Sustainable Use of Natural Resources to Improve Human Health and Support Economic Development (SUNRISE)
Lead Research Organisation:
NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019)
Department Name: Directors and Science Coordinators
Abstract
Globally, human societies face a burgeoning challenge of achieving sustainable use of natural resources to provide food, fuel, water and amenities for an increasing population under the context of climate change. At its most fundamental, this will require achieving food and water security of supply without threatening the ability of the environment to support future generations.
An increasingly urbanized and wealthy population is driving a growing and changing demand for food, water, land and other natural resources and contributing to environmental degradation. These demands combined with climate change, and its associated natural hazards, were critical considerations in the development of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2015). The challenges posed by the SDGs require long term national scale research-based solutions. SUNRISE seeks to improve livelihoods and wellbeing through reduced environmental risk, improved environmental quality and improved reliability of the supply of food, water and other natural resources by providing the evidence and advice needed to improve management of the wider environment. SUNRISE will address local issues and research needs in China, India, Indonesia / Malaysia, Kenya and other countries in sub Saharan Africa and address SDGs 1, 2, 3, 6, 13 and 15.
SUNRISE builds on the research themes that formed the basis of the approved NC-ODA Foundation Award with activity currently in progress: (1) developing hydro-climate services for improved water resource management and flood and drought forecasting and preparedness; (2) restoration and remediation of degraded resources and environments to improve people's health and economic security, and; (3) management of land resources to ensure environmental sustainability and economic growth and resilience. These will be developed and delivered in partnership with in-country partners and stakeholders to address their most pressing environmental needs.
Hydro-climate services are tools and methods that translate data and knowledge of current and potential future hydrological conditions into information that will inform better water policy, planning, management and decision-making. The science challenge is to adapt CEH's models and understanding to perform at an acceptable level of uncertainty in data sparse regions. In meeting this challenge we will both advance UK research capabilities and provide tools, methodologies and assessments to reduce the impact of extreme events on people and their livelihoods and increase the reliability and resilience of water supplies for people, livestock and businesses on a day to day basis.
Restoration and remediation options require research aimed at understanding and quantifying the key factors and processes that cause environmental degradation and upon which mitigation measures rely. This theme will seek to fill a knowledge gap by determining the key factors that affect the rate and stability of recovery as systems are restored, and the resilience of restored systems to future change. In investigating this knowledge gap in real-world situations the findings will advance science knowledge and inform new policy and management approaches needed in India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Kenya but with global relevance.
Increasing agricultural productivity sustainably is a clear priority both for food provision and also as a pathway to alleviating poverty, particularly for the 83% of the global agricultural population who rely on smallholder agriculture. Small holder agriculture is often not as productive as it could be: working with local agronomists we will investigate new approaches to achieve ecological intensification, through diversification of smallholder land, water and livestock management to deliver improved productivity, resilience and sustainability.
An increasingly urbanized and wealthy population is driving a growing and changing demand for food, water, land and other natural resources and contributing to environmental degradation. These demands combined with climate change, and its associated natural hazards, were critical considerations in the development of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2015). The challenges posed by the SDGs require long term national scale research-based solutions. SUNRISE seeks to improve livelihoods and wellbeing through reduced environmental risk, improved environmental quality and improved reliability of the supply of food, water and other natural resources by providing the evidence and advice needed to improve management of the wider environment. SUNRISE will address local issues and research needs in China, India, Indonesia / Malaysia, Kenya and other countries in sub Saharan Africa and address SDGs 1, 2, 3, 6, 13 and 15.
SUNRISE builds on the research themes that formed the basis of the approved NC-ODA Foundation Award with activity currently in progress: (1) developing hydro-climate services for improved water resource management and flood and drought forecasting and preparedness; (2) restoration and remediation of degraded resources and environments to improve people's health and economic security, and; (3) management of land resources to ensure environmental sustainability and economic growth and resilience. These will be developed and delivered in partnership with in-country partners and stakeholders to address their most pressing environmental needs.
Hydro-climate services are tools and methods that translate data and knowledge of current and potential future hydrological conditions into information that will inform better water policy, planning, management and decision-making. The science challenge is to adapt CEH's models and understanding to perform at an acceptable level of uncertainty in data sparse regions. In meeting this challenge we will both advance UK research capabilities and provide tools, methodologies and assessments to reduce the impact of extreme events on people and their livelihoods and increase the reliability and resilience of water supplies for people, livestock and businesses on a day to day basis.
Restoration and remediation options require research aimed at understanding and quantifying the key factors and processes that cause environmental degradation and upon which mitigation measures rely. This theme will seek to fill a knowledge gap by determining the key factors that affect the rate and stability of recovery as systems are restored, and the resilience of restored systems to future change. In investigating this knowledge gap in real-world situations the findings will advance science knowledge and inform new policy and management approaches needed in India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Kenya but with global relevance.
Increasing agricultural productivity sustainably is a clear priority both for food provision and also as a pathway to alleviating poverty, particularly for the 83% of the global agricultural population who rely on smallholder agriculture. Small holder agriculture is often not as productive as it could be: working with local agronomists we will investigate new approaches to achieve ecological intensification, through diversification of smallholder land, water and livestock management to deliver improved productivity, resilience and sustainability.
Planned Impact
CEH's proposed activities seek to achieve maximum impact and benefit in China, India, Indonesia / Malaysia and sub-Saharan African countries. SUNRISE builds on existing and developing (within the on-going Foundation award) relationships and partnerships. We are confident that the activities are both relevant and timely, and will help to meet pressing local, national and regional needs. Our long-term vision is to develop, in collaboration with partners and stakeholders, the capacity and expertise to enable them to sustainably manage their own natural resources more effectively, and so become more resilient to environmental risks and to mitigate problems associated with environmental degradation. We will develop the knowledge, tools and methods, jointly to enable authorities and institutions to make better informed policies and decisions in adapting to the environmental challenges of climate change, demographic growth and change, and land-use change associated with economic growth. We perceive four main pathways to development impact each of which reflect different stakeholder communities and user groups: Decision and Policy Makers in Civilian Government; Development Aid Agencies; Business and Commerce and; Scientific and Academic Researchers.
CEH's main role delivering impact is the delivery of evidence, models, information tools and advice on environmental condition and likely future condition under different scenarios to those who will use it for policy and development decisions, or to inform their own research agendas. To this end a key need for our science to make a difference, including after this research programme has finished, is to engage with and provide the research outcomes wanted by the decision and policy makers, development agencies, industry or scientists on the ground. CEH have established links and experience of working collaboratively across all of these highly diverse sectors. Example partnerships (included as letters of support) include: Policy / decision makers such as the Maharashtran State Government and Lake Victoria Basin Catchment Secretariat: Aid agencies such as Crops for the Future and Proforest already collaborate with us on both research and stakeholder engagement activities; Industrial partners include Musim Mas and APRIL in SE Asia; and our many academic partners include sister centres / Institutes such as the Indian Institutes of Science (IISc)and Technology (IIT), Chinese Academy of Science institutions, Kenyan Forest Research Institute (KEFRI), etc..
We will use our expertise and relevant contacts in each of the different nations we will work in (China, India, Indonesia/Malaysia and Kenya / sub-Saharan Africa) to identify and build the partnerships required to ensure that our research outcomes are relevant and stand the best chance of being implemented to achieve the benefits envisioned: improved water resource management; and restored and sustainably managed environment's that lead to improved health and enhance livelihoods.
CEH's main role delivering impact is the delivery of evidence, models, information tools and advice on environmental condition and likely future condition under different scenarios to those who will use it for policy and development decisions, or to inform their own research agendas. To this end a key need for our science to make a difference, including after this research programme has finished, is to engage with and provide the research outcomes wanted by the decision and policy makers, development agencies, industry or scientists on the ground. CEH have established links and experience of working collaboratively across all of these highly diverse sectors. Example partnerships (included as letters of support) include: Policy / decision makers such as the Maharashtran State Government and Lake Victoria Basin Catchment Secretariat: Aid agencies such as Crops for the Future and Proforest already collaborate with us on both research and stakeholder engagement activities; Industrial partners include Musim Mas and APRIL in SE Asia; and our many academic partners include sister centres / Institutes such as the Indian Institutes of Science (IISc)and Technology (IIT), Chinese Academy of Science institutions, Kenyan Forest Research Institute (KEFRI), etc..
We will use our expertise and relevant contacts in each of the different nations we will work in (China, India, Indonesia/Malaysia and Kenya / sub-Saharan Africa) to identify and build the partnerships required to ensure that our research outcomes are relevant and stand the best chance of being implemented to achieve the benefits envisioned: improved water resource management; and restored and sustainably managed environment's that lead to improved health and enhance livelihoods.
Organisations
- NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019) (Lead Research Organisation)
- Kenya Forestry Research Institute (Collaboration)
- Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (Collaboration)
- University of Brawijaya (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Collaboration)
- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Collaboration)
- South Eastern Kenya University (Collaboration)
- World Meteorological Organization (Collaboration)
- Australian Government (Collaboration)
- Wild Asia (Collaboration)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Atmospheric Research (Collaboration)
- United States Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI-ARID TROPICS (Collaboration)
- Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee (Collaboration)
- Government of Argentina (Collaboration)
- Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (Collaboration)
Publications
Mills G
(2018)
Ozone pollution will compromise efforts to increase global wheat production.
in Global change biology
Fleming Z
(2018)
Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day ozone distribution and trends relevant to human health
in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
Dixon H
(2018)
Supporting development of international data exchange policies: experiences from the Sava river basin
in WMO Bulletin
Kaelin A
(2019)
SUNRISE: Hydrological Monitoring and Forecasting in East Africa
Ni Z
(2019)
The potential role of sediment organic phosphorus in algal growth in a low nutrient lake
in Environmental Pollution
Wang W
(2019)
Chemical compositions of fog and precipitation at Sejila Mountain in the southeast Tibetan Plateau, China.
in Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Gjerdi HL
(2019)
Droughts in the Anthropocene
| Description | SUNRISE made advances towards achievement of the theory of change (TOC) planned output to deliver improved data and models to inform the application of hydrological information in complex decision-making contexts for water resource management and to support 5-20yr policies, plans and investments. Online meetings with CWC-MP, IIFM, NCA, WRD-MP stakeholders to provide progress reports on water resource modelling work and seek their guidance on the development of plausible scenarios of socio-economic change and water management have taken place, this continues to support the sustainable development of the Narmada river basin, with direct social and economic benefits improving water resource management will to basin stakeholders. With better information, water managers and policy makers can plan around changing climate, population and land-use, build resilient systems that can withstand droughts and floods, and protect clean water sources. Progress was achieved towards TOC output, increased capacity and skills of decision makers, scientists and communities to enhance the use of natural resources and improve wellbeing. SUNRISE (WP1.1) took part in a Virtual User Engagement Initiative with state level water management bodies in India that was convened by the NERC-MoES funded India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC). SUNRISE work on the Soil Moisture - India network was presented as part of our efforts to increase stakeholder engagement outside of direct project partners. https://iukwc.org/water-resource-management-science-%E2%80%93-supporting-one-another. For Kenya, we are developing training material for capacity building to local fisheries scientists to enable them to evaluate their data sets, and to use QGIS a cross-platform desktop geographic information system application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data for management of the fisheries in Lake Victoria. Further headway was made toward TOC output, targeted, accessible, robust and innovative model outputs, information and decisions-support tools for real world decision making. For our oil palm small holder farmers we have delivered targeted online training of Malaysian staff in UAV monitoring of plantation health this provides robust and easy to use information to manage these resources. SUNRISE has generated new data on ozone sensitivity in legumes relevant to Sub Saharan Africa and India for important crops such as beans and peas, resulting in the development of a factsheets that has been widely distributed and freely available with our previously reported sheets https://icpvegetation.ceh.ac.uk/publications/factsheet In India, SUNRISE have helped to improve the forecasting of zoonotic diseases, through production and delivery of decision support tools that enable local authorities and policy makers to manage disease spread. This has been in the form of a Phone App which has been designed with DHFWS partners, including the setup of a Shiny server in India and has been completed for piloting in the next KFD (Kyasanur forest disease) season. Please see impact statement |
| Exploitation Route | See impact statment |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment |
| Description | SUNRISE, CEH's LTS-ODA programme, comprises three Themes: 1. Developing hydro-climate services for improved water resource management; 2. Restoration and remediation of degraded resources and environments to improve people's health and improve economic security; and 3. Management of land resources to ensure environmental sustainability and economic growth and resilience. Theme 1 achievements include the establishment of a real-time soil moisture monitoring network in India, which with help improve agriculture and water management and the predictability of floods and droughts. We have also been actively supporting the implementation of the wider WMO-led Hydrological Status and Outlooks System (HydroSOS), which will build the capacity of national meteorological/hydrological services to understand current and near-future hydrological conditions and react in a timely manner to avoid losses of lives and livelihoods. We have also helped to establish a new centre of excellence for water resources modelling in India, improving capacity of local water managers to make decisions on the allocation of water within basins. Within Theme 2, we have improved urban air quality instrumentation and data collection in Delhi and other parts of South Asia, which has contributed to inform policy makers across the region. Also in India, in collaboration with local community groups, we have produced and delivered guidance on practical, low-cost methods to better treat wastewater, limit pollutants and promote recovery of lakes or ponds. In Kenya, we have helped fisheries scientists to evaluate their data sets, bolstering their monitoring, data management and analytical skills to affect better management of the fisheries in Lake Victoria. In Malaysia, we have built a soil and plant monitoring scheme to improve oil palm plant health and sustainable production and, in Indonesia, we have been helping to improve coffee-pine agroforestry management and teaching small holders how to measure and report the state of their crops. In Theme 3, we have been helping to improve tree species productivity in East Africa by giving guidance to small holders on which species to plant where, work that has helped to increase productivity and improve crop yields. We have also generated new data on ozone sensitivity in Africa and East Africa for important cereal crops, resulting in the development of a number of factsheets and an app that has been widely distributed. In India, we have helped to improve the forecasting of zoonotic diseases, producing decision support tools that enable local authorities and policy makers to manage disease spread. Activities offering the greatest potential for delivering impact have been prioritised in the final year of the programme. Working with local partners, we will increase the reach of our impactsby further enhancing local capacity for sustainable management decisions. The programme was started with a successful kick off meeting in June 2017 where theme leaders and Work package (WP) leaders gave presentations to each other this allowed the group to understand the programme and how it comes together as a cohesive programme. The programme board have meet quarterly to discuss budgets and progress against deliverables. During the first year there has been much activity around collecting and analysing data and developing models. Many workshops have taken place with partners to establish how data will be used in models or how field experiments will be established. A number of MOU's have been set up between CEH and our international partners. As part of the National and public good work package CEH has provided input to the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme and the WMO Hydrology & Water Resources Programme and been contributing to the delivery of the WMO Commission for Hydrology Work Programme for 2016-2020 as Member of Commission for Hydrology Advisory Working Group. The real time soil monitoring under hydroclimate services has developed a live COMOS-India web site displaying data as it is generated. New loggers are now in place at Madahalli and Singanalur and are generating data streams. We are continuing to build on this fantastic capacity and are training the Indian site hosts to manage the sites, data and models to allow independence. Under the theme of Hydroclimate services, large scale simulation of macro nutrients (India) seasonal groundwater level measurements have been collated for the Cauvery catchment, and spatially interpolated to derive a 5 km-grid map as well as collation of data on total borehole irrigation yield. As well as locations and storage of six major reservoirs have been sourced and for input to the LTLS-India model the terrestrial model (N14CP)has been adapted so that solutes are retained in the soil during dry periods. A new model has been formulated to estimate waste inputs into rivers on the basis of human population. Under the theme of restoration and remediation, a validated atmospheric chemistry and transport model (CTM) is a key tool required to assess the impact of rural emission on urban air quality and to quantify the efficacy of emission reduction measures. Historically, CEH's focus on CTM modelling has been on the UK and Europe. As a key SUNRISE activity in 2017, a global version of the