Diego Panici

Pioneering project to tackle scourge of algal blooms receives significant funding boost A pioneering collaborative project - which will use ground-breaking new techniques to tackle the scourge of algal blooms in lakes and reservoirs – has received a significant funding boost. The PEDAL (Prediction and Early Detection

PEDAL is an Ofwat-funded project that I am honoured to lead. 💧

🔗 PEDAL project info: news.exeter.ac.uk/centre-for-r...

#Hiring #WaterQuality #FieldTech #EnvironmentalScience #PEDALproject #AlgalBlooms #OfwatInnovation #CREWW

🧪 Lab Technician role (PEDAL project – lab-based):
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

📍 Based at Exeter’s Streatham Campus in @uoe-creww.bsky.social, with regular travel to field sites. Full-time, fixed-term contract starting October 2025.

🚨 We’re hiring a Field Tech and a Lab Tech to help fight harmful algal blooms across UK lakes & reservoirs.

Join the PEDAL project at @exeter.ac.uk using sensors, drones & water sampling to build predictive tools for bloom outbreaks.

🔗 Field role: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Quantifying NFM through peatland re | University of Exeter The University’s Department of Geography invites applications for a PhD studentship funded by the Environment Agency and South West Water and the University of Exeter to commence as soon as possible t...

New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk )

@dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Deadline: 22nd August 2025

This funding covers UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £20,780 per year however it sadly does not cover international fees.

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

For anyone interested in peatland restoration and natural flood management we have an exciting new funded PhD opportunity @exeter.ac.uk @uoe-creww.bsky.social supported the Environment Agency and South West Peatland Partnership: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity!🚨

Join CREWW, the University of Exeter’s world-leading research group tackling water & environmental challenges. This PhD, funded by South West Water & the Environment Agency, will explore upland valley mire restoration & its role in climate resilience.

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Please do get in touch for any questions to my email d.panici@exeter.ac.uk

#PhD #geomorphology #hydraulics #floods #flashflooding @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Deadline is next Monday 10th February, and we are looking for candidates with expertise in Hydraulic/Geomorphic numerical modelling and GIS experience. It will be based at @exeter.ac.uk, specifically in @uoe-creww.bsky.social, and will enjoy an ongoing project in arid and hyper-arid areas

There is still time to apply for a PhD on flash flooding and geomorphic changes in desert wadi systems! The PhD, through hydraulic and sediment modelling, will investigate these impulsive events, and also how nature-based solutions can be used to mitigate their effects. Apply at tinyurl.com/328mctvt

A fantastic opportunity to join us at @uoe-creww.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk with two exciting PhD positions!

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

🎉 Happy 2025! 🎉

New year, a new you? There's still time to apply for a PhD with myself and @dpanici.bsky.social on 'Large Wood in Rivers: Blending social knowledge with large wood dynamics in river restoration practice'.

Based at @uoe-creww.bsky.social

Details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Had a nice Christmas Eve walk in Monmouth today with family, and couldn’t help notice how large wood accumulated at the Monnow Bridge - just like I observed them in flume experiments! It always amazes me. Also did you know is the only remaining bridge in Britain with a gate tower on the bridge?

It’s been a honour today to attend a graduation ceremony @universityofexeter.bsky.social, for the first time on this side of the stage! So pleased to have seen our #GIS MSc students graduating - such a fantastic group of the highest academic standard. Looking forward to teach this year’s cohort!

On the train to Liverpool for #BES24 with @uoe-creww.bsky.social colleagues!

I'll be presenting Friday on the social feasibility of #wildcat #reintroduction in the south west - see you there?

#consocsci #envsocsci #BES2024 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

I recently completed my Academic Professional Programme at @uniofexeter.bsky.social and received the Fellowship status with the (former) Higher Education Academy. I really enjoyed improving my teaching to make it as inclusive and engaging as possible. Looking forward to more challenges. Ad maiora!

I wouldn’t say very close…

At least on a district level area you would have expected more precision. I hope she didn’t get woken up! I was literally paying at the till with my phone and it was quite weird.

Just got this Government Alert on my phone (twice), yet the MetOffice warning is Amber and not Red, this can be rather confusing to people and maybe risks getting the opposite effect?

Today I really enjoyed my first ‘speed networking’ session as dissertation advisor for BSc students. Great to see a lot of interest for water quality issues and solutions in our rivers. Do you have any riverine water quality dissertations projects that students have been/are working on?

I have the privilege of working with @austerroger.bsky.social who will lead this #PhD on identifying social barriers and enablers to the use of Large Wood as a Nature-based Solution. If you are interested or you know someone who would, please share it widely!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

The Bluesky page for @uoe-creww.bsky.social is currently live! We look forward to share novel research and advances in water, the environment, and eco-hydrological resilience from the people in our centre based at @uniofexeter.bsky.social. Watch this space!

We have so many #PhD positions available now, have a look at @alanputtock.bsky.social’s post below and share widely! There’s one for all #water ‘flavours’

It’s great to see the before and after impact! Really nice gravel bed and (not engineered?) large wood that deposited there

Having seen first hand what doctors, nurses and healthcare assistants do, I can’t thank them enough (and can proudly say my partner is one of them, great seeing her workplace but not planning to do it often!)

A bit of a personal note here: took this photo in 2021 while staying at the neonatal unit in Exeter, with our child born 5 weeks early. We were lucky enough to leave the hospital a few days later after a five-week stay. Happy World Prematurity Day!

Fieldwork Fridays: hydrology, autumn colours, wood in rivers restoration and a new feathered fieldwork assistant, what’s not to like!

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I had the real pleasure to talk to the British Society of Geomorphology today on my work on large wood in rivers, from hazard to resource. It was great to see so much interest in the topic and to talk to colleagues in the field. A recording will be available soon and I’ll make sure to share it 😊

NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Does Large Wood in River Restoration Improve Water Quality and Ecological Health? at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Does Large Wood in River Restoration Improve Water Quality and Ecological Health? at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

Amazing to finally interact with so many lovely people! And on that note, we have a PhD available on water quality impacts with large wood in river restoration at the @uniofexeter.bsky.social in CREWW. There’s a form to fill but please do contact me directly!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This stage-zero has been a real landmark event in the world of ecohydrological restoration, there’s a few more that are happening in North Devon and Exmoor (some literally just completed), a lot more exciting projects coming up soon