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🚨 NEW! A major UK-wide initiative will transform our understanding of floods and droughts, including how, when and where they will occur in different parts of the country. This vital project will guide action to improve the UK’s resilience against extreme weather, protecting people, infrastructure, the economy and nature. Announced today by Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the £38 million Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure is led by NERC: Natural Environment Research Council and UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). Millions of people in the UK are affected by floods and droughts: the cost of damage caused by flooding alone is estimated at more than £700m a year. Without significant investment in research infrastructure, there would be a lack of scientific evidence to support the UK's resilience to extreme weather, and the damage and costs would spiral upwards, say the team behind FDRI. FDRI will use fixed and mobile measuring equipment in river catchments in different parts of the UK to monitor the entire water environment on a bigger scale than previously done before – measuring and integrating data on evaporation, soil moisture, weather, groundwater and river flows 🌊 . Dr Doug Wilson OBE, UKCEH Science Director, said: “Our improved understanding of how water flows through the environment and the impact of climate and land use change on the hydrological cycle, combined with faster, more easily accessible data, will greatly improve our predictions about the location and extent of floods and droughts." UKCEH is leading FDRI’s implementation with partners Imperial College London, University of Bristol, and British Geological Survey, and will maintain its ongoing operation. See our news story: https://lnkd.in/efApGyWw Learn more about the project: https://fdri.org.uk/ #Hydrology #Floods #Droughts #Research #Innovation UK Research and Innovation Stuart Wainwright OBE
Doug - this sounds fantastic. In understanding how water flows through the environment , will you also be looking at how it picks up pollutants on the way? There's still a huge amount we don't fully understand, for example in the spatial and temporal flows of phosphate from field application to in stream P levels. It's just labelled as " diffuse pollution" .
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also very excited to being involved in this transformative project contributing to the science & innovation aspects together with Gareth Old Jonathan Evans Wouter Buytaert and so many other great people, feel blessed, let's keep it engaging & flowin' ,)
Wow! This sounds amazing. Waterwise Nathan Richardson
Fantastic update!
Senior Hydrometric Scientist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)
3moVery excited to be playing a major role in this fabulous project! Shaping monitoring strategy in the Tweed catchment and leading on flow measurement methods, including improving understanding of floodplain flows and morphological change. Improved observations of precipitation (especially at altitude) also a priority. Come and learn more at the 2024 British Hydrological Society National Symposium at the University of Oxford on the 23rd and 24th September. https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/school-of-geography-and-the-environment/events/british-hydrological-society-annual-meeting