CTM operated by CEH (EMEP4UK) has been set up. First model results confirm, that in Africa ammonia problems are largest in the Lake Victoria area (as well as the Nile delta) and confirms the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) to be the global hotspot of ammonia, consistent with Earth Observation products. In partnership with Brawijaya University, (Indonesia) we have identified 8 locations for field sites have been identified. Training delivered on using microclimatic sensors. Gas Chromatograph commissioned at the University for measuring greenhouse gas emissions. Process based model (WaNulCAS) has been selected for simulations of biogeochemical processes and yield. Workshops and planning have been undertaken to identify the main challenges and issues associated with the oil palm industry has been produced. In the managing land for environmental sustainability theme the Resilience to livestock pathogens WP has collated district level epidemiological data on four focal diseases, this data has been collated at NIVEDI along with the metrics of the recording effort. Further district level environmental drivers of disease patterns were downloaded and processed at CEH and are being linked to the disease data set. Preliminary multivariate analysis of relationships between climate, land use and livestock to inform the district level space time methods. Problem-framing workshop with state and district level disease managers and potential beneficiaries of forecasting tools. SUNRISE made advances towards achievement of the theory of change (TOC) planned output to deliver improved data and models to inform the application of hydrological information in complex decision-making contexts for water resource management and to support 5-20yr policies, plans and investments. Online meetings with CWC-MP, IIFM, NCA, WRD-MP stakeholders to provide progress reports on water resource modelling work and seek their guidance on the development of plausible scenarios of socio-economic change and water management have taken place, this continues to support the sustainable development of the Narmada river basin, with direct social and economic benefits improving water resource management will to basin stakeholders. With better information, water managers and policy makers can plan around changing climate, population and land-use, build resilient systems that can withstand droughts and floods, and protect clean water sources. Progress was achieved towards TOC output, increased capacity and skills of decision makers, scientists and communities to enhance the use of natural resources and improve wellbeing. SUNRISE (WP1.1) took part in a Virtual User Engagement Initiative with state level water management bodies in India that was convened by the NERC-MoES funded India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC). SUNRISE work on the Soil Moisture - India network was presented as part of our efforts to increase stakeholder engagement outside of direct project partners. https://iukwc.org/water-resource-management-science-%E2%80%93-supporting-one-another. For Kenya, we are developing training material for capacity building to local fisheries scientists to enable them to evaluate their data sets, and to use QGIS a cross-platform desktop geographic information system application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data for management of the fisheries in Lake Victoria. Further headway was made toward TOC output, targeted, accessible, robust and innovative model outputs, information and decisions-support tools for real world decision making. For our oil palm small holder farmers we have delivered targeted online training of Malaysian staff in UAV monitoring of plantation health this provides robust and easy to use information to manage these resources. SUNRISE has generated new data on ozone sensitivity in legumes relevant to Sub Saharan Africa and India for important crops such as beans and peas, resulting in the development of a factsheets that has been widely distributed and freely available with our previously reported sheets https://icpvegetation.ceh.ac.uk/publications/factsheet In India, SUNRISE have helped to improve the forecasting of zoonotic diseases, through production and delivery of decision support tools that enable local authorities and policy makers to manage disease spread. This has been in the form of a Phone App which has been designed with DHFWS partners, including the setup of a Shiny server in India and has been completed for piloting in the next KFD (Kyasanur forest disease) season. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the early part of 2020 there have been global travel restrictions. We as a programme identified in early February 2020 that the inability to travel to our partner countries could affect our ability to deliver training, workshops, engagement activities and networking events. We have revised our risk assessments and scenario planning to overcome these restrictions throughout the year as the pandemic continued to affect all aspects of life. We have now come to the opinion that the Covid-19 situation will continue throughout the remainder of the programme and have therefore instructed all work packages to continue on the assumption that there will be no international travel possible between now and the end of the programme in Sept 2021. Planned activities and outputs have been reviewed and adjusted such that as many of the original outcomes can be achieved by us working remotely. This means more of the outputs will be delivered through virtual meetings online training webinars and workshops in collaboration with our in country partners. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | Drought Impact and Vunerability Assessment - Available Approaches and Policy Recommendations (UNCCD/FAO/GWP/WMO policy brief by Caroline King-Okumu, with contributiions from T Warnaars, J Hannaford, R Ragab, G Rees) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | UNCCD/FAO/GWP/WMO policy brief by Caroline King-Okumu (lead author), with contributions from T Warnaars, J Hannaford, R Ragab, G Rees (CEH) inter alia. Published at UNCCD-COP14, New Delhi, India, September 2019. This policy brief's recommendations influenced resolutions passed at the COP (e.g. on establishment of Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought and its ToRs); also is a contribution to the GWP/WMO Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP). |
| URL | https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/relevant-links/2019-09/190828%20UNCCD%20Available%20Englis... |
| Description | Intergovernmental adoption of HydroSOS as a global initiative |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/hydrosos-supports-adaptation-changing-water-cycle |
| Description | An interactive, web-based lake zonation tool for supporting the sustainable development of cage fish farming in Lake Victoria, Kenya |
| Amount | £142,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GCRF-SA-2020-CEH |
| Organisation | Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Kenya |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 08/2021 |
| Description | BBSRC-NERC GCRF Research Translation Call Sustainable Enhancement Of Agriculture And Aquaculture Production: Ecological management to benefit ecosystem services and sustainable production in smallholder oil palm systems in Malaysia and Indonesia |
| Amount | £249,935 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/T012366/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | Ecological management to benefit ecosystem services and sustainable production in smallholder oil palm systems in Malaysia and Indonesia |
| Amount | £252,697 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/T012366/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub |
| Amount | £17,534,969 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S009019/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 11/2023 |
| Description | Hydro Nation PhD Scholarship: The Multiple Benefits of Low-Cost, Decentralized Solutions for Water Treatment and Supply in Rural India https://www.hydronationscholars.scot/ |
| Amount | £148,198 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | HydroSOS Prototype Web Portal |
| Amount | £50,759 (GBP) |
| Organisation | World Meteorological Organization |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 12/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Provision of Good Practice Guidance Reporting on Strategic Objective 3 |
| Amount | € 70,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | RFP CCD 2020-013 |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | ROBIN: Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection. |
| Amount | £101,133 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/W004038/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | Strengthening Thailand's Agricultural drought Resilience |
| Amount | £435,081 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S003223/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_03: The International Research Collaboration Award 2019 - University of Malaysia-Nottingham Student Travel Award |
| Amount | RM15,000 (MYR) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_04: Integration of biochar and diverse bioenergy crops into SE Asian agriculture |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Title | HydroSOS Demonstrator Web Service |
| Description | Website to demonstrate how existing national, regional and global scale hydrological status and outlooks products may be combined to produce a web service. The website includes mapped spatial data, and timeseries graphs for specific locations. Multiple graphical representations are included to demonstrate different levels of information complexity and data transparency. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This web service has been used to consult stakeholders at the HydroSOS 1st technical meeting in Nanjing. Based upon feedback the web service will be amended and expanded upon. The web service facilitates problem solving in critical research questions for the development of any hydrometeorological web service, such as "how can local data be scaled to provide a global perspective?" and "how can forecast skill and uncertainty be represented?". The site will be available for dissemination of the HydroSOS concept, and will be invaluable in the procurement of future funding for the development of an operational service. |
| URL | http://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS |
| Title | HydroSOS Demonstrator Web Service v2 |
| Description | The HydroSOS demonstrator web service underwent significant revisions and improvements. Additional datasets were added, and the website was given a splash screen to enable users to choose their region of interest as well as to choose a "simple view". Graphics were improved. Most importantly, the back end code was improved to speed up the service. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The portal has been shared worldwide with various partners to facilitate discussions on the future of the HydroSOS concept. |
| URL | https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS/ |
| Title | HydroSOS National Assessment Templates |
| Description | Detailed template to assess national capacities around hydrological status and outlooks. To be used by consultants to use when conducting interviews with national meteorological and hydrological management services. The template contains sections on: institutional setup, precipitation, river discharge, groundwater, reservoirs lakes and glaciers, soil moisture, current hydrological status products, meteorological forecasts, flood and early warning systems, hydrological outlooks systems, training and user needs. The template allows quantitative and qualitative assessment of national capacity. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Consultants within the HydroSOS project have used this assessment template to conduct assessments in 9 countries across south Asia and Africa. These assessments provide information on existing products that could be incorporated into a global scale system, as well as nations where data are sufficient to develop new status and outlooks systems. The template will allow further assessments to be conducted globally in a consistent manner. The templates will also provide the foundation for the efficient derivation of future assessments in related subject matters. |
| Title | WP1.5_O_6 GWAVA Model GUI enhanced |
| Description | GWAVA (Global Water AVailability Assessment) is a gridded, semi-distributed hydrological model developed to assess water resources at the regional to global scale. GWAVA estimates spatial water scarcity by comparing runoff with sectoral water demands, such as those from domestic, agricultural, industrial and environmental. Hence, GWAVA not only quantifies the impact of natural features such as lakes and wetlands on the hydrological regime, but also includes anthropogenic influences including reservoirs, river abstractions and inter/intra basin transfers. GWAVA is able to provide users with information to make better informed water resource allocation decisions. The model outputs enable evaluation of the variability and complexity of the water resources situation at the level of the grid cell, both for the current time period and for future scenarios, including that of changes in climate, socio-economic development and water resource management. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | GWAVA was developed as a research tool and, previously, use of GWAVA by hydrologists outside UKCEH was limited by the unfriendly interface. The new GUI (Graphical User Interface), supported by a comprehensive technical manual, facilitates application of the model by hydrologists in other organisations. In turn, this will increase GWAVA's use in assessment and sustainable management of water resources. |
| Title | WP1.5_O_6 GWAVA Model enhanced |
| Description | GWAVA (Global Water AVailability Assessment) is a gridded, semi-distributed hydrological model developed to enable evaluation of the variability and complexity of the water resources situation at the level of the grid cell, both for the current time period and for future scenarios, including that of changes in climate, socio-economic development and water resource management. Different model enhancements developed under several Indian initiatives were consolidated in a new release. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The new release supported by a comprehensive technical manual, facilitates application of the model by hydrologists in other organisations. In turn, this will increase GWAVA's use in assessment and sustainable management of water resources. |
| Title | WP3.1_O2_Multisite provenance-progeny trial of Moringa stenopetala and M. oleifera in Kenya. |
| Description | Experiment was established from seed collections made from 70 wild trees (10 populations, 7 trees each population) of Moringa oleifera and M. stenopetala from across Kenya. The species are important production species with multiple uses: leaves, pods, seeds are all directly used and derived products made from oil and other extracts are of high commercial value. At each of 3 planting sites, 10 individuals from each seed collection, totalling 700 trees per site (10 populations x 7 trees x 10 individuals), were planted out in randomised block design. Each trial site is protected by fencing and secure tenure, ensuring experiments will be in situ for long-term monitoring. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Planting sites were located on lands owned by: 1. Kenya Prison Service (Malindi), 2. Ramogi Primary School, 3. KEFRI Kibwezi . In each case stakeholders were informed about and involved in establishment of the trials, which have a goal of being used to enable education about cultivation, care and use of Moringa, a valuable nutritional supplement. |
| Title | WP3.1_O3_Protocol (photographic & text) and app for recording, automatic collation and archiving of tree leaf and flower phenology data for in the field |
| Description | Detailed photographic and text protocol and app for recording tree leaf and flower phenology in the field using smartphones. The protocol and app were deployed to field sites in Kenya, training was provided and field teams are now actively recording data. The data is automatically uploaded to a cloud-based database and archived weekly. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data will be of specific use in optimising production from national Melia volkensii seed orchards in Kenya - a key native tree species of value in increasing tree cover in the drylands - whilst the protocol is generalisable and will be deployed in experiments on other species. |
| Title | WP4.2_A1 Development of an offline filter analysis system by aerosol mass spectrometry |
| Description | A sampling system has been developed to use Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, normally operated for near real-time online analysis, in the laboratory to analyse aerosol filter samples taken at a range of field sites without the need to ship / deploy the instrument at those locations. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Analysis of aerosol chemical composition is vital to provide a source apportionment of PM2.5. This in return is a prerequisite to identifying the most cost effective emission control measures to reduce PM2.5 concentrations. Aerosol mass spectrometry is a powerful technique in this regard, but instruments are expensive and can only be operated at a few sites around the world. By contrast, it is fairly straight-forward and cost effective to take filter samples. This laboratory analysis method will allow such filters to be analysed centrally, thus providing the potential for source apportionment at a much larger number of sites. |
| Title | WP4.2_O7 Expansion of ammonia measurement expertise at NPL-India |
| Description | We have trained staff at NPL-India in Delhi in conducting ammonia measurements with low cost ALPHA and DELTA sampling technologies and helped them set up a 5-site measurement network across the Indo-Gangetic Plain |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The new network will improve the understanding of levels and controls of ammonia and a range of pollutants. This will form the basis in assessing to what extent agricultural ammonia emission control could contribute to reducing the PM2.5 levels in urban areas. |
| Title | Data from: Predicting disease risk areas through co-production of spatial models: the example of Kyasanur Forest Disease in India's forest landscapes |
| Description | This data package includes spatial environmental and social layers for Shivamogga District, Karnataka, India that were considered as potential predictors of patterns in human cases of Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD). KFD is a fatal tick-borne viral haemorrhagic disease of humans, that is spreading across degraded forest ecosystems in India. The layers encompass a range of fifteen metrics of topography, land use and land use change, livestock and human population density and public health resources for Shivamogga District across 1km and 2km study grids. These spatial proxies for risk factors for KFD that had been jointly identified between cross-sectoral stakeholders and researchers through a co-production approach. Shivamogga District is the District longest affected by KFD in south India. The layers are distributed as 1km and 2km GeoTiffs in Albers equal area conic projection. For KFD, spatial models incorporating these layers identified characteristics of forest-plantation landscapes at higher risk for human KFD. These layers will be useful for modelling spatial patterns in other environmentally sensitive infectious diseases and biodiversity within the district. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.tb2rbnzx5 |
| Title | High Resolution Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer measurements made at the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) site during the DelhiFlux field campaigns |
| Description | Dataset of PM1 aerosol chemical composition measured by aerosol mass spectrometer during three seasons (pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon) in 2018 at the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women site in Old Delhi, including the results of organic factor analysis by positive matrix factorisation |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data have supported a paper (https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10133-2021) which has quantified the contribution of different sources to PM1 in Delhi across different seasons for the first time using high resolution mass spectrometry. In particular, it has been able to separate the contributions from waste combustion and agricultural residue combustion and identified new marker compounds for these combustion products. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5631c55a2caa4cd2bcdf1bf75365bcc8 |
| Title | Modelled annual average percentage yield loss due to ozone damage for four global staple crops, 2010-2012 version 2 |
| Description | Modelled average percentage yield loss due to ground-level ozone pollution (per 1 degree by 1 degree grid cell) are presented for the crops maize (Zea mays), rice (Oryza sativa), soybean (Glycine max) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) for the period 2010-2012. Data are on a global scale, based on the distribution of production for each crop, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) crop production data for the year 2000. Modelled ozone data (2010-2012) needed for yield loss calculations were derived from the EMEP MSC-W (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Meteorological Synthesising Centre-West) chemical transport model (version 4.16). Mapping the global crop yield losses due to ozone highlights the impact of ozone on crops and allows areas at high risk of ozone damage to be identified, which is one of the first steps towards mitigation of the problem. The yield loss calculations were done as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project (NEC06476) and National Capability Project NC-Air quality impacts on food security, ecosystems and health (NEC05574). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2a932995-f040-4724-ad21-3e92ae8a2540 |
| Title | Modelled annual average production loss due to ozone damage for four global staple crops 2010-2012 |
