Chris Braban

Coming soon on Counting the Earth...

🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service.

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Crowd of seven primary-aged children huddle around a microscope, led by an early-career female marine researcher, on board laboratory on research ship RRS Discovery.

We want to hear from primary school teachers in the UK!

Help us make marine science more diverse & inclusive by sharing your insights in our survey about how the ocean features in your teaching. 🌊🔍🌈

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Please RT & share! 📩 🔃

#education #DiversityInSTEM

A year of air quality data created by Poplar’s closely-knit community In Poplar, Tower Hamlets, a collective of more than 130 knitters has unveiled Knitting the Air – a striking 12-metre textile artwork that transforms local air quality data into over 2,000 hand-knitted...

A year of air pollution visualised through the medium of knitting, inspired by Breathe London

Piece by Paul Day with quote by my brilliant @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social colleague @andygrieveair.bsky.social

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beautiful! I have become a bit obsessed with fog and mist on the forecase while fog sampling for N deposition at 6 UK sites over the past year.

Environmental physics should be on a par with quantum physics or optics – Physics World Peter Hughes argues that environmental physics should be taught to every physics undergraduate

"Environmental physics was pioneered in the 1950s by the physicists Howard Penman & John Monteith, based at the Rothamsted Experimental Station" - Peter Hughes @physicsworld.bsky.social argues that env. physics should be taught to every physics undergraduate 🧑‍🎓📈
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🎉 Big River Watch starts today!

After a summer of challenging weather, it's time to check in on our rivers.

📱Download the Big River Watch app
⏱️Spend just 15 minutes by the river
👀Share what you see in a survey

You've got until 25th of September to take part💙

theriverstrust.org/big-river-watch

Assistant Reserve Officer | Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust To assist with habitat management, reserve maintenance and species monitoring at Rutland Water Nature Reserve ensuring appropriate and safe visitor access

Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust (one of my WT employers) is recruiting for an Assistant Reserve Officer at Rutland Water.

An amazing opportunity to work at one of the UK's most well-known and loved nature reserves.

The long-term monitoring addressed in this review is wide-ranging and includes that undertaken by the UK Environmental Change Network. Please take some time to share your views. The closing date is 9am (UK time) on 29th September.

AnaEE is launching a new webinar series 🌍 Several funding calls open 🌍 Our direct call can boost your research, gives mentorship, and place your project in the wider AnaEE context 🌍 AnaEE Science Conference news 🌍 We are also delighted to welcome several new colleagues to the AnaEE core team

Two scientists set up a quadrat for monitoring in a field

We're leading a review of long-term UK terrestrial & freshwater monitoring for NERC. This will help identify priorities for an adaptable & flexible UK environmental monitoring network for the future

Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...

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📣 Calling all atmospheric composition enthusiasts!

Together with @ecmwf.int and @esa.int, we’re providing open-to-all online training webinars on satellite observations and modelling, focusing on aerosols.

🗓️1-2 & 9-10 October

Learn more atmostraining.info
Register eumetsat.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Sir Peter Hirsch was a figure of awe for me in my first couple of years as undergraduate at Teddy Hall - first Sir I ever met! I was studying Metallurgy and Materials Science - not as different to my atmospheric chemistry as it may sound...
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ESD Ideas: Climate tipping is not instantaneous – the duration of an overshoot matters Abstract. Climate tipping points are not committed to occur automatically upon crossing critical thresholds in global warming, as is often assumed. Instead, it is possible to temporarily overshoot a t...

Crossing a climate tipping point doesn't mean tipping is inevitable - a threshold can be temporarily passed if overshoot is short-lived.

Limiting time over 1.5 °C would considerably reduce tipping point risks.

New Ideas paper from @exeter.ac.uk & UKCEH: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 🧪

3MI’s first data captured a vivid “cloud bow” over Chile & Peru - barely visible in natural light but striking in polarised light. The colours reveal droplet size, key for understanding clouds & improving weather forecasts.

3MI’s first data captured a vivid “cloud bow” over Chile & Peru—barely visible in natural light but striking in polarised light. The colours reveal droplet size, key for understanding clouds & improving weather forecasts.

Today is #WorldOzoneDay.

EUMETSAT-operated satellites, like Metop, monitor ozone by measuring both the total atmospheric content and the vertical ozone profile. Our latest satellite - Metop-SGA1 - is now delivering its first data. Learn more: bit.ly/4gr1Kyc

Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of The Week In Soil. This edition includes news on the ELMS Test and Trial results 🚜, Scottish peatland emissions 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, and more!

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4ncNqLJ

#TheWeekInSoil

Breakfast time! Peregrines successfully nested this year on the Isle of May and this fledged chick is waiting patiently this morning for its parents to bring food back

Results are in for the Isle of May seabird breeding season. Fulmar breeding success was 41%. An average season with the long term mean at 40% @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

join our team in UKCEH Edinburgh!

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Hi #freshwater scientists! The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are advertising for a senior freshwater ecologist...could this be you?

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@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #job #science #ecology

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@smallredone.bsky.social

very pleased that my colleague has published their first paper: Application and Evaluation of the Hoffman et al. (2020) Data Rescue Framework using an historic Scottish Cloud and Rain Chemistry Dataset exemplar" = more AQ data rescue in future!

@ukceh.bsky.social www.ijdc.net/index.php/ij...

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡

At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.

More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? 🦋

@ukceh.bsky.social are training and testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Support this work via their form below 🔽

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#MothsMatter #TeamMoth ‪@abigaillowe.bsky.social‬

Mama bear enjoying some playtime with her cubs: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

Dr Glenn Watts interviewed on BBC News

Dr Glenn Watts spoke to BBC News about current drought impacts.

He said: "The outlook for the rest of August is for mostly dry weather so flows will continue to become lower...expect to see more of those algal blooms, fish rescues, and the knock-on effects to wildlife and to farmers."

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The 2025 year-to-date (to 7 August) total estimated #wildfire emissions for Canada (225 megatonnes of carbon (Mt C)), have overtaken 2024's annual total (223 Mt C) to be 2nd highest year since 2003, behind 2023. The total is likely to keep rising with 3 more weeks of summer still to come.

📣 Applications for the LUNZ Hub Creative Collaborative Placements programme are now open! 📣

Deadline for Applications: August 22, 5pm (by email)
Research, practice and production of work: November 2025 – May 2026
Award: £5000
Click here to find out more: bit.ly/4ld5a8n

Front cover of National Plant Monitoring Scheme Annual Report 2024

Books and papers lying on daisy covered grass

Two people outside in a rural environment look at information on a clipboard

🌿 The National Plant Monitoring Scheme has turned 10!

More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights.

🔗 🧪 www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...

it's little toes tipping! :)

Minimizing the impacts of the ammonia economy on the nitrogen cycle and climate | PNAS Ammonia (NH3) is an attractive low-carbon fuel and hydrogen carrier. However, losses and inefficiencies across the value chain could result in reac...

‘Ammonia (NH3) is an attractive low-carbon fuel and hydrogen carrier. However, losses and inefficiencies across the value chain could result in reactive nitrogen emissions (NH3, NOx, and N2O), negatively impacting air quality, the environment, human health, and climate’ www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...