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Andy Baird represented water@leeds on a visit to Vietnam before Christmas and was hosted by Vietnam National University of Science (VNU) in Hanoi. Andy gave a keynote paper on the role of tropical peatlands in the global carbon cycle at the 5th International Conference on Vietnamese Studies and was one of a number of international...
The HyCRISTAL 2nd annual meeting took place in Kisumu Kenya in November 2016. HyCRISTAl aims to develop our understanding of East African climate change and use this for long-term decision making in the region. The research focuses on East Africa, with project sites in the Lake Victoria Basin.
Alain Gadian participated in the India - U.K. Workshop in Pune from 28th November to 1st December with the talk:"Changes in convective rainfall in future climates over Western Europe". Read more about the workshop here.
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...
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...
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,...