| Description | Modelled annual average production loss (thousand tonnes per 1 degree by 1 degree grid cell) due to ground-level ozone pollution is presented for the crops maize (Zea mays), rice (Oryza sativa), soybean (Glycine max) and wheat (Triticum aestivum), for the period 2010-2012. Data are on a global scale, based on the distribution of production for each crop, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) crop production data for the year 2000. Modelled ozone data (2010-2012) needed for production loss calculations were derived from the EMEP MSC-W (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Meteorological Synthesising Centre-West) chemical transport model (version 4.16). Mapping the global crop production losses due to ozone highlights the impact of ozone on crops and allows areas at high risk of ozone damage to be identified, which is a step towards mitigation of the problem. The production loss calculations were done as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project (NEC06476) and National Capability Project NC-Air quality impacts on food security, ecosystems and health (NEC05574). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0aa7911a-ab5f-4b08-a225-28b1e8344d01 |
| Title | Modelled average percentage yield loss due to ozone damage for four global staple crops (2010-2012) |
| Description | Modelled average percentage yield loss due to ground-level ozone pollution (per 1 degree by 1 degree grid cell) are presented for the crops maize (Zea mays), rice (Oryza sativa), soybean (Glycine max) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) for the period 2010-2012. Data are on a global scale, based on the distribution of production for each crop, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) crop production data for the year 2000. Modelled ozone data (2010-2012) needed for yield loss calculations were derived from the EMEP MSC-W (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Meteorological Synthesising Centre-West) chemical transport model (version 4.16). Mapping the global crop yield losses due to ozone highlights the impact of ozone on crops and allows areas at high risk of ozone damage to be identified, which is one of the first steps towards mitigation of the problem. The yield loss calculations were done as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project. Publication date: 2020-01-24. https://doi.org/10.5285/181a7dd5-0fd4-482a-afce-0fa6875b5fb3 This dataset is a supplement to the following papers: Mills, G., Sharps, K., Simpson, D., Pleijel, H., Frei, M., Burkey, K., Emberson, L., Uddling, J., Broberg, M., Feng, Z., Kobayashi, K. & Agrawal, M. (2018a) Closing the global ozone yield gap: Quantification and co-benefits for multi-stress tolerance. Global Change Biology, 24: 4869 - 4893. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14381 Mills, G., Sharps, K., Simpson, D., Pleijel, H., Broberg, M., Uddling, J., Jaramillo, F., Davies, W.J., Dentener, F., Van den Berg, M., Agrawal, M., Agrawal, S.B., Ainsworth, E.A., Buker, P., Emberson, L., Feng, Z., Harmens, H., Hayes, F., Kobayashi, K., Paoletti, E. & Van Dingenen, R. (2018b). Ozone pollution will compromise efforts to increase global wheat production. Global Change Biology, 24: 3560-3574 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14157 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Enhanced awareness and knowledge of the broader scientific community and other stakeholders (e.g. policy advisers in UNECE Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention) of areas most at risk of ozone impacts on staple food production. Inclusion of data in a chapter of the latest IPCC report, due to be published in 2021. |
| URL | https://icpvegetation.ceh.ac.uk |
| Title | Nitrous oxide and methane fluxes from different riparian restoration treatments in oil palm plantations in Riau, Indonesia 2019-2021 |
| Description | This dataset contains terrestrial fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4) and ecosystem respiration (carbon dioxide (CO2)) calculated from static chamber measurements in riparian buffers of oil palm plantations on mineral soil, in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia. Measurements were made monthly, from January 2019 until September 2021, with a break from April 2019 to October 2019 to allow for felling and replanting, and another break from January 2021 to June 2021 due to Covid-19 restrictions. To help to reduce the environmental impact of oil palm plantations, riparian buffers are now required by regulations in many Southeast Asian countries. The experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from the riparian buffers. Research was funded through NERC grant NE/R000131/1 Sustainable Use of Natural Resources to Improve Human Health and Support Economic Development (SUNRISE) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f587847a-7505-4fd8-99db-b99cc0285f9f |
| Title | Radar derived seasonal surface water maps for three Indian districts (Shivamogga, Sindhudurg, Wayanad), 2017-2018 |
| Description | Data provided are monthly surface water layers extracted from Sentinel1A SAR data for 3 districts in India (Shivamogga, Sindhudurg, Wayanad) for the year 2017 and 2018. Surface water body layers were mapped using an average monthly threshold value extracted from the image backscatter histogram. The average threshold value excluded the monsoon months due to the difference in water and not water area. The threshold value was slightly lesser than the mean threshold value. The end product was validated using field data which resulted in user and producer accuracies. Monthly surface water body layers were not produced for a few months due to the non-availability of Sentinel 1 data. The work was supported by MRC, AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC and NERC [grant number MR/P024335/1] and NERC - SUNRISE project [grant number NE/R000131/1] |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None known as of yet. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3c23fea1-5b27-4b01-b9ef-fc13346cfedc |
| Title | Simulated streamflow, demands and aquifer levels in the Narmada Basin, India, 1970-2099 using the Global Water Availability Assessment Model (GWAVA) |
| Description | The data resource contains daily time-series of simulated streamflow, ground water levels and estimated demands, from humans, livestock and irrigation across the Narmada Basin, India. The data were generated using the Global Water Availability Assessment (GWAVA) Model 5. For the Upper Narmada, a baseline of 1970-2013 is presented along with a future time slice of 2028- 2060. For the whole Narmada, a baseline of 1981-2013 and future period of 2021-2099 is included. The data were produced to help predict how climate and land use change in the region would impact on future water security. The research was funded by NERC research grant NE/R000131/1 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data contribute knowledge to create an enabling environment for future change and achievement of SDG6. These specific data - available to Indian stakeholders via the EIDC - were produced to help predict how climate and land use change in the Narmada river basin could impact on future water security, to inform their water planning, development and management decisions. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9fc7ab01-c622-46f1-a904-0bcd54073da3 |
| Title | Soil Moisture India in situ COSMOS observations and meteorological weather data |
| Description | in situ COSMOS observations and meteorological weather data - large area (200 m radius, up to 50 cm depth) field soil moisture measurements for use in hydro-meteorological modelling, ground-truth for Earth Observation satellite soil moisture data products and agricultural soil moisture status. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Validation and calibration of satellite soil moisture products - enabling more reliable spatially extensive soil mositure information for multiple applications such as agricultural soil moisture status, hydro-meteorological modelling and the understanding of land surface feedbacks which may influence weather systems, such as the onset of the Indian Monsoon. |
| URL | https://cosmos-india.org/ |
| Title | Sweet potato leaf stomatal conductance, leaf chlorophyll content, and tuber yield after exposure to three ozone concentrations in heated glasshouses, UK, 2019-2021 |
| Description | The data comprises physiological and yield measurements from an ozone (O3) exposure experiment, during which three varieties of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) were exposed to Low, Medium and High O3 treatments using heated dome shaped glasshouses (solardomes). The Erato orange variety was exposed to the three treatments from June to October 2019 and the Murasaki variety from June to October 2021. The Beauregard variety was grown on two occasions, with treatments from August to October 2020, and June to October 2021. Measurements were taken of leaf stomatal conductance, leaf chlorophyll content index as well as the harvest (fresh) weight of tubers. All measurements were made by the corresponding author. The experiments were carried out in the UKCEH Bangor Air Pollution Facility. This work was carried out as part of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Long-Term Science Official Development Assistance 'SUNRISE' project, NEC06476. Stomatal conductance was found to be significantly reduced in the elevated ozone treatments. Yield for the Erato orange and Murasaki varieties was reduced by ~40% and ~50% (Medium and High, respectively, vs Low) whereas Beauregard yield (2021) was reduced by 58% in both (the tubers for the Beauregard plants grown in 2020 were not fully formed). Sweet potato is a staple food crop grown in locations deemed to be at risk from O3 pollution (e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa), and this dataset adds much needed stomatal conductance and yield data of sweet potato grown under different O3 exposure conditions. This can be used to improve model predictions of O3 impacts on sweet potato, along with associated risk assessments. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | In progress |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/66e73c38-5b85-44a1-818a-52189bdcffda |
| Title | WP3.1_O1 Phenotypic trait data for Moringa oleifera Lam. from Kenya 2020 |
| Description | This dataset is the first phenological trait data for Moringa oleifera and M. stenopetala trees from provenances collected in Kenya and planted at Ramogi. Trees were measured and scored for survival, height, diameter at breast height, fruiting and damage by three field surveyors. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Identification of genetic variation in potentially useful traits in an important tree crop species. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5285/668f9f95-f367-4600-b93a-ffc24b67ce7f |
| Title | WP3.1_O1_Carbon isotope ratios for leaf tissue from the important native Kenyan tree species, Melia volkensii |
| Description | Carbon isotope ratios for leaf tissue from 600 Melia volkensii trees growing in experimental plantings at two sites in in Kenya. Experiments include 100 clones replicated in randomised block plantings over two sites. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No impact at time of record |
| Title | WP3.1_O1_Leaf and flower phenology in the important native Kenyan tree species, Melia volkensii |
| Description | Weekly observations of 1000 trees in two experimental plantings of Melia volkensii on timing of leafing and flowering, over 10 weeks at time of record. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No impact at time of record |
| Title | WP3.1_O1_Leaf morphology measurements for the important Kenyan native tree species Melia volkensii |
| Description | Leaf morphology measurements for the important Kenyan native tree species Melia volkensii taken from leaves sampled in two experimental planting sites in Kenya. The experiments consist of randomised blocks of replicates of 100 clones, with data collected from 600 trees. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No impact at time of record. |
| Title | WP3.1_O1_Measurements of pod morphology, seed size and weight from multiple wild trees of Moringa oleifera and M. stenopetala from Kenya. |
| Description | Measurements of pod morphology, seed size and weight from 70 wild trees of Moringa oleifera and M. stenopetala from Kenya. Seed collections were made for the purposes of establishing a randomised block provenance-progeny common garden experiment, and data were collected from representative proportions of each pod and seed lot. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No impact at time of record |
| Title | WP3.1_O1_Soil and climatic variables for sites of origin of source trees of important Kenyan native tree species Melia volkensii. |
| Description | Soil and climatic variables for sites of origin of 100 source trees of important Kenyan native tree species Melia volkensii. Variables were extracted from international databases using GPS coordinate data for each source tree and characterise the local environment experienced by the tree. The source trees were those used to produce clones (scions) for establishment of the randomised block trial on two sites that now form the Kenyan national seed orchards for the species. Developed in partnership with KEFRI. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No impact at time of record. |
| Title | Yield Constraint Score (YCS) for the effect of five crop stresses on global production of four staple food crops |
| Description | A Yield Constraint Score (YCS; scale of 1-5) was developed for the effect of five key crop stresses (ozone, pests and diseases, soil nutrients, heat stress and aridity) on the production of the crops maize (Zea mays), rice (Oryza sativa), soybean (Glycine max) and wheat (Triticum aestivum). Data are on a global scale at 1° by 1° resolution, based on the distribution of production for each crop, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) crop production data for the year 2000. To derive the YCS for each crop stress, spatial data on a global scale were gathered. Modelled ozone data (2010-2012) were derived from the EMEP MSC-W (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Meteorological Synthesising Centre-West) chemical transport model (version 4.16). Pests and diseases data (2002-2004) were downloaded from a Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) database providing estimates for pre-harvest crop losses due to weeds, animal, pathogens and viruses, compiled from the literature. Soil nutrient classifications (for 2009, derived using soil attributes from the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD)) were downloaded from the GAEZ data portal. A heat stress index was calculated using daily temperature data (1990-2014) to determine whether the temperature within a 30-day thermal-sensitive period exceeded crop tolerance thresholds. Global Aridity Index data (1950-2000) were downloaded from the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research's Consortium for Spatial Information (CGIAR-CSI). The Yield Constraint Score provides an indication of where each stress is predicted to be affecting crop yield globally and the magnitude of the effect. The YCS data were developed as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project (NEC06476) and the National Capability Project NC-Air quality impacts on food security, ecosystems and health (NEC05574). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | NA |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d347ed22-2b57-4dce-88e3-31a4d00d4358 |
| Title | Yield and physiology data of four African crops exposed to varying ozone concentrations, grown in solardomes, UK, 2017 |
| Description | Data are presented from an ozone exposure experiment performed on five African crops. The crops (Beans, cowpea, finger millet, pearl millet and wheat) were exposed to three different levels of ozone in the UK CEH Bangor solardomes. Wheat was grown at UK ambient temperature, whereas the solardomes were heated for the other crops to better mimic tropical conditions. The experiment ran from May 2017 to September 2017. The crop plants were grown from seed in pots in solardomes. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the impact of ozone exposure on the crop yield and plant health. The dataset comprises of manually collected data on plant physiology, biomass and yield. In addition the automatically logged data of ozone concentration and meteorological variables in the solardomes are presented. Plant physiology data is stomatal conductance of individual leaves, measured on an ad-hoc basis. The dataset includes the associated data measured by the equipment (relative humidity, leaf temperature, photosynthetically active radiation). Soil moisture of the pots was always measured at the same time, and chlorophyll content of the measured leaf was usually, but not always, determined at the same time. Yield was determined for each plant, in addition to yield-related metrics including mass per bean and 100 grain weight. For finger millet and pearl millet yield is expressed as weight of seed heads and number of seed heads, rather than explicitly as seed weight. The ozone and meteorological dataset is complete, but with some gap-filling for short periods when the computer was not logging data. The work was carried out as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project (NE/R000131/1). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | In progress |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f38beff1-993f-4785-8a97-1de21e3e19c0 |
| Title | Yield and physiology data of four African crops exposed to varying ozone concentrations, grown in solardomes, UK, 2018 |
| Description | Data are presented from an ozone exposure experiment performed on four African crops. The crops (Beans, Cowpeas, Amaranth and Sorghum) were exposed to three different levels of ozone and two heat treatments in the UK CEH Bangor solardomes. The experiment ran from May 2018 to September 2018. The crop plants were grown from seed, in pots in solardomes. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the impact of ozone exposure on the crop yield and plant health. The dataset comprises of manually collected data on plant physiology, biomass and yield. In addition the automatically logged data of ozone concentration and meteorological variables in the solardomes are presented. Plant physiology data is stomatal conductance of individual leaves, measured on an ad-hoc basis. The dataset includes the associated data measured by the equipment (relative humidity, leaf temperature, photosynthetically active radiation - a small number of photosynthetically active radiation measurements are missing due to faulty readings). Soil moisture of the pots was always measured at the same time, and chlorophyll content of the measured leaf was usually, but not always, determined at the same time. Yield of beans and cowpeas was determined for each plant. For Amaranth, only the seed head weight was determined. Sorghum did not reach yield, therefore, total biomass at harvest is given as an alternative. Total biomass was not determined for those plants of other crop types that did reach yield. The ozone and meteorological dataset is complete, but with some gap-filling for short periods when the computer was not logging data The work was carried out as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project (NE/R000131/1). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | In progress |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f7da626c-f39c-474f-b2e7-8638ab26d166 |
| Title | Yield and physiology data of two African crops exposed to varying ozone concentrations, grown in solardomes, UK, 2019 |
| Description | Data are presented from an ozone exposure experiment performed on two African crops. The crops (beans and sweet potato) were exposed to three different levels of ozone in the heated UK CEH Bangor solardomes. The experiment ran from June 2019 to October 2019. The crop plants were grown from seed (beans) or plug plants (sweet potato), in pots in solardomes. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the impact of ozone exposure on the crop yield and plant health. The dataset comprises of manually collected data on plant physiology, biomass and yield. In addition the automatically logged data of ozone concentration and meteorological variables in the solardomes are presented. Plant physiology data is stomatal conductance of individual leaves, measured on an ad-hoc basis. The dataset includes the associated data measured by the equipment (relative humidity, leaf temperature, photosynthetically active radiation). Soil moisture of the pots was always measured at the same time, and chlorophyll content of the measured leaf was usually, but not always, determined at the same time. Yield of beans and sweet potato was determined for each plant. The ozone and meteorological dataset is complete, but with some gap-filling for short periods when the computer was not logging data The work was carried out as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project (NEC06476). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | in progress |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/48456cbf-4873-4a2b-9625-ad22a207c462 |
| Description | Argentina National Institute of Water (INA) |
| Organisation | Government of Argentina |
| Department | National Institute of Water |
| Country | Argentina |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH worked with members of INA to improve their hydrological data API to allow ingestion of data into the HydroSOS demonstrator website. |
| Collaborator Contribution | INA worked with UKCEH to improve their hydrological data API to allow ingestion of data into the HydroSOS demonstrator website. |
| Impact | https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Bureau of Meteorology, Australia |
| Organisation | Australian Government |
| Department | Burea of Meteorology (BOM) |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | BoM have worked collaboratively with UKCEH on the HydroSOS project, focussing on Hydrological Forecasting products. |
| Collaborator Contribution | BoM members are leading the HydroSOS Work Package 2c on Hydrological Forecasting. They are creating best practice guides for application in the future HydroSOS system. BoM have also provided insights and feedback on the HydroSOS demonstrator portal. |
