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NERC announced in February that they will scope two new areas for potential large-scale strategic research investments: • Enhancing the resilience of UK peatlands • Designing future landscapes for biodiversity and ecosystem services Calls for community members to join scoping groups for these potential SPAs will open shortly, and the scoping groups will work to...
Thames21 and water@leeds organised a workshop on Marine and Riverine Plastic Pollution. The event included presentations of plastic pollution experts and discussions on how NGO's and Researchers can work together to find solutions. Costas Velis from the University of Leeds presented and overview on current research into sources of litter and the routes into aquatic environments. The...
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)
Meteorology of Tropical West Africa: The Forecasters' Handbook was coordinated by the University of Leeds in collaboration with international researchers and meteorological agencies to help the region’s weather forecasters. It results from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA), the biggest research programme into African weather and climate ever conducted. Handbook editor and coordinator, Professor Douglas Parker a meteorologist...
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...
Major new water solutions programme to benefit the Yorkshire economy by £50 million A new £6 million project led by the University of Leeds is predicted to bring a £50 million benefit to the Yorkshire economy by reducing the costs and impact of water-related threats to the region. Bringing together partners from across the region...
Dr Paul Kay has recently featured in a BuzzFeed article, discussing drugs polluting British rivers. A study by scientists at the University of Leeds suggests that pharmaceutical pollution – small amounts of drugs like painkillers and antibiotics – is widespread in British rivers, and highlights the current lack of regulation around it. Dr Paul Kay,...
C-CUS: Climate, Costs and Urban Sanitation (Dec-2016 - Dec-2019). Principal Investigator (PI): Prof B. Evans (School of Civil Engineering); Co-Investigators (Co-Is): Dr M. A. Camargo-Valero and Dr G. Locatelli (School of Civil Engineering). Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (£700k). Microbial pollution in water sources under extreme weather conditions: modelling sediment-pathogen interactions (2017). PI: Dr I Douterelo (University of Sheffield); Co-Is: Dr M. A. Camargo-Valero, Dr C. Berretta and...