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering 2019, has been selected as a finalist in the British Council Egypt Alumni Awards...

Research Student Spotlight February - Jose Miguel Fragozo Arevalo

Date
Category

Our monthly spotlight on the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers. This month: Jose Miguel Fragozo Arevalo, who is a visiting postgraduate researcher from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Universidad de La Guiajira, Riohacha, Colombia PhD Title: Flood modelling and flood risk management, in flood plain areas with scarcity of data School of...

COP28: Water requirements to achieve the Paris Agreement

Date
Category

water@leeds contributed to a session at COP28, with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA) and Global Water Institute in New South Wales, Australia. Prof. Greg Leslie of the Global Water Institute delivered a keynote address entitled Water requirements to achieve the Paris Agreement where he included our estimate of the...

Shrinking pools on northern peatlands

Date

Peatlands are carbon-rich wetlands that are often covered in mazy patterns of open water pools, but some boreal peatlands in Scandinavia and elsewhere are beginning to lose their characteristic pools. In the new paper, titled ‘Six Decades of Changes in Pool Characteristics on a Concentric-Patterned Raised Bog’, researchers used historical aerial imagery and a camera-drone survey...

Future Leaders tackle global challenges

Date
Category

Two water@leeds academics have received prestigious fellowships to support their pioneering research. Dr Jessica Baker, School of Earth and Environment and Dr Josie South, Faculty of Biology are among 75 people awarded Future Leaders Fellowships, which aim to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business. Funded by UK...

water@leeds Mission 1: updates and plans

Date
Category

Professor Mark Trigg, Associate Director for water@leeds Mission 1: Research, provides an update on recent activities and looks ahead to 2024. It has been another exciting year for research in water@leeds, with lots of ongoing activities and new initiatives planned. Bibliometric Analysis commissioned by water@leeds A bibliometric analysis by the University of Leeds Library service,...

British Hydrological Society - water@leeds Annual Webinar

Date
Category

The British Hydrological Society (Pennines Branch) and water@leeds present the third of our annual webinars showcasing current work from the next generation of water researchers. The webinar will feature two presentations from postgraduate researchers from the School of Civil Engineering. Event date: Wednesday 13 December 2023, 12.00 Register here. Thitipoom Chailert will present on Enhancing...