| Impact | In progress. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CABI Plantwise programme |
| Organisation | Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International |
| Department | CABI Kenya |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Factsheets, photos and training on ozone-induced leaf damage in crops |
| Collaborator Contribution | Plantwise Factsheet app, Plantwise Knowledge Bank, Plantwise Diagnostic Services, training of plant health doctors, organising plant health clinics |
| Impact | Factsheets on ozone-induced leaf damage in crops included in Plantwise app and knowledge base. Knowledge of plant health doctors in recognising ozone-induced leaf damage on crops. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CEH-Brawijaya University Memorandum of Understanding |
| Organisation | University of Brawijaya |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As part of SUNRISE Foundation CEH held a stakeholder focus workshop on soil health in SE Asian Agriculture. Following, we co-designed a research plan with Brawijaya for improving coffee-pine agroforestry and subsequently signed an MOU (2018) at CEH with an Indonesian delegation in Nov 2018. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Brawijaya has provided financial support to academics to collaborate with us and have designed 30+ student projects to support the research effort. They have established a coffee-pine agroforestry field platform to improve socio-economic and environmental well being of local farmers. In 2019 Brawijaya have also supported social and economic scientist to provide context to the agronomic outcomes from the platform. |
| Impact | Conference proceedings; publications (SE Asian Journals); student projects; training courses; farmer community engagement; policy engagement. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Dharwad Agricultural University Soil Moisture India COSMOS Station Host |
| Organisation | University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Training and capacity building in the application and calibration of COSMOS soil moisture observing technology. Provision of high-value environmental sensor systems and installation costs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Logistical support, site access on University campus, personnel to operate & maintain field equipment. Expert advice on the agricultural application of soil moisture information Stakeholder engagement. |
| Impact | new datasets and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | ICRISAT, Nairobi, Kenya |
| Organisation | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics |
| Department | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Kenya |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Training, testing crop seeds for ozone sensitivity, providing passive ozone samplers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing seeds for ozone exposure, monitoring ozone concentrations at selected crop field sites, knowledge on crop growing seasons and areas in Kenya and Uganda |
| Impact | Identification of ozone-sensitive crop species and varieties: DOI: 10.111/jac.12376, ozone concentration data at selected crop field sites |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | IISc Bangalore Soil Moisture India COSMOS Station Host |
| Organisation | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Training and capacity buiding in the application and calibration of COSMOS soil moisture observing technology. Provision of high-value environmental sensor systems and installation costs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Logistical support, site access negotiations with farmers, personnel to operate & maintain field equipment. Scientific data analysis and outputs. Stakeholder engagement. |
| Impact | Conference presentations and peer reviewed papers - see other sections here. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | IIT Kanpur COSMOS Station Host |
| Organisation | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Training and capacity building in the application and calibration of COSMOS soil moisture observing technology. Provision of high-value environmental sensor systems and installation costs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Logistical support, site access negotiations with IIT Kanpur, personnel to operate & maintain field equipment. Scientific data analysis and outputs. IIT Kanpur Fire Service has twice saved the station from total loss due to wildfire. |
| Impact | papers & new observational datasets |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | IITM Pune Soil Moisture India COSMOS Station Host |
| Organisation | Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Training and capacity building in the application and calibration of COSMOS soil moisture observing technology. Provision of high-value environmental sensor systems and installation costs. Advice for and mentoring of two PhD students |
| Collaborator Contribution | Logistical support, site access, personnel to operate & maintain field equipment. Scientific data analysis and outputs. Stakeholder engagement. |
| Impact | New observational datasets and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | NIH Roorkee & Bhopal COSMOS Station Hosts |
| Organisation | National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Training and capacity building in the application and calibration of COSMOS soil moisture observing technology. Provision of high-value environmental sensor systems and installation costs. Training in operation and development of the Soil Moisture India data system |
| Collaborator Contribution | Logistical support, site access negotiations with farmers, personnel to operate & maintain field equipment. Scientific data analysis and outputs. Stakeholder engagement. Ongoing operation of the NIH Soil Moisture India data server |
| Impact | Conference presetations, new datasets and website service. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology, Bhutan |
| Organisation | National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology |
| Country | Bhutan |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH have worked with members of NCHM Bhutan to incorporate hydrological status information for several catchments into the HydroSOS demonstrator portal |
| Collaborator Contribution | NCHM have worked with UKCEH contributing thoughts to HydroSOS workshops. They have provided recent, and historic gauged data for several catchments to aid with the development of the HydroSOS portal |
| Impact | https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS/ |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) |
| Organisation | National Centre for Atmospheric Research |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH and NCAR have worked together to produce the HydroSOS demonstrator. Extensive discussions have been held on protocols and procedures as well as technical and aesthetic design. This collaboration resulted in a separate funding award to develop the prototype portal. www.eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS/ |
| Collaborator Contribution | NCAR have extensive experience in global hydrological forecasting. NCAR have worked to download and reprocess SMHI forecast outputs for global presentation on the demonstrator. NCAR and UKCEH worked collaboratively on the demonstrator development report that has been published on the WMO website. |
| Impact | Demonstrator web portal. Demonstrator development report. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | South Eastern Kenya University (SEKU) Flux Tower Host |
| Organisation | South Eastern Kenya University |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Training and capacity building of SEKU staff and students in the operation of sophisticated hydro-meteorological observations using eddy covariance. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of land within their semi-secure university campus for the eddy covariance flux tower. Support for contractor engagement to install a secure fenced compound and instrument mast, with solar power and battery power supply. Ongoing local support to maintain and operate the flux tower. Engagement with their outreach programme e.g. planning to use their new local community radio license to broadcast soil moisture and other weather & climate information to improve smallholder farm management. |
| Impact | New observational data will be produced for local societal benefit and diagnosis and development of land surface climate models. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute |
| Organisation | Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | SMHI, NCAR and UKCEH have worked collaboratively to develop global forecasting products suitable for use by the HydroSOS project and demonstrator portal. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SMHI have provided forecast data to UKCEH that has been reprocessed in collaboration with NCAR. SMHI have provided feedback on the HydroSOS demonstrator Portal |
| Impact | https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS/ |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), Uyole Center, Mbeya |
| Organisation | Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute |
| Department | Uyole Center |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Training, provision of passive ozone samplers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monitoring of ozone concentrations at selected crop field sites in Tanzania, data on crop growing seasons and crop distribution |
| Impact | Ozone concentration data at crop field sites in Tanzania |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | United States Geological Survey |
| Organisation | US Geological Survey |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH and USGS have worked collaboratively on the HydroSOS project, focussing on hydrological status products. |
| Collaborator Contribution | USGS members lead the HydroSOS work package 2b progressing best practice guides for hydrological status products. USGS have also liaised with UKCEH members to integrate the WaterWatch product into the HydroSOS Demonstrator Portal. |
| Impact | https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS/. HydroSOS Hydrological Status Minimum Viable Products Report HydroSOS Hydrological Status Case Studies Report |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | WMO Commission for Hydrology |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CEH provide UK input and representation to the WMO Commission for Hydrology (CHy). Supporting improvements in the efficacy of these UN programmes through involvement in their Governance and play a leading role in the development of new high impact WMO global initiatives (such as the Global Hydrometry Support Facility and Hydrological Status and Outlook System). Specific activities include acting as elected members of the CHy Advisory Working Group, supporting UK Permanent Representative for WMO (Met Office) and playing a leading role in regional WMO within Europe. Leading UK involvement in the management and delivery of these high level UN programmes is helping to improve their functioning and delivery, raising the impact of scientific contributions by both others in the UK and researchers in other countries. In addition, CEH's leadership in these areas increases the impact of UK financial contributions to WMO, providing better value for tax payers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | WMO has 187 Member States and 6 Member Territories. Within these States and Territories the major partners in, and direct beneficiaries of, WMO activities are the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services. WMO's water activities vary but are focused around improving the capacity of its Members in relation to the delivery of hydrological services. Examples include, the development of new flood forecasting capabilities in the Himalayan region and improvement in hydrological data sharing in transboundary basins. The ODA relevant benefits of building long-term capacity in hydrological services were further highlighted by the 2018 World Bank Assessment of the State of Hydrological Services in Developing Countries, which estimated benefit-cost ratios in four case study countries (Cameron 12-43, Madagascar 2.5-11, Senegal 6-11 and Tanzania 7.5-28). |
| Impact | Improved projects, guidelines, training and multi-lateral support for operational agencies delivering hydrological services around the world. |
| Description | WMO Commission for Hydrology |
| Organisation | World Meteorological Organization |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CEH provide UK input and representation to the WMO Commission for Hydrology (CHy). Supporting improvements in the efficacy of these UN programmes through involvement in their Governance and play a leading role in the development of new high impact WMO global initiatives (such as the Global Hydrometry Support Facility and Hydrological Status and Outlook System). Specific activities include acting as elected members of the CHy Advisory Working Group, supporting UK Permanent Representative for WMO (Met Office) and playing a leading role in regional WMO within Europe. Leading UK involvement in the management and delivery of these high level UN programmes is helping to improve their functioning and delivery, raising the impact of scientific contributions by both others in the UK and researchers in other countries. In addition, CEH's leadership in these areas increases the impact of UK financial contributions to WMO, providing better value for tax payers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | WMO has 187 Member States and 6 Member Territories. Within these States and Territories the major partners in, and direct beneficiaries of, WMO activities are the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services. WMO's water activities vary but are focused around improving the capacity of its Members in relation to the delivery of hydrological services. Examples include, the development of new flood forecasting capabilities in the Himalayan region and improvement in hydrological data sharing in transboundary basins. The ODA relevant benefits of building long-term capacity in hydrological services were further highlighted by the 2018 World Bank Assessment of the State of Hydrological Services in Developing Countries, which estimated benefit-cost ratios in four case study countries (Cameron 12-43, Madagascar 2.5-11, Senegal 6-11 and Tanzania 7.5-28). |
| Impact | Improved projects, guidelines, training and multi-lateral support for operational agencies delivering hydrological services around the world. |
| Description | WMO Hydrology |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH provide UK input and representation to the WMO in relation to the Organization's hydrological activities. Supporting improvements in the efficacy of these UN programmes through involvement in their Governance and play a leading role in the development of new high impact WMO global initiatives (such as the Global Hydrometry Support Facility and Global Hydrological Status and Outlook System). Specific activities include acting as members of the Hydrological Coordination Panel, supporting UK Permanent Representative for WMO (UK Met Office) and playing a leading role in regional WMO within Europe. Leading UK involvement in the management and delivery of these high level UN programmes is helping to improve their functioning and delivery, raising the impact of scientific contributions by both others in the UK and researchers in other countries. In addition, UKCEH's leadership in these areas increases the impact of UK financial contributions to WMO, providing better value for tax payers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Met Office leads the UK's engagement with the WMO, providing global leadership in key areas. |
| Impact | Improved projects, guidelines, training and multi-lateral support for operational agencies delivering hydrological services around the world. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | WMO Hydrology |
| Organisation | World Meteorological Organization |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH provide UK input and representation to the WMO in relation to the Organization's hydrological activities. Supporting improvements in the efficacy of these UN programmes through involvement in their Governance and play a leading role in the development of new high impact WMO global initiatives (such as the Global Hydrometry Support Facility and Global Hydrological Status and Outlook System). Specific activities include acting as members of the Hydrological Coordination Panel, supporting UK Permanent Representative for WMO (UK Met Office) and playing a leading role in regional WMO within Europe. Leading UK involvement in the management and delivery of these high level UN programmes is helping to improve their functioning and delivery, raising the impact of scientific contributions by both others in the UK and researchers in other countries. In addition, UKCEH's leadership in these areas increases the impact of UK financial contributions to WMO, providing better value for tax payers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Met Office leads the UK's engagement with the WMO, providing global leadership in key areas. |
| Impact | Improved projects, guidelines, training and multi-lateral support for operational agencies delivering hydrological services around the world. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_01&02: Wild Asia - partnership to improve smallholder oil palm plantation health in Malaysia |
| Organisation | Wild Asia |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have worked with Wild Asia to develop an oil palm plantation health monitoring scheme involving analysis of soil and plant nutrients and drone surveys of plantations in Perak, Malaysia. As part of this we have surveyed 25 plantations including delivery of training for Wild Asia to continue the work. They have subsequently extended the work to two regions of Malaysia (Sabah and Johor). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Wild Asia have provided on the ground support for our partnership including hosting us during our visits. They have connected us with local communities and have provided important information regarding crop yield data required for our analyses. |
| Impact | Datasets on oil palm plantation health in 3 regions of Malaysia covering ca 40 farms. New experiments deployed to improve oil palm health. Webinars to highlight challenges and opportunities for smallholder oil palm plantation monitoring. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_03 Universities of Nottingham (Malaysia) and Herriot-Watt (Malaysia) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Department | University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked with the University of Nottingham Malaysia and partners to assess lower cost biofertiliser capacity to supress oil palm Ganoderma disease in Malaysia. We also worked with them to understand the capacity oil palm soils and leaves to biologically consume isoprene which plays a complex role in atmospheric chemistry and hence, climate. We hosted a Malaysian researcher in the UK to learn about our techniques and approaches for understanding soil health. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners provided access to local university laboratories and collaborated with us on their experiments to suppress Ganoderma disease in oil palm plantations. They organised logistics for sample processing and connected us with local partners producing bio-fertilisers. |
| Impact | Ornella Carrión, Lisa Gibson, Dafydd M. O. Elias, Niall P. McNamara, Theo A. van Alen, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Christina Vimala Supramaniam, Terry J. McGenity & J. Colin Murrell "Diversity of isoprene-degrading bacteria in phyllosphere and soil communities from a high isoprene-emitting environment: a Malaysian oil palm plantation" Microbiome volume 8, Article number: 81 (2020) |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_04 Crops for the Future sustainable agriculture collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Department | Crops For the Future Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have worked with Crops for the Future on several aspects. 1) Through workshops and engagement we joined the CFF "Global Action Plan for Agricultural Diversification (GAPAD)" to address the challenges identified in Sustainable Development Agenda through the diversification of agricultural species and systems. 2) We jointly operated workshops with CFF and the University to host a workshop on Challenges and Oppertunities for Soil Health in Malaysian and Indonesian oil palm plantations. 3) We jointly delivered experiments to understand how biochar can improve crop productivity in degraded tropical soils. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Crops for the Future have provided critical support in connecting SUNRISE researchers with key policy, academic and industry organisations with interests in oil palm and wider SE Asian agricultural sustainability. The have provided field experimental facilities to test biochar in crop trials. They have hosted workshops for UKCEH. |
| Impact | Paper: Dafydd M.O.Elias, Gin Teng Ooi, Mohamma, Fadhil Ahmad Razi, Samuel Robinson, Jeanette Whitaker, Niall P.McNamara. Effects of Leucaena biochar addition on crop productivity in degraded tropical soils.Biomass and Bioenergy. Volume 142, November 2020, 105710 UKCEH-CFF Funded Project: Integration of biochar and diverse bioenergy crops into SE Asian agriculture. 2018. EPSRC Bioenergy Hub. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | WP3.1_O2_CEH - Kenya Forestry Research Institute Memorandum of Understanding |
| Organisation | Kenya Forestry Research Institute |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Initiated the partnership, negotiated and drafted the MoU and organised formal signing. Scientifically, the team brings expertise in plant population and quantitative genetics, and evolutionary biology. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Jointly initiated the partnership, negotiated and drafted the MoU. Scientifically, the partner brings expertise in forestry species and practice, field knowledge, microbiology. The partner is also, through its role as the designated national lead on forest and tree research and policy, the primary link from research to policy in Kenya. |
