Providing space for nature on farms is not only important for wildlife and beautiful landscapes. It can actually enhance crop yield, especially in years of bad weather. See open access paper with analysis led by excellent John Redhead

I did it! I had no idea if I could do 100 km in 24 hours, now I know I can! On behalf of BSAR, thanks for all donators!

Our latest piece in Science of the Total Environment on waterey issues and Covd-19... authors.elsevier.com/c/1bnCfB8ccoMV…

Around this #worldriversday, our 2+yrs joint #EFLOWS journey in 🇮🇳 confluences upcoming #IEWP Phase 2 of higher aims. Findings to flow continuously, uninterrupted (#Aviral). Stay tuned for highlights and results e.g. E-Flows Guidance Doc, Pilot studies, Intl. Workshop proceedings

College of Life and Environmental Sciences Encyclopaedia Britannica Geography Birmingham IGI Birmingham UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 . Ben Abbott Jay Zarnetske Stefan Krause Becca Frei Thought you would be pleased to see people added to the #water #cycle #diagram in Encyclopaedia Britannica All New Kids' Encyclopaedia

Just kicking off a 3-day workshop examining progress incorporating environmental flows into monitoring of SDG indicator 6.4.2 on water stress. Follow FAO Land, Soil and Water for regular updates throughout the workshop. Nearly 20 countries presenting progress! China is presenting first.

The Cambodian contemporary dance scene will be in the spotlight in our great Being Human Festival event on 13th November. These artists showcase identities, expressions and experiences beyond the narrative of the Killing Fields. Details here: bit.ly/3dM5v0J #BeingHuman2020

Cheering through windows, honking & hollering on the streets, exuberant people making post-mortem small talk at my local cafe, channeling Tocqueville ‘Democracy in America’ vibes today.

For the first time in over a decade I’m not spending reading week pottering about with Helene Burningham and UCL Geography students in the wetlands of NE Mallorca...so a potter around a local wetlands will have to do for the time being...

In the last introduction to a UCL Geography MSc lecture recorded from the river bank I said it was important to get away from our computers every so often. Difficult for a module on MIKE SHE modelling! So, for the next one, the next best thing...(the Jura Whisky is medicinal).

This is really incredible how flow measurement moved forward since I was in the NRFA!

Our water team deployed recently as the Thames burst it's banks. The team were called to Longridge activity centre by Great Marlow school rowing club to assist recovering & securing boats that were about to cause hazards down river. Our drone team helped monitor operations.

"This is not the lecture you are looking for..."

Just published...Increasing Risk of Ecological Change to Major Rivers of the World With Global Warming - Thompson et al. - 2021 - Earth's Future - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A collaboration between myself (UCL Geography), Simon Gosling, Jamal Zaherpour (Nottingham Geography) and Dr Cedric Laize FRGS (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)

We apply the TEFRIC ERFA environmental flow approach (developed with Natural Environment Research Council funding) to >57K pairs of baseline-scenario river flow time series for 321 major river basins that cover c50% of the Earth's land surface.

Risks of change increase with magnitude of warming from 1-3 degrees and are particularly pronounced for low flow conditions. Some of the largest changes are projected for rivers in South America, southern Africa and Australia.

...and the write-up by AGU's Eos ... Identifying the World’s Most At-Risk River Basins - Eos eos.org/research-spotl… (UCL Geography / Nottingham Geography / UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)

Latest paper led by Prof. Julian R. Thompson with colleagues from Uni. of Nottingham and myself from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Drones and headwater rivers mapping - Fully funded PhD CENTA DTP with UKCEH (lead) and University of Birmingham (Prof D Hannah freshwaterflows) - deadline for application January 10th 2024 - Apply here: centa.ac.uk/studentship/20…