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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Gabriel López Porras as our Cheney Fellow 2024. Gabriel is a member of the Faculty of Zootechnics and Ecology, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico. He is an alumnus of the University's School of Earth and Environment where he undertook his PhD research, graduating in 2019. He has written...
Five pioneering UK research projects have each received a share of £14.5 million funding under phase two of the transforming land use for net zero, nature and people programme. The UK's efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 have been significantly boosted thanks to a £14.5 million investment by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)...
From Rivers to Oceans: Bridging the disconnect between freshwater and marine research communities. water@leeds and the Sustainability and Climate Change lab at Tecnológico de Monterrey are working together to bridge the gap between freshwater and marine research communities. Our goal is to better understand how these interconnected systems influence one another and to find ways...
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...