| Impact | 1. Joint publications 2. Policy changes Collaboration is multidisciplinary: plant population genetics, plant physiology, forestry, agroforestry, socieconomics, microbiology |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | WP3.1_O2_CEH - South East Kenya University Memorandum of Understanding |
| Organisation | South Eastern Kenya University |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Initiated, negotiated and drafted the MoU and organised formal signing. Scientifically, the partnership focussed on capacity building in understanding and using forest genetic resources, with expertise provided by CEH. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Initiated, negotiated and drafted the MoU and organised formal signing. Scientifically, the partnership focussed on capacity building in understanding and using forest genetic resources, with expertise provided by CEH. |
| Impact | Dataset on leaf, flower & fruit phenology in Melia volkensii. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | WP3.1_O3_CEH - Tanzania Forestry Research Institute Memorandum of Understanding |
| Organisation | Tanzania Forestry Research Institute |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Initiated, negotiated and drafted the MoU and organised formal signing. Scientifically, the partnership focussed on capacity building in understanding and using forest genetic resources, with expertise provided by CEH. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Initiated, negotiated and drafted the MoU and organised formal signing. The partner provided local expertise on native tree species, connections to relevant additional local partners, and knowledge of national policy. |
| Impact | Collaboration is multidisciplinary: plant population genetics, plant physiology, forestry and agroforestry, policy. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Title | GWAVA - Narmada |
| Description | Macro-scale hydrological model capable of assessing effects of artificial influences (abstractions, discharges and impoundments) on water availability in large river basins. This version was developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, for application in the Upper Narmada Basin. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Enables various water supply availability and demand scenarios to be played out, to enable improved water management by basin authorities. |
| Title | India drought declaration Explorer |
| Description | Interactive applications (apps) are powerful vehicles for the assessment of drought management and mitigation approaches. They have the flexibility to cater for the full range of combinations of drought indicators that need to be assessed; they can cope with the assimilation of a range of relevant datasets for validation; and they provide an intuitive interface for users to swiftly and clearly ask their own questions and interpret the output. The 'Manual for Drought Management: Drought Declarations Explorer' , an interactive app, was developed to validate the droughts identified and characterised using the procedure set out in the 'Manual for Drought Management 2016', and to help better understand how subjective decisions in the process can lead to sensitivities in drought declarations. The demonstrator App can reconstruct drought declarations over a period of time where data are available, following the processes described in the Manual, as well as advice on best practice from implementers of the Manual. For the case study, the reconstructions were made for the period between 2006 and 2015 for 34 districts in Maharashtra State, for which data were available. Within the App, users select which impact indicator categories and impact indicators to use in the reconstruction of drought events,which are then visualised as maps or time series for each district. This enables users to explore the impacts of changing drought indices on a spatial and temporal scale, respectively. The App could be extended nationally, dependent on data availability. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Demonstration of potential for using interactive tools to aid drought declarations in India, specifically the implementation of the Manual for Drought Management. |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-11/sustainable-water-guide-chap4-drought-management.p... |
| Description | 02/03/2023 Talk at workshop with Wild Asia: UKCEH/ Cardiff & DGFC /Wild Asia at KOPEL, Batu Puteh, Kinabatangan, Sabah Malaysia "Monitoring of OP management system effects" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | 02/03/2023 Talk at workshop with Wild Asia (Malaysian NGO): UKCEH/ University of Cardiff & DGFC (Danau Girang Wildlife Centre) /Wild Asia at KOPEL, Batu Puteh, Kinabatangan, Sabah Malaysia "Monitoring of OP management system effects" About 7 Malaysian farmers present, plus 5 Malaysian staff (Wild Asia) and 2 Malaysian staff from DGFC Outcomes: Farmers reported considering bio farming for their oil palm plantations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Bioenergy Presentation at the University of Brawijaya, Indoensia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A seminar series from CEH and an Indonesian Government Regional Planning Authority in Java. The purpose was to exchange knowledge and ideas around sustainable agriculture in SE Asia. The audience comprised University Staff, postgrad students and some members of government. An active collaboration is now on-going with the University of Brawijaya through NERC ODA Award NE/R000131/1. Part of the CEH lecture is now used by university lecturers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Birmingham Institute for Global Innovation Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation to the University of Birmingham's Institute for Global Innovation on the topic of "Innovation in Operational Water Monitoring". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/global-goals/igi/index.aspx |
| Description | Boundary Spanning: Advances in Socio-Environmental Systems Research International Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Nathan Rickards was sponsored by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Resources for the Future (RFF), and University of Maryland (UMD), to attend and present a poster on his Narmada river basin modelling work at the International Symposium on on Boundary Spanning: Advances in Socio-Environmental Systems Research. The conference brought together 250 leaders, emerging scholars, and other key individuals interested in innovating research and processes for solving socio-environmental problems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | COP26 HydroSOS Side Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Side event on the WMO Global Hydrological Status and Outlook System (HydroSOS) initiative as part of the Water Pavilion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK on 10 November 2021. The event entitled, "Living with climate change; how systemizing predictions of water conditions helps us adapt to a changing climate" included an introductory presentation (by Harry Dixon, UKCEH) and panel session with experts from around the world (Chaired by Alan Jenkins, UKCEH). Attendance was both in person in Glasgow and virtually via a web-cast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.water-climate-coalition.org/cop26event/living-with-climate-change-how-systemizing-predic... |
| Description | COP26 HydroSOS Side Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Side event on the WMO Global Hydrological Status and Outlook System (HydroSOS) initiative as part of the Science Pavilion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK on 3rd November 2021. The event entitled, "Living with climate change; how systemizing predictions of water conditions helps us adapt to a changing climate" included an introductory presentation (by Harry Dixon, UKCEH) and panel session with experts from around the world (Chaired by Alan Jenkins, UKCEH). Attendance was both in person in Glasgow and virtually via a web-cast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.water-climate-coalition.org/cop26event/living-with-climate-change-how-systemizing-predic... |
| Description | Co-convenor at UNCCD-COP14 of side event on "Hydro-climate Services to Improve Decision-making on Drought", New Delhi, India, 12 September, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Side event CEH staff (G Rees and C King-Okumu) co-convened with the Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) of the Global Water Partnership & WMO, and the Asian Disaster Prevention Centre (ADPC) at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14). The session aimed to demonstrate how drought managers from different parts of the world are finding new ways to capture the hydrological and ecological processes that buffer human vulnerability to drought. The discussion identified practical options that are available for adoption by national and regional decision-makers and international financing agencies. Presentations and subsequent discussions possibly influenced subsequent plenary discussions at the COP, e.g. on Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Co-convenor at UNCCD-COP14 side event on "Integrated Drought Risk Managment (IDRM) for enhancing agricultural resilience to drought", New Delhi, India, 3 September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Side event CEH staff (G Rees and C King-Okumu) co-convened with the International Water Management Insitute, CGIAR, and the UNCCD Secretariat at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14). The session explored proactive approaches for enhancing drought resilience in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, including drought monitoring and early warning systems, vulnerability and risk assessment and drought mitigation measures, including local contingency plans that integrate agricultural water management solutions with the needs of other sectors. Discussion possibly influence subsequent plenary discussions at the COP, e.g. on Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference presentation: Asaaga, F.A., Oommen, M.A., Chandarana, R., Young, J.C., Purse, B.V. Policy drivers of zoonotic disease vulnerability and interventions. European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Liverpool, September 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Festus Asaaga presented a poster on Policy drivers of zoonotic disease vulnerability and interventions at the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Liverpool, September 2019. Dr Asaaga made new contacts and engaged in discussion with researchers and practitioners in other LMICs involved in research and operationalisation of OneHealth policy. This discussion is informing the international peer-reviewed paper that Festus is writing which outlines the barriers and opportunities to strengthening OneHealth policy and research for zoonotic disease in India. It also informs the approaches to OneHealth research and co-production of decision-support tools that we are taking within SUNRISE and aligned project partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cosmic Rays and Soil - Science Museum Lates - Science of UNESCO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This public facing event allowed CEH to showcase the importance of soil moisture and how this relates to issues such as food sustainability and security, floods and droughts through an interactive display of its new COSMOS soil moisture monitoring networks in the UK and overseas. The display was part of one of the Science Museum's "Lates" events hosted by the Museum in collaboration with the UK National Commission for UNESCO. The event allowed visitor to explore the work of UNESCO, including that conducted under programmes such as the International Hydrological Programme for which CEH coordinates UK input. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/lates |
| Description | Engagement meeting with Chinese urban air quality Policy Makers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a public engagement event organised within the framework of the final meeting of the APHH-Beijing programme, in which key finding of APHH-Beijing and SUNRISE were presented to key policy makers. Attendees included the Director of the Air Pollution Control Division of the Chinese Ministry of Eco and Environment, representatives of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning and Environmental Sciences, as well as three delegates from the Beijing Eco and Environment Agency (incl. Chief Engineering Officer and Director of Science and International Cooperation). The lively discussion sparked by the presentations demonstrated the high relevance of our research on air pollution sources and processes in Beijing, including the question of what the contribution of ammonia is to Beijing's air quality and to what extent this originates from agricultural and inner urban activity. It was agreed to follow up thos meeting with a written science brief to policy makers and with additional individual meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Fifth Asian Air Pollution Workshop and stakeholder event on 'Ozone pollution: A hidden threat to crop production'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | About 80 scientists (including post-graduate students) attended the 5th AAPW in Varanasi, India (5 - 7 Nov 2019). Group discussions included 'Trends, sources and transport of air pollutants', 'Development of air pollution tolerance in vegetation', 'Role of environmental factors in air pollution sensitivity of different vegetation types', 'Ozone thresholds for vegetation in Asia'. On 8 Nov 2019, approximately 110 people attended the stakeholder event on 'Ozone pollution: A hidden threat to crop production'. Participants included farmers, village elders, agricultural extension workers, crop scientists and agronomists. The event raised awareness and improved knowledge on the adverse impacts of ozone pollution on crops and their yield. Presentation sparked lively discussions in the local language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://icpvegetation.ceh.ac.uk/5th-asian-air-pollution-workshop-india |
| Description | Hosting IWHR at a European Drought Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosting visitor from IWHR at the EURO FRIEND Drought network biannual workshop, to showcase state-of-the-art European drought research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Hosting visit of two delegates of the IGDTUW, Delhi, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We have hosted Prof Ranu Gadi from the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women and her PhD student Shivani Shivani for a day at CEH Edinburgh. In addition to discussing preliminary results of our respective work in Delhi, we developped plans for future collaborations. We gave both visitors a tour of our facilicties and field sites and Prof Gadi gave a site-wide presentation on her work at CEH Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IUKWC meeting on forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in a workshop to exchange UK/India knowledge and experiences on hydrlogical forecasting. Jamie Hannaford presented UK Hydrological Outlook experiences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Expert Contribution to Special Session on India's National Mission for the Clean Ganga, at Roorkee Water Conclave, 28 February, 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | One of three invited talks from international experts to provide feedback to NMCG Director General and Technical Director on the progress of the initiative. Highlighted areas where international support, research & development may help delivery. DG & TD invited HGR to submit ideas & observations in writing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://nmcg.nic.in/ |
| Description | Invited Lecture and workshop at IIT Gandinighar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Visit to engage potential partners for India droughts work. Presentation by Jamie Hannaford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Lecture and workshops at IIT Roorkee and National Institute of Hydrology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to engage potential partners for India droughts work. Presentation by Jamie Hannaford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited panel member for Extinction Rebellion "Ask a Scientist Live" Webinar event: "Does our destruction of the natural world increase the spread of disease?" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion of drivers of increasing emergence of zoonotic diseases and need for inter-disciplinary approaches and meaningful community engagement through projects like MonkeyFeverRisk. This resulted in a linked article in The Ecologist Magazine highlighting the impacts of global food chains on zoonotic disease emergence https://theecologist.org/2020/may/19/ask-scientist |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-T0_ynQ8o |
| Description | Invited participation at International Workshop (UKRI-MRC-IAP-Academy of Medical Sciences) on Multidisciplinary research in epidemic preparedness and response |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Beth Purse was able to share learning about barriers and opportunities for multi-disciplinary research into epidemic zoonotic diseases in Lower Middle Income Countries into discussions with other experts, particularly those in the Asia region. These discussions will lead to a report produced by the workshop funding bodies that will outline the research gaps and priorities. The insights from CEH were derived from the NERC SUNRISE review and informant interviews of policy drivers of zoonotic diseases in India (conducted with ATREE and other Indian partners) as well as first-hand experience of leading One-Health cross-sectoral partnerships to understand contextual risk factors and develop decision support tools for zoonotic diseases in India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Joint UK-India workshop on flood and drought risk estimation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop at IIT Bombay to discuss drought monitoring and forecasting research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote lecture at UK-China International Particle Technology Forum VIII: The use of urban micrometeorological flux measurements for the quantification of local emissions and the study of aerosol dynamics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture at UK-China International Particle Technology Forum VIII (vitual meeting) attended by 20+ participants mainly from China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote presentation at Roorkee Water Conclave, 27 February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk to an audience of c.400 attending the Roorkee Water Conclave (to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of IIT-Roorkee). The talk described 25 years' collaboration between UKCEH & IIT-Roorkee (including activities funded by DFID,NC-ODA (SUNRISE), Newton-Bhabha (UPSCAPE), and GCRF) and considered prospects for future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iitr.ac.in/rwc2020/ |
| Description | Lecture "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning" to University of Brawijaya, Indonesia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided introduction to UK agricultural systems and research conducted by CEH linking biodiversity to improved agricultural sustainability Lecture slides and supporting publications given to UB colleagues for use in future teaching. Lecture given by Dr R Rowe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lecture "Sustainable Agriculture The UK Experience" to University of Brawijaya, Indonesia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided introduction to UK agricultural systems and research conducted by CEH to support the development on new sustainable agricultural practices. Lecture slides and supporting publications given to UB colleagues for use in future teaching. Lecture given by Dr R Rowe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MOXXI and WMO HydroHub 2019 International Conference "Innovation in Hydrometry: Overcoming Barriers to Operationalization" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As Chair of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Hydrometry Support Facility (HydroHub) Innovation Committee, Harry Dixon, helped to convene a international conference on barrier to innovation in operational hydrometry. The International Association of Hydrological Sciences' MOXXI working group and the WMO HydroHub jointly organized the three day conference which brought together researchers, users, and instrumentation developers to discuss how to overcome barriers to the advancement of hydrological observations and to improve operational uptake of innovative hydrometry technologies and monitoring approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://hydrohub.wmo.int |
| Description | Meeting with WASCAL - West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use - Executive Director and Director of Research, 12 June 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of SUNRISE activity in Africa, with view to fostering collaboration with WASCAL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meetings with MERI and IMD Pune |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meetings to engage stakeholders to form working relationships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Member of UK delegation at UNCCD COP14, New Delhi, India, 2-13 September, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) as an official member of the UK national delegation, headed by Julian Wright (DFID). Provided technical insight on drought, drought management and desertification to various policy-relevant discussions. Invited to join Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought, contribute to the development of the Drought Toolbox and definition of suitable drought indicators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Module A4 Introduction to Droughts Online Training Course [online]. WMO Hydrology Training Programme for the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Myanmar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKCEH delivered an online Training course for the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Myanmar. The 'Drought' module of this was two weeks long, in May 2021 and involved modules on drought characterisation, drought propagartion, hydroclimtology, drought trends, monitoring and forecating and climate change. The material presented at this training course included many components that relied on the outcomes from several recent NERC-funded projects on drought held by our group at UKCEH. Large parts of the content were based on research outputs, new knowledge and codes generated within the UK DriVER and Historic Droughts projects. Furthermore, the project also benefited from understanding of droughts in Asia, and through work on drought indicators and drought impacts, undertaken through the STAR project (Thailand) and UKCEH's SUNRISE programme that advanced drought indicator and risk assessment work in India and China. The course was very successful, with excellent feedback from attendees suggesting a significant improvement in skills and understanding around drought issues and their management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Nikos Mastrantonas participation in India-UK Water Centre Grassroots Field Exposure Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The GFES enabled an enhanced understanding of water management in central India, as well as networking opportunities with practitioners and academics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nikos Mastrantonas visit to IIT Gandhinagar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visiting collaborators at IIT Gandhinagar ensured that the best available datasets could be sourced for collaborative research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | One Health, data and models for zoonotic disease management interactive workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Delivering interactive hands-on workshops to allow attendees to gain practical experience of modelling geographical and temporal data for zoonotic diseases to answer different questions relevant to management. Sharing experiences and developing ideas for how models and data for zoonotic diseases could better inform disease management and policy https://ukceh.learnworlds.com/author/course?courseid=zoonotic-diseases. The participants have been in touch with the trainers for further help and collaboration on their data analysis and funding proposals related to zoonotic disease modelling and climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/training-course-one-health-data-and-models-zoonotic-disea... |
| Description | One Health, data and models for zoonotic disease management presentatios and discussions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Series of presentation and interactive sessions delivered by the project team and partners to develop key skills in describing the One Health concept and understand how to apply it to management or research on zoonotic diseases in India. Supporting attendees to be able to summarise the many advantages of a closer cooperation between human health, animal health and environment sectors for zoonotic disease management and then to identify key challenges and opportunities in putting One Health into operation within their organisations. Introduction to uses of models to inform zoonotic disease management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/training-course-one-health-data-and-models-zoonotic-disea... |
| Description | Online course launched on 'Ozone and tropical Agriculture' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | the course is to raise awareness of the ozone pollution problem for tropical agriculture, and to promote working towards possible solutions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/training/ozone-and-tropical-agriculture |
| Description | Panel participation in WASAG webinar "Pandemics/Epidemics, Drought and Agriculture: Building back better", 10 July 2020, by Dr Purse and Dr Asaaga |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was organised by the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) hosted by the FAO Land and Water Division and was entitled "Pandemics/Epidemics, Drought and Agriculture: Building back better". This webinar will discussed the pathways through which drought vulnerable groups have been hit by COVID-19 and left behind during the lockdown and the options and policy recommendations for an inclusive green recovery. It discussed ways to identify and mitigate the unintended economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 response and how to include drought vulnerable groups in COVID-19 decision-making and management by ensuring targeted messaging reaches all drought vulnerable groups. Dr Purse discussed links between drought and infectious diseases and how health information systems and decision support tools can link climate events to health outcomes. Dr Asaaga discussed One Health and participatory approaches to understanding vulnerability of communities to drought. Key outcomes are a policy brief and paper (in 2021) and new partnerships developed among researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.fao.org/land-water/news-archive/news-detail/en/c/1295477/ |
| Description | Participation in an online workshop 'Improving the use of Climate Change Information for Adaptation in Uganda ' 2 March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1-day workshop in Entebbe and online hosted by the Ugandan MWE entitled 'Improving the use of Climate Change Information for Adaptation in Uganda '. Workshop includes a selection of short case studies which have used CP4A and CMIP scenarios for impact models for a range of different applications for decision making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Policy Brief and background report for UNCCD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We contributed to a policy brief https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/relevant-links/2019-09/190828%20UNCCD%20Available%20English%20Web.pdf Also to the background report on drought impact and vulnerability assessment: https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/relevant-links/2019-09/190829%20UNCCD%20A%20Rapid%20Review%20Web.pdf. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentaion at UNCCD-COP14 side-event, 3 September 2019: "Perspectives on enhancing agriculture's resilience to drought" (G Rees) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by G Rees, "Perspectives on enhancing agriculture's resilience to drought" at the side-event on "Integrated Drought Risk Management (IDRM) for enhancing agricultural resilience" at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14), 3 September, 2019. The aim of the presentation was to inform participants of the new methods and technologies for monitoring, providing early warning and characterising droughts (e.g. indicators) for improved decision-making. Interest was expressed by several, including IWMI, Sri Lanka (Giriraj Amaranth) and Weather Risk Management Services Pvt Ltd (Anuj Kumbhat), who were interested in SM-India (SUNRISE-WP1.1) ; FAO (Eduardo Mansur); Asian Disaster Prevention Centre, Thailand (Hans Guttman, Senaka Basanayke). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation "HydroSOS: A new hydroclimate service to support the food, energy and water sectors in South Asia" at the Regional Knowledge Forum on Drought, Kathmandu, 8-10 October, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at an event hosted by regional NGO, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to an international audience of practitioners and policy-makers concerned with using earth observation and climate services to inform food security and agricultural decision making in South and South East Asia. The aim was to inform participants of the WMO-led HydroSOS initiative that SUNRISE supports and encourage their participation in the South Asia pilot. Interest shown by several participants, including representatives from: UNESCO Islamabad (Natural Sciences, Syed Muhammad Raza Shah); UNESCO Regional Sciences Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Jakarta (Prof. Shahbaz Khan); ICIMOD (Basanta Shrestha, Director of Strategic Cooperation); Department of Hydrology & Meteorology, Nepal (Dr. Archana Shrestha); Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Servicess, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M. Mostafa Ali); Indian Meteorological Society (Dr. D.R. Pattanaik); The Small Earth Nepal (Dhiraj Pradhananga). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://servir.icimod.org/regional-knowledge-forum-drought |
| Description | Presentation at UNCCD-COP14 side event, 12 September, 2019: "HydroSOS: a new hydro-climate service to support drought and water management globally" (G Rees) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by G Rees, "HydroSOS: a new hydro-climate service to support drought and water management globally" at side-event "Hydro-climate Services to Improve Decision-making on Drought" at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14), 12 September, 2019. The aim of the presentation was to inform participants of the new WMO-led HydroSOS initiative that is supported by SUNRISE and to encourage engagement in the global, African or South Asian pilots. Interest was expressed by several, including Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (Dr. CN Prabhu), who are keen to contribute to the South Asia pilot (SUNRISE WP1.2); the Indian Space Research Organisation (K Srinivas); FAO (Tmoio Shichiri); New South Wales Government, Australia (Annette Cowie), etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Dr Purse at the World One Health Congress, November 2020: "Predicting and preparing for zoonotic disease risks through co-production of spatial models" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation "Predicting and preparing for zoonotic disease risks through co-production of spatial models" was part of a session on the ecological and environmental drivers of zoonotic disease risks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://worldonehealthcongress.org/mega-programme?view=list |
| Description | Presentation of a seminar at Malawi University of Science and Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given on impacts of ozone on tropical agriculture and ecosystems, to raise awareness and initiate discussions of the problem, implications and possible solutions. Some students indicated that they would like to study this further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentations of key WMO Commission for Hydrology initiatives to Regional European Hydrology Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | H Dixon gave introductory and update presentations to the 2019 WMO RA-VI (Europe) Hydrology Forum, held in Bratislava, Slovakia from 2-4 April 2019. This included presentations on "The WMO Global Hydrometry Support Facility - An Overview" and update on "The WMO Global Hydrological Status and Outlook System (HydroSOS) - The current situation and how RAVI can get involved?" and an overview of the "Outcomes of CHy-Ext.". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/hwrp/ra6.php |
| Description | Presenting final Decision Support tool to state and district health officials through virtual meeting, November 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The functionality of the Decision Support Tool was presented to the State and District level officials of the Department for Health and Family Welfare Services and support was gained to transfer the tool to Indian Government Servers and roll out to end-users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Press conference at conclusion of WALMI International Conference on Water Management & Climate Change, Dharwad, India, 25/1/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press conference with national media reporters in India who were interested in how India should address issues and challenges of future climate change and water scarcity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://walmievents2023.in/conference-overview/ |
| Description | Research Training Placement on Earth Observation for 3 Indian researchers from ATREE, Bangalore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The three researchers from EO received one to one support and training in Earth Observation techniques for mapping land use, land use change (from Landsat TM data), as well as water-body and rice paddy dynamics (from Sentinel Radar data) in India. They received practical feedback on structuring and writing up analyses for international publication using their own work. Outcome: Improved understanding and skills in Earth Observation and abilities to disseminate research in scientific papers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Research Training Placement on data handling at CEH for two Indonesian Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brawijaya University Agroforestry Experiment, Indonesia. Visit to CEH Lancaster by two Indonesian researchers to learn to use "R" coding for soil sensor analyses in support of our agroforestry platform. Considerable work by CEH staff in designing R code for data analysis and QC and providing training on it's use. Capacity Building of partners leading to Improved Technique and data handling and control. R coding provides more robust and efficient method for data handling than excel based method used previously improving validation of experimental data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Research Training Placement on desk-based policy review at CEH for Indian researcher from ATREE, Bangalore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A post-doctoral RA received training in conducting desk-based review of national and international policies (in this case linked to zoonotic diseases in India) and conducting informant interviews with stakeholders. One to one support and training on writing up the data generated into a co-authored conference presentation and manuscript. Outcome: Improved understanding and skills in conducting policy reviews and informant interviews and increased awareness of OneHealth inter-disciplinary approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | SUNRISE Task 1.2 Workshop on Flood and Drought Risk Estimation in India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SUNRISE Task 1.2 Co-hosted this event with Indian partners (IIT Gandinighar, IIT Bombay, IWMI and NIH). The three day workshop was a mix of talks from SUNRISE reseachers and stakeholder partners, alongside a range of interactive break-out sessions focused on the utility of the SUNRISE outputs and their potential for application in India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Parry participated in India-UK Water Centre workshop on drought monitoring and management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented on the state of the art in drought monitoring and forecasting in the UK, and participated in breakout discussions on research challenges on these topics in India |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ssession keynote presentation at WALMI International Conference on Water Management & Climate Change, Dharwad, India,24-25/1/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on approaches to factor-in climate change into future water resources planning in India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://walmievents2023.in/conference-overview/ |
| Description | Staff exchange visit (3 UK researchers to Bhopal) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 3 staff from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology visited the National Institute of Hydrology in Bhopal, 1 for 2 weeks and 2 for 4 days. The main focus of the visit was a 1-day stakeholder knowledge exchange workshop on the topic of "Capabilities of Hydrological Modelling in Decision-making". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Staff exchange visit (Indian researchers to Wallingford) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 3 Indian researchers from the National Institute of Hydrology (India) visited the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK) for 2 weeks to collaborate with CEH researchers in jointly applying the GWAVA water resources model to the Upper Narmade basin. The exchange visit was very productive and paved the way for future exchange visits to India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Staff exchange visit (Malawi researcher to Wallingford) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 1 Malawian researcher from Chancellor Collage, University of Malawi visited the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK) for 1 week to collaborate with CEH SUNRISE researchers and discuss opportunities for future joint working. The exchange visit was very productive and paved the way for future exchange visits to Malawi. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Staff exchange visit (UK researcher to Bhopal) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 1 UK researcher from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK) visited the National Institute of Hydrology (India) for 3 weeks to collaborate with NIH researchers in jointly applying the GWAVA water resources model to the Upper Narmade basin. The exchange visit was very productive and paved the way for future exchange visits to India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Staff exchange visit (UK researcher to Bhopal) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1 UK researcher from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK) visited the National Institute of Hydrology (India) for 2 weeks to collaborate with NIH researchers in jointly applying the GWAVA water resources model to the Whole Narmade basin. The exchange visit was very productive, comprising an IUKWC stakeholder workshop and 1-1 training- and paved the way for future exchange visits to India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Student project with IITB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Work on non-stationarity in Maharashtra to complement other work done seperately by CEH and IITB. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at European Aerosol Conference (EAC2019), 25-30 Aug 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden "Source Apportionment Analysis Applied to Aerosol Eddy-Covariance Fluxes in Delhi" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the European Aerosol Conference: [O10_F4_S07] Source Apportionment Analysis Applied to Aerosol Eddy-Covariance Fluxes in Delhi Chiara Di Marco [UK], Ben Langford [UK], James Cash [UK], Neil Mullinger [UK], Carole Helfter [UK], Mhairi Coyle [UK], Reyes-Villegas Ernesto [UK], Joshi Rutambhara [UK], James Allan [UK], Mandal Tuhin [India], Gadi Ranu [India], Shivani Shivani [India], Soni Vijay [India], Nemitz Eiko [UK] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at the Indian International Science Festival on the KFD Decision Support Tool by Dr Darshan Naryanaswamy, December 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Darshan presented the decision support tool and risk maps for KFD and explained how the tool was being operationalised to inform KFD management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk at the Royal Met. Soc. Atmospheric Science Conference "Aerosol sources in Delhi derived from edd-covariance flux measurements and concentration analysis" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation with the title "Aerosol sources in Delhi derived from edd-covariance flux measurements and concentration analysis" was given at the Atmospheric Sciences Conference ASC2019 2-3 July in Birmingham, organised jointly by NCAS and the Royal Met Soc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk titled "Trace gas fluxes from Oil Palm plantations & forests in Southeast Asia" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at meeting with Sabah Wildlife Department with participants from WWF Malaysia, Cardiff University, Danau Girang field centre (Sabah), UKCEH, Sabah Wildlife Department (different district officers) Title of talk "Trace gas fluxes from Oil Palm plantations & forests in Southeast Asia" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Training Activity for the UNCCD Strategic Objective 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKCEH scientists delivered Good Practice Guidance to the UN Commision for Combating Desertification (UNCCD) in 2021 (see publications). While this was funded by the UNCCD, the development of the Guidance was informed through the previous and co-aligned work on drought monitoring, drought risk assessment and drought management undertaken through several NERC grants (DrIVER and Historic Droughts, STAR) as well as UKCEH's SUNRISE National Capability Programme. The UNCCD report could not have been produced witthout this foundation. IN Jan 2021, the UKCEH team also provided online training in how to apply the GPG to a range of trainers, who will subsequently assist in apply the guidance nationally to parties to the UNCCD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Training course for DELTA/ALPHA lowcost pollution samplers at NPL-India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 25 delegates attended a 5-day training course in the operation of the ALPHA/DELTA low-cost pollution samplers developed at CEH, provided by CEH and hosted by the National Physics Laboratory India in Delhi. This included 20 participants from Delhi, and one each from Cuttack (India), Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The course covered preparation and cleaning of the sampler and collection media, operation and setup as well as extraction and chemical analysis. The participants were very engaged and interested. Pre / post questionnaire showed a 100% positive response in the confidence of using the approach and most have concrete plans of using the samplers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training of three visitors from the China National Environmetal Monitoring Center, Beijing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three visitors from the China National Environmetal Monitoring Center, Beijing, visited CEH Edinburgh for four days to receive training in various aspects of the monitoring of air pollution and environmental impacts. This included visits to CEH field sites, introduction to instrumentation and techniques and presentations of results of CEH's measurements in UK and China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training on deployment of micro climate sensors in field (Java, Indonesia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Post gradduate staff gain knowledge and confidence to deploy microclimate sensors in one field plot. They then independently set up the field measurements in multiple plots in agroforestry. This builds on training courses in 2017 and 2018 (not reported as seperate entries). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training session on chemistry and transport modelling in Chennai, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Within the context of a week of training activity of modelling N flows through the environment at Chennai, India, CEH provided a training session on chemistry / transport modelling of air pollutants. 30 participants attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training visit for NPL-India Student cohort |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A group of 25 postgraduate students affiliated with the National Physics Laboratory India, New Delhi, visited our fieldsite at the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW), were we operated an intensive field campaign to measure concentrations and fluxes above Delhi, including a 30 m purpose built tower. For 1/2 day, the students were shown and instructed in our measurement approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Training visit of expert to build capacity in tick ecology and diagnostic methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CEH experts in vector ecology and molecular diagnostics, Stefanie Schafer visited field sites in the Western Ghats forests in India for 2 x 4-6 weeks and worked with teams of research assistants from ATREE, IPH, NIVEDI and NITM, to build capacity in ecological sampling, laboratory workflows and molecular diagnostics for tick vectors of zoonotic diseases. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Training workshop on 'Ozone pollution: A hidden threat to African crop production' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Five African crop scientists attended the training workshop held at CEH Bangor, 24-26 September 2019. Aims of the workshop were to i) raise awareness of the threat of surface ozone pollution to food production in Sub-Saharan Africa; ii) improve knowledge of the identification of ozone impacts on crops, assessment of areas at risk and present options for mitigating impacts; iii) exchange knowledge and tools for stakeholder engagement. The workshop facilitated a two-way learning process and the following actions were agreed to take forward: i) inclusion of examples of ozone-induced leaf injury for African crops on over 2,500 plant health doctor tablets used for diagnosing crop damage for small holder farmers in developing countries; ii) conduct ozone monitoring at selected rural sites in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Senegal; iii) improve modelling and mapping crop areas at risk using detailed information on crop growing areas, seasons and crop production available at national level in selected African countries; iii) test ozone-sensitivity of additional crops species and varieties, particularly those bred for drought resistance; iv) developing activities to further raise awareness and exchange knowledge on ozone impacts on crops among stakeholders; v) develop pump-priming projects potentially leading to a big African project and network in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/sunrise |
| Description | UK-China Drought Exchanges Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Exchange hosted by CEH and IWHR to discuss drought management and policy parallels between China and the UK. Presentations by Jamie Hannaford and Lucy Barker |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UK-Finland Sustainability Knowledge Exchange,19-21 October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The workshop covered wide range of issues, challenged and solutions suggestions related to sustainability, natural resources and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The workshop was targeted to sustainability researchers and experts and aimed to build bilateral relationships on shared sustainability challenges. Outcomes of SUNRISE presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/UKFinland_Sustainability_Knowledge_Exchange_7858 |
| Description | Visit by IWHR delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit by IWHR delegation to CEH |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit by NIH Delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit by NIH to CEH to discuss plans for collaborations on drought and flood risk estimation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit of co-supervised Indonesian PHD student to CEH Lancaster for training in experimental design and writing for international publication, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Individual training on soil sampling and testing methods used at CEH. One to one support and training on "writing MS for international publication" using students own work. Advice and practical feedback was given on structure, content, statistical analysis and writing style. Outcome: Improved understanding and skills in sampling methods and paper writing . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | WMO HydroHub Workshop: Innovation in Hydrometry - from ideas to operation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As Chair of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Hydrometry Support Facility (HydroHub) Innovation Committee, Harry Dixon, helped to convene and facilitate an international workshop on innovation in hydrometry. The International Association of Hydrological Sciences' MOXXI working group and the WMO HydroHub jointly organized the two day workshop to bring members of the science and operations communities together to learn from each other about new technologies and current research in the area of hydrometry and start a dialog on how to foster uptake of innovative solutions in operational environments. The workshop has provided the basis for subsequent HydroHub activities including a pilot-project funding programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://public.wmo.int/en/events/workshops/innovation-hydrometry-from-ideas-operation |
| Description | WMO Hydrological Coordination Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Hydrological Coordination Panel is the WMO think tank on hydrology. It supports and advises on an integrated delivery of WMO water-related activities and undertakes preparatory work for the WMO Hydrological Assembly, in relation to current and emerging scientific and technical water-related global challenges. The Panel integrates the hydrological work of WMO into the wider global water agenda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/hydrology-and-water-resources/hydrological-coordination-pan... |
| Description | WP1.2 OC_04. Presentation to Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff: Early Warning Systems for Hydrological Extremes: Strengthening Drought Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jamie Hannaford presented to ADB regional staff in Manila and elsewhere in the region. He showcased how droughts are among the deadliest and costliest disasters, and are projected to be become more frequent and severe in many parts of the world. He highlighted the pressing need to strengthen drought resilience globally, and how a key pillar of this is drought monitoring and early warning, which enables droughts to be identified and their impacts planned for, such that appropriate mitigation responses can be taken. While many such systems exist, at national to continental scales, they are often fragmentary and disconnected from impacts 'on the ground'. This presentation featured a range of case studies to illustrate the challenges in delivering timely, accurate, and relevant drought information to diverse audiences. Some of the solutions being developed were also discussed. The presentation, which gathered 46 participants, also covered initiatives to improve drought risk estimation and early warning worldwide, and at regional to national scales in countries such as China, India (referring to UKCEH's SUNRISE programme WP1.2 'drought risk estimation' outputs) and Thailand (Referring to outcomes from the STAR project). A common theme in this work is the development of improved tools that bridge the gap between early warning indicators and impacts on society and the environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.2. O2.2. India-UK Water Centre webinar 'Developing an Interactive Web-Application to Aid Drought Decision-Making in Maharashtra State, India' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar introducing a new web-application designed to demonstrate to water managers the impact of their decision-making within the Manual for Drought Management framework, applied to a case study of Maharashtra state in India |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6g6i9dM4b8 |
| Description | WP1.2. O3.2 Presentation at training course for recent graduate engineers: 'Design flood estimation practices in UK and India' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online guest presentation at short-term training course on 'Design Flood Estimation for Gauged and Ungauged Catchments' for practising water engineers organised by IIT Roorkee |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_1.1 HydroSOS Working Group Meeting with NCAR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Victoria Barlow and Eleanor Blyth travelled to NCAR, Boulder, Colorado to discuss the derivation of global status and forecasting systems, and their inclusion in the HydroSOS demonstrator. Preparations for the 1st technical meeting in Nanjing were also conducted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_1.2 HydroSOS Task Team Meeting, Nanjing, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A full days task team meeting was held in Nanjing following the 1st technical workshop. The work package leaders, World Meteorological Organisation and CEH management team met to discuss the development of an implementation plan, incorporating the feedback from the stakeholders in the previous meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_1.2 HydroSOS Working Group Meeting with Chinese Partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two visitors from the National Hydraulic Research Institute in Nanjing, China visited CEH to discuss preparations for the upcoming Technical Workshop for the HydroSOS project. Discussions on the content of the technical meeting, and the logistics were conducted. This sparked future meetings among the HydroSOS work package leaders to determine what topics should be addressed at the meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_1.2 HydroSOS: Webinar on soil moisture remote sensing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A webinar was organised on the topic of soil moisture remote sensing. A presentation was given by Mariette Vreugdenhil from Vienna University of Technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_1.3 EGU 2020 presentation - HydroSOS: a pilot global Hydrological Status and Outlook System integrating national to global scale hydrological services for increased resilience to hydro-climatic risks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the HydroSOS concept at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in May 2020. This presentation was given under the "Operational forecasting and warning systems for natural hazards: challenges and innovation" session. The presentation was conducted online with more than 100 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-7554.html |
| Description | WP1.3 A_2.3 HydroSOS Working Group meeting with Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Narendra Tuteja from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology visited CEH to discuss routes forward for the HydroSOS WP2c on methods. Means of collaboration between CEH and BoM on this work package were discussed, as well as involvement of new national and international partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_3.3 HydroSOS: Webinar on TAMSAT - Pilot Early Warning Advisories for agricultural and hydrological drought in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An online webinar was held to present and discuss TAMSAT - a pilot early warning advisory service for agricultural and hydrological drought in Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_3.3 Presentation at the Hydrological Outlooks Workshop in Bangalore on "the development and operationalisation of forecasting applications" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Katie Smith presented the IMPETUS work that has contributed to the development of the operational UK Hydrological Outlooks to a range of academics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_3.8 3rd DWAT Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Ministry of Environment of Republic of Korea has been working closely with the World Meteorological Organization to enhance water resources assessment and management capacities at the global level. For this purpose, the Republic of Korea developed DWAT, Dynamic Water Resources Assessment Tool (DWAT), designed to help water resource managers and policy specialists identify current and future water management challenges, and compare those with current and past water resources availability. DWAT helps improve understanding of the impacts of past and present water management practices on water resources, as well as the interactions between climate, water and landscape. The tool can be used to assess water resources at the operational level in all 192 WMO Member countries. A DWAT training event was performed with experts across several WMO regions, where they were able to apply the tool in a basin of importance to their country. A 3rd DWAT Workshop was held on 9-10 June 2021 to share the results of their assessments, understand how the tool can be applied under different basin characteristics and showcase functionalities of DWAT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/hydrology-and-water-resources/3rd-dwat-workshop |
| Description | WP1.3 A_5.1 A_5.2 A_5.3 HydroSOS 1st Technical Workshop Nanjing, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The first technical workshop for the HydroSOS project was held in Nanjing, China. Each project partner (most of whom are international partners) were given an opportunity to present their progress, and request feedback. Interactive sessions were held to discuss the status and outlooks methods, the demonstrator web service, the regional pilots, and integrating existing national and global products into the project. Stakeholders from national hydrometeorological services were present, as well as academics and service providers from around the world. The feedback provided will be invaluable in the progression of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP1.3 A_5.1 HydroSOS Forecasting Meeting with NCAR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Katie Smith attended a workshop on ensemble hydrometeorological forecasting at NCAR. During her visit, Katie discussed the HydroSOS project with Andy Wood, who agreed to lead Work Package 5 - the demonstrator. Discussions aided planning of the progression of the demonstrator in the lead up to the 1st technical meeting of the project in Nanjing. Katie also discussed the forecasting framework developed by Shaun Harrigan in the IMPETUS project, and ways in which it may be improved upon using Data Assimilation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP1.5_A_d1 Water Resource Modelling Training in India (conducted online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A GWAVA (Global Water AVailability Assessment) Model training course, delayed from March 2020 because of covid-19 travel restrictions, took place by Zoom 22-26 February 2021. Local arrangement for the event were made by WP1.5 delivery partner NIH (National Institute of Hydrology). The 21 enrolled trainees were early career researchers and engineers from a range of water-related organisations: Water Resources Department Madhya Pradesh, Banaras Hindu University, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Central Water Commission - Narmada Basin Organisation, Narmada Control Authority, and NIH itself. The course covered the principles of hydrological modelling, along with practical sessions on the application of the GWAVA model. Participants were guided through the process of setting up and running the model, and analysing model outputs. By the end of the event the trainees' reported that their skill in application of hydrological models and interpretation of model outputs for assessment of water resources had increased, and they had the knowledge to apply the GWAVA model to a river basin of their choice. By applying this in their work, they will contribute to ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water in India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | WP1.5_A_e1 Meeting with Narmada river basin stakeholder, India (conducted online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoom meeting (due to covid-19 travel restrictions) with Narmada river basin stakeholders from Water Resources Department (WRD) Madhya Pradesh (MP) on 2 October 2020, facilitated by WP1.5 delivery partner NIH (National Institute of Hydrology). The purpose of the meeting was to update this key stakeholder on the aims of the research, progress to date and next steps, and ensure that we understood their needs and would be generating information that addressed those needs. Specifically, we discussed the different climate, socio-economic and water management scenarios being planned in order to gain WRD-MP's input to this important phase of the modelling work. WRD-MP provided some useful information related to agricultural practice - and how this is changing as a consequence of climate change - that was incorporated into the subsequent modelling work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.5_A_e1 Meeting with Narmada river basin stakeholder, India (conducted online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoom meeting (due to covid-19 travel restrictions) with Narmada river basin stakeholders from Central Water Commission (CWC) Narmada Basin Organisation (NBO) on 30 September 2020, facilitated by WP1.5 delivery partner NIH (National Institute of Hydrology). The purpose of the meeting was to update this key stakeholder on the aims of the research, progress to date and next steps, and ensure that we understood their needs and would be generating information that addressed those needs. Specifically, we discussed the different climate, socio-economic and water management scenarios being planned in order to gain CWC-NBO's input to this important phase of the modelling work. CWC-NBO provided some useful information related to water management and new reservoir plans that was incorporated into the subsequent modelling work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.5_A_e1 Meeting with Narmada river basin stakeholder, India (conducted online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoom meeting (due to covid-19 travel restrictions) with Narmada river basin stakeholders from Narmada Control Authority (NCA) on 15 October 2020, facilitated by WP1.5 delivery partner NIH (National Institute of Hydrology). The purpose of the meeting was to update this key stakeholder on the aims of the research, progress to date and next steps, and ensure that we understood their needs and would be generating information that addressed those needs. Specifically, we discussed the different climate, socio-economic and water management scenarios being planned in order to gain NCA's input to this important phase of the modelling work. NCA provided some useful information related to their own flow modelling and water allocation within the basin that was incorporated into the subsequent modelling work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.5_A_e1 Meeting with Narmada river basin stakeholder, India (conducted online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoom meeting (due to covid-19 travel restrictions) with Narmada river basin stakeholders from Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) on 30 September 2020, facilitated by WP1.5 delivery partner NIH (National Institute of Hydrology). The purpose of the meeting was to update this key stakeholder on the aims of the research, progress to date and next steps, and ensure that we understood their needs and would be generating information that addressed those needs. Specifically, we discussed the different climate, socio-economic and water management scenarios being planned in order to gain IIFM's input to this important phase of the modelling work. IIFM provided some useful information related to climate and forestry that was incorporated into the subsequent modelling work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1.5_O_1 Staff exchange visit (Indian researcher to Wallingford) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | One Indian researcher from the National Institute of Hydrology (India) visited the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK) for 1 week to collaborate with CEH researchers in jointly applying the GWAVA water resources model to the Upper Narmada basin, and setting up the groundwater module. The exchange visit paved the way for future exchange visits to India In January 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP1.5_O_2 SUNRISE workshop on Hydrological Modelling in Narmada Basin, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Four UKCEH staff attended a stakeholder workshop in Bhopal, India on 31 January 2020, focusing on hydrological modelling on future scenarios in the Narmada river basin, India. The workshop was hosted by NIH Bhopal, whom UKCEH has been collaborating with on the project. Approximately 30 stakeolders attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP2.1 A15: Presentation to students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, on nitrogen and air quality at a seminar to commemorate World Soil Day, 5 Dec 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The issues around nitrogen use and its impacts on air quality were introduced to about 80 students ath the Jawahrlal Nehru University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_02 Training in data management and quality assurance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Training was provided in the better management of environmental data to enable effective use and re-use to build capacity among project partners. The workshop was attended by 32 researchers and support staff who all reported, verbally, that they had gained a better understanding of the need for improving the quality of their data and of creating detailed metadata to enable sharing and re-use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_03 Research visit to University of Eldoret, Kenya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Meeting between staff from CEH, University of Nottingham, Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute and University of Eldoret to discuss research activity, progress and data sharing in relation to two closely related projects on fish farming in teh Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya. A presentation entiteld "Aquaculture in lake Victoria - Challenges for the industry" was given by Linda May. The meeting also included a capacity building training event, led by Linda May, that provided staff and students with information on how to improve the management and quality assurance of reserach data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_04 Training in the use of an AlgalTorch to monitor changes in water quality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Staff at Kenya Marine Fisheries Institute were trained in the use of an AlgalTorch to monitor chlorophyll a concentrations and the amount of potentially toxic cyanobacteria in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria. This builds capacity within the Institute in making these measurements, and will provide essential water quality monitoring data for the area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_13 Plenary lecturer at International Conference on Tropical Limnology 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation given on water quality of tropical lakes in relation to their utilisation. The presentation was viewed by more than 300 people across the world and there has been follow on collaboration with researchers from Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia and Mexico. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://limnologi.lipi.go.id/troplim/ |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_15 Demonstrating the Need for Sustainable Phosphorus Management in Lakes: Global Case Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on phosphorus in Lake Victoria: Sources, opportunities for improvement and sustainable solutions given at international webinar coordinated by UNEP and UKCEH. This raised the profile of the need for sustainable management of phosphorus to reduce the impacts of algal blooms and invasive species on lake water quality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/unep-event/demonstrating-need-sustainable-phosphorus-management-lakes-gl... |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_16 Training in the use of QGIS to map spatial environmental data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Capacity building in the use of QGIS (a free and open source geographical information system) to map spatial environmental data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_17 Visit to Ranu Pani, Indonesia, to assess management requirements for lake restoration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A meeting and site visit was held comprising CEH, Brawijaya University and staff from the national park to make an initial assessment of the water quality problems at Ranu Pani lake, East Java and discuss possible remediation required to restore the water quality at the site. Following extensive discussion by workshop participants, it was agreed that the water quality problems were likely to be caused by excessive soil erosion within the catchment plus the impacts of raw sewage entering the lake from a public toilet used by 45,000 visitors per year. The meeting was followed up with a short report that will underpin future research proposals on remediation strategies to improve water quality in the lake. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP2.2 OP_18_Presentations at Great Lakes of the World 9 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations at Great Lakes of the World 9 Conference on promoting blue economy, food security and conservation. Linda May gave a talk entitled "The sustainable development of the Winam Gulf, Kenya: An ecosystem services approach" and Matthew O'Hare gave a talk entitled "How to beat a bully: New biocontrol agents and novel remote sensing applications in the fight to suppress water hyacinth". The conference was attended by about 200 people and the talks disseminated research results from the SUNRISE project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_01&02: Training delivered: Drone Monioring of Palm Health to Malaysian University and NGO. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We delivered a 1 day oil palm health drone monitoring course to staff, students and NGO (Wild Asia) workers at the University of Malaysia Nottingham. This was based on a course delivered by CEH in the UK (see URL) but adapted to our colleagues interest. Following, the lead CEH trainer (P Scholefield) carried out a one week intensive field course with Wild Asia mapping 25 plantations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/training/using-drones-map-habitats |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_01&02: Webinar on Oil Palm Agronomy "Nature-based Solutions for the Planet" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar on "Nature-based Solutions for the Planet" was organised in association with Wild Asia, UKCEH and Tunku Abdul Rahman University (Malaysia) on 8th December 2020. The two-part webinar was aimed at students, practitioners, professional planters and policy makers to learn about some of the latest work from research scientists exploring options for more sustainable oil palm production. UKCEH SUNRISE scientists provided two talks and a Q&A session. Rebecca Rowe discussed "Could enhancing soil organic carbon be the next wave of nature-based solutions? A UK-perspective" and Dafydd Elias explored "Variability in smallholder oil palm plantations and management options for climate change mitigation". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn6HH3tQCLlRmxECPtjCCOgk2QIn4XLAL&utm_source=SUNRISE+Newslett... |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_01:University of Nottingham-Malaysia & Green Plant Organics (SME) introductory meetings, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We have been working with Crops for the Future in Malaysia and had the opportunity to meet their University of Nottingham (UNMC) collaborators. We provided an overview of CEH's activity and they provided an overview of the School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences activity. We also visited UNMC collaborators who are converting oil palm mill waste to fertilizers. Following this meeting we are collaborating with UNMC and the SME on biofertiliser trials and with UNMC on drone monitoring of palm health as part of SUNRISE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/GreenPlantOrganic |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_05 Initial results presented at the virtual EGU 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Initial results were presented at the "EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online" on 4 May and Co-Convener of following Session: BG3.30 "Tropical landscapes and peatlands: Biogeochemistry, ecohydrology and land use impacts". Convener: Alison Hoyt | Co-conveners: Sebastian Doetterl, Alexander Knohl, Matthew Saunders, Charlotte Wheeler, Massimo Lupascu, Julia Drewer, Monia Santini |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-2860.html |
| Description | WP2.3_OP_05 Virtual workshop/meeting CEH - SMARTRI on Developing methods for ammonia measurements using CEH developed ALPHA samplers 09/09/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Virtual workshop/meeting CEH - SMARTRI 09/09/2020 on Developing Methods for ammonia measurements using CEH developed ALPHA samplers with a different coating suitable to tropical conditions and associated laboratory measurements. Discussions of initial results and on further trials/experiments and how to move forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP2.4_OP01_Guidance documents in Hindi and English presented to Village Panchayat and Block Development Officer and hand-over event of village constructed wetland and pond. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Two posters were produced in response to requests for guidance from the village Panchayat. The guidance was presented by Laurence Carvalho and Elliot Hurst in the form of two visual posters produced in Hindi and English at the Ibrahimpur Village "Hand-over" event for the Village Panchayat to take over management of the constructed wetland and pond. The posters were on (1) Use-related monitoring of ponds for water quality (public health) and ecological health (fisheries) and (2) Control and Use of Water Hyacinth The wetland and pond provide a low-cost, decentralised, low energy/carbon solution for waste water treatment in rural India. This is the first demonstration project in an Indian Government-funded scheme. The event was held in November 2018 and was attended by the Village elders (Gram Panchayat) from 5 villages and a regional "Block Development Officer" from Haridwar District, Uttarakhand State. It was also attended by many villagers and also regional media. The event was reported in a regional newspaper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/sunrise/enhancing-freshwater-resources-in-india |
| Description | WP2.4_OP_04_KnowledgeTransfer_Insight Article for NGO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Urban lakes support a wide range of valued activities and services for communities and businesses. They are often highly valued landscape for public recreation, groundwater recharge, flood and drought mitigation, fisheries and as a refuge for biodiversity. Rapid urbanisation and population increases, without the construction of adequate wastewater treatment, is a widespread problem in many rapidly developing cities across the world. This has greatly impacted the water quality and ecological health of urban freshwaters with consequent losses or restrictions on their use. Bangalore is one example of this where many of the city's lakes are severely polluted, impacting groundwater recharge (water supply) and recreational opportunities of millions of residents of the city. We are working with NGOs in the city to develop lake restoration plans and provide accessible guidance. Specifically, we have supported the NGO ATREE and staff in their Centre For Social & Environmental Innovation, the Biome Environmet Trust and Friends of Lakes NGO to produce Insight Articles to explain the problem and potential solutions. The Insight Articles are particularly designed to be easily understood by the general public, municipal and state policy makers and Lake Community Action Groups who manage many of the urban lakes in Bangalore. Through the articles and online videos, knowledge has been transferred to the public sector, NGOs and policy makers through the production of several Insight Articles. Inputs were provided to all articles, but direct funding and inputs to text were provided by SUNRISE for the Lake Insight article #5 on "How do excess nutrients cause problems in lakes?" Increased knowledge should help local lake community action groups and city authorities with their activities which aim to restore good surface water quality in the city's lakes and support sustainable uses for local economies, including fisheries and recreational use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.csei.org/bangalores-lakes-insights |
| Description | WP2.4_OP_07_KnowledgeTransfer_National newspaper reports of project outputs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press interviews at Bangalore Lakes Solutions workshop highlighted some of the projects results and outcomes and the implications for lake management. Over 50 people attended the workshop, but the stories wer published in print and online in national newspaper. Specifically one story highlighted that we have identified methane emissions, associated with discharge of untreated sewage, as the likely cause of Bellandur Lake catching fire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/high-levels-of-methane-caused-bellandur-lake-fire/art... |
| Description | WP2.4_OP_07_Workshop on Solutions for Rejuvenating Bangalore's Lakes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A workshop on "Solutions for Rejuvenating Bengaluru's Lakes" was organised as part of the SUNRISE collaboration between UKCEH & ATREE, our Indian partner in SUNRISE. It was held on 11-12th Dec 2019 in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India. The workshop was attended by 45 people from lake community NGOs, SME businesses (3 from India and 3 from Scotland), academic researchers and agency practitioners. The workshop aim was to: • Share and enhance knowledge and understanding of the state of Bengaluru's Lakes and rejuvenation goals • Discuss best practices for the monitoring and governance of the lakes • Learn about new solutions available for wastewater treatment and lake rejuvenation Activities The first day of talks included presentations of results by UKCEH (Carvalho) and ATREE (Jamwal). ATREE also presented on water governance (Lele) and a new citizen lake data dashboard and governance portal, MIRA, being developed as part of the collaboration (Sridharan). Carvalho later chaired a panel discussion of NGOs, SMEs, and engineer and a social scientist to discuss key issues to take forward lake rejuvenation. The second day discussed three topics to identify new innovative and realistic solutions for lake rejuvenation. These three topics were: 1. Monitoring and governance solutions 2. Wastewater treatment and re-use 3. In-lake treatment Outcomes and Impact The solutions workshop brought together a range of small businesses that have well tested decentralised solutions with the lake communities in need. A number of outcomes from this are developing that should lead to enhanced water quality, reduced incidence of lake fires, and a more sustainable fishery and recreation opportunities. Surveys were conducted pre- and post-workshop to measure knowledge gained by attendees and potential outcomes/impact of the workshop related to SUNRISE goals. The workshop evaluation showed an increase in attendees knowledge on the status, monitoring and governance of Bengaluru's lakes; the majority of attendees moved from moderate to good knowledge on lake status and monitoring. Before the workshop a large proportion had no knowledge on the governance of Bengaluru's lakes (>20%), however after the workshop this changed to a high proportion of participants with good knowledge on the subject. Before the workshop >10% of participants claimed to have no or poor knowledge on decentralised wastewater treatment solutions. Post-workshop nobody claimed to have no or poor knowledge and the proportion of participants claiming good knowledge had increased from 35% to almost 60%. On knowledge of in-lake or wetland restoration solutions, we saw a shift from moderate and good knowledge to participants with high knowledge on this topic (increasing from 5% to almost 30%). Comments from workshop participants: "Learned more about monitoring of lakes, new technologies for treatment of wastewater, built new relationships" "Better understanding of the lakes and organisations working to promote better sanitation and lake remediation" "Got a lot of actionable points and contacts of experts on wetland and water treatment" "Some realistic new solutions were discussed between JaLa Poshan and the various SMEs on the field visit to further develop rejuvenation of Jakkur Lake" Some issues raised at the workshop were also reported in the national newspaper, The Hindu, on 12th December 2019 https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/high-levels-of-methane-caused-bellandur-lake-fire/article30283474.ece https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/app-to-help-test-water-quality-of-lakes/article30280698.ece |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/sunrise/solutions-workshop-2019 |
| Description | WP2.4_Oc_02_KnowledgeTransfer_Invited Panel Member & Speaker for session on Rejuvenating Bengaluru's Lakes at Water Futures conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This session on "Managing Lake Water Quality" at the FutureEarth Water Futures conference in Bengaluru (24-27 Sep 2019). The session was attended by an audience of about 50 people from diverse backgrounds including NGOs and Lake Community Action Groups working on Rejuvenation of Bengaluru's Lakes, representatives from UNEP Water, academics and practitioners in lake rejuvenation. I presented a talk on the vision for clean water and relevant indicators, including official indicators for SDG6, Indian Central Pollution Control Board and community use-related indicators. The panel discussion then discussed the themes related to water quality management of Bengaluru's lakes: current challenges faced by communities and stakeholders and communities and proposed solutions (especially technical waste water treatment and governance solutions). Outcomes from the session were an invitation from UNEP to CEH & ATREE to take forward an urban "Use-case study" for the next Global Water Quality Assessment and sharpened plans for a future workshop on "Water Solutions for Rejuvenating Bengaluru's Lakes" (planned for December 2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.waterfutureconference.org/ |
| Description | WP3.1_O3_Demonstration Event: 'Uses and Management of Moringa, the Miracle tree', Got Ramogi, Kenya, 19/02/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 25 people attended a demonsration event to increase local awareness of the cultivation and potential uses of Moringa oleifera, including how to make use of natural variation. Attendees showed great enthusiasm for the crop and expressed intention to make use of it in future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/odee_david/status/1230056086205599747 |
| Description | WP3.1_O3_Hendre P, ..Cavers S, Odee D... et al (2020) Development of a Genomics-Based Breeding and Improvement Programme for Moringa oleifera in Kenya, Presentation, International Plant and Animal Genomics Conference, Jan 2020, San Diego, USA. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk in the African Orphan Crops Session, International Plant and Animal Genomics Conferences, San Diego, USA. Jan 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://plan.core-apps.com/pag_2020/event/5c52d1f40a3fcfaa8a49d33b1d26230c |
| Description | WP3.1_O3_Training course for forestry professionals and students on 'Conservation and use of Forest Genetic Resources', Morogoro, Tanzania. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 25 trainees attended a 3 day course involving taught modules and practical exercises aimed at making use of guidance on the conservation and use of genetic diversity within important forestry tree species. The course was run jointly with Bioversity International and featured freely available training materials ( http://forest-genetic-resources-training-guide.bioversityinternational.org/ ). The event was held at TAFORI HQ, Morogoro, Tanzania. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://forest-genetic-resources-training-guide.bioversityinternational.org/ |
| Description | WP3.1_O3_Training course for forestry professionals and students on 'Conservation and use of Forest Genetic Resources', Nairobi, Kenya. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 trainees attended a 3-day residential training course, to learn the use of previously-developed training materials for use in tertiary education and beyond, which are available online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://forest-genetic-resources-training-guide.bioversityinternational.org/ |
| Description | Webinar given to NM-AIST Tanzania |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar given to raise awareness of ozone pollution and its impacts on agriculture in Tanzania. Questions and discussion afterwards, and an increase in the interest in studying this issue further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar on ozone pollution impact on tropical agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendees asked questions. In addition to responses during the webinar, a Q&A document was produced, circulated and published on the ICP Vegetation and CABI websites |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop on UNCCD Toolbox |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Through our work on SUNRISE, we also helped Caroline King to prepare inputs to a workshop on the UNCCD Drought Toolbox. The Toolbox has since been launched successfully. All Parties concerned, including the African Parties to the UNCCD, have formally welcomed this and have decided that work on it should continue over the coming biennium. https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/sessions/documents/2019-09/ICCD_COP%2814%29_L.22-1915732E.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop with drrought managers in Liaoning Province |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop at the Water Resources Bureau of Liaoning to present the results of CEH-IWHR collaboration on drought indicators, impacts and risk assessment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Yaxu Wang, IWHR, visiting for one year. Oct 2018 - Nov 2019. Working on drought indicator-impact linkages. Hosted by Jamie Hannaford and Lucy Barker. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Yaxu Wang, IWHR, visiting for one year. Oct 2018 - Nov 2019. Working on drought indicator-impact linkages. Hosted by Jamie Hannaford and Lucy Barker |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | alk to students at Danau Girang field centre in Kinabatangan, Malaysia. "GHG fluxes from oil palm plantations, logged and riparian forests in Southeast Asia (Sabah/Borneo and Riau/Sumatra)" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 25/02/2023 Talk to students at Danau Girang field centre in Kinabatangan, Malaysia. "GHG fluxes from oil palm plantations, logged and riparian forests in Southeast Asia (Sabah/Borneo and Riau/Sumatra)". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |