Options for Net Zero Plus and Climate Change Adaptation
Lead Research Organisation:
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Abstract
The land can contribute to climate mitigation through absorbing more carbon dioxide and reducing other greenhouse gas emissions by growing more trees and re-wetting the peatlands.
But as the climate warms and more demands are made of the land to feed a growing population, there is less space for these land-based climate mitigation activities and less for nature and biodiversity. Meanwhile, the changing climate is bringing more extreme weather which impacts on our safety.
To grow a green future that is safe and resilient to these changes, we need to understand the linkages between the land and water systems of the earth. We need to have clear evidence of how changes we make on land and water management impact on the other aspects of the land-system, including how they will respond to increasing temperatures and extreme weather systems.
This programme of work will bring together scientists from many different disciplines to work together to understand three key questions:
What is limited our ability to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from the land?
What are the options for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and what impacts do they have on the environment?
How can we improve our resilience to climate change through improved forecasting and prediction of extreme events?
By bringing together scientists in disciplines from soils, water, air and ecosystem dynamics, we will improve our understanding of the complex system that lies at the heart of the problem.
We will use novel downscaling techniques and uncertainty framework to link global models to regional and national scale simulations. This will enable us to reality check the assumptions made in the global analysis against local knowledge.
Using the downscaled data as a base-line, we will develop new knowledge of how the land-system interacts with the climate system at the local scale.
Case studies around ecosystem restoration in sub-saharan Africa and gradients of intensity of agriculture in Southeast Asia will be used to quantify the impact of ecosystem management on climate mitigation metrics. Results of these case-studies will be used to inform the global assessment of land-management potential to contribute to Net Zero.
We will create a global network of scientists bringing their knowledge of the environmental and socio-political system and how it interacts.
Global and regional data will be made available to the national (UK) and international community of scientists to address these urgent issues
But as the climate warms and more demands are made of the land to feed a growing population, there is less space for these land-based climate mitigation activities and less for nature and biodiversity. Meanwhile, the changing climate is bringing more extreme weather which impacts on our safety.
To grow a green future that is safe and resilient to these changes, we need to understand the linkages between the land and water systems of the earth. We need to have clear evidence of how changes we make on land and water management impact on the other aspects of the land-system, including how they will respond to increasing temperatures and extreme weather systems.
This programme of work will bring together scientists from many different disciplines to work together to understand three key questions:
What is limited our ability to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from the land?
What are the options for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and what impacts do they have on the environment?
How can we improve our resilience to climate change through improved forecasting and prediction of extreme events?
By bringing together scientists in disciplines from soils, water, air and ecosystem dynamics, we will improve our understanding of the complex system that lies at the heart of the problem.
We will use novel downscaling techniques and uncertainty framework to link global models to regional and national scale simulations. This will enable us to reality check the assumptions made in the global analysis against local knowledge.
Using the downscaled data as a base-line, we will develop new knowledge of how the land-system interacts with the climate system at the local scale.
Case studies around ecosystem restoration in sub-saharan Africa and gradients of intensity of agriculture in Southeast Asia will be used to quantify the impact of ecosystem management on climate mitigation metrics. Results of these case-studies will be used to inform the global assessment of land-management potential to contribute to Net Zero.
We will create a global network of scientists bringing their knowledge of the environmental and socio-political system and how it interacts.
Global and regional data will be made available to the national (UK) and international community of scientists to address these urgent issues
Organisations
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Lead Research Organisation)
- King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (Collaboration)
- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) (Collaboration)
- James Hutton Institute (Collaboration)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) (Collaboration)
- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (Collaboration)
- Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) (Collaboration)
- International Association of Hydrological Sciences (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Environmental Studies (Collaboration)
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (Collaboration)
- University of Glasgow (Collaboration)
- Agrarian University of Colombia (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency (Collaboration)
- World Meteorological Organization (Collaboration)
- University of Brunei Darussalam (Collaboration)
- University of Delhi (Collaboration)
- Government of Ghana (Collaboration)
- Kebangsaan University (Collaboration)
- University of Leeds (Collaboration)
- United Nations (UN) (Collaboration)
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (Collaboration)
- University of Jos (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Ghana Meteorological Agency (Collaboration)
- University of Dundee (Collaboration)
- University of Tokyo (Collaboration)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Collaboration)
- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Collaboration)
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) (Collaboration)
- Uppsala University (Collaboration)
- University of Exeter (Collaboration)
- Putra Malaysia University (Collaboration)
- British Water (Collaboration)
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Collaboration)
- University of Palangka Raya (Collaboration)
- International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) (Collaboration)
- Earth Observatory of Singapore (Collaboration)
- National University of Malaysia (Collaboration)
- Météo France (Collaboration)
- Utrecht University (Collaboration)
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Ghana (Collaboration)
- Kenya Meteorological Department (Collaboration)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Goethe University Frankfurt (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) (Collaboration)
- Department of Transport (Collaboration)
- BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (Collaboration)
- Nanyang Technological University (Collaboration)
- UK National Commission for UNESCO (Collaboration)
- ICPAC (Collaboration)
- Water Resources Commission of Ghana (Collaboration)
- European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting ECMWF (Collaboration)
- Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (Collaboration)
- SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- British Hydrological Society (Collaboration)
- University of Göttingen (Collaboration)
- Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (Collaboration)
Publications
Amoakowaah Osei M
(2026)
Covariance of the intertropical discontinuity and African easterly jet in Sahelian wet and dry years
in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Anderson S
(2024)
Nowcasting convective activity for the Sahel: A simple probabilistic approach using real-time and historical satellite data on cloud-top temperature
in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Anderson, L
(2025)
Fogo em Foco 2024-2025
Aura C
(2023)
The quantification of the extent of flooding on selected major Afrotropical lakes to guide management implications
in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Bartholomew DC
(2024)
Bornean tropical forests recovering from logging at risk of regeneration failure.
in Global change biology
| Title | Tipping Point - Luke Jerram |
| Description | Hosted at the Bristol University Botanic Gardens, the exhibit "Tipping Points" was a dynamic display of light, visuals, and sound that explored the effects of wildfires on tropical forests and local communities. Attendees could engage with UKCEH and Met Office volunteers in the "Meet the Scientist" area at both the entrance and exit, where they presented research on the future vulnerability of ecosystems to fires. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The "Tipping Point" event combined art and science to engage the public with critical issues of climate change and global health. It received overwhelmingly positive feedback from audiences and collaborators, highlighting its ability to provoke individual action and foster meaningful discussions. Building on its success, there is strong support for running the event again, with potential for global outreach through related projects like the "Sun" artwork, which has already gained national media coverage and promises a broad international tour. |
| URL | https://www.lukejerram.com/tipping-point/ |
| Description | The programme generated important new scientific understanding including for example: 1) The significant role that adaptation in plant photosynthesis to climate change makes on estimation of global carbon uptake, and how ignoring this can significantly underestimate carbon uptake and mask variability in response to climate change across the globe. 2) The role of soil moisture on the development of storms in Africa and in turn, on hazard early warning. 3) The contribution of small holder oil palm plantations to the overall impacts of oil palm as a land use, with a focus on greenhouse gas emissions and soil pollution The programme produced several open-source datasets that support UK and international science. The global dataset on near-natural catchments was expanded, providing a baseline for assessing climate impacts on river systems. Over the programme period, the network grew to more than 60 partner organisations across 30 countries. Lowcost sensors and affordable methods were also developed to measure peatland soils and soil carbon exchange in smallholder oil palm plantations, providing valuable data for both researchers and farmers. Capacity development for researchers was included in several areas of the programme. For example, the JULES Academy was introduced to African researchers and students to support wider use of the model and improve representation of African ecosystems. Knowledge exchange was enabled through the visiting scientist scheme which produced specific outputs, for example, a humid heat stress index that is being trialled in Nairobi but the Kenya Meteorological Department. One key challenge was implementing a new machine learning based downscaling method for the global JULES model. The approach proved ineffective, so alternative downscaling strategies were used depending on the research needs. |
| Exploitation Route | The outcomes vary in scale and focus. As such, some of these can be used by or already being used by multilateral processes and organisations, such as UNCCD, ipbes, IPCC, etc. Others are more focused on global environmental scientists - such as the new datasets and updated models and model outputs, which can be taken forward by this community. Yet others such as related to small holder oil palm plantations could be taken forward by other scientists or third sector to provide small holders with evidence for carbon credits or other such markets, for example. Finally, some of the outcomes are already being used by government departments to collect data or make decisions, and this can be expanded into other regions or sectors over time. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/news-NC-international |
| Description | The programme created tools that support better decision-making such as an open-source tool that estimates drought risk to vegetation carbon productivity, designed for use by policymakers. New methods were also developed to link plot-scale and large-scale models, giving a more complete picture of environmental processes. Two major tools emerged from this work: one assessing how nature-based solutions reduce soil erosion at catchment scale, and another estimating regional carbon stocks in oil palm plantations. Citizen science and early-warning systems were expanded and improved. Two examples include: 1) The Bloomin' Algae app was translated into Kiswahili and introduced to Lake Victoria fisherfolk, enabling better tracking of nutrient-driven algal blooms. 2) The Nowcasting tool for West Africa was enhanced to improve forecast accuracy and expand coverage, strengthening national hydrometeorological services. Some datasets were created specifically for national government partners. A major output was the Global Multi-Indicator Drought dataset, now adopted by the UNCCD for reporting on Strategic Objective 3. Another achievement was the first complete dataset on genetic diversity of a native Kenyan tree species, now informing conservation and breeding strategies. Capacity building to environmental management bodies was included in the programme. Training on the UK-developed EMEP-WRF air quality model was delivered in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Hydrological outlook systems and training were expanded across WMO member states. The programme also contributed to international coordination on global environmental challenges such as through lead or contributing authors for global assessments including, ipbes, IPCC, Global soil and State of Water reports, and representation and coordination on behalf of the UK on the UNESCO-IHP and the WMO Intergovernmental hydrology. |
| Sector | Environment |
| Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | Butterfly monitoring protocols in different bio geographic regions |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Development of a JULES training program for an African audience |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Hydrological Status and Outlooks Technical Team |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Katie Facer-Childs and Lucy Barker co-lead the HydroSOS Technical Team |
| Description | Hydrological modelling |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | POSTnote on the future of fertiliser use |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0710/ |
| Description | UNCOP30 Side Event : Wildfires: Science, Stories, and Strategies for Resilience in Amazonia |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/live/VNg-QCfYbvQ |
| Description | Understand the surface and atmospheric drivers of extreme heat across East Africa with a particularly focus on Kenya |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | C3S2_411_Lot 3 Operational C3S Water Service: user-oriented service and interface |
| Amount | € 800,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting ECMWF |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2025 |
| End | 01/2028 |
| Description | CREWS-Caribbean: Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological and Early Warning Services in the Caribbean |
| Amount | SFr. 387,150 (CHF) |
| Organisation | World Bank Group |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 11/2025 |
| End | 12/2030 |
| Description | Ghana Drought and Pest Climate Risk Project |
| Amount | £370,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | InsuResilience |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 07/2025 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | IndicatoRs to Impacts for drought Surveillance (IRIS) |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | Innovate 4 Nature |
| Amount | £186,252 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2025 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| Description | Nowcasting with Artificial Intelligence for African Rainfall: NAIAR (NE/Y000420/1) |
| Amount | £908,403 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/Y000420/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Title | Calculator of Risk to Terrestrial Carbon Pool# |
| Description | This is an algorithm for estimating "Risk to Terrestrial C Pool". It contains a data sourcing and processing pipeline. The Net Primary Production (NPP) is the amount of carbon dioxide that is captured by plants through photosynthesis and converted into organic matter. It is used here to quantify the size of the terrestrial C pool and capture its patterns across space and time. The following steps are pefromed : Data Sourcing: Download and prepare the data needed for the analysis, including MODIS Land Cover and Net Primary Production Products, European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Soil Moisture Dataset and Global Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) Dataset. Data Processing: Calculate probability of drought, vulnerability of NPP to drought and risk posed by drought to NPP. The user can select to use EO based soil moisture or the standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index as the drought index |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Users can access and use a new scalable open-source tool. Interest from scientist in Africa has been expressed. |
| URL | https://nerc-ceh.github.io/data-science-toolbox/methods/ds-toolbox-notebook-risk-terrestrial-carbon-... |
| Title | Data on culturally important species, habitat use and tree planting activities collected in 2025 |
| Description | Survey results from 267 households in south-east Kenya. Data comprise culturally important species, the reasons for their cultural importance and habitat use of these species. Other specified species, information on tree planting activities that the respondent has participated in within the last 10 years and demographic data are also included. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No notable impacts yet. |
| Title | Data on drought risk to vegetation carbon productivity |
| Description | Data available via an interactive dashboard published on the MapX cartographic platform. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Data and work/science exposed to an international audience using a platform not previously leveraged by UKCEH |
| URL | https://app.mapx.org/static.html?views=MX-V3M7Z-5EYL4-B607D&theme=classic_light&zoomToViews=true |
| Title | Driving data for running the JULES Land Surface Model over Kenya |
| Description | Data provided are in NetCDF format, realised at 1 km resolution, for every day in the period 2000-2025 and for a domain covering longitudes 33.75 to 42.00 and latitudes -4.75 to 5.50. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data are crucial for allowing a user to carry out simulation runs using JULES (for any purpose) over this region. Data are available on the JASMIN compute platform jasmin.ac.uk. |
| Title | Driving data for running the JULES Land Surface Model over Perak, Malaysia |
| Description | Data provided are in NetCDF format, realised at 1 km resolution, for every day in the period 2000-2025 and for a domain covering longitudes 100.10 to 103.71 and latitudes 3.6 to 6.1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data are crucial for allowing a user to carry out simulation runs using JULES (for any purpose) over this region. Data are available on the JASMIN compute platform jasmin.ac.uk . |
| Title | Driving data for running the JULES Land Surface Model over Riau, Indonesia |
| Description | Data provided are in NetCDF format, realised at 1 km resolution, for every day in the period 2000-2025 and for a domain covering longitudes 99.9 to 105.1 and latitudes -1.2 to 3.5. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data are crucial for allowing a user to carry out simulation runs using JULES (for any purpose) over this region. Data are available on the JASMIN compute platform jasmin.ac.uk . |
| Title | Driving data for running the JULES Land Surface Model over Sabah, Malaysia |
| Description | Data provided are in NetCDF format, realised at 1 km resolution, for every day in the period 2000-2025 and for a domain covering longitudes 113.2 to 119.5 and latitudes 3.6 to 6.1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data are crucial for allowing a user to carry out simulation runs using JULES (for any purpose) over this region. Data are available on the JASMIN compute platform jasmin.ac.uk . |
| Title | Ensemble of land and freshwater ecosystem services mapped for Lake Victoria's catchment area, 2000-2022 |
| Description | This dataset presents modelled predictions (spanning 2000-2022) for several important ecosystem services in the Lake Victoria basin in eastern Africa. The catchment includes areas of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi (196,883 sq. km, excluding Lake Victoria itself). The dataset variables include carbon storage across multiple land pools, erosion avoided by the presence of vegetation cover, nitrogen and phosphorus retention by the landscape, annual baseflow (subsurface contribution to river flow) and annual quickflow (surface runoff). These data were generated by UKCEH scientists using the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services & Trade-offs (InVEST) platform of GIS models. The purpose of this dataset is to allow users to investigate how these ecosystems services vary spatially across the landscape and also how they may change over time. Users can also investigate where synergies and trade offs among different ecosystem services occur, which can help inform management decisions such as where to best target the planting of new trees for maximum environmental benefit. The dataset comes in the form of 30, single-band geotiff raster files. For each of the six modelled variables, there five files (one file per year: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2022), at 90 x 90 metre spatial resolution, using the ESRI:102022 - Albers for Africa equal area projection. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset has been incorporated into an interactive web tool, "Hydrology in Sub-Saharan Africa - Environmental monitoring in the Lake Victoria region": https://africa-hydrology.ceh.ac.uk/monitoring/. The dataset and web portal have been shown to local stakeholders/partners in Kenya (KEMFRI) during a visit by the project team to Kisumu, Kenya (10-14th November 2025), and more widely to delegates of the 8th Sustainable |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c6ba2edc-09f0-4cdc-9aa7-9a108ca91d54 |
| Title | European Monitoring and Evaluation Program Model for the UK (EMEP4UK) daily ozone and particulate matter surface concentration for Southeast Asia for 2019 with and without forest fire emissions |
| Description | The data set provides daily average concentration of ozone and PM2.5, PM10 and ozone on a 0.1° x 0.1° grid for 2019 for 2 scenarios: (1) A baseline run (BASE) including wildfire emissions and (2) A scenario without wildfire emissions (NOFF) for the Southeast Asian domain. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Air Quality data showing the impact of biomass burning have been made available to the global research community. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/b8fc9e84-c837-4ecf-a638-c0ef0900b9c3 |
| Title | Evaluation of the APSIM Model for Oil Palm productivity and greenhouse gas emission |
| Description | The Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) was used to evaluate Oil Palm productivity and greenhouse gas emission in Perak, Malaysia. This work was carried out using measured data on soil properties from the region over 25 smallholder oil palm plantations. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The evaluation of the APSIM model will allow us to generate potential yield data for oil palm plantation under smallholder farmer management. This is valuable as obtaining real yield is difficult due to the small size of farms and the level of reporting. The work will be developed to explore management scenarios and the model is being aligned with trials on-going in the Perak region of Malaysia in 2025. |
| URL | https://www.apsim.info/ |
| Title | FLAME: a novel approach for modelling burned area in the Brazilian biomes using the Maximum Entropy concept - Input Data |
| Description | This repository contains driving data used by training and evaluation of FLAME in the "FLAME: a novel approach for modelling burned area in the Brazilian biomes using the Maximum Entropy concept" paper. All NetCDF files are on regular, 0.5-degree grids on a monthly timestep over Brazil. Not all variables were used in the final analysis NetCDF File Variable Used/not Used Source/Reference burned_area.nc Burned area As training data MCD64A1/ Giglio et al. (2018) burned_area_nat_veg.nc Burned area in natural vegetation As training data MCD64A1/ Giglio et al. (2018) and Mapbiomas, 2022 burned_area_non_nat_veg.nc Burned area in non natural vegetation As training data MCD64A1/ Giglio et al. (2018) and Mapbiomas, 2022 tas_max.nc Maximum Temperature Used ISIMIP3a FRIELER et al. (2023) precip.nc Precipitation Used vpd.nc Vapor pressure deficit Not Used rhumid.nc Relative Humidity Not Used consec_dry_days.nc Consecutive number of dry days Not Used soilM.nc Soil Moisture Not Used JULES-ES lightn.nc Lightning Not Used ISIMIP3a FRIELER et al. (2023) popDen.nc Population density Not Used road_density.nc Road density Used GRIP global (MEIJER et al., 2018) cveg.nc Vegetation carbon Not Used JULES-ES csoil.nc Carbon in dead vegetation Used JULES-ES forest.nc Forest Used MAPBIOMAS, 2022 grassland.nc Grassland Not Used savanna.nc Savanna Not Used cropland.nc Cropland Not Used pasture.nc Pasture Used np.nc Number of patches Not Used Calculated from MAPBIOMAS,2022 ed.nc Edge density Used |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11491125 |
| Title | Global Daily FFDI Projections from HadCM3C Perturbed Physics Ensemble - RCP2.6 |
| Description | This dataset contains daily McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) outputs derived from the HadCM3C Perturbed Physics Ensemble (PPE) under two future emissions scenarios. This is the RCP2.6 Data Repository. You can find the RCP8.5 Data Repository here. Each repository includes NetCDF files (.nc.gz) representing daily FFDI values for 57 ensemble members. The data spans from 1 January 1970 to 22 December 2097 on a global 3.75° x 2.5° grid using the following projection: +proj=longlat +R=6371229 File Naming Convention NetCDF files that contain daily FFDI values follow the structure: ffdi_joined_rcpX.x_XXXXX.nc.gz Where: rcpX.x refers to the emissions scenario (2.6 or 8.5). XXXXX represents the unique ensemble member ID. We also include three files that, for each ensemble member (first column), contain the start (2nd column) and end date (3rd column) of the 20-year running mean of the exceedance window of 1.5, 2 and 4°C global warming level. These filenames have the structure rcpX_xgwl_Y_y.txt Where: rcpXyx refers to the emissions scenario (2.6 or 8.5). Y_y represents the global warming level above pre-industrial Dataset Overview Variables: Daily FFDI values calculated from model outputs of temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and precipitation. Temporal Coverage: 1970-01-01 to 2097-12-22. Spatial Coverage: Global grid at 3.75° longitude x 2.5° latitude resolution. Number of Ensemble Members: 57. Methodology The FFDI was computed using input variables from the HadCM3C PPE, which incorporates dynamic vegetation and carbon cycle feedbacks. This ensemble samples uncertainties in atmospheric feedbacks, land carbon processes, and ocean physics. The FFDI is calculated as: FFDI = 1.25 * DF * exp[((T - H) / 30.0) + 0.0234 * V] Where: T = daily maximum temperature at 1.5m (°C), H = daily relative humidity (%), V = daily wind speed at 10m (km/h), DF = drought factor, derived from soil moisture deficit and recent precipitation. For a detailed explanation of the methodology and the specific parameters used, refer to our associated publication once published:DOI: xxxxx Usage Notes Data Formats: Files are compressed NetCDF (.nc.gz) and can be accessed using tools like Python's xarray, R's ncdf4, or command-line tools like ncdump. Applications: This data is suitable for assessing future changes in fire weather conditions, global fire risk analysis, and climate impact assessments. Citation If you use this dataset, please cite: Taylor et al. (2024). Limiting global warming to 1.5°C minimises projected global increases in fire weather days, but adaptation to new fire regimes is still needed. . DOI: xxxxx |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14860331 |
| Title | Global Daily FFDI Projections from HadCM3C Perturbed Physics Ensemble - RCP8.5 |
| Description | This dataset contains daily McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) outputs derived from the HadCM3C Perturbed Physics Ensemble (PPE) under two future emissions scenarios. Data is split between two report, the RCP2.6 Data Repository here, while this one is the RCP8.5 Data Repository here. Each repository includes NetCDF files (.nc.gz) representing daily FFDI values for 57 ensemble members. The data spans from 1 January 1970 to 22 December 2097 on a global 3.75° x 2.5° grid using the following projection: +proj=longlat +R=6371229 File Naming Convention NetCDF files that contain daily FFDI values follow the structure: ffdi_joined_rcpX.x_XXXXX.nc.gz Where: rcpX.x refers to the emissions scenario (2.6 or 8.5). XXXXX represents the unique ensemble member ID. We also include three files that, for each ensemble member (first column), contain the start (2nd column) and end date (3rd column) of the 20-year running mean of the exceedance window of 1.5, 2 and 4°C global warming level. These filenames have the structure rcpX_xgwl_Y_y.txt Where: rcpXyx refers to the emissions scenario (2.6 or 8.5). Y_y represents the global warming level above pre-industrial Dataset Overview Variables: Daily FFDI values calculated from model outputs of temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and precipitation. Temporal Coverage: 1970-01-01 to 2097-12-22. Spatial Coverage: Global grid at 3.75° longitude x 2.5° latitude resolution. Number of Ensemble Members: 57. Methodology The FFDI was computed using input variables from the HadCM3C PPE, which incorporates dynamic vegetation and carbon cycle feedbacks. This ensemble samples uncertainties in atmospheric feedbacks, land carbon processes, and ocean physics. The FFDI is calculated as: FFDI = 1.25 * DF * exp[((T - H) / 30.0) + 0.0234 * V] Where: T = daily maximum temperature at 1.5m (°C), H = daily relative humidity (%), V = daily wind speed at 10m (km/h), DF = drought factor, derived from soil moisture deficit and recent precipitation. For a detailed explanation of the methodology and the specific parameters used, refer to our associated publication once published:DOI: xxxxx Usage Notes Data Formats: Files are compressed NetCDF (.nc.gz) and can be accessed using tools like Python's xarray, R's ncdf4, or command-line tools like ncdump. Applications: This data is suitable for assessing future changes in fire weather conditions, global fire risk analysis, and climate impact assessments. Citation If you use this dataset, please cite: Taylor et al. (2024). Limiting global warming to 1.5°C minimises projected global increases in fire weather days, but adaptation to new fire regimes is still needed. . DOI: xxxxx |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14859064 |
| Title | Global hydrological dataset of daily streamflow data from the Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN), 1863 - 2022 |
| Description | The Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) dataset is a global hydrological dataset containing publicly available daily flow data for 2,386 gauging stations across the globe which have natural or near-natural catchments. Metadata is also provided alongside these stations for the Full ROBIN Dataset consisting of 3,060 gauging stations. Data were quality controlled by the central ROBIN team before being added to the dataset, and two levels of data quality are applied to guide users towards appropriate the data usage. Most records have data of at least 40 years with minimal missing data with data records starting in the late 19th Century for some sites through to 2022. ROBIN represents a significant advance in global-scale, accessible streamflow data. The project was funded the UK Natural Environment Research Council Global Partnership Seedcorn Fund - NE/W004038/1 and the NC-International programme [NE/X006247/1] delivering National Capability |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3b077711-f183-42f1-bac6-c892922c81f4 |
| Title | Groundwater levels (2019-2021) and rainfall data (2020-2021) collected with a citizen science approach on the Indian Ocean island of Karainagar, Sri Lanka |
| Description | This dataset includes measurements of groundwater levels (2019-2021) and rainfall data (2020-2021), collected through citizen participation on the Indian Ocean island of Karainagar, Sri Lanka. Karainagar, the study area, is one of seven islands located off the coast of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. This rectangular island is bounded on three sides by the Palk Strait, while the fourth side faces the Jaffna Lagoon and is connected to the mainland by a causeway. Karainagar covers an area of approximately 22 km², including inland water bodies. Seven dug wells used for domestic purposes were inventoried and monitored to track groundwater levels. Rainfall data were collected from six locations, including two schools, three households, and one village government office (Grama Niladhari Office). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bce114d8-8f3b-49e0-90c6-f0788c1e9a0d |
| Title | Groundwater levels, salinity, pH, and rainfall on the Indian Ocean island of Karainagar, Sri Lanka, 2019-2024 |
| Description | This dataset includes measurements of groundwater levels, salinity, and pH collected from 36 dug wells, along with rainfall data, on the Indian Ocean island of Karainagar, Sri Lanka, spanning the period from 2019 to 2024. Karainagar, the study area, is one of seven islands located off the coast of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. This rectangular island is bounded on three sides by the Palk Strait, while the fourth side faces the Jaffna Lagoon and is connected to the mainland by a causeway. Karainagar covers an area of approximately 22 km², including inland water bodies. Thirty-six dug wells-used for agricultural, domestic, Kovil (Temple), and public purposes-were inventoried. These wells were monitored to track groundwater levels and key physicochemical parameters, specifically salinity (measured as electrical conductivity, EC) and pH, on Karainagar Island. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ba22d53b-4eee-48a1-b6f3-653d252c0358 |
| Title | Historical (1971-2005) and projected (2006-2099) hydrological model (HMF-Malaysia) estimates of monthly mean and annual maximum river flows across Peninsular Malaysia driven by CORDEX-SEA projected climate data |
| Description | This dataset comprises multiple baseline and future ensembles of hydrological model estimates of monthly mean and annual maximum river flows (m3s-1) on a 0. 0.008333° × 0. 0.008333° grid (approximate grid of 1 km × 1 km) across Peninsular Malaysia. Specifically, these are provided for historical (1971 to 2005) and projected future (2006 to 2099) periods, for 3 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). This dataset is the output from the Hydrological Modelling Framework for Malaysia, or "HMF-Malaysia" model. The projected future hydrology simulations are provided for CORDEX-SEA (Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment - South East Asia) three RCPs (RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) assuming (i) current artificial influences (CAI) such as water transfers and diversions and (ii) planned future artificial influences (FAI). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These spatial flow data projections are made available to support planning for future floods and drought scenarios in individual-States/Catchments, and across the whole of Peninsular Malaysia. |
| Title | Hydrological Status R Script |
| Description | An R script that can be used to calculate hydrological status for most variables according to the HydroSOS standards. Currently only shared via implementation efforts (not openly available online yet). |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This code has been used by several nations to trial the implementation of HydroSOS status assessment. The most notable application was at the Lake Victoria Basin, where multiple nations applied it to their local observed datasets. These status products were then uploaded to the HydroSOS demonstration portal. |
| Title | Modelled erosional impacts on soil and freshwater nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in Lake Victoria's catchment area, 2000-2022 |
| Description | This dataset presents model predictions of soil erosion impacts on land and freshwater systems in the Lake Victoria Basin. These impacts include: (1) soil nutrient balances as a function of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) loads to the land surface from fertiliser, manure and atmospheric deposition, minus rates of nutrient loss via soil erosion; and (2) total sediment and nutrient exports to water aggregated per sub-catchment (t/yr), which combines nutrients lost in surface runoff and subsurface flows with additional losses associated with erosion of existing soil nutrient stocks. These data are particularly useful for better understanding terrestrial N and P dynamics, and should provide valuable data for analysis of soil fertility, food security and water quality. These data were generated for each year (2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 & 2022) using two models from the InVEST ecosystem services platform: the Nutrient Delivery Ratio (NDR) and Sediment Delivery Ratio (SDR) models. Each of these models relies on a set of simple empirical functions, which has the advantage of requiring few model inputs that are easy to provide and allow for rapid modelling of large spatial areas, but come with the disadvantage of missing potentially important processes. For example, the SDR model only considers soil erosion via rills and sheetwash; it does not capture gullies, landslides or river channel change. Additionally, it was not possible to calibrate either model due to a scarcity of observational data. However, the models do produce generally expected patterns of sediment and nutrient dynamics. Hence, the outputs should still be useful for identifying areas of relatively high and low values and for assessing relative changes over time. The outputs themselves consist of raster gridded maps at 90 x 90 metre resolution, as well as vector polygons representing sub-catchments. The sub-catchments aggregate the total sediment, N and P exports from land to water for all grid cells present within each sub-catchment's boundary. All maps cover the full catchment area (196,883 sq. km excluding the lake itself) of the Lake Victoria Basin. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset has been incorporated into an interactive web tool, "Hydrology in Sub-Saharan Africa - Environmental monitoring in the Lake Victoria region": https://africa-hydrology.ceh.ac.uk/monitoring/. The dataset and web portal have been shown to local stakeholders/partners in Kenya (KEMFRI) during a visit by the project team to Kisumu, Kenya (10-14th November 2025), and more widely to delegates of the 8th Sustainable |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/02977a5d-00a0-44f8-baee-d2e0eecb5df0 |
| Title | Plot-level forest structure, carbon density and tree species richness data from restoration sites in South and Southeast Asia |
| Description | This dataset consists of structure, biomass (carbon density) and biodiversity (plant species richness) from forest inventory plots at forest restoration sites in South and Southeast Asia |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset also includes the code used for analysis of this plot level data, used to compare the outcome of different restoration approaches. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/3d3b1d09-9e7a-4144-b8a1-b09a3c573466 |
| Title | Predicted soil erosion rates, nutrient fluxes and topsoil lifespans, modelled for Kenya at a 30 metre resolution |
| Description | This dataset presents predicted soil erosion rates (t ha-1 yr-1) and its impact on topsoils, including lifespans (yr) assuming erosion rates remain constant and there is no replacement of soil; flux rates of soil organic carbon via erosion (t SOC ha-1 yr-1); flux rates of soil nitrogen via erosion (t N ha-1 yr-1); and flux rates of soil phosphorous via erosion (t P ha-1 yr-1). The dataset comes in the form of 3 multi-band raster GeoTiff files, structured as follows: LC16_Results.tif: Model predictions generated under the 2016 Copernicus Land Cover Map at 30-metre resolution (5 bands) Mitigation_scenarios.tif: Predicted reductions in erosion rates in the event of implementing mitigation scenarios described in 16 different scenarios (16 bands). PNV_Results.tif: Same structure as LC16_Results.tif, but stores predictions generated under the Potential Natural Vegetation cover map for East Africa at 30-metre resolution (5 bands) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This data has been shared with a project partner (BGS) who are interested in looking at the human health implications of soil pollution, including soils displaced via erosion. This dataset will also likely help with modelling soil erosion, retention and delivery rates across the Lake Victoria Basin. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/86d07d98-2956-4395-8b02-29dd5d98e6be |
| Title | Robin Code Libraries |
| Description | R package for the ROBIN project. The codes developed allow the community to run analyses on the ROBIN dataset. Already, it has allowed countries that aren't able to share raw data outside of their countries to share derived indicators instead (e.g. Vietnam) |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Have allowed us to expand the data we can use in our analyses. |
| URL | https://github.com/NERC-CEH/ROBIN_pipeline |
| Title | Soil microbial communities, soil, environmental and forest structural properties across old-growth forest and naturally regenerating or actively restored selectively logged tropical forest in Sabah, Borneo, March 2018 v2 |
| Description | This dataset contains information on soil microbial communities, soil physicochemical properties, forest structural and environmental characteristics across a contiguous area of forest that has undergone contrasting logging disturbance and restoration in Sabah, northern Malaysian Borneo. Sampling was conducted as part of a study investigating soil microbial community responses to either active restoration (enrichment planting) or passive restoration (natural regeneration) of selectively logged forest, relative to old-growth soil microbial communities. This work was supported through the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Human Modified Tropical Forests Programme (Biodiversity and Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium [NE/K016253/1]), ENVISION Doctoral Training Scheme [NE/L002604/1] and NC International Programme [NE/X006247/1]. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset contains information on soil microbial communities, soil physicochemical properties, forest structural and environmental characteristics across a contiguous area of forest that has undergone contrasting logging disturbance and restoration in Sabah, northern Malaysian Borneo. Sampling was conducted as part of a study investigating soil microbial community responses to either active restoration (enrichment |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/08bfe302-d33f-490d-97be-27bb83a0f38d |
| Title | State of Wildfires 2023-24 - ConFire data |
| Description | This contains driving and output data used by ConFire in the State of Wildfire's 2023/24 report. All NetCDF files are on regular, 0.5-degree grids on a monthly timestep over the three regions used and defined in the report. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://github.com/douglask3/Bayesian_fire_models/tree/SoW |
| Title | State of Wildfires 2023-24 - ConFire data |
| Description | This contains driving and output data used by ConFire in the State of Wildfire's 2023/24 report. All NetCDF files are on regular, 0.5-degree grids on a monthly timestep over the three regions used and defined in the report. Driving Data The "Driving_data" directory contains data used to run the ConFire model and produce analyses. This directory is divided into three focal regions, with NW_Amazon corresponding to the report's "Western Amazonia". Each region contains the following files: raw_burnt_area.nc: The original 0.25-degree burnt area dataset before being regridded for use in ConFire. nrt: Near Real Time (NRT) driving data used for driver identification. isimip3a: ISIMIP3a data used for attribution. isimip3b: ISIMIP3b GCM bias-corrected data used for future projections. NRT Within the nrt directory, data is organized by periods, with the numbers corresponding to the year range. The report utilizes the period_2013_2023 directory, which contains the NetCDF files in the table below. Filename ending with the following show: 12Annual - 12 month running mean 12monthMax - 12 month running maximum Deficity - current month over 12 month running mean Quarter - 3 month running mean Not all were used in the final analysis. For full data info, see Table 3 of the report https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-218: NetCDF File Variable Used/Not Used Source Notes burnt_area.nc Burnt Area As training data cropland.nc Cropland Used HYDE Klein Goldewijk et al., 2011 d2m.nc 2m Dewpoint Temperature Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 DeadFuelFoilage-cvh_C.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a DeadFuelFoilage-cvl_C.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a DeadFuelFoilage.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a DeadFuelWood-cvh_C.nc Dead Wood Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a DeadFuelWood-cvl_C.nc Dead Wood Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a DeadFuelWood.nc Dead Wood Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Foilage-12Annual.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Moisture Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Foilage-12monthMax.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Moisture Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Foilage-Deficity.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Moisture Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Foilage.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Moisture Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Foilage-Quater.nc Dead Foliage Fuel Moisture Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Wood-12Annual.nc Dead Wood Fuel Moisture Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Wood-12monthMax.nc Dead Wood Fuel Moisture Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Wood-Deficity.nc Dead Wood Fuel Moisture Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Dead-Wood.nc Dead Wood Fuel Moisture Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Live-12Annual.nc Live Fuel Moisture Content Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Live-12monthMax.nc Live Fuel Moisture Content Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Live-Deficity.nc Live Fuel Moisture Content Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Live.nc Live Fuel Moisture Content Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a Fuel-Moisture-Live-Quater.nc Live Fuel Moisture Content Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a grazing_land.nc Grazing Land Not Used lightn.nc Lightning Used LIS/OTD Cecil et al., 2014 LiveFuelFoilage-cvh_C.nc Live Leaf Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a LiveFuelFoilage-cvl_C.nc Live Leaf Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a LiveFuelFoilage.nc Live Leaf Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a LiveFuelWood-cvh_C.nc Live Wood Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a LiveFuelWood-cvl_C.nc Live Wood Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a LiveFuelWood.nc Live Wood Fuel Load Not Used Fuel Model McNorton et al. 2024a pasture.nc Pasture Used HYDE Klein Goldewijk et al., 2011 population_density.nc Population Density Used rangeland.nc Rangeland Not Used rural_population.nc Rural Population Used HYDE Klein Goldewijk et al., 2011 snowCover.nc Snow Cover Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 t2m.nc 2m Temperature Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 total_irrigated.nc Irrigated Area Not Used tp-12Annual.nc Precipitation Not Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 tp-12monthMax.nc Precipitation Not Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 tp-Deficity.nc Precipitation Not Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 tp.nc Precipitation Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 tp-Quater.nc Precipitation Not Used ERA5-Land Muñoz-Sabater et al. 2021 urban_population.nc Urban Population Used HYDE Klein Goldewijk et al., 2011 VOD-12Annual.nc Mean & Max VOD Used Satellite (SMOS) Wigneron et al 2021 VOD-12monthMax.nc Mean & Max VOD Used Satellite (SMOS) Wigneron et al 2021 VOD-Deficity.nc Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD) Not Used Satellite (SMOS) Wigneron et al 2021 VOD.nc Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD) Used Satellite (SMOS) Wigneron et al 2021 VOD-Quater.nc Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD) Not Used Satellite (SMOS) Wigneron et al 2021 ISIMIP3a The isimip3a directory follows the structure: <>/<>/period_yyyy_yyyy/. <>: Can be either: obsclim: Reanalysis targeting observed climate. counterclim: Detrended obsclim approximating climate without climate change. <>: Currently contains only GSWP3-W5E5, with more sources to follow in subsequent years. yyyy_yyyy: Corresponds to the year range. For attribution experiments in the report, the following directories are used: Factual: obsclim/GSWP3-W5E5/period_2002_2019/ Counterfactual: counterclim/GSWP3-W5E5/period_2002_2019/ Early Industrial: counterclim/GSWP3-W5E5/period_1901_1920/ Additional details on setting the temporal range for the report can be found here. ISIMIP3b The isimip3b directory structure is similar to ISIMIP3a: <>/<>/period_yyyy_yyyy/. <> includes: historical: Historical GCM output. ssp126 ssp370 ssp585 <>: Refers to the General Circulation Model used. yyyy_yyyy: Corresponds to the year range. Both ISIMIP3a and ISIMIP3b contain the same NetCDF files, as follows: netcdf file variable used/not used source Notes consec_dry_mean.nc Max. consecutive dry days used ISIMIP3a/3b Based on precipitation crop_jules-es.nc Cropland used ISIMIP3a/3b Interpolated from annual to monthly debiased_nonetree_cover_jules-es.nc Total vegetation cover not used JULES-ES-ISIMIP VCF using ibicus Non-tree vegetated cover simulated by JULES and bias-corrected debiased_tree_cover_jules-es.nc Tree Cover not used JULES-ES-ISIMIP VCF using ibicus Annual mean tree cover bias-corrected to VCF dry_days.nc No. dry days used ISIMIP3a/3b Fractional number of days with rainfall < 0.1mm/m filled_debiased_nonetree_cover_jules-es.nc Total vegetation cover used JULES-ES-ISIMIP VCF using ibicus Filled and bias-corrected non-tree vegetated cover filled_debiased_tree_cover_jules-es.nc Tree Cover used JULES-ES-ISIMIP VCF using ibicus Filled and bias-corrected tree cover filled_debiased_vegCover_jules-es.nc Total vegetation cover used JULES-ES-ISIMIP VCF using ibicus Filled and bias-corrected vegetation cover lightning.nc Lightning used ISIMIP3a Climatology nonetree_cover_jules-es.nc Total vegetation cover not used JULES-ES-ISIMIP Non-tree vegetated cover simulated by JULES pasture_jules-es.nc Pasture used ISIMIP3a/3b Interpolated from annual to monthly pr_mean.nc Precipitation used ISIMIP3a/3b Monthly mean precipitation tas_max.nc Maximum monthly temperature used ISIMIP3a/3b Maximum of maximum daily temperature within the month tas_mean.nc Mean monthly temperature used ISIMIP3a/3b Daily mean temperature tree_cover_jules-es.nc Tree Cover not used JULES-ES-ISIMIP Annual mean tree cover bias-corrected to VCF urban_jules-es.nc Urban fraction used JULES-ES Urban area fraction vpd_max.nc Maximum monthly VPD used ISIMIP3a/3b Maximum of daily VPD values vpd_mean.nc Mean monthly VPD used ISIMIP3a/3b Mean of daily VPD values nontree_cover_VCF-obs.nc Total vegetation cover not used VCF Non-tree vegetated cover observed nontree_raw_VCF-obs.nc Total vegetation cover not used VCF Raw non-tree vegetated cover observed nonveg_cover_VCF-obs.nc Non-vegetated cover not used VCF Observed non-vegetated cover nonveg_raw_VCF-obs.nc Non-vegetated cover not used VCF Raw observed non-vegetated cover tree_cover_VCF-obs.nc Tree Cover not used VCF Observed tree cover tree_raw_VCF-obs.nc Tree Cover not used VCF Raw observed tree cover ISIMIP3a/3b is detailed in Frieler et al. (2024) and raw data can be obtained from https://data.ISIMIP.org While not used as driving data, VCF is used to proceed bias corrected driving data. VCF is taken from MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields collection 6.1 remote sensed data for <60?N DiMiceli et al. (2022) and collection 6 for <60?N DiMiceli et al. (2015). JULES-ES (Mathison et al. 2023) was driven using the corresponding ISIMIP datasets. Outputs Outputs contain the ConFire outputs when driven with the provided datasets. The directories are named according to the regions, and for each region, there are four sets of outputs: isimip-evaluation1 isimip-final.tar nrt-evaluation1 nrt-final Each of these directories contains the following files necessary for rerunning the model without redoing the optimization. While you are unlikely to need to look at these files, they are useful for setting up your own model experiments (see the ConFire configuration settings): scalers-_*.csv trace-_*.nc variables_info-_*.txt Additionally, there are two other directories: figs: Contains automatically generated figures and some of their outputs. sample: Contains model outputs. Within the sample directory, there is a subdirectory indicating the model run name, which contains a series of experiments. These experiments differ for each run (see below), and each experiment contains some or all of the following directories: Evaluate: Contains the burnt area from the full model including stochastic parameters. Often used for evaluation (see report supplement for more information). Control: Contains burnt area driven purely by driving datasets with stochasticity. Used as the control in most of the analysis. Standard_X: A series of directories with burnt areas from individual controls. This describes the burnt area in the presence of that control in otherwise ideal burning conditions. The numbers are: 0: Fuel load for all runs 1: Fuel moisture for all runs 2: Fire weather for NRT and ignitions for ISIMIP3a 3: Ignitions for ISIMIP3a and suppression for ISIMIP3a 4: Suppression for NRT 5: Snow for NRT Within each of these directories is a series of ensemble members sample-predX.nc. Within the same optimization (i.e., the same model run, so across all experiments), samples are paired, meaning the sample-predX.nc corresponds to the sample in another experiment. Experiments isimip-evaluation1 & nrt-evaluation1 The only experiment for evaluation is called baseline, which has an 'Evaluate' and 'Control' run and is used to evaluate the model. Automatically generated evaluation figures can be found in the figs/ directory. nrt-final This also contains only one run, baseline, but includes runs for each of the controls. isimip-final This has more runs: factual: Uses the ISIMIP3a obsclim driving dataset (see driving dataset above). counterfactual: Uses the ISIMIP3a counterclim dataset. early_industrial: Uses the early period ISIMIP3a counterclim dataset. historical/<>/, ssp126/<>/, ssp370/<>/, ssp585/<>/: Uses the ISIMIP3b datasets outlined above, where <> is one of each of the five GCMs used in ISIMIP3b. Additional Analysis The analysis in the report also utilizes 95th and 90th percentile burnt area totals. These aren't as neatly organized as the NetCDF files yet, but we're getting there. They can be found in: figs/ _13-frac_points_0.5-<>-control_TS/<>-control_TS/pc-%%/ points-<>.csv |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11420742 |
| Title | State of Wildfires 2023-24: Regional Summaries of Burned Area, Fire Emissions, and Individual Fire Characteristics for National, Administrative and Biogeographical Regions |
| Description | This dataset supports the State of Wildfires 2023-24 report under review at Earth System Science Data (Jones et al., 2024; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3601-2024). The dataset provides annual data and final-year anomalies in burned area (BA), fire carbon (C) emissions, and fire properties (e.g. distributional statistics for fire count, size, rate of growth). Annual data relate to the global fire season defined as March-February (e.g., March 2023-February 2024), aligning with an annuall lull in the global fire calendar (see Jones et al., 2024). The complete methodology is described by Jones et al. (2024). Citation Work utilising our regional summaries should cite both Jones et al. (2024) AND the primary reference for the variable(s) of interest as follows: Giglio et al. (2018) for MODIS MCD64A1 BA. van der Werf et al. (2017) for GFED4.1s fire C emissions. Kaiser er al. (2012) for GFAS fire C emissions. van der Werf et al. (2017) AND Kaiser er al. (2012) for the average of GFED4.1s and GFAS fire C emissions. Andela et al. (2019) for the Global Fire Atlas. Input Data Burned Area (BA) BA data from NASA's MODIS BA product (MCD64A1) are extended from Giglio et al. (2018) and are available at Giglio et al. (2021, https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mcd64a1v061/). Period: 2002-February 2024 Resolution: 500m Fire Carbon (C) Emissions GFED4.1s fire C emissions data are extended from van der Werf and are available at https://globalfiredata.org/. Period: 2003-February 2024 Resolution: 0.25 degree, daily GFAS fire C emissions data are extended from Kaiser et al. (2012) and are available at https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/CKB/CAMS+global+biomass+burning+emissions+based+on+fire+radiative+power+%28GFAS%29%3A+data+documentation. Period: 2003-February 2024 Resolution: 0.1 degree, daily Global Fire Atlas (Individual Fire Atlas and Properties) Global Fire Atlas are extended from Andela et al. (2019) and are available at Andela and Jones (2024, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11400062, last access: 31 May 2024). Period: 2002-February 2024 Driven by 500m MODIS BA data (collection 6.1) Regional Analysis We performed "cookie-cutting" (spatial and temporal masking) of the above input data sets to features in each of the following regional layers (e.g. per country in the "Countries" layer). The statistics derived from cookie-cutting are listed below. Full details in Jones et al. (2024). Layer Short Form Source Biomes NA Olson et al. (2001) Continents NA ArcGIS Hub (2024) Continental Biomes NA See above Countries NA EU Eurostat (2020) UC Davis Global Administrative Areas (GADM) Level 1 GADM-L1 UC Davis (2022) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group I (WGI) Reference Regions IPCC AR6 WGI Regions IPCC (2021); SantanderMetGroup (2021) Global C Project Regional C Cycle Assessment and Processes (RECCAP2) Reference Regions RECCAP2 Regions Ciais et al. (2022) Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) Basis Regions GFED4.1s Regions van der Werf et al. (2006) Regional Statistics and Anomalies Burned Area (BA) Calculated regional totals for each fire season. Relative and standardized anomalies from historical data (since 2002). Ranking amongst all recorded fire seasons. Onset, peak, and cessation based on monthly deviations from climatological means. Carbon Emissions Calculated regional totals for each fire season. Relative and standardized anomalies from historical data (since 2003). Ranking amongst all recorded fire seasons. Onset, peak, and cessation based on monthly deviations from climatological means. Statistics available for GFAS, GFED, and their mean. Individual Fire Properties Based on ignition point vectors from the Global Fire Atlas. Calculated regional count. Calculated regional maxima and 95th percentiles for each fire season. Relative and standardized anomalies from historical data (since 2002). Ranked anomalies among all recorded fire seasons. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11400539 |
| Description | Application of modelling tools and the use of data in SEA |
| Organisation | Kebangsaan University |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Methodologies around water resources modelling and reservoir storage forecasting. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Information on current needs, technologies and data availability, as well as accessing data where required for modelling inputs. |
| Impact | Enhanced methods around water resources assessments and reservoir status and outlooks in SEA. Potential for further collaboration going forward in relation to ongoing work in Thailand around data-driven modelling for seasonal storage prediction of reservoir stocks. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Application of modelling tools and the use of data in SEA |
| Organisation | King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi |
| Country | Thailand |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Methodologies around water resources modelling and reservoir storage forecasting. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Information on current needs, technologies and data availability, as well as accessing data where required for modelling inputs. |
| Impact | Enhanced methods around water resources assessments and reservoir status and outlooks in SEA. Potential for further collaboration going forward in relation to ongoing work in Thailand around data-driven modelling for seasonal storage prediction of reservoir stocks. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration on HydroSOS with GMet and Ghana Hydrological Authority |
| Organisation | Ghana Meteorological Agency |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH provided training and code for hydrological status and outlooks production for Ghanaian partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ghanaian partners provided in-situ data to trial training materials, and attended training to support HydroSOS implementation development |
| Impact | Code was used to develop protoype HydroSOS products. These were presented to officials in Ghana to provide leverage for increased funding in hydromet observing systems and product development. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration on HydroSOS with GMet and Ghana Hydrological Authority |
| Organisation | Government of Ghana |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH provided training and code for hydrological status and outlooks production for Ghanaian partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ghanaian partners provided in-situ data to trial training materials, and attended training to support HydroSOS implementation development |
| Impact | Code was used to develop protoype HydroSOS products. These were presented to officials in Ghana to provide leverage for increased funding in hydromet observing systems and product development. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Japanese National Institute for Environmental Sciences |
| Organisation | National Institute for Environmental Studies |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We hosted a research visit from our Japanese partner for two months; I visited Japan for one week, where I delivered a lecture. We are working on towards a paper on biodiversity indicators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Japanese partners are leading the writing of the paper. |
| Impact | A paper on biodiversity indicators for species |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Data-driven approaches to reservoir storage modelling |
| Organisation | King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi |
| Country | Thailand |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of reservoir forecasting model using inputs and local knowledge from Thai partners at KMUTT. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of data and knowledge of the case study basin, including reservoir operations and meteorology. |
| Impact | Initial version of a forecasting model to including a Thai reservoir for prediction and forecasting at the seasonal temporal scale. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Drought indicators to impacts modelling and applications |
| Organisation | Uppsala University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise on drought indicators to impact modelling. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise on agricultural drought indicators to impacts methods from her work on India. |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange about drought indicators for impact studies, methods and application and common topic of co-developing research. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Droughts indicators to impacts prediction over Ghana |
| Organisation | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Ghana |
| Department | Water Research Institute |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Methods for development of machine learning models for drought impacts. High resolution global datasets for drought indicators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Local expertise on drought dynamics. Local drought impact datasets. |
| Impact | Co-development of drought indicator to impact models and capacity building for WRI for running these models. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Fire-drought related work collaboration with Dr. Maggie Chel Gee Ooi (UKM researcher) |
| Organisation | National University of Malaysia |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provide technical and resource support for the analysis Supervise the progress of analysis Provide the access to data Contribute to paper writing once the project is complete |
| Collaborator Contribution | Perform the analysis Preparing the results Contribute to writing of the paper |
| Impact | Collaboration on the following fronts: Investigate the occurrence of compound hot-dry-fire events over SEA Assess the role of dry and hot conditions in aggravating the fire risks in the region Understand the implications to terrestrial ecosystem functioning and map the risk |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate Change |
| Organisation | University of Delhi |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | iLEAPS and the Hindu College, University of Delhi held a short course on ""Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate Change", between 15th October and 20th November 2024. The course comprise a set of lectures (mainly online, with some in person) on iLEAPS research areas, given by current and former members of the iLEAPS Scientific Sterring Committee, and speakers from the iLEAPS Colloquium Series. The opening lecture was delivered by G Hayman. 21 participants from different universities in India, among graduate, undergraduate and post graduate levels of different disciplines attended the course. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Online lectures given by current and former members of the iLEAPS Scientific Sterring Committee, and speakers from the iLEAPS Colloquium Series. |
| Impact | Interest in repeating. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Further collaborations resulting from the leadership of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPMN) |
| Organisation | Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Our UKCEH chairing of GPNM has allowed us to work towards transforming the partnership from a situation of significant antagonism and lack of trust between core partners. By frank engagement with different key partners, we have worked towards a new respectful approach that builds trust, with frank honesty and recognition and acceptance of differences in opinion and position. This is providing a strong foundation for further upscaling of GPNM activities into the future. Improved relationships have been established through GPNM with the International Fertilizer Manufacturers Association (IFA) and Yara (leading international fertilizer company), while strengthening active Civil Society Organization engagement in the GPNM, including leading engagement by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF). Our leadership of GPNM has also enabled us to develop a new role in the GEF Clean and Healthy Oceans (CHO) programme, Global Coordination Project (CGP), where UKCEH now co-represents UNEP on the Steering Group, and is supported in mobilizing outcomes from the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) and partnerships from GPNM, with valuable funding for this work. This activity has also led to Mark Sutton being appointed as a governing consortium member of the UN Science Policy Business Forum (UNSPBF) for the environment, building new partnerships with wider business community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UNEP Ecosystems division provide the Secretariat of GPNM, and act as champion for acquisition of GEF funding. UNEP Science Division, lead coordination of the UNSPBF IFA and Yara, contribute knowledge, data and expertise on mobilizing sustainable nutrient management CIWF provide a global lead among NGOs for Sustainable Nitrogen Management, organizing several side events in the wings of UN Climate and Biodiversity Meetings. |
| Impact | FAO: New funding of Clean and Healthy Ocean Global Coordination Project (starting 2026) Side events improving shared understanding 07/25 GESDA (Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator): Energy Engineering Anticipation Workshop (international horizon scanning, invited panellist). 06/25 UNFCCC Side Event and Workshop, Bonn, on Sustainable Nitrogen Management, co-organized with Compassion in World Farming and member states (hybrid, online). Co-organizer, speaker. 05/25 24th Large Marine Ecosystem Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (Istanbul, hybrid). Invited speaker and panelist (online). 05/25 Meeting with secretariat of the UN Science Policy Business Forum for the Environment (UNSPBF), UNEP, Nairobi (online). 03/25 Chairs coordination meeting and Steering Committee Meeting for Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) and UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen, Bangkok. 01/25 Launch event of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Nitrogen Report on 'Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Agrifood Systems', invited speaker (hybrid, online). |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Further collaborations resulting from the leadership of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPMN) |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Department | United Nations Environment Programme |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Our UKCEH chairing of GPNM has allowed us to work towards transforming the partnership from a situation of significant antagonism and lack of trust between core partners. By frank engagement with different key partners, we have worked towards a new respectful approach that builds trust, with frank honesty and recognition and acceptance of differences in opinion and position. This is providing a strong foundation for further upscaling of GPNM activities into the future. Improved relationships have been established through GPNM with the International Fertilizer Manufacturers Association (IFA) and Yara (leading international fertilizer company), while strengthening active Civil Society Organization engagement in the GPNM, including leading engagement by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF). Our leadership of GPNM has also enabled us to develop a new role in the GEF Clean and Healthy Oceans (CHO) programme, Global Coordination Project (CGP), where UKCEH now co-represents UNEP on the Steering Group, and is supported in mobilizing outcomes from the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) and partnerships from GPNM, with valuable funding for this work. This activity has also led to Mark Sutton being appointed as a governing consortium member of the UN Science Policy Business Forum (UNSPBF) for the environment, building new partnerships with wider business community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UNEP Ecosystems division provide the Secretariat of GPNM, and act as champion for acquisition of GEF funding. UNEP Science Division, lead coordination of the UNSPBF IFA and Yara, contribute knowledge, data and expertise on mobilizing sustainable nutrient management CIWF provide a global lead among NGOs for Sustainable Nitrogen Management, organizing several side events in the wings of UN Climate and Biodiversity Meetings. |
| Impact | FAO: New funding of Clean and Healthy Ocean Global Coordination Project (starting 2026) Side events improving shared understanding 07/25 GESDA (Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator): Energy Engineering Anticipation Workshop (international horizon scanning, invited panellist). 06/25 UNFCCC Side Event and Workshop, Bonn, on Sustainable Nitrogen Management, co-organized with Compassion in World Farming and member states (hybrid, online). Co-organizer, speaker. 05/25 24th Large Marine Ecosystem Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (Istanbul, hybrid). Invited speaker and panelist (online). 05/25 Meeting with secretariat of the UN Science Policy Business Forum for the Environment (UNSPBF), UNEP, Nairobi (online). 03/25 Chairs coordination meeting and Steering Committee Meeting for Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) and UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen, Bangkok. 01/25 Launch event of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Nitrogen Report on 'Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Agrifood Systems', invited speaker (hybrid, online). |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Global hydrological modelling under the ULYSSES programme |
| Organisation | European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting ECMWF |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | JULES modelling expertise and global. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Global hydrological model simulations and storage. |
| Impact | High resolution global hydrological simulations as hindcasts and operational forecasts. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Global hydrological modelling under the ULYSSES programme |
| Organisation | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres |
| Department | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | JULES modelling expertise and global. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Global hydrological model simulations and storage. |
| Impact | High resolution global hydrological simulations as hindcasts and operational forecasts. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Global hydrological modelling under the ULYSSES programme |
| Organisation | Utrecht University |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | JULES modelling expertise and global. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Global hydrological model simulations and storage. |
| Impact | High resolution global hydrological simulations as hindcasts and operational forecasts. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | HydroSOS Global Implementation Partnership |
| Organisation | European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting ECMWF |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH are leading the development of the global implementation of HydroSOS. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SMHI and ECMWF provide expert support and data products for the development of the global HydroSOS service. |
| Impact | In progress |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | HydroSOS Global Implementation Partnership |
| Organisation | Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH are leading the development of the global implementation of HydroSOS. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SMHI and ECMWF provide expert support and data products for the development of the global HydroSOS service. |
| Impact | In progress |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | HydroSOS Global Implementation Partnership - OUTLAST project |
| Organisation | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Adjustments and developments made to the Global HydroSOS portal to ingest and show the data provided by OUTLAST in the global portal and an OUTLAST case study page. Contributions and attendance at numerous stakeholder workshops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of global scale drought monitoring and forercast data for the Standardised Precipitation Index, Streamflow Percentiles and a crop drought indicator. |
| Impact | Pilot OUTLAST drought montioring and seasonal forecasts available on the HyroSOS Global Portal and an OUTLAST case study page, with options to view the data according to OUTLAST categories as well as the HydroSOS framework. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS Global Implementation Partnership - OUTLAST project |
| Organisation | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Adjustments and developments made to the Global HydroSOS portal to ingest and show the data provided by OUTLAST in the global portal and an OUTLAST case study page. Contributions and attendance at numerous stakeholder workshops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of global scale drought monitoring and forercast data for the Standardised Precipitation Index, Streamflow Percentiles and a crop drought indicator. |
| Impact | Pilot OUTLAST drought montioring and seasonal forecasts available on the HyroSOS Global Portal and an OUTLAST case study page, with options to view the data according to OUTLAST categories as well as the HydroSOS framework. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS Global Implementation Partnership - OUTLAST project |
| Organisation | University of Göttingen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Adjustments and developments made to the Global HydroSOS portal to ingest and show the data provided by OUTLAST in the global portal and an OUTLAST case study page. Contributions and attendance at numerous stakeholder workshops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of global scale drought monitoring and forercast data for the Standardised Precipitation Index, Streamflow Percentiles and a crop drought indicator. |
| Impact | Pilot OUTLAST drought montioring and seasonal forecasts available on the HyroSOS Global Portal and an OUTLAST case study page, with options to view the data according to OUTLAST categories as well as the HydroSOS framework. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | International Land Modelling meeting and forum |
| Organisation | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to a debate about the future direction of land surface modelling, for use in Net Zero Plus assessment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to how the requirements of international community on land surface modelling needs to evolve. |
| Impact | Evolved into a new International Land Modelling Forum. To take forward new modelling options. https://hydro-jules.org/international-land-modeling-forum-ilmf |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | International Land Modelling meeting and forum |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to a debate about the future direction of land surface modelling, for use in Net Zero Plus assessment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to how the requirements of international community on land surface modelling needs to evolve. |
| Impact | Evolved into a new International Land Modelling Forum. To take forward new modelling options. https://hydro-jules.org/international-land-modeling-forum-ilmf |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | International Land Modelling meeting and forum |
| Organisation | Météo France |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to a debate about the future direction of land surface modelling, for use in Net Zero Plus assessment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to how the requirements of international community on land surface modelling needs to evolve. |
| Impact | Evolved into a new International Land Modelling Forum. To take forward new modelling options. https://hydro-jules.org/international-land-modeling-forum-ilmf |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | International Land Modelling meeting and forum |
| Organisation | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to a debate about the future direction of land surface modelling, for use in Net Zero Plus assessment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to how the requirements of international community on land surface modelling needs to evolve. |
| Impact | Evolved into a new International Land Modelling Forum. To take forward new modelling options. https://hydro-jules.org/international-land-modeling-forum-ilmf |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | International Land Modelling meeting and forum |
| Organisation | University of Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to a debate about the future direction of land surface modelling, for use in Net Zero Plus assessment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to how the requirements of international community on land surface modelling needs to evolve. |
| Impact | Evolved into a new International Land Modelling Forum. To take forward new modelling options. https://hydro-jules.org/international-land-modeling-forum-ilmf |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | MOU with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) |
| Organisation | National University of Malaysia |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Organise, negotiate and sign research MoU |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organise, negotiate and sign research MoU |
| Impact | The MoU facilitates ongoing and new NC International research with university in Malaysia. The areas of cooperation include: flood, drought impacts, net-zero greenhouse gas emission, water quality & resources, and sustainable agriculture. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | MOU with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) |
| Organisation | Putra Malaysia University |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Organise, negotiate and sign research MoU |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organise, negotiate and sign research MoU |
| Impact | The MoU facilitates ongoing and new NC International research with university in Malaysia. The areas of cooperation include: flood, drought impacts, net-zero greenhouse gas emission, water quality & resources, and sustainable agriculture. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Negotiation and signing of MoUs with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) |
| Organisation | Putra Malaysia University |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Organise, negotiate and sign research MoUs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organise, negotiate and sign research MoUs |
| Impact | The MoUs will facilitate ongoing and new NC International research with two universities in Malaysia |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | New collaboration to co-develop and co-lead the JULES Academy East Africa Network |
| Organisation | ICPAC |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | JULES Academy was initiated by UKCEH, aiming to introduce and provide training in the JULES model to interested academics and professionals in Africa. The long-term goal of JULES Academy is to foster development of a self-sustaining network of JULES users and developers in Africa. UKCEH in 2025 funded pilot online training on JULES, and in-person meetings in Accra and Nairobi in November 2025. At the Nairobi meeting, new partnerships were agreed to co-lead JULES Academy in East Africa with organisations based in the region: HoAREC&N and ICPAC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | HoAREC&N has an existing network of academics and practitioners in East Africa, and an organisational mandate for capacity building and supporting formulation of policies for sustainable use of natural resources. ICPAC also has an existing network, mandate for capacity building, and access to its own high-performance computing (HPC). UKCEH, ICPAC and HoAREC&N have jointly agreed a roadmap aiming to develop an active and self-sustaining regional community of practice by 2027. As part of this collaboration, HoAREC&N and ICPAC have initially agreed to provide co-leadership, support to stakeholder engagement using their existing networks, and necessary administrative support for JULES Academy plans in 2026. |
| Impact | - Agreement to co-lead JULES Academy East Africa Network in 2026 (and hopefully beyond) - Regular planning meetings are ongoing - In the long-term we expect the network to be formalised and operationalised with leadership and administrative support from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | New collaboration to co-develop and co-lead the JULES Academy East Africa Network |
| Organisation | Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) |
| Country | Djibouti |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | JULES Academy was initiated by UKCEH, aiming to introduce and provide training in the JULES model to interested academics and professionals in Africa. The long-term goal of JULES Academy is to foster development of a self-sustaining network of JULES users and developers in Africa. UKCEH in 2025 funded pilot online training on JULES, and in-person meetings in Accra and Nairobi in November 2025. At the Nairobi meeting, new partnerships were agreed to co-lead JULES Academy in East Africa with organisations based in the region: HoAREC&N and ICPAC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | HoAREC&N has an existing network of academics and practitioners in East Africa, and an organisational mandate for capacity building and supporting formulation of policies for sustainable use of natural resources. ICPAC also has an existing network, mandate for capacity building, and access to its own high-performance computing (HPC). UKCEH, ICPAC and HoAREC&N have jointly agreed a roadmap aiming to develop an active and self-sustaining regional community of practice by 2027. As part of this collaboration, HoAREC&N and ICPAC have initially agreed to provide co-leadership, support to stakeholder engagement using their existing networks, and necessary administrative support for JULES Academy plans in 2026. |
| Impact | - Agreement to co-lead JULES Academy East Africa Network in 2026 (and hopefully beyond) - Regular planning meetings are ongoing - In the long-term we expect the network to be formalised and operationalised with leadership and administrative support from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Research Collaboration on project entitled "New Techniques for Monitoring Carbon Stock and Flux in Southeast Asia using Spaceborne SAR and LIDAR Observations" |
| Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Installation of six peat caemeras, data processing and quality control of the data |
| Collaborator Contribution | University Brunei Darussalam is the Research sponsor and they are also in charge of maintenance the peat cameras. NTU is leading this project and also in charge of doing all the remote sensing work |
| Impact | Peat motion and water table depth time series from degraded tropical peatlands (UKCEH). Other partners working on the Spaceborn SAR and LIDAR |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Research Collaboration on project entitled "New Techniques for Monitoring Carbon Stock and Flux in Southeast Asia using Spaceborne SAR and LIDAR Observations" |
| Organisation | University of Brunei Darussalam |
| Country | Brunei Darussalam |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Installation of six peat caemeras, data processing and quality control of the data |
| Collaborator Contribution | University Brunei Darussalam is the Research sponsor and they are also in charge of maintenance the peat cameras. NTU is leading this project and also in charge of doing all the remote sensing work |
| Impact | Peat motion and water table depth time series from degraded tropical peatlands (UKCEH). Other partners working on the Spaceborn SAR and LIDAR |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Research Permit to conduct research in Indonesia under the project "New Techniques for Monitoring Carbon Stock and Flux in Southeast Asia using Spaceborne SAR and LiDAR Observations" |
| Organisation | Earth Observatory of Singapore |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Installation of 12 new peat cameras, in collaboration with WRI Indonesia. In addition, maintenance of peat cameras and remote assistance to loca technical staff. Data processing and quality control of the data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Palangka Raya is the formal Sponsor of the Research permit. NTU is the lead applicant on this research permit and the entity in charge of doing the remote sensing work |
| Impact | Peat motion and water table depth time series from degraded tropical peatlands (UKCEH). Other partners working on the Spaceborn SAR and LIDAR |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Research Permit to conduct research in Indonesia under the project "New Techniques for Monitoring Carbon Stock and Flux in Southeast Asia using Spaceborne SAR and LiDAR Observations" |
| Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Installation of 12 new peat cameras, in collaboration with WRI Indonesia. In addition, maintenance of peat cameras and remote assistance to loca technical staff. Data processing and quality control of the data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Palangka Raya is the formal Sponsor of the Research permit. NTU is the lead applicant on this research permit and the entity in charge of doing the remote sensing work |
| Impact | Peat motion and water table depth time series from degraded tropical peatlands (UKCEH). Other partners working on the Spaceborn SAR and LIDAR |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Research Permit to conduct research in Indonesia under the project "New Techniques for Monitoring Carbon Stock and Flux in Southeast Asia using Spaceborne SAR and LiDAR Observations" |
| Organisation | University of Palangka Raya |
| Department | Center for International Cooperation in Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatland (CIMTROP) |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Installation of 12 new peat cameras, in collaboration with WRI Indonesia. In addition, maintenance of peat cameras and remote assistance to loca technical staff. Data processing and quality control of the data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Palangka Raya is the formal Sponsor of the Research permit. NTU is the lead applicant on this research permit and the entity in charge of doing the remote sensing work |
| Impact | Peat motion and water table depth time series from degraded tropical peatlands (UKCEH). Other partners working on the Spaceborn SAR and LIDAR |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Sampling trips around Lake Victoria and its catchment |
| Organisation | Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Training and support for collection of chemical and biological samples, and measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from rivers and lakes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Boat, sampling equipment and field staff; laboratory analyses of samples. |
| Impact | Data on water quality, biological species and greenhouse gas emissions to support modelling approaches and feed into the Lake Victoria data portal. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | British Hydrological Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | British Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Department | Highways Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | International Association of Hydrological Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | James Hutton Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Northern Ireland Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | UK National Commission for UNESCO |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | University of Dundee |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | UK Committee for International Hydrology |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since the 1970s, UKCEH-chaired committees have provided a platform for bringing together the UK's international activities in the field of hydrology and water resources management. At present this committee is the UK Committee for International Hydrology, with its secretariat at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The Committee aims to better coordinate UK contributions to international hydrological and water resources management initiatives, by promoting dialogue between organisations, encouraging collaboration and avoiding duplication. UKCEH provides the Committee Chair (Prof Alan Jenkins, UKCEH Deputy Director) and Secretary (Prof Harry Dixon) as part of its National and Public Good activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Committee for International Hydrology's membership is drawn from a wide range of academic, public and private bodies with a major stake in hydrology and water resources activities, together with UK representatives of international non-governmental organizations and of initiatives within international programmes. |
| Impact | This collaboration focuses on hydrology but has relevance to other disciplines. |
| Description | Understanding flash droughts |
| Organisation | National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Global high-resolution datasets for drought indicators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise of global flash droughts from the TAMSAT group in NCAS. |
| Impact | Flash drought datasets and analysis. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Adriana Janneth Espinosa Ramirez |
| Organisation | Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Adriana was hosted by Dr France Gerard who had previously worked with Adriana on the PARAMUNDOS project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adriana engaged with multiple research groups while visiting UKCEH Wallingford, strengthening UK-Colombia collaboration in environmental microbiology, aquatic ecology and One Health research and laying the foundations for future work. She also collaborated with with Gemma Nash (Edinburgh) to explore digital data-collection platforms such as KoboToolbox, enabling offline, community-led monitoring of drinking water quality - a key step towards scaling up citizen science in low-connectivity settings. |
| Impact | - The documentary 'Paramundos - Páramos, Water and Society', was shown, attended by more than 80 UKCEH staff. This documentary featured the PARAMUNDOS project, worked on by both Adriana and France. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Chanchai Petpongpan |
| Organisation | King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi |
| Country | Thailand |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Chanchai was hosted by Srinidhi Jha and team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Chanchai Petpongpan, Lecturer at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, visited UKCEH Wallingford to collaborate on integrating groundwater stress in Thailand into the modified drought risk assessment framework, which will enable a more comprehensive understanding of drought risks in the region. |
| Impact | "No outputs yet - though a paper based on the joint research between Chanchai and UKCEH colleagues has been submitted. Hopefully will be published soon. They have also begun exploring a potential expansion of the work - focusing on looking into the climate resilience analysis and identifying further opportunities to strengthen this research area together. They are looking for funding to support this." |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Jeffrey Mauricio Prieto Naranjo |
| Organisation | Agrarian University of Colombia |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | While visiting UKCEH Edinburgh from November - December 2025, Jeffrey was hosted by France Gerard. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The proposed outputs of the visit were: 1. A draft paper written in English aimed at an international journal. 2. A draft PhD proposal 3. Jeffrey to display a poster at BES conference 2025 |
| Impact | Jeffrey attended and displayed a poster at BES conference 2025. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Jemimah Gacheru |
| Organisation | Kenya Meteorological Department |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Guillaume Chagnaud and team hosted Jemimah Gacheru at UKCEH - in particular working to test the effectiveness of forecasting heat stress using the existing KMD models. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Jemimah Gacheru is a weather forecaster based in Nairobi, Kenya. From 3 February - 14 March 2025 she visited UKCEH Wallingford, working in particular on the science around extreme heat events in Kenya, but also becoming involved in a wide variety of new initiatives to improve climate modelling and forecasting exchange between the UK and Kenya. |
| Impact | - As a result of discussions during the visit, Jemimah and Guillaume collaborated on a paper: 'Heat stress in tropical highland regions: the case of Kenya during February 2024' published in Weather. - As a result of discussions during the visit, UKCEH scientist Christopher Taylor gave a training session to 25 KMD staff in the use of their Nowcasting tool. - Building on work done during the visit, Jemimah has developed a prototype heat index tool for use within KMD. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Joseph Ibrahim |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joseph Ibrahim was hosted at UKCEH by David Roy from 13 August - 20 September 2024. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joseph's visit to UKCEH had the following objectives: Objective 1. Systematic literature review on methods to monitor butterfly populations across the world. Objective 2. Support NC-International AGILE project GloBMS by defining butterfly sampling methods suitable to West Africa Objective 3. Guidance for deployment of Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) systems in Nigeria |
| Impact | As a result of the visit, Nigeria was brought into into the Butterfly Count app, developed by UKCEH. Nigeria became the third African country to join. After the visit, Joseph presented his work at the Entomological Society of Nigeria and organized a workshop for the Nigerian Butterfly Network to promote the monitoring app. David Roy, joined the workshop virtually to share his expertise. Joseph also presented his UKCEH work at the 2025 Student Conference on Conservation Science in Cambridge and has finalized aliterature review for publication in Biological Reviews. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Joseph Ibrahim |
| Organisation | University of Jos |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joseph Ibrahim was hosted at UKCEH by David Roy from 13 August - 20 September 2024. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joseph's visit to UKCEH had the following objectives: Objective 1. Systematic literature review on methods to monitor butterfly populations across the world. Objective 2. Support NC-International AGILE project GloBMS by defining butterfly sampling methods suitable to West Africa Objective 3. Guidance for deployment of Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) systems in Nigeria |
| Impact | As a result of the visit, Nigeria was brought into into the Butterfly Count app, developed by UKCEH. Nigeria became the third African country to join. After the visit, Joseph presented his work at the Entomological Society of Nigeria and organized a workshop for the Nigerian Butterfly Network to promote the monitoring app. David Roy, joined the workshop virtually to share his expertise. Joseph also presented his UKCEH work at the 2025 Student Conference on Conservation Science in Cambridge and has finalized aliterature review for publication in Biological Reviews. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Joseph Ovwemuvwose |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | While visiting UKCEH Wallingford from 09 September - 18 October 2024 Joseph was hosted by Eleanor Blyth. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joseph's objectives for his visit were: Training course to be held 3 times (winter and summer school). A network of African academics and researchers in institution across the different regions of Africa who use the JULES model for their research. And possible publications based on the case study analysis done with the JULES. |
| Impact | Joseph prepared a list of academics and researchers from Nigeria who may be interested to participate in the JULES training programme. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Mendrika Rakotomanga |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Mendrika was hosted by Jawaria Ahmed between May and July 2025 at UKCEH Wallingford. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As part of his work on WISER-EWSA at Leeds, Mendrika developed a model for the short-term prediction of convective activity in Zambia - PanCast. During his time at UKCEH, Mendrika received support from researchers including to develop PanCast further and scale it from a regionally specific model to a pan-African model. This marks a significant increase in its potential utility. |
| Impact | "• PANCAST is now live on the CEH staging portal, and we have secured Leeds funding to support its further deployment as a mobile application in partnership with Météo Madagascar, with a focus on practical uptake and local implementation. • The foundational framework paper, NCAST, which underpins PANCAST, has now been submitted to the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. • A structured evaluation of PANCAST against NFLICS (Seonaid Anderson), convective initiation diagnostics (Chris Taylor), and NetNCC (Jawairia Ahmad) is currently underway, with preliminary intercomparison results suggesting complementary strengths in behaviour and skill. • The work also contributes to the WMO-funded African Storm Nowcasting Intercomparison and Evaluation (ASNIE) project, where PANCAST, NFLICS and the convective cores product (Cornelia Klein) are being evaluated alongside other leading nowcasting products from international providers, including EUMETSAT, the German Weather Service (DWD), and Chalmers University of Technology." |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Prince Junior Asilevi |
| Organisation | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | While staying at UKCEH Edinburgh in November 2025, Prince was hosted by Bryan Spears and Amy Pickard. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The proposed outputs of the visit were: • Prince will prepare a post visit report outlining key collaborative opportunities for UKCEH-KNUST-VRA. • Prince will develop a method statement for the sampling and analysis of GHGs from standing waters, based on the Loch Leven method. • UKCEH and KNUST will develop and submit a PhD proposal for funding to VRA, to be coordinated by UKCEH West Africa Office during their regular VRA meetings. |
| Impact | Prince has continued collaborating with Bryan and Amy on the Volta Lake greenhouse gas research. In particular, they have been developing satellite-based analyses of chlorophyll-a and hydroclimatic drivers to better understand methane emissions from the lake. This work is currently being finalized into a full paper for peer-reviewed publication, with the intention of presenting it at the EGU General Assembly 2026 following its recent acceptance. During the visit, the concept of establishing a Center of Excellence at KNUST was initiated. Following the visit, the team has continued discussions on this extensive project together with the international office in Accra. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Visiting Scientist - Yi Wen Mok |
| Organisation | Putra Malaysia University |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Yi Wen Mok was hosted by Rameshwaran Ponnambalam at UKCEH Wallingford from 22 September - 18 October 2024. |
| Collaborator Contribution | At UKCEH Wallingford, Yi Wen and Ramesh worked together on: 'Hydrological modelling for watershed management'. |
| Impact | 1. Skills transfer workshops took place 2. Yi Wen produced documentation on best practices in hydrological modelling based on learnings from her visit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| 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 | Workshop on droughts over Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Organisation | Ghana Meteorological Agency |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Organisation and financing of the workshop. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-organisation of the workshop along with local stakeholder engagement. |
| Impact | Stakeholder engagement for droughts forecasting and impacts. Co-development of droughts research for Ghana. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop on droughts over Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Organisation | Water Resources Commission of Ghana |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Organisation and financing of the workshop. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-organisation of the workshop along with local stakeholder engagement. |
| Impact | Stakeholder engagement for droughts forecasting and impacts. Co-development of droughts research for Ghana. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | World Meteorological Organization Partnership for HydroSOS |
| Organisation | World Meteorological Organization |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKCEH co-lead the HydroSOS technical team and participate in the coordination and implementation components |
| Collaborator Contribution | WMO lead the coordination and implementation components |
| Impact | HydroSOS has passed its pilot phase and is in its implementation phase. Regional implementation plans have been approved and are in the process of being actioned. A global implementation plan is in progress. Outputs and outcomes will be progressive over the coming years. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Title | Bloomin' Algae app for Kenya |
| Description | Mobile phone app for citizen scientists to record algal blooms around Lake Victoria |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Ability for users to report algal blooms |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/bloomin-algae |
| Title | ConFire: State of Wildfires 2023/24 |
| Description | Project Overview: This is the first release of our Bayesian-based fire models, designed for fire prediction and analysis using Bayesian inference and simple fire models. The release here is the base code and information used in the "State of Wildfire's report 2023/24". https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-218 Key Features: ConFire fire model now implemented with zero-inflated logistic link distribution Configuration files for near real-time, attribution and future projections for Greece, Canada, and NW Amazon. Utilizes various environmental and climatic data for isimip and Copernicus data store Robust statistical analysis now uses PyMC at version 5 and ArviZ. Installation and Usage: For detailed installation and usage instructions, please refer to the README, also in this repository archive. Acknowledgments: Special thanks to all contributors and the developers of the dependencies used in this project. Particularly Maria Lucia Ferreira Barbosa, Douglas Kelley, Chantelle Burton Full Changelog: https://github.com/douglask3/Bayesian_fire_models/compare/v0.1...SoW23_v0.1 |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11421746 |
| Title | ConFire: State of Wildfires 2023/24 |
| Description | Project Overview: This is the first release of our Bayesian-based fire models, designed for fire prediction and analysis using Bayesian inference and simple fire models. The release here is the base code and information used in the "State of Wildfire's report 2023/24". https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-218 Key Features: ConFire fire model now implemented with zero-inflated logistic link distribution Configuration files for near real-time, attribution and future projections for Greece, Canada, and NW Amazon. Utilizes various environmental and climatic data for isimip and Copernicus data store Robust statistical analysis now uses PyMC at version 5 and ArviZ. Installation and Usage: For detailed installation and usage instructions, please refer to the README, also in this repository archive. Acknowledgments: Special thanks to all contributors and the developers of the dependencies used in this project. Particularly Maria Lucia Ferreira Barbosa, Douglas Kelley, Chantelle Burton Full Changelog: https://github.com/douglask3/Bayesian_fire_models/compare/v0.1...SoW23_v0.1 |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11460232 |
| Title | Environmental monitoring in the Lake Victoria region |
| Description | The Lake Victoria Monitoring Portal is a collaborative initiative led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI). This platform centralises environmental monitoring and modelling data, focusing on land degradation, ecosystem services, water quality, pollution levels, and ecological changes within the Lake Victoria region. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | During 2 visits to Kenya in July and November 2025, the web portal was demonstrated to the Kenya Marine & Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI, our key partner in the region) and local stakeholders including the Beach Management Unit. |
| URL | https://cehacuk.sharepoint.com/sites/programme-intenz-plus/Lists/Software%20and%20Technical%20Produc... |
| Title | Floating weeds app for Kenya |
| Description | Mobile phone app to enable citizen scientists to record sightings of nuisance floating weeds such as water hyacinth. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Local people are starting to record sightings of floating weed problems on Lake Victoria. |
| URL | https://floatingweedmanager.ceh.ac.uk/ |
| Title | HydroSOS plug-in for the FEWS-NET |
| Description | This plug in developed by Deltares using methods led by UKCEH provides users of the FEWS-NET system HydroSOS products directly in the system without needing to run additional scripts and or tools |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Provides HydroSOS products to all FEWS-NET users and subscribers |
| Title | HydroSOS plug-in for the Meteorology, Climatology and Hydrology (MCH) database management |
| Description | This plug in developed by WMO using methods led by UKCEH allows users of the MCH database to produce HydroSOS products directly in the database without needing to run additional scripts and or tools |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Allows users to easily produce HydroSOS products, facilitating implementation and engagemet with HydroSOS |
| Title | NERC-CEH/ROBIN_pipeline: ROBIN hydrometric data processing v1.0 |
| Description | This set of scripts is used to process hydrometric data as supplied to the ROBIN initiative (Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection). It is linked to the paper Turner, S., Hannaford, J., Barker, L.J. et al. ROBIN: Reference observatory of basins for international hydrological climate change detection. Sci Data 12, 654 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04907-y and the dataset Turner, S.; Hannaford, J. et al. (2024). Global hydrological dataset of daily streamflow data from the Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN), 1863 - 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/3b077711-f183-42f1-bac6-c892922c81f4 |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.16900796 |
| Title | PeatCams |
| Description | PeatCams have been developed by UKCEH over the last two years as part of several projects. As part of NC-International, we have now trained local staff and students at the University of Palangka Raya, Indonesia, on how to build and install these systems The PeatCam is a time-lapse camera based on Raspberry Pi computers which uses a different low-cost sensors to monitor peat height changes and water table depth. The PeatCam uses telemetry to upload all collected data to a cloud storage service. The peat height changes or peat motion can be used to estimate peat subsidence and CO2 emissions from heterotrophic respiration. In addition, the monitoring of water table depth can be use as a fire prevention and drought tool, both themes covered as part of NC-International. The product was developed in the UK but the kits were built in Indonesia. 30 PeatCams have been built to date (funding came from several projects) and this will constitute the basis of our work for the next years. |
| Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Many students and staff from the University has shown interest. To date, one student from the Physics department has used this project to complete his compulsory apprenticeship. Furthermore, a student of the MSc in Management of Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Palangka Raya is looking after 9 PeatCams. She is using data from this cameras to write her MSc. thesis. Notice that the development of the PeatCams was sponsored by other projects and not specifically by NC-International. Also, DOI (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.630752/full) show the previous version of the peat cameras and how this tool can be used to monitor peatlands. UKCEH is looking at ways of commercialising the PeatCams but this work is still going on. |
| Title | Projected future changes in river flows across Peninsular Malaysia |
| Description | The data presented in this portal shows hydrological model estimates of projected future changes in river flows (m3s-1) across Peninsular Malaysia. The hydrological model is HMF-Malaysia, which provides grid-based and spatially-consistent simulations of river flows at a 0.008333° × 0.008333° grid (approximate grid of 1 km × 1 km) resolution across Malaysia. The model is driven by rainfall and temperature data from a climate model: CORDEX-SEA, which provides ensembles of daily climate model variables from 1976 to 2099. Changes in river flows are calculated between historical (1976-2005) and projected future (2006-2099) time periods using CORDEX-SEA climate model data. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | To support stakeholders and policymakers, this web portal was developed to show climate change impacts on the river flows for particular locations/states across Peninsular Malaysia. |
| URL | https://seasiawater.ceh.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Redeveloped HydroSOS web portal |
| Description | The Demonstration web portal has been redeveloped using new back end features, and deployed to a new URL. This portal is now future proofed for different product types and easier web map services. (URL to be released soon www.wmohydrosos.ceh.ac.uk) |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Yet to be realised |
| URL | http://www.wmohydrosos.ceh.ac.uk |
| Title | State of Wildfires report 2023/24 Analysis code |
| Description | Project Overview: Code for data creation, analysis and plotting for the State of Wildfires report 2023/24. For script information, see README in the repository and in this archive |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11460379 |
| Title | UKCEH Summer School GitHub Repository |
| Description | UKCEH Summer School 2025 on Data Driven Approaches to Hydrological Science Workshops Github Repository. In the repository series of hands-on workshops introduces the fundamentals of accessing, modelling, and analysing hydrological data and approaches. Each session is designed to build practical skills through guided exercises and additional resources. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This repo was used to build capacity in various global students in fundamental concepts in water resources modelling, how to access and work with remote datasets using Python, overview of key datasets commonly used in hydrological science, hands-on experience with standard tools and packages through practical applications. The repo is easily run on Google Collab for training session. |
| URL | https://github.com/NERC-CEH/UKCEH_Summer_School |
| Title | UKCEH West Africa Hydrological Forecasting Training Workshop 2026 GitHub repository |
| Description | This repository supports a three-day training workshop focused on building end-to-end capability in hydrological forecasting, from data access and exploration to modelling and operational forecast applications. The workshop progresses from working with hydroclimate datasets, through machine-learning-based water resources modelling, to the generation and interpretation of sub-seasonal to seasonal hydrological forecasts for decision making. The materials are organised by day and theme, with each section containing follow-along notebooks, scripts, example datasets, and guidance to enable participants to reproduce and adapt the methods introduced during the sessions. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2026 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This GitHub repository supports capacity building in hydrology and hydroclimate science by providing hands-on, reproducible training materials for accessing, analysing, and modelling hydrological datasets using Python. It enables users to apply machine-learning and conceptual hydrological models, generate and interpret sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts, and develop skills in visualisation and communication of forecast products. Overall, it strengthens technical expertise and supports the translation of hydrological science into operational water resources management and decision-making. |
| URL | https://github.com/NERC-CEH/ghana_hydro_training_2026 |
| Title | malu-barbosa/FLAME: FLAME 1.0 : Fogo local analisado pela Máxima Entropia |
| Description | This is the first release of our fire model, designed for fire prediction and analysis. FLAME (Fogo local analisado pela Máxima Entropia or Fire Landscape using the Maximum Entropy) is a Bayesian inference implementation of a maximum entropy fire model specifically tailored to simulating fires in heterogeneous territories like Brazil. The release here is the base code and information used in the "FLAME 1.0 : a novel approach for modelling burned area in the Brazilian biomes using the Maximum Entropy concept" paper. Acknowledgments: Special thanks to all contributors and the developers of the dependencies used in this project. Particularly Maria Lucia Ferreira Barbosa, Douglas Kelley, Chantelle Burton. Full Changelog: https://github.com/malu-barbosa/FLAME |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | This contributed to the development of the first iteration of the State of Wildfires report. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13367374 |
| Description | "Making Better Forecasts" and "Delivering Better Forecasts" presentations at HEPEX workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A poster and an oral presentation given at the HEPEX (Hydrological Ensemble Predictions Experiment) workshop at SMHI, Norrkoping, Sweden. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hepex.org.au/a-look-to-the-past-hepex-workshop/ |
| Description | "WMO Regional Association VI (Europe) Task Team on HydroSOS " |
| 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 | Task team leading HydroSOS implementation in Europe. Feeding back on technical developments and global implementation of HydroSOS and influencing implementation an research required for implementation in Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | 24th Large Marine Ecosystem Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (Istanbul, hybrid). |
| 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 | Prof. Sutton was an invited speaker and panelist on science provision for improved management of nitrogen pollution of large marine ecosystems. Enthusiasm of workshop participants to learn more about the work of WGN and of the GEF CHO Maldives project on sustainable nitrogen management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | 7th meeting of the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen |
| 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 | Provision of expert evidence from the science team the WGN, drawing on outputs from the INMS process. Building of consensus on the development of national nitrogen action plans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/working-group-meeting/seventh-meeting-unep-working-group-nitrogen |
| Description | 7th-edition of the International Conference of Oil Palm and Environment (ICOPE) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 7th-edition of the International Conference of Oil Palm and Environment (ICOPE) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiP14uHqfiLAxUa3AIHHTMjPR4Q... |
| Description | Advanced Application of the EMEP-WRF Model Workshop |
| 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 | The 4-day air quality modelling workshop took place on 28-31 October 2025 and focused on producing an air quality forecast over Malaysia with the EMEP-WRF atmospheric chemistry transport model. The majority of attendees were from the Malaysian Meteorological Department, however also attending were researchers from Institute of Ocean & Earth Sciences at University of Malaya, and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. By the end of the workshop the attendees were able to generate a 5-day air quality forecast and visualise the modelled data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Air Quality Forecasts Made Affordable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Massimo Vieno gave a presentation on advances in air quality modelling and their impacts on producing air quality forecasts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Air Quality Modelling Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, 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 | A three-day workshop aimed at researchers and PhD students on air pollution modelling with the EMEP-WRF atmospheric transport chemistry model . As well as practical air pollution modelling exercies carried out by the participants there was one day spent discussing air quality issues in Southeast Asia, the impact of air pollution on public health and the challenges local air quality scientists are facing in their work. Senior air pollution researchers from research institutions across Malaysia, and experts from WHO in Seoul and Australia attended the discussion session. The attendees were from: University of Malaysia; Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia); Universiti Sains Malaysia; Universiti Malaysia Kelantan; Universiti Malaysia Perlis; Health Polytechnic of Palangka Raya, Indonesia; National Institute of Health, Malaysia; Universiti Teknologi Petronas; Universiti Tenaga Nasional; Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia; Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency, Indonesia; Sunway University, Malaysia; WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region, Seoul; Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Raising awareness of the capability of the EMEP-WRF model. Attendees from MetMalaysia expressed interest in using the model for their air quality forecast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Air Quality Modelling for Pacific Island Countries: Insights from the Solomon Islands and Fiji |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An oral presentation at the 26th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation conference held in Adelaide, Australia, on 30 November - 4 December 2025. The abstract: Air quality in Pacific Island countries remains a critically under-researched area. The prevailing perception is that these islands enjoy consistently clean air, yet the limited monitoring studies available reveal a different picture, with elevated concentrations of pollutants from biomass burning, road traffic, waste burning, and other local sources. The absence of systematic measurements creates major gaps in understanding population exposure and health risks. Robust evidence is urgently needed to characterise air pollution in these environments and to inform policy actions that protect public health. In this study, we present high-resolution air quality modelling for two representative Pacific Island nations: the Solomon Islands and Fiji. The modelling framework couples the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with the EMEP MSC-W chemical transport model to simulate atmospheric composition for the year 2019. Meteorological fields were generated using WRF driven by ERA5 reanalysis, while anthropogenic emissions were taken from the HTAPv3 global dataset for 2018 at 0.1° × 0.1° resolution. Natural sources such as sea salt and biogenic emissions were also included through standard EMEP parameterisations. The model was configured at a horizontal resolution of 3 km × 3 km, with hourly output to capture diurnal variation, and covered the main populated islands of both countries. The analysis focused on three priority pollutants of public health concern-fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone (O3). To capture intra-urban variability of pollutant concentrations more accurately, we applied the uEMEP model to downscale emissions from road traffic to high-resolution subgrids (50 m × 50 m resolution) in the capital cities of Honiara (Solomon Islands) and Suva (Fiji) using local road network data as a proxy. The downscaling method involves calculating concentrations at the subgrid level with a Gaussian dispersion model which are then added to only the non-local contributions calculated by the regional model, thereby avoiding double counting of emissions. This combination of regional chemical transport modelling and local-scale dispersion modelling provides the first spatially and temporally resolved assessment of air quality across these islands. Preliminary analysis suggests that Pacific Island urban centres are not exempt from air pollution challenges: pollutant levels exceed WHO air quality guideline values, driven by both local and regional sources. These findings emphasise the urgent need for systematic air quality monitoring and targeted policy interventions in Pacific Island countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Air quality hindcasting and forecasting using the EMEP MSC-W model coupled with the WRF meteorological model |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Massimo Vieno delivered an oral presentation at The Working Group Meeting on Air Quality and Health in Seoul on 5-6 November 2025. The talk introduced the EMEP-WRF model and its capabilities to the attendees. A total of 46 participants attended the meeting (16 online), including 12 representatives from the seven participating countries in the TWG-AQH: Republic of Korea (Chair), Cambodia (Co-Chair), Indonesia, Japan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia and Thailand. Speakers from leading academic institutions from across the region and beyond were invited including Seoul National University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea University, Asian Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment at Curtin University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Air quality issues in the UK and Singapore |
| 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 discussion with Prof Steve Yim and his research group at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore about air quality issues in the UK and Singapore and their comparison. Massimo Vieno presented our air quality modelling results for the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | An open-source approach to assessing drought risk to vegetation productivity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at BES Annual Meeting 2025 (Edinburgh) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Applying tree genomics to support sustainable development in species-rich regions. |
| 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 | Focussed workshop. Draft Opinion paper focussed on optimising new and exisiting technologies for supporting expansion of tree cover in species rich regions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Assessing drought risk at the global scale to track progress in drought adaptation, mitigation and management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited webinar for the Irrigation and Water Forum on the UNCCD Good Practice Guidance monitoring drought risk at the international scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Assessing drought risk to track progress in drought adaptation, mitigation and management at the global scale |
| 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 UNCCD Good Practice Guidance at the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) in Montpellier, France. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Assessing yield and ecosystem carbon stocks in oil palm smallholdings |
| 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) on behalf of Dafydd Elias, Samuel Robinson, Kelly Mason, Paul Scholefield, Reza Azmi, Niall McNamara. Raising awareness of carbon stocks and methodology to sample in oil palm plantations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Atmospheric composition and modelling of air pollution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on atmospheric composition and modelling of air pollution as part of the Global Health Learning Centre session on Tackling Air Pollution and Strenghtening Environmental Health Governance to 24 Fellows of the GHLC. Participants were from Cambodia, China, Fiji, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and Vietnam. Most attendees were officers from the country's Ministry of Health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Beyond Borders: Collaborative Nitrogen Management for Climate Action and Food Security |
| 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 | Official Side event at the COP29 Climate Conference, Baku. We jointly organized with the Governments Pakistan, Compassion in World Farming, SANH, INMS and UNEP / GPNM. The event raised awareness of the importance of nitrogen management as part of climate mitigation. On 20th November at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Government of Pakistan held an official side-event at the Pakistan Pavilion entitled 'Sustainable Nitrogen Management: Collaborative solutions for climate action, environment and food security'. This hybrid event explored the urgent need to optimize nitrogen use in agriculture to tackle climate change, in order to reduce and reverse environmental damage whilst ensuring food security. The event also discussed how sustainable nitrogen management is integral to addressing the climate crisis, promoting biodiversity, and achieving the SDGs, while exploring that the significance of nitrogen management often remains underrepresented in international environmental agreements and policies. The event was hosted by the Government of Pakistan in partnership with UNEP, Compassion in World Farming, the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS), UKRI GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH), International Nitrogen Initiative (INI), University of Agriculture Faisalabad and the Global Programme on Nutrient Management (GPNM). The recording will be made available by our colleagues in due course. Mobilization of the government of Pakistan as an international champion for action on nitrogen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Biodiversity monitoring and Mapping in Ghana |
| 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 | This was a cross organisational workshop bringing together stakeholders from wide number of biodiversity monitoring and mapping disciplines, Key aim was to develop networks and seek understanding of where and what biodiversity monitoring is being undertaken in Ghana and what opportunities and barriers there are in reaching national and international biodiversity and environmental targets. Clear opportunities for collaboration and priorities for biodiversity monitoring were discussed and then prioritised. Networks built across a wide variety of sectors - policy, finance, private business, academic, research and third sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/news/mapping-out-future-biodiversity-monitoring-ghana |
| Description | Biogenic and anthropogenic contributions to air quality extreme events in urban centres in Southeast Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Janice Scheffler presented her air quality modelling work in Southeast Asia at the 26th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation in Adelaide, Australia, on 30 November - 4 December 2025. The abstract: Southeast Asian countries suffer from high levels of air pollution which often becomes particularly severe during wildfire season. The common practice of land clearing through fire for agriculture, combined with the dry conditions of the southwestern monsoon, leads to an increase in forest fires across the region. This results in hazy conditions almost every summer, posing severe consequences for human health. Southeast Asia experienced especially severe episodes of wildfire induced haze in 2019. Climate change is projected to exacerbate these episodes of poor air quality, as weather conditions favouring the ignition and spread of wildfires are expected to occur more frequently and intensely. With the atmospheric chemistry transport model EMEP MSC-W (Simpson et al, 2012) coupled with the weather and research forecast model (WRF, Skamarock et al., 2019) applied to Southeast Asia we can determine the relative impact of different sources of air pollution, both for current and projected future conditions. For current conditions we use the EDGAR 6.1 global air pollutant emissions dataset (Monforti Ferrario et al., 2022) and for wildfire emissions the data from the FINN2.5 earth-observation based fire emissions inventory (Wiedinmyer et al., 2023). For future wildfire conditions, we develop wildfire emission projections for several pollutants including CO2, CO, NO, NO2, SO2 NH3, CH4, PM2.5 and VOCs based on the SSP5-RCP8.5 scenario calculations of the ISIMIP3b models. We analyse the emergence, development and dissolution of air quality extreme events during the September 2019 wildfires in three major cities in Southeast Asia - Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Jakarta - using the following emission scenarios for Southeast Asia: 1. Anthropogenic + biomass burning - representing the most realistic reconstruction of atmospheric conditions for the year 2019. 2. Anthropogenic only - biomass burning excluded, to isolate the impact of fire emissions. 3. Biogenic only - both anthropogenic and biomass burning excluded, retaining only natural background sources. The study demonstrates that episodes of extreme air quality are well captured, considering the limitations of horizontal resolution and the accuracy of the input data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Biomass burning effects on human and ecosystem health under climate change conditions |
| 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 | Formal discussion with Dr Ivan Hanigan from Curtin University, Australia on the effects of biomass burning on air quality and subsequently public health. UKCEH and Ivan Hanigan will co-chair a session at the next MODSIM conference in 2025. Title of session: Tackling the challenges associated with modelling increases in wildfire activity and biomass burning effects on human and ecosystem health under climate change conditions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | British Hydrological Society Peter Wolf Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | ROBIN presentation at early career symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Building the Business Case for Soil Health at UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment at (UNEA-6) |
| 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 | On 27th February 2024, Mark Sutton moderated the session on 'Building the Business Case for Soil Health' as part of the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment (UNSPBF) at the 6th Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) in Nairobi. The event was co-organized in cooperation with UNEP's Ecosystems Division, UNEP Major Groups and Stakeholders, UNEP's Private Sector Unit and the One Planet network Sustainable Food Systems Programme. The roundtable aimed to foster a collaborative approach among multiple stakeholders to conserve and rejuvenate our planet's soil and land resources for future generations, especially given UNEP's continued engagement through initiatives such as the Global Partnership on Nutrients Management (GPNM) and the Decade of Ecosystems Restoration, alongside promoting the transition to sustainable food systems via the One Planet network. Discussions also focused on constructing a compelling investment case and fostering accelerated action through multi-stakeholder collaboration to enhance soil health ecosystems. Lastly, this roundtable aimed to explore a comprehensive public-private partnership model for revitalizing soil health and rehabilitating degraded lands and ecosystems. Outcomes of the UNSPBF sessions inform ministerial consultations and the UN Environment Assembly. This event served as another opportunity to mobilize action on nitrogen across multiple high-level stakeholder groups, as panelists included the Minister of State (Union and Environment) from the United Republic of Tanzania, as well as the National Focal Point to UNEP from Sri Lanka, the Chair of the UNEP Farmers Major Group and representatives from business, NGOs and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gc_FeOJjdg&list=PLPyCiV4gCeNTMJZVMEfRgtE_4p1QV9Qth&index=8 |
| Description | COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCE BETWEEN SINGLE AND GLOBAL MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR RESERVOIR STORAGE PREDICTION |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In-person presentation at IAHR 2025, given by Helen Baron. Also exchnaged contact details with other local stakeholders which had led to further discussion around the work UKCEH are conducting in this area of hydrology - this includes ongoing correspondence with Dr. Lim Chow Hock and potential future work in the Muda river basin. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | COP29 launch of the Climate & Clean Air Coalition's Global N2O Assessment |
| 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 | On November 12th, 2024 the US Center also hosted the COP29 launch of the Climate & Clean Air Coalition's Global N2O Assessment. This assessment, which is a joint UNEP-FAO effort, authored by over 40 authors, including Prof Mark Sutton as a lead author, is the first international report focused solely on nitrous oxide in more than a decade. The report sheds new light on the super pollutant and is intended as a resource for policymakers, civil society, the private sector, the scientific community and others. You can view the launch of the report at COP29 here starting at 3:28:04: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWcWRrGUEfI Awareness raised for nitrogen and climate action. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWcWRrGUEfI |
| Description | COP30 |
| 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 | Participation at COP; Organised/led UK Pavilion event on integrated fire management; co-led Pantanal resilience side event with SOS Pantanal; multiple State of Wildfires presentations. Direct engagement with policymakers, NGOs and international partners. Strengthened integration of fire science into international climate negotiation spaces. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | COP30 |
| 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 | Pre-COP30 event (9 October): UKCEH had a stand at the NHM's Countdown to COP30 event on 9 October 2025, attended by His Majesty The King and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, as well as representatives from from the fields of finance, business, science, policy, advocacy and education. Ambassadors from across the globe attended, including the Brazilian Ambassador to the UK, His Excellency Antonio de Aguiar Patriota and Brazil's Health Minister, Alexandre Padilha as well as former UK Prime Minister Baroness Theresa May. Jenna Lawson (biodiversity scientist) showcased the AMI system for pollinator monitoring, Maria Lucia Barbosa (wildfire scientist) showcased the state of wildfires work and its impact in the Amazon, and María Jarquín (International Relations Manager) shared with The Prince of Wales about the mission of UKCEH and the key research findings and impact stories UKCEH will share at COP30. COP30 Belem side events (9-21 November): UKCEH Wildfire Scientists, Douglas Kelley and Maria Lucia Barbosa, led two COP side events in the Blue Zone on Wildfires: Science, Stories, and Strategies for Resilience, sharing evidence and policy recommendations for Integrated Fire Management. This was in collaboration with Ministério do Meio Ambiente Brasil, European Parliament, Environmental Justice Foundation, Fundacion Avina, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and University of East Anglia, including a key note from Prof. Anjali Goswami, Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) Defra in the UK Pavilion side event. Both events highlight the strength of the UK-Brazil partnership and UK leadership and technologies to identify causes of and predict future global wildfires. At COP30, UKCEH wildfire scientists contributed expertise on extreme fire behaviour, resilience strategies, early-warning systems, and integrated fire-management approaches through UK Pavilion and UNFCCC side-events, directly supporting efforts to improve preparedness and protection for fire-affected communities, and expanded international uptake of UKCEH science. As a result UKCEH was invited to join two global networks that seek to provide fire-related evidence for policymakers and investors (Tropenbos International Fire Network and FAO Global Fire Management Hub), to continue contributing to improve Integrated Fire Management Practices and the Loss and Damage Fund agenda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/blogs/thoughts-cop30-scientists-must-better-support-fire-hit-co... |
| Description | Capacity building workshop for WMO Region VI (Europe), Zagreb (online) |
| 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 workshop on capacity building, data exchange, standardisation and interoperbility across RA VI and connections with HydroSOS (presentation given by Katie Facer-Childs). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://wmo.int/events/workshop/capacity-building-workshop-hydrological-data-exchange-standardizatio... |
| Description | Career's Talk at NERC TREES DLA Careers events 13 Feb 2026 UCL London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Amulya Chevuturi delivered a careers talk for the NERC TREES Doctoral Landscape Award cohort at UCL London. As part of a panel of speakers from diverse career stages and backgrounds, she shared her career journey into hydroclimate science, outlining her academic training, international experience, and current role as a Hydroclimate Data Scientist at UKCEH. Her talk highlighted pathways within environmental research beyond the traditional academic route, including collaborative and impact-focused science. The session concluded with a panel discussion, where PhD students engaged with speakers on career development, transitions, and opportunities within the environmental sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Career's Talk at St Peter's College, Oxford University aimed at Bachaelors' students in the field of Geography on 5th March 2026 Oxford. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Amulya Chevuturi delivered a careers talk at St Peter's College, Oxford University aimed at Bachaelors' students in the field of Geography on 5th March 2026 Oxford. She shared her career journey into hydroclimate science, outlining her academic training, international experience, and current role as a Senior Hydroclimate Data Scientist at UKCEH. Her talk highlighted pathways within environmental research beyond the traditional academic route, including collaborative and impact-focused science. The session concluded with a Q/A, where students engaged with speakers on career development, transitions, and opportunities within the environmental sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Charting the Course: Exploring Ammonia as a Shipping Fuel and Its Potential Impact on the Nitrogen Cycle |
| 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 | On 29th April, 2024, GPNM hosted a webinar (with Mark Sutton as webinar chair & co-moderator) that explored the opportunities and challenges arising in the shipping sector, where ammonia (NH3) is emerging as an attractive low-carbon fuel and hydrogen carrier. The shipping sector currently accounts for about 3% of the total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions that have adverse effects on the natural environment and human health. However, the use of ammonia risks potential losses and inefficiencies along the value chain that could result in reactive nitrogen emissions, which negatively impact air quality, the environment, human health, and climate. This webinar aimed to explore the delicate equilibrium between the environmental advantages of utilizing ammonia as a shipping fuel and its potential ramifications on the global nitrogen cycle This webinar served as a forum for discussion and knowledge sharing with experts from business, policy, academia and NGOs and included calls for increased collaboration & openness, as well as discussion of best practices and standards on ammonia use within the shipping industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/webinar/charting-course-exploring-ammonia-shipping-fuel-and-its-potentia... |
| Description | Climate change and regional exposure of forests and croplands to dynamic compound droughts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Several recent Nature-family papers show a clear shift toward compound hazards, ecological impacts, and resilience diagnostics in drought research. Key themes Stronger role of atmospheric demand A 2025 Nature paper finds that increased atmospheric evaporative demand has intensified global drought severity by about 40% on average, across both dry and wet regions, and that this trend is likely to continue with warming. Using AED-inclusive indices reduces disagreement between drought metrics and better explains recent ecological drought, including Europe's 2022 event. Compound drought-heat extremes and vegetation feedbacks Nature Communications work shows vegetation greening will increase the frequency of global compound soil drought-heat events, contributing roughly 12-21% of the projected rise in such extremes. Enhanced LAI and pre-season transpiration deplete soil moisture, leading to a "greening but warming-drying" pattern and structural overshoot in northern ecosystems, with implications for stability, fires, and mortality. Another study finds anthropogenic climate change has roughly doubled the frequency of compound drought-heatwaves globally, with low-income regions seeing ~377% increases since 1981. Ecosystem resilience and regime shift risk A 2026 Communications Earth & Environment paper develops a multi-model "vegetation resilience trajectory" framework and shows that 57% of vegetated drylands have experienced declining resilience historically. Under medium-high emissions, areas with declining resilience expand to about 65% of vegetated drylands by late century, driven mainly by intensified atmospheric drought and weakened CO2 fertilization. Recent synthesis work outside the core Nature titles but linked in the collection emphasizes that 21st-century "hotter droughts", snow droughts, and flash droughts are transforming some ecosystems beyond recovery, especially when combined with fire, invasives, and land-use change. Biodiversity and vertebrate exposure A Communications Earth & Environment study for the contiguous US finds average increases of ~377% in annual drought exposure and ~579% in prolonged drought exposure for 1,221 terrestrial vertebrates by 2050-2080, relative to 1950-2005. Southwestern US ecoregions, with high vertebrate diversity, see the largest projected increases, highlighting conservation triage needs under changing drought regimes. Brief synthesis for your context For someone working on ecological/hydrological drought, the cutting edge in these Nature papers is: Explicit inclusion of AED and plant physiology to explain accelerated drought severity and ecological responses. Framing drought as a compound, lagged process (soil moisture-heat-vegetation dynamics, structural overshoot, flash and hot droughts) rather than a single-variable anomaly. Resilience diagnostics at scale (multi-model resilience trajectories in drylands, exposure metrics for vertebrates) to link physical drought to biodiversity and potential regime shifts. If you tell me your current project angle (e.g. SPI-SMI compound metrics, resilience metrics, socio-ecological feedbacks), I can pull out a targeted mini-reading list from these and related Nature papers. drought vulnerabilty curve paper "Drought vulnerability curve" is usually used for the intensity-loss relationship, especially for crops and ecosystems. Core definition A drought vulnerability curve is a monotonic, nonlinear function linking a drought intensity metric (e.g. DI, SPI, WS, NDVI anomaly) to a loss rate (yield loss, DRP, ANPP reduction, etc.). In risk notation it is the V V term in R = f ( H , V , E ) R=f(H,V,E), with H H from hazard intensity-probability and E E often fixed, so that loss rate at a given intensity directly represents vulnerability. Representative papers Crop-drought vulnerability in Europe (winter wheat) NHESS "Establishment and characteristics analysis of a crop-drought vulnerability curve and its application in Europe" builds winter-wheat curves using EPIC, defining a drought index (relative cumulative water stress) and yield loss rate, and showing an S-shaped curve with three stages (initial, rapid, stable loss). Key points (onset, inflection, end of rapid growth) are extracted using derivatives to characterize where losses accelerate and saturate regionally. Maize drought vulnerability (eastern China, Sci Rep) "Characteristics of drought vulnerability for maize in the eastern part of Northwest China" (Scientific Reports) derives vulnerability curves by relating a drought index to simulated yield loss, emphasising physically based crop response and stage-dependent sensitivity. Remote-sensing based vulnerability (population/NDVI) "Vulnerability Analysis to Drought Based on Remote Sensing Indexes" fits curves between NDVI variance ratio and "drought-at-risk population" to rapidly estimate losses; losses rise fastest for NDVI variance ratios 0.65-0.85 and then stabilise. Ecosystem productivity vulnerability "Quantifying the ecosystem vulnerability to drought based on data" constructs curves between drought intensity and ANPP for forests and grasslands, distinguishing ecosystem-type responses and enabling spatial mapping of vulnerability. Conceptual features Shape: typically S-shaped (sigmoid), with slow loss at low intensity, rapid increase at moderate intensity, and saturation at high intensity as systems are fully impacted. Construction: often via process-based crop models (e.g. EPIC) under synthetic irrigation/drought scenarios, or via long observational/remote-sensing series linking drought indices to loss metrics. Uses: rapid loss estimation for risk mapping and scenario analysis, identification of critical thresholds where marginal increases in drought severity produce disproportionate impacts, and comparison of vulnerability types across regions or crops (e.g. L-L-M vs L-M-H loss-type curves). If you tell me whether you're thinking crops, ecosystems, or socio-economic exposure, I can pull the exact equations and parameterisations used in one or two of these studies as templates for your own work. Drought Risk Analystics for Global drought Catastropne on Breadbasket zones modelling prepare 5 acronyms for drought project Here are five project-style acronyms tailored to "Drought Risk Analytics for Global Drought Catastrophe in Breadbasket Zones" and modeling-oriented work on multiple breadbasket failures. 1. DRY-BREAD Drought Risk analYtics for Breadbasket Resilience and Extreme Agricultural Disruption 2. GRAIN-DRIVE Global Risk Analytics for Interconnected Nourishment - Drought Risk, Impacts, and Vulnerability Engine 3. BASKET-CAST BreadbASKET Catastrophe Analytics and Simulation for global food sysTems 4. HARVEST-RISK Hazard Analytics and Risk Visualization for Extreme Soil-moisture Triggered droughts - Resilience of Interconnected Supply Key-regions 5. DROUGHT-GLOBE Disastrous Risk Optimization and Understanding for Global Hotspot Transmission in GLOBE grain belts If you tell me whether you want something more sober (for funding bodies) or catchy (for a consortium/portal), I can refine these or tune them to specific methods (e.g. clustering-based event sets, vulnerability curves, catastrophe modeling). Global food systems are entering an era where catastrophic droughts are no longer isolated regional shocks but increasingly synchronized, systemic risks. Current drought assessments focus on hazard frequency or average yield decline, yet fail to quantify correlated tail-risk across global breadbasket regions. This project will develop the first probabilistic framework for catastrophic drought risk in global food systems, integrating extreme value theory, compound event modelling, AI-enabled exposure mapping, and catastrophe portfolio analytics. The work is timely. Rising compound heat-drought events, geopolitical instability, and climate-induced supply chain fragility make food system resilience a global priority. By shifting from mean-impact assessments to tail-risk quantification, this research will transform understanding of systemic drought catastrophe risk. It will generate new methods to quantify multi-region synchronization, diversification breakdown, and return-period collapse under warming. modify this in the same amount of words include the research gaps Global food systems are entering an era where catastrophic droughts are no longer isolated regional shocks but increasingly synchronized, systemic risks. Current drought assessments focus on hazard frequency or average yield decline, yet rarely quantify correlated tail-risk, regime shifts, or cascading failures across global breadbasket regions. Key research gaps remain in representing multi-breadbasket synchronization, cross-hazard compounding, and how structural exposure concentrates risk in trade-dependent importers. This project will develop the first probabilistic framework for catastrophic drought risk in global food systems, integrating extreme value theory, compound event modelling, AI-enabled exposure mapping, and catastrophe portfolio analytics. The work is timely. Rising compound heat-drought events, geopolitical instability, and climate-induced supply chain fragility make food system resilience a global priority. By shifting from mean-impact assessments to tail-risk quantification, this research will transform understanding of systemic drought catastrophe risk. It will generate new methods to quantify multi-region synchronization, diversification breakdown, and return-period collapse under warming, explicitly addressing current modelling and data-integration gaps. UKADR conference what is it about 50 wrds UKADR is a UK-focused conference bringing together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to advance understanding, measurement and management of disaster risk, including drought, and to strengthen evidence-based risk reduction, resilience-building and adaptation across sectors and scales. Regional Climate Change Conference 13-15 October, Colombo, Sri Lanka about this The Regional Climate Change Conference (RCCC) on 13-15 October in Colombo is a hybrid meeting that brings together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to share new science, case studies and policy developments on regional climate impacts, adaptation and climate finance, with a strong focus on the Global South, inclusivity and early-career participation. add that I presented and output was The Regional Climate Change Conference (RCCC) on 13-15 October in Colomboibrought together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to share new science, case studies and policy developments on regional climate impacts, adaptation and climate finance, with a strong focus on the Global South, inclusivity and early-career participation. I presented my work at this conference, and the output included valuable feedback, new collaborations, and greater regional visibility for my drought-risk research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Co-producing sub-seasonal warnings of meningitis outbreaks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at international conference. Meningitis is a deadly disease that remains a major public health concern across sub-Saharan Africa. Given the influence of large-scale environmental conditions on the likelihood of meningitis epidemics, we use a co-production process between the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) and the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) to support awareness, preparedness and response actions for meningitis outbreaks. Meningitis is favoured under warm, dry and dusty conditions. In light of this, we amalgamate sub-seasonal forecasts of temperature and humidity with short-term (72 hour) dust forecasts to operationalize an early warning system of meningitis outbreaks. Through a co-production framework, we developed vigilance maps with descriptive prose based on meteorological and disease thresholds. The use of sub-seasonal forecast data extended the lead-time of existing early warnings by two weeks. The extended lead-time improved decision-making by local and national-level health services as reliable and actionable information was available earlier. Through this work we also conclude that ECMWF sub-seasonal forecasts have good skill at predicting dry and warm atmospheric conditions across sub-Saharan Africa, and additionally, forecasted vigilance levels are consistent with reported meningitis cases. Alongside developing a sub-seasonal early warning system, the co-production framework encouraged the use of climate data to support the goal of eradicating meningitis across sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Our study highlights the potential of using sub-seasonal forecast data to support decision-making across the health sector. To ensure the continued publication of meningitis early warnings and to promote the development of new health-focussed climate services requires continued access to real-time sub-seasonal forecast data. Future efforts should improve the communication of sub-seasonal forecasts to support decision-making within the health sector and alleviate disease impacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration between HydroSOS and WMO Expert Team on Space Systems and Utilization (ET-SSU) |
| 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 | Provided an overview of HydroSOS aims, current progress and data types. Outlined the beenfits and needs for including Satelitte data in HydroSOS. Discussion on how HydroSOS can influence the activities of ET-SSU and how ET-SSU can support the activities of HydroSOS by providing guidance on the inclusion of satelitte data into HydroSOS. An outcome of the meeting was that Nick Everard should be invited as a member of the Expert Team and provide the link betwen ET-SSU and HydroSOS (in addition to other related UKCEH activities). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Collaborative workshop on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) in the Southeast Asian context |
| 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 | Our visiting researchers -Yi Wen Mok (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Weeraphat Duangkhwan (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand), Lola Cassiophea (Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia), and Ng Yu En (Universiti Putra Malaysia) - joined UKCEH experts for a collaborative workshop on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) in the Southeast Asian context. Over the course of the workshop, participants shared knowledge, experiences, and new perspectives on how NbS can be implemented to address some of the region's most pressing environmental challenges. From mitigating floods and droughts to enhancing groundwater recharge and supporting sustainable development, the discussions highlighted the immense potential of nature-driven approaches to build resilience and promote ecological balance. The event provided a platform for cross-regional learning and exchange - strengthening partnerships between researchers and institutions working toward a shared goal: using science and innovation to create a more sustainable future. We're truly inspired by the passion, creativity, and commitment these emerging researchers bring to tackling global environmental issues. Their work exemplifies the importance of collaboration across borders and disciplines in advancing sustainable solutions for people and the planet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Comparison of Model and Observed Wet Deposition in South Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Massimo Vieno co-chaired a session at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS2024) AS36: General Session for Atmospheric Sciences - 28/06/2024 and gave an oral presentation. South Asia atmospheric composition is driven by several processes such as emissions of primary pollutant, secondary formation, chemical transformations, transport, and removal processes. Dry and wet deposition are major process occurring in the atmosphere that directly affect the air quality and also participate to the deposition of reactive nitrogen to ecosystems. An atmospheric chemistry transport model (EMEP MSC-W) model is used here to integrate all these processes in South Asia and focus on the wet removal. This work compares the daily observed wet deposition fluxes of oxidized sulphur (SOx), oxidised nitrogen (OXN), and reduced nitrogen (RDN) for a period spanning between January-august 2018 at 5 sites near Delhi. The observed daily wet deposition are intended to capture the rainfall episodes occurring in this period which are then compared with daily calculated we deposition. The model better represent the SOx wet deposition, whereas the OXN and RDN is generally overestimated by the model when compared with the observations. Several factors my control how well the model perform. The emissions inventories used here is derived from EDGAR with a specific ad-hoc emissions for South Asia developed within the South Asia Nitrogen Hub project (SANH). Meteorology also plays a key role as precipitation is the main driver of wet removal, however, the collected precipitation was relatively well reproduced by the model and was not explaining the discrepancy between model and observed OXN and RDN wet deposition. OXN and RDN have an intrinsic complexity due to the complex chemistry interactions, emissions sources linked with human and animal activity, and the thermodynamic equilibrium for example ammonium nitrate. In contrast SOX is relatively easier to capture due to the relative simpler chemistry and relatively stable ammonium sulfate. South Asia also has a large component of mineral dust which react with nitric acid to form coarse nitrate (diameters size >2.5 um). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Consultative workshop on Sustainable Nitrogen Management, towards a UNEA-7 Resolution led by Pakistan (Islamabad, hybrid, online). |
| 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 | Expert input provided by Prof. Mark Sutton to guide Pakistan on the development on the proposed UNEA resolution. Stimulation to the multi-ministry dialogue. Pakistan strengthened its multi ministry and province consultation process on the proposed resolution, which continues going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Convened session at EGU 2025 - "Extreme fires and their impacts" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Created a platform for cross-disciplinary exchange between fire scientists, attribution specialists and impacts researchers; catalysed follow-up discussions on attribution frameworks and extreme event reporting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/52195 |
| Description | Counting the Earth episode 18 'Whiplash weather: 90' |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lucy Barker discussed the leading role UKCEH has in co-leading the implementation of HydroSOS and leading the technical developments of HydroSOS as a way we are improving resilience to extremes and improving water resources management and data sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzJlHLUarE4&t=12s |
| Description | Current and future impact of wildfires on Air Quality in Southeast Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at the General Assembly of the American Geoscientific Union 2024 in Washington, D. C (number of participants ~30,000). Authors are: Janice Scheffler, Massimo Vieno, Rachel Beck, Tomas Liska, Yuanlin Wang, Samuel J. Tomlinson, Edward J. Carnell, James M. Bullock, Eiko Nemitz. South East Asian countries suffer from high levels of air pollution both from domestic sources and long-range transport. Apart from anthropogenic sources, wildfires also contribute to air pollution. With wildfire intensity and frequency projected to increase with a changing climate, the impact of wildfires on Air Quality is likely to increase as well. We investigate the impact of changes in wildfire properties on the Air Quality in countries in South East Asia. With the atmospheric chemistry transport model EMEP4UK applied to South East Asia we can determine the relative impact of different sources of air pollution. For current conditions we use the EDGAR 6.1 global air pollutant emissions and for wildfire emissions the FINN2.5 data set. For future wildfire conditions, we develop wildfire emissions for several pollutants including CO2, CO, NO, NO2, SO2 NH3, CH4, PM2.5 and VOCs based on the SSP5-RCP8.5 scenario performed by ISIMIP3b models. Our source receptor matrix highlights the contributions of domestic and foreign anthropogenic and biogenic emissions for current and future conditions in South East Asia. We will showcase results focussing on Malaysia as an example. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1681109 |
| Description | Developments in global drought risk monitoring: potential future directions for SO3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation in first ever joint plenary meeting of the UNCCD Committee for the Review and Implemenetation of the Convention (CRIC) and the Committee for Science and Technology (CST) at UNCCD COP16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Provided an overview of the UNCCD Good Practice Guidance for SO3 and the work that UKCEH have done since to improve the assessment methods for meteorological drought (e.g. utilising the SPEI in addition to the SPI) and including ecosystem resilience indicators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discussion on HydroSOS in Communities of Practice |
| 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 | Discussion on how to include HydroSOS in Global Water Partnership Communities of Practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Discussion on hydrological monitoring and seasonal forecasting with Prof Dame Angela Maclean, UK Chief Scientific Advisor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Dame Angela Maclean visited UKCEH to hear about our science. Seasonal forecasting products in the UK and internationally were showcased. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discussion with Canadian services on HydroSOS |
| 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 | Discussion with Environment and Climate Change Canada staff on HydroSOS products in Canada. Specific discussions on motivation to participate and difficulties with different service providers for different variables were covered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Disseminating Drought Status and Outlooks Regionally and Globally: demonstraion of the HydroSOS Global Portal |
| 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 at the Drought Resilience +10 High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy at WMO in Geneva focussed on the drought monitoring capabilities of HydroSOS, demonstrated global portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Droughts over Sub-Saharan 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 | Workshop organised by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Ghana Meteorological Agency, Ghana Hydrological Authority and Water Resources Commission of Ghana under the NC International Programme. A Joint UK-Ghana Contribution to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | EEDS x LEC Water Group Joint Seminar talk and panellist for discussion on advancing hydrological research |
| 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 | Talk titled "Advancing Hydrological Research: Applications of Machine Learning" and panellist for discussion on advancing hydrological research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Embedding lakes into the global sustainability agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on how to embed lakes into the global sustainability agenda, especially in Africa. Agreement to develop a lake restoration plan for Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Engagement with CEDA JASMIN to participate in JASMIN user seminar series and site visit. |
| 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 | Various talks give by UKCEH research scientist demonstrating the use of JASMIN high performance computing system in their research. In depth discussions with CEDA JASMIN experts to build strong connections between two institutes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWd49mqX-qQ |
| Description | Engagement with Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID), Malaysia |
| 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 | Presented Flood Impacts Across Scales (FIAS) research, projected changes in future flows, floods, and issues around river flow monitoring relating to regularly changing rating curves and resulting unrealistic river flow observations. Researchers involved: Vicky Bell (UKCEH), Ponnambalam Rameshwaran (UKCEH), Balqis Rehan (UPM), Zed Zulkafli (UPM), Badronnisa Binti Yusuf UPM) and Paul Sayers (Sayers & Partners) Much interest in how we can support DID through KE with UKCEH in the area of eco-hydrology, and area they are moving into. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Engagement with the Early Career Researchers at Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| 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 | PhD and MSc students presented their research. Vicky Bell and Ponnambalam Rameshwaran engaged with their views and suggestions. Influenced the future direction of their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Engagement with the OUTLAST group on drought indices and drought forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Meetings and discussions with the OUTLAST project team on how to incorporate drought indices in HydroSOS. Also further discussions on how to integrate OUTLAST research with other NC-International research and UNCCD good practice guidance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://outlast-project.net/ |
| Description | Engagement with the Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) |
| 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 | Engagement with the Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) which reports to the prime minister's office has access to all hydrological datasets. Learned about the National Water Resources (ONWR) activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Enhancing accuracy in ecosystem services and biodiversity hotspot assessments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented my work on ensemble modelling as part of a symposium for the 2025 International Congress for Conservation Biology in Brisbane, Australia. There was a audience of about 100 people, who were mostly a mixture of academics and practioners. The symposium included other speakers from the USA. I received questions from people from different countries. - Received some interesting questions about the work, and inquiries into accessing the results. - Formed a network with other academics from USA and Canada. - Started discussing plans for future work leading from the results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Exploring Flood Risk in Peninsular Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge exchange seminar: (1) Flood Impacts Across Scales: A UK-Malaysia Collaboration (2) Flood risk management in Malaysia (3) Climate change flood risk assessment in the UK (4) Enabling a multiscale risk assessment (5) The impact of projected climate change on river flows: Malaysia (6) Understanding changes in flood risk across Peninsular Malaysia Speakers: Dr Balqis Mohamed Rehan (UPM), Dr Vicky Bell (UKCEH), Dr Paul Sayers (Sayers and Partners), Dr Ponnambalam Rameshwaran (UKCEH), Dr Zed Diyana Zulkafli (UPM) The seminar is conducted to disseminate findings from the NERC-NEWTON project to scientists and stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exploring Innovative Approaches for Water Resources Assessments in Data-Scarce Regions with Earth Observations. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation delivered by Rishma Chengot at the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, Toronto, 11-15 Aug 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Exploring future flood risk across Peninsular Malaysia |
| 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 | The British High Commission Kuala Lumpur convened a Roundtable for Effective Flood Management and Responses in Cities on 25 to 26 March 2024 bringing together esteemed experts and stakeholders to address the pressing challenges of urban flooding. Co-organised in collaboration with leading United Kingdom and Malaysian experts in flood management and climate resilience, the event showcased our joint expertise in this domain, gaps to address and areas for future collaboration. The roundtable served as a platform for robust discussions and knowledge exchange, highlighting innovative strategies and best practices to enhance flood resilience in urban areas. Notably, UK experts shared insights on cutting-edge technologies and inter-disciplinary approaches aimed at bolstering early warning systems, improving infrastructure resilience, and fostering community engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-shares-expertise-to-enhance-flood-resilience-in-malaysia |
| Description | Facilitating the visit of Aulia Nisa'ul Khoir (Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency of Indonesia) |
| 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 | Organising the following events for the visitor: - Met Site visit - Air pollution modeling overview by Janice Scheffler - Introduction presentation to the NC Intl. SEA group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Field trip and visit to the Global Environment Centre - an environmental NGO |
| 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 | In Malaysia they are promoting biodiversity in (concrete) river channels by introducing small islands with vegetation and rocks. These slow the flow and increase biodiversity in the rivers. They also run a citizen science project to encourage/train members of the public to take river samples and log the results on a database (River Care Programme (RCP) - Home (riverranger.my)). We visited a river where these interventions had been installed, and to their visitor centre where they grow the plants they install in the rivers. Sharing knowledge in Nbs work in the UK and Malaysia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Field visit to see the results of the Kedaireka Matching Fund 2022 project |
| 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 | Meeting with the Rector of UPR, other university staff and representatives of BGRM (Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency) to discuss the ongoing Kedaireka Matching Fund 2022 grant programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Fifth Meeting of the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen |
| 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 | Mark Sutton virtually attended the Fifth Meeting of the UNEP WGN from 9th-10th January 2024 and provided statements on needs for intergovernmental coordination on nitrogen policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/working-group-meeting/fifth-meeting-unep-working-group-nitrogen |
| Description | Fire Attribution - Invited Talk & Panel discussion - Exeter Climate Conference 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on changes in fire weather due to human-caused climate change. Strengthened regional academic collaboration and visibility of fire attribution work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | FireMIP 2026 workshop hosted at UKCEH |
| 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 | Hosted 3-day FireMIP workshop at UKCEH, with ~20 international fire model scientists. Focused on model intercomparison, coordination, and future publications. Advanced planning for fire attribution, model evaluation papers etc, CMIP7-era fire model experiments and joint publications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Flash droughts seminar and hackathon |
| 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 | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar on "Global change in agricultural flash drought over the 21st Century" by Prof. Emily Black, University of Reading. Along with the seminar, there was a full day of flash drought hackathon conducted between UKCEH and NCAS, University of Reading research scientists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | From Farmlands to Forests: Exposure to Nonstationary Compound Droughts under Climate Change. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKADR is a UK-focused conference bringing together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to advance understanding, measurement and management of disaster risk, including drought, and to strengthen evidence-based risk reduction, resilience-building and adaptation across sectors and scales. Presented and interacted with people and shared ideas to further advance the work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | From Science to Society: UK Contributions to Global Water Challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event: Organised and convened an in-person conference on behalf of the UK Committee for International Hydrology (UKCIH), in partnership with the British Hydrological Society. Held at Whitehall and entitled: ""From science to society: UK Contributions to Global Water Challenges. The event explored the role of international organisations in advancing global water science and practice and included contributions from a UNESCO representative and other leading international speakers. It also featured the launch of the UKCIH's forward-looking policy brief ""Accelerating Multilateral Action for Global Water Security"" and a publication from UK National Commission of UNESCO publication ""Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes. The Conference was an official UK contribution to UNESCO IHP's 50th Anniversary. The event reinforced UKCEH's national role in convening communities around environmental science, bringing together senior policymakers, leading researchers, early-career scientists, and professional and third-sector practitioners from over 20 organizations dedicated to addressing water-related challenges. Primary audience was mid- to senior- career researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Future projections of river flows across Peninsular Malaysia |
| 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 | Presented at the International Seminar on Tropical Peatland Management: Sustainable Land Management of Peatlands and beyond for Net Zero, Nature and People in Southeast Asia (SLMPEAT 2024) 23/04/2024 - 24/04/2024 Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | GAAFS' Workshop: Challenges in soil organic carbon modelling and carbon farming |
| 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 | Workshop organised by the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems (University of Edinburgh) with the aim to : • Provide a foundational understanding of SOC modelling principles and applications. • Explore the challenges and opportunities in SOC modelling for carbon markets and climate change mitigation • Foster a collaborative community of SOC modelers across Edinburgh and beyond for knowledge exchange and networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | GEOGloWS |
| 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 GEOGloWS team have been engaged to interact with HydroSOS to support the global implementation. Bias corrected streamflow forecasts will be piloted in the portal. The GEOGloWS bias correction methods will also be reviewed and potentially implemented with other modelled forecasts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 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 | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk to students at Danau Girang field centre in Kinabatangan, Malaysia. Raising awareness of impacts of land-use change from forest to oil palm beyond impacts on wildlife. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Global FRIEND-Water 2023 International Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on work conducted in Project 3A on reservoir status and forecasting. Further engagement post-presentation with scientists and policy makers from the case study regions within the project (mainly SSA) and links made to enable dissemination of future results and possible exchange of knowledge and data. Involved in workshop on the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), which explored links with current work ongoing in UKCEH. Have since followed up with UKCEH International office. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment |
| 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 | Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) Webinar on the Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment, jointly produced between the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) for UNEP and FAO. Raising global awareness of the role of N2O on global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion, including informing proposed actions under the Montreal Protocol, for discussion during 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/webinar/global-nitrous-oxide-assessment-key-messages |
| Description | Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) |
| 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 | Appointment of Prof. Mark Sutton as one of two co-chairs of GPNM, together with Ms Itsuki Kuroda, Government of Japan. Establishment of new Steering Committee and preparation of agendas and actions for 2025. Prof Mark Sutton has now been elected as co-Chair of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) along with a representative from the Government of Japan. Twelve new members of the GPNM Steering Committee have also been successfully appointed. The group covers multiple world regions including consideration of gender balance, including from Member States, Academia, Business and Civil Society. Mobilizing a global community of practice for actions towards sustainable nutrient management for environment, climate, health, food and economic co-benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/oceans-seas/global-partnership-nutrient-management |
| Description | Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) Webinar on Sustainable Phosphorus Management |
| 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 | This dialogue on phosphorus was organised to inform Member States on the work of the GPNM on phosphorus and included a moderated dialogue on nutrients, including nitrogen and phosphorus, as well as a discussion on emerging challenges, knowledge gaps and upcoming trajectories. Mark Sutton was co-Chair and facilitator of this meeting. Mobilization of a multi-actor community of action on phosphorus as well as cross-body knowledge sharing to facilitate discussions with policymakers on phosphorus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) global webinars on actions to reduce nutrient pollution |
| 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 | As part of the UKCEH leadership of the GPNM we have worked with UNEP and stakeholders to establish a regular series of webinars about nutrient pollution. These webinars share and extend experience by GPNM partners and others and bring new topics to increased awareness. 0 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM): Online Meeting, 16-17th October 2024 |
| 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 | On 16-17 October, 2024, GPNM organised its first online conference, with Mark Sutton as chair and session moderator. The meeting, for GPNM members and stakeholders on nutrient management, aimed to stimulate discussion on emerging issues among the wider GPNM membership and identify ways that the partnership could further promote research and policy intervention on nutrient management. Key topics included: Sustainable nutrient management in developing regions: Policy, Practice and Innovation, the critical role of Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) to other planetary topics, integrated approaches for tackling drought and nutrient management and potential avenues for collaboration with industry and other relevant organisations. This was GPNM's first online conference and was a key opportunity for collaboration amongst its diverse base of stakeholders. It also offered an opportunity for strategic discussion about the future course of GPNM, in its role as a multi-stakeholder mechanism alongside intergovernmental bodies such as the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen (as they are distinct but complementary groups). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/online-event/global-partnership-nutrient-management-gpnm-online-meeting |
| Description | Global Plastic Waste Imports and Microplastic Pollution |
| 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 | iLEAPS convened an expert panel on "Global Plastic Waste Imports and Microplastic Pollution" as a side event at the iCACGP-IGAC Open Science Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event brought together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the growing global problem of plastic waste, especially in developing countries that are often the recipients of imported waste. The event introduced cutting-edge technologies for recycling and waste management, such as advanced sorting systems and chemical recycling methods. It also highlighted innovative approaches to public engagement and awareness, encouraging grassroots movements to combat plastic pollution. The activity underscored the urgency of tackling the dual crises of plastic waste imports and microplastic pollution. It called for a collaborative global effort that integrates scientific research, policy action, and community involvement to mitigate the environmental and health impacts of plastic pollution. iLEAPS is intending to establish a working group on this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ileaps.org/sites/default/files/2024-12/iLEAPS%20Newsletter_December2024.pdf |
| Description | Global State of Water Resources Report Steering Committee meeting |
| 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 | A working group to establish changes needed further advance the Global State of Water Resources Report for 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Good Practice Guidance for National Reporting of UNCCD Strategic Objective 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at UNNCD COP15 (Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire) Drought day on the Good Practice Guidance for National Reporting of UNCCD Strategic Objective 3. Subsequently invited to join the WMO Expert Team on Drought by Chief of Agricultural Meteorology Division at WMO, and invited to apply to join the UNCCD Science-Policy-Interface Panel by the panel Co-Chair and the UNCCD Chief Scientist. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/We3KFmJlYMI?t=12295 |
| Description | Guest Lecture on Climate Change at St. John Technical & Educational Campus, Online, 24th November 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Amulya Chevuturi delivered an online guest lecture on Climate Change for management students at St. John Technical & Educational Campus. The session introduced the scientific foundations of climate change, with a particular focus on hydrometeorological extremes, including floods and droughts, and their implications under future climate scenarios. Drawing on her expertise as a Senior hydroclimate Scientist at UKCEH and her research at the University of Reading, she highlighted the importance of large-scale datasets, modelling, and data-driven analysis in understanding climate risks. The lecture emphasised why climate risk is a core business and management concern, encouraging future leaders to integrate scientific evidence into strategic decision-making, and concluded with an interactive Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Hosted Dr. Chaiwat Ekkawatpanit |
| 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 | Hosted Dr. Chaiwat Ekkawatpanit, Associate Dean and Lecturer at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, Thailand, at UKCEH for the NC International Project on Southeast Asian drought risks. The visit included knowledge exchange, presentations on Flood Warning in Thailand, and discussions to extend collaboration, develop proposals, and strengthen regional partnerships for better data and knowledge sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | How much climate change influences wildfire Invited talk - Tyndall Centre Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Engaged interdisciplinary climate community; disseminated attribution and fire weather findings to mitigation and adaptation researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | HydroSOS Ghana Coordination Committee |
| 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 | This committee was formed following a workshop in October 2022, comprised of key agencies in Ghana (Ghana Meteorological Agency, Hydrological Services Department and Water Resources Commission) to coordinate the implementation of the WMO initiative HydroSOS in Ghana. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | HydroSOS Ghana Technical Development 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 | Technicians from Ghana Met Agency (GMET) and Ghana Hydrological Authority (HYDRO) attended a 5-day workshop held at UKCEH to develop tools for HydroSOS implementation in Ghana. Code was developed to calculate hydrological status for gauged stations, and ensemble hydrological forecasts were also developed using both in-situ and satellite observations. Plans to present progress to Ghana government to encourage future funding in observational networks to support HydroSOS (up to date, preferably telemetered observations are needed). Ongoing liaison with Ghanaian partners with UKCEH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | HydroSOS Ghana first stakeholder 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 | This workshop brought together agencies (Ghana Meteorological Agency, Hydrological Services Department and Water Resources Commission), key national (WASH sector, water management) and regional stakeholders (e.g. AGRHYMET) for the first time to assess and discuss: data availability and gaps, requirements for a Ghana HydroSOS hydrological status and outlook system, in addition to the capacity and skills required for implementation. A committee was established to coordinate the implementation of HydroSOS in Ghana, plans were made to arrange capacity building training visit to UKCEH in spring 2023 to set up an outlook product for Ghana. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | HydroSOS Global implementation team |
| 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 | Experts from ET-OHPS were called upon to contribute to a HydroSOS working group for global implementation. First steps in providing data for the HydroSOS portal were agreed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS Implementation in RAI (Africa) meeting |
| 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 | Progress updates from the Lake Victoria Basin members, as well as Ghana and Nigerian partners on the implementation of HydroSOS. Katie Facer-Childs presented an update on technical development, and next steps were discussed and agreed. A specific follow up meeting immediately after was conduced with partners from Nigeria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS Implementation in RAV (Australasia) meeting |
| 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 | Progress updates from NIWA on status and outlooks systems in the Pacific and New Zealand. Discussions on steps needed to integrate products into the HydroSOS portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS Nigeria Implementation Workshop |
| 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 | This workshop brought together agencies (Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Nigeria Hydrological Services Authority), key national (e.g. water management) and regional stakeholders (e.g. AGRHYMET) to assess and discuss: data availability and gaps, requirements for a Nigerian HydroSOS hydrological status and outlook system, in addition to the capacity and skills required for implementation. Further plans made for implementation steps and producing example products for WMO Congress 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | HydroSOS Technical Development Team Meeting 2025, Bonn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A three day workshop for the HydroSOS Technical Team. Updates were given on technical and implementation progress. Challenges were highlighted and discussed. The workplan was revisited and revised. With activity focussed on: methods for national outlooks, standardising global data products and infilling data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | HydroSOS Technical Development Team meeting |
| 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 | An online meeting with the HydroSOS technical development team to discuss priorities and formalise a workplan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS Technical Development Team meeting in person, Oxford |
| 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 three day workshop for the HydroSOS Technical Team. Updates were given on technical and implementation progress. Challenges were highlighted and discussed. The workplan was revisited and revised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS Technical Team Face to Face Meeting |
| 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 | First face to face of the HydroSOS technical team meeting held at UKCEH Wallingford to discuss activity plans, finalise HydroSOS product standards and capacity building activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | HydroSOS Technical Team meeting - change of leadership to UKCEH and future planning |
| 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 | This meeting presented Katie Facer-Childs and Lucy Barker as new co-leaders of the HydroSOS Techical Team. Plans for the technical team moving forward were discussed. Working groups to achieve set objectives were defined and a shared document for members to sign up to activities was shared subsequently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | HydroSOS discussion with WMO Infrastructure Commission (INFCOM) |
| 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 | Discussion with WMO INFCOM on requirements and connections for HydroSOS with other WMO intitiatives and working groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS implementation in Central America meeting |
| 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 | Discussion on the integration of existing outlooks systems in Central America into the HydroSOS portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS implementation in SE Asia meeting |
| 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 | Presenation of HydroSOS to partners in SE Asia, dicsussion on integration of products into the HydroSOS intiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS implementation in the Caribbean |
| 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 in person workshop was held in Barbados following 3 online meetings (19th Sept, 10th Oct, 17th Oct). The meeting developed a regional implementation plan, and determined three countries to move forward to trial operational products. Local news channels attended to publicize the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/11/02/cimh-head-says-management-and-conservation-efforts-not-being-sus... |
| Description | HydroSOS internal dialogue: meeting with senior leaders across WMO commissions |
| 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 | Dialogue with WMO secretariat and leaders of WMO commissions and standing committees to increase understanding and support for HydroSOS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HydroSOS presentation at Global FRIEND-Water conference in Senegal |
| 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 initiative, progress and next steps at the Global FRIEND-water conference in Senegal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://en.unesco-montpellier.org/9th-friend-water-global-conference-1 |
| Description | HydroSOS presentation at the Sava Basin HydroSOS Capacity Building Workshop, Zagreb |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of HydroSOS and discussion on product integration from the Sava River Basin Commission |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Hydrological modelling in South-East Asia |
| 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 | A taster session training course on hydrological modelling and the use of the UKCEH GWAVA water resource model. Participants were a selection of those attending the STACLIM conference who have an interest in water resources and the application of models to their study region. The use of the GWAVA water resources model by project stakeholders for the own studies, therefore increasing the reach of UKCEH and the science we conduct/tools we produce for the research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | IAHS 2026 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on ROBIN at IAHS in Roorkee, India (Steve) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | IAHS side-event |
| 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 | Side event on ROBIN at IAHS in Roorkee, India |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | IPBES12 |
| 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 UK government hosted the 12th Plenary of IPBES 2-8 February. As part of this, Defra organised a parallel program of side events throughout the Plenary, of which UKCEH's event was a part of. UKCEH hosted Pathways to IPBES - the next generation of biodiversity experts at Manchester Art Gallery, bringing together expert biodiversity scientists, IPBES Fellows, early-career researchers (ECR) and Defra colleagues, with Professor Anjali Goswami, Defra Chief Scientific Adviser providing the keynote speech. We welcomed 90 guests representing over 25 countries. The event consisted of a panel discussion moderated by Hazel Jackson, where Helen Roy, Paula Harrison (UKCEH), Matt Jones (UNEP-WCMC and co-chair of the Business and Biodiversity assessment), and two IPBES Fellows (Niak Sian Koh and James Correia) shared their career journeys, IPBES experiences and what role ECRs can play in making IPBES assessments (past and current) successful. The evening resumed with networking to strengthen the partnerships of the global science community, highlight the innovations and evidence coming out of the UK to support businesses, and provide the space for ECRs were able to connect with the experts to build capacity in engaging in intergovernmental science-policy platforms. Through participation in panels across the IPBES Stakeholder Day (with 900 stakeholders represented), Defra's parallel programs and the UKCEH event, we highlighted our leadership role within IPBES as co-chairs of previous assessments and lead authors of current assessments. At the UKCEH networking event, we also demonstrated our strength as a convenor of leading scientists, policymakers and business representatives across the UK, investing in strategic partnerships to address global biodiversity loss. Additionally, by showcasing the LepiSense (automated insect monitoring system) and the Integrating Finance & Biodiversity programme at the IPBES Science Reception, we highlighted how our innovative science and technologies can support business' risk management, by identifying loss and degradation that could disrupt operations or supply chains, as well as opportunities. Strengthened engagement with the UK Business Biodiversity Forum has enhanced their understanding of UKCEH's science offer, leading to more informed collaboration on business-focused biodiversity initiatives and an opportunities for UKCEH IPBES expert, Paula Harrison, leading a business-biodiversity dialogue on nature pathways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/news/insights-ipbes12-blueprint-business |
| Description | Integration of HydroSOS and the Global State of Water Resources Report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided an update and background information to HydroSOS to attendees of the Report Technical Team meeting as well as plans and suggestions of how and why the two initiatives should integrated and aligned in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Integration of International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) data into the HydroSOS portal |
| 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 | Meeting with senior staff at IGRAC to plan out the inclusion of groundwater data from the Global Groundwater Monitoring Network hosted by IGRAC into the HydroSOS global portal, plans and ideas of how the temporal resolution could be increased and the potential for capacity building tools/guidelines for modelling/forecasting groundwater levels |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Interview for youris.com |
| 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 | On 16th July 2024, youris.com, the European Research Media Centre, published the article, 'From science to practice: circularity at the crossroad of market and agriculture' by Diego Giuliani. This article included interviews with Mark Sutton, representing UKCEH and also as Vice-Chair of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) and Morgan Ody, General Coordinator of the international peasants' movement La Via Campesina, member of its European Coordination ECVC, and small-scale farmer in Brittany, France. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youris.com/bioeconomy/agriculture/from-science-to-practice-circularity-at-the-crossroad-... |
| Description | J Drewer visit to SMART Research Institute (SMARTRI) |
| 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 | J Drewer visit to SMART Research Institute (SMARTRI) including meetings with Head of Sustainability and Director of SMARTRI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | JULES Academy 2025 in-person meeting - Nairobi |
| 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 in-person workshop was held in Nairobi (24-25 Nov) with the JULES Academy training participants and other interested stakeholders from East Africa. The objectives of the workshop were: i) To gather data on the impact of the JA training week; to discover how participants were using JULES in their studies or work; ii) To gather feedback to develop and improve JA in 2026; iii) To engage with stakeholders and begin working towards the long-term goal of developing self-sustaining networks in East and West Africa, through which JA training can be delivered sustainably. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | JULES Academy 2025 in-person workshop - Accra |
| 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 in-person workshop was held in Accra (20-21 Nov) with the JULES Academy training participants and other interested stakeholders from West Africa. The objectives of the workshop were: i) To gather data on the impact of the JA training week; to discover how participants were using JULES in their studies or work; ii) To gather feedback to develop and improve JA in 2026; iii) To engage with stakeholders and begin working towards the long-term goal of developing self-sustaining networks in East and West Africa, through which JA training can be delivered sustainably. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | JULES Academy 2025 training week |
| 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 | In September 2025, a week-long online training course was delivered to 24 participants from 18 institutions in 9 countries. This was done as part of the JULES Academy initiative. The aim of JULES Academy is to introduce African scientists and practitioners to the JULES land-surface model and to build a self-sustaining community of users and developers across East and West Africa. Eleanor Blyth and Rachael Turton led the training - which was the first (pilot) training programme delivered as part of JULES Academy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | JULES Annual Science Meeting 2022 |
| 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 is an annual conference for JULES model developers and users to present and discuss their recent work. It also includes reporting from management committees. The attendees are largely academics from HEIs, the Met Office and research centres, including PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jamaica HydroSOS Training Event |
| 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 staff provided support during a WMO led HydroSOS training workshop, enabling the capacity development of national and regional services to deliver HydroSOS products and upload them to the HydroSOS portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Joint UKCEH-NCAS NC-international summit on sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) African climate services |
| 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 | On the 10th July UKCEH are hosting a joint UKCEH-NCAS NC-international summit on sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) African climate services. As part of the summit, we have guests from FCDO, NCAS and across different African regional and national meteorological and hydrological services. The aims of the summit, which are split into operational (O) and science (S) include: O1: Highlight current operational S2S tools created, supported, and developed through NC-international at UKCEH (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) and NCAS (National Centre for Atmospheric Science). O2: Develop a plan which enhances capacity to use developed S2S tools across Africa. S1: Highlight the latest science in forecast drivers, skills, and application across Africa. S2: Understand how we can support scientific research across African partners. O/S3: Strengthen partnerships between UKCEH and NCAS/UoR hydrologists to enhance flood and drought sub-seasonal prediction. Understand where synergies and interests lie between efforts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Joint scientific advisory group meeting at WMO GAW |
| 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 | Joint scientific advisory group meeting at WMO GAW in Geneva between total atmospheric deposition, reactive gases and aerosols. Looked at a collaborative framework, as well as develop interactions between the SAGs and expert teams within GAW. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=618614864060486033e4590d6&id=a8bd8fd530 |
| Description | Kenya science collaboration workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meeting of environmental research organisations that are active in the area around the Winam Gulf of lake Victoria, Kenya. Links established among research organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lake Victoria Basin HydroSOS implementation 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 | Technical workshop on the implementation of HydroSOS status products in all countries in the Lake Victoria Basin. Two online workshops (9th Aug and 23rd Aug) held in advance of the in-person workshop in Nairobi (29th Aug-1st Sept). All countries participated and brought hydrological data with them. They used a central R script to calculate hydrological status, which was then uploaded to the HydroSOS demonstration portal as a case study page. The demonstration portal page has been presented several times subsequently to highlight how HydroSOS can be implemented, in order to leverage more partners/interest in the initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/HydroSOS/case-studies/lvb.html |
| Description | Launch event of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Nitrogen Report on 'Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Agrifood Systems' |
| 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 | Prof. Mark Sutton was invited by FAO to welcome the new FAO report and set it in the context of current science and policy needs to address nitrogen management in agriculture. Strengthened partnership with FAO, including improved awareness by FAO senior leadership. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/c226e52c-759e-4e47-801e-736d9afdde07 |
| Description | Lecture for EURO-FRIEND Seminar Series on Advances in Seasonal Forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | EURO-FRIEND Seminar: Advances in Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting (online, recorded and posted to YouTube). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odb9091cJ0Q&ab_channel=EUROFRIENDWorkshop%26training |
| Description | MJO-induced land-atmosphere feedbacks across East Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Across East Africa, sub-seasonal rainfall variability predominantly depends on the phase of the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO). Rainfall is enhanced during MJO phases 2 to 4, and suppressed during phases 6 to 8. Given that MJO-induced anomalous precipitation can persist beyond several days, a surface response is expected. Using earth observations and reanalysis data, in this presentation we will show how MJO-induced precipitation anomalies promote a surface response which feeds back onto local and regional atmospheric conditions. MJO-induced rainfall suppression across East Africa decreases surface soil moisture across the exit region of the Turkana jet. Reduced soil moisture increases surface sensible heat fluxes and elevates land surface temperatures. The drier and warmer surface reduces surface pressure and leads to an intensification of the Turkana jet. We conclude that on average approximately 11% of the anomalous jet speed is associated with surface-driven pressure fluctuations over the course of a single day. Since the Turkana jet controls moisture transport from low-lying regions of East Africa into Central Africa, we highlight that surface-induced jet variations impact rainfall totals across East Africa. Furthermore, due to the Turkana jet response to spatial variations in surface warming, we also identify that the magnitude of MJO-induced anomalous precipitation is influenced by surface conditions prior an MJO event. For example, when the surface over southern South Sudan is anomalously dry, MJO-induced precipitation suppression is greater. This presentation will highlight that to fully exploit predictability from the MJO, forecast models must correctly represent surface processes and land-atmosphere interactions. Future work evaluating sub-seasonal forecast models and improving the representation of land-atmosphere interactions will enhance the lead-time of early warning systems across East Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Makatiani, Adienge, Otieno, Oduor, Odee, Perry, Cavers (2024) Phenotypic variability among some provenances of Moringa oleifera Lam. in Kibwezi, Kenya. IUFRO World Congress, Stockholm. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented poster at IUFRO World Congress |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | http://iufro2024.com |
| Description | Makatiani, Adienge, Otieno, Oduor, Opondo, Amollo, Odee, Perry, Cavers. (2024) Assessment of insect pests in Moringa oleifera Lam. progeny trials in Kenya. IUFRO World Congress, Stockholm. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk given to IUFRO World Congress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | http://iufro2024.com |
| Description | Making nitrogen visible through the Rio Conventions |
| 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 | 'Making nitrogen visible through the Rio Conventions' took place on 7th June 2024 as an official side-event of the 60th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SB60) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), also known as the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Organized by Compassion in World Farming, in collaboration with the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Government of Pakistan, UN Environment Programme, University of Agriculture Faisalabad and the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS), with support from the Global Programme on Nutrient Management (GPNM), this event explored how nitrogen waste and pollution are reflected across the Rio Conventions-governing climate change, biodiversity, and desertification-and showcased how sustainable nitrogen management can deliver just, inclusive, and enduring progress towards internationally agreed goals. Speakers included representatives from the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Government of Pakistan, the Ministry of Environment, Waters, and Forests, Government of Romania, Climate Change Division, UN Environment Programme, INMS, Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, Compassion in World Farming and the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen. Mobilization of science evidence to support climate negotiations under the UNFCCC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeB4yK8ZV3Q |
| Description | Media engagement (LA fires, State of Wildfires) |
| 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 | Extensive media engagement including BBC (2*TV/radio/online), ITV, Sky News, national newspapers; active involvement in fact-checking and countering misinformation during LA fires |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Meet and greet with Prof. Dame Angela McLean (Government Chief Scientific Adviser) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation on "Improving global hydrological simulations through bias-correction and multi-model blending" to showcase NC-International project outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting for integration of global products into HydroSOS |
| 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 | A meeting between WMO, UKCEH and several operational and research based organisations producing global hydrological status and seasonal forecast systems. This meeting set a work plan for the integration of these services into the HydroSOS framework, and has been followed up with several smaller meetings with individual service providers to establish their needs and devise methods and scripts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting of the Nigerian (NISHA) HydroSOS Task Team |
| 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 | Updates provided on the global HydroSOS portal and technical team developments, made plans to assess issues with data and the tools that would be needed to improve data quality in Nigeria in order to support the successful implementation of HydroSOS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting on UKCEH collaboration on drought predictions over West Africa |
| 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 | Discussion on UKCEH drought research in West Africa and feedback from international partners on needs, collaborations and future directions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with ECMWF to discuss HydroSOS and GloFAS/ULYSSES products |
| 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 | Engagement with the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts to discuss the application of global seasonal forecasting products produced by Copernicus in HydroSOS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with Ian Lisk, President of the WMO Services Commission to discuss HydroSOS support |
| 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 | Discussion on HydroSOS and UKCEH-WMO relations with the President of SERCOM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office |
| 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 | Meeting with the FCDO at Reading University to discuss NC-International research and identify routes of future collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Modelling air quality in the Asia-Pacific region with EMEP-WRF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | An oral presentation at The Working Group Meeting on Air Quality and Health in Seoul on 5-6 November 2025. In the talk the results of the modelling work for the WHO were presented to the attendees to the attendees. A total of 46 participants attended the meeting (16 online), including 12 representatives from the seven participating countries in the TWG-AQH: Republic of Korea (Chair), Cambodia (Co-Chair), Indonesia, Japan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia and Thailand. Speakers from leading academic institutions from across the region and beyond were invited including Seoul National University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea University, Asian Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment at Curtin University. demonstrating the air quality modelling capability of UKCEH to new audiences in the Southeast, and East Asia regions. Discussions on the results were held with some participants after the talk. We also have held initial talks on potential future collaboration with prof Lee from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul on air quality modelling in Korea. We agreed to conduct a pilot modelling study depending on the amount of funding received from the extension to NC Intl in 2026. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Monitoring of OP management system effects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk at workshop with Wild Asia: UKCEH/ Cardiff & DGFC /Wild Asia at KOPEL, Batu Puteh, Kinabatangan, Sabah Malaysia. Raising awareness of potential GHG emissions from oil palm and differences to forests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Multi-model blending of streamflow forecasts: A comprehensive global hydrological prediction system |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Geospatial Engineering and Water Resources Seminar, Newcastle University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NC International collaboration discussion at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) |
| 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 | Collaboration discussion involving UKCEH, Institute of Climate Change at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and British High Commission staff. Identification of collaborative research areas with Malaysian partners within NC International project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NC-International Consultation on Drought-induced mean risk to soil carbon and terrestrial biomass. |
| 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 aim of this activity is to understand the perspectives of potential users of the risk maps and our approach to publishing environmental tools -a storyboard, a dashboard, and open code-collectively termed here the Open Knowledge pipeline (OK pipeline). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Niall McNamara: Biochar functionality in agricultural soils |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Climate Governance Malaysia "Building Verifiable Carbon Sinks for Malaysia's Net Zero Future" - Talk and Panel discussion at the CGM - the Malaysian chapter of the World Economic Forum's Chapter Zero Alliance - Chaired by Wild Asia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.cgmalaysia.com/cgm-roundtable-series-2025 |
| Description | Nile Basin Initiative/Lake Victoria Basin HydroSOS Training Event |
| 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 staff provided support during a WMO led HydroSOS training workshop, enabling the capacity development of national and regional services to deliver HydroSOS products and upload them to the HydroSOS portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | OUTLAST final project meeting |
| 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 | A technical meeting of the OUTLAST project and crossovers with HydroSOS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Online Workshop on Hydrological Forecasting - Training Needs and Opportunities (2 September 2025) |
| 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 Online Workshop on Hydrological Forecasting (2 September 2025) brings together UKCEH and West African partners to explore training needs and opportunities in seasonal hydrological forecasting. The programme combines expert presentations on forecast applications, hydrological datasets, and modelling tools with interactive breakout discussions to identify user requirements, technical challenges, and decision-making contexts. Contributions from WASCAL and AGRHYMET highlight regional perspectives and operational forecasting in West Africa and the Sahel. The workshop concludes with a group discussion on next steps and future hands-on training planned for 2026. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Online presentation on GMID: a multiscalar high-resolution dataset from 1980 to near present at Training of Trainers workshop, November 28, 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Ivan Noguera Corral presented about the Global Multi-Index Drought (GMID): a multiscalar high-resolution dataset from 1980 to near present for Training of Trainers workshop, November 28, 2025, online for UNCCD CRIC meeting held in Panama. The workshop was convened by the UNCCD with financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implementation support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) under the Global Support Programme for UNCCD reporting. " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Online presentation on UNCCD Strategic Objective 3 Reporting at Training of Trainers workshop, November 28, 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jamie Hannaford presented at a Training of Trainers workshop, November 28, 2025, online at the UNCCD CRIC meeting held in Panama. The workshop was convened by the UNCCD with financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implementation support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) under the Global Support Programme for UNCCD reporting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Oral presentation at EGU General Assembly 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk by L Samaniego "On the predictability of the seasonal droughts at global scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Otieno, Omondi, Perry, Odee, Makatiani, Kiplagat, Cavers (2024) Genetic diversity and population structure of African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata ) in Kenya: implications for conservation. IUFRO World Congress, Stockholm. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented poster at IUFRO World Congress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://iufro2024.com/ |
| Description | PICO presentation at EGU General Assembly 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by E Modiri on "Understanding Hydrological Model Performance through Variability Analysis of Observed Water Balance Components and Meteorological Forcings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Panel discussion at COP27 side event (UNESCO Pavillion) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion at the UNESCO Pavliion, a side event at COP27 (in Cairo and virually online), hosted by ROBIN. On the topic of internatiional Reference Hydrometric Networks. Panel members from the ROBIN network, from Norway, New Zealand, Chile and the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Pantanal and Wetland fire driver assessments - EGU 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Highlighted the vulnerability of wetland systems to compound climate and land-use pressures; informed discussions linking fire science to biodiversity and climate justice debates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-18657.html |
| Description | Paraguay HydroSOS Training Event |
| 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 staff provided support during a WMO led HydroSOS training workshop, enabling the capacity development of national and regional services to deliver HydroSOS products and upload them to the HydroSOS portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Participation (online) at the World Meteorological Organizations Hydrological Coordination Panel (HCP) |
| 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 | Attendance at HCP-6, WMO Hydrological Coordination Panel, including discussion on HydroSOS and the State of Global Water Resources Report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://community.wmo.int/en/activity-areas/hydrology-and-water-resources/meetings/sixth-hydrologica... |
| Description | Participation in UKCEH-NCAS Sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting 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 | NC-International summit on sub-seasonal to seasonal African climate services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Peat Emit: Enhanced Support for National Assessment and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Tropical Peatland Fires |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Asia Flux 2025 conference in Sumatra. Chris Evans, Ben Freeman and Jonay Jovany were co-authors on this presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | PeatCam: a low-cost Raspberry Pi-based time-lapse camera to monitor peat motion and environmental data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about the PeatCams: what they are, how can be use them and how they can help us to monitor peatland condition. Linking the PeatCams and peat motion to remote sensing. Development of empirical functions to derive CO2 emissions from peat motion. Students from the mechanical engineering department presented their low-cost sensor to monitor water table depth. Field visit to the Forest "KHDTK Tumbang Nusa" to demonstrate how to install a PeatCam. Two staff from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) from Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan Indonesia, and staff from the National Park Sebangau (in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia) agreed to managed 6 and 9 cameras, respectively. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Peru, Colombia and Chile HydroSOS Training Event |
| 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 staff provided support during a WMO led HydroSOS training workshop, enabling the capacity development of national and regional services to deliver HydroSOS products and upload them to the HydroSOS portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Poster Presentation - Greenhouse gas fluxes from contrasting smallholder oil palm farms in Riau, Indonesia and Perak, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Poster Presentation - Greenhouse gas fluxes from contrasting smallholder oil palm farms in Riau, Indonesia and Perak, Malaysia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Poster presentation at WWRP/WCRP S2S Summit 2023 at Reading, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presented on "Improving global hydrological simulations through bias-correction and multi-model blending". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the European Geoscience Union on HydroSOS |
| 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 | Poster presentation at EGU: HydroSOS Knitting local and global hydrological status and outlooks systems together for seamless water resources assessment. In session HS1.3.1 HELPING science for solutions decade. This was a ""fibre art"" poster and was extremely well received and discussed widely at the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-15283.html |
| Description | Poster presentation of the 2024/25 State of Wildfires report at EGU 2025, summarising global wildfire activity, attribution insights, and regional case studies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Increased academic visibility of the State of Wildfires initiative; generated interest from new collaborators and early-career researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-19519.html |
| Description | Presentation (BES 2024 - Emma Gardner) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation at British Ecological Society Annual Conference in Liverpool, UK, on 13th December 2024 on recent modelling work simulating tree-pollinator-disperser interactions in Kenyan ecosystems carried out under NERC-funded 'National Capability for Global Challenges: International science for net zero plus' project (WP2C Task 2). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation and discussion of HydroSOS at WMO RA V (Australasia and Indonesia) pilot hydrological outlook forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | WMO Region V have advanced to a pilot hydrological outlook forum, and are working on HydroSOS style products. This meeting showcased some products and addressed the option of incorporating them in the outlook forum on an operational basis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at African Space Leadership Institute's 1st COLLOQUIUM ON THE AFRICAN OUTER SPACE PROGRAMME |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the underlying research, including skills, infrastructure, and challenges for using earth observation for ecosystem monitoring in Africa. Discussion of the potential for Africa-UK collaboration in knowledge creation, sharing, and transfer. Output : further engagement with ALSI and participation in a round-table discussion around Africa-UK collaboration in knowledge creation, sharing, and transfer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://aslispace.org |
| Description | Presentation at British Hydrological Society meeting 'From science to society: UK contributions to global water challenges' |
| 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 how UK experience and leadership from the National River Flow Archive, National Hydrological Monitoring Programme and Hydrological Outlook has led to a global leadership position in co-leading the development of the World Meteorological Organization HydroSOS initiative and leading the development of the ROBIN network to support global hydrological trend assessments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation at the European Geosciences Union |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | EGU Presentation ""Mapping a Decade of Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting: The UK Hydrological Outlook's Journey"" in session HS4.6 ""Transforming observations and forecasts for management policy action - the role of data services for the water related sectors"" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-16596.html |
| Description | Presentation by Amulya Chevuturi at EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr-2 May 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PICO (Presenting Interactive Content) presentation by Amulya Chevuturi on Blending Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Hydrological Predictions from Multiple Forecasting Systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation by Amulya Chevuturi at the UKCEH-UTokyo Global Hydrology seminar series - #2 19 March 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online presentation by Amulya Chevuturi on Improving hydrological predictions for reliable and comprehensive forecasts at the UKCEH-UTokyo Global Hydrology seminar series - #2 19 March 2025 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation of HydroSOS and discussion at RA II (Asia) South East Asia meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | HydroSOS implementation for the Mekong basin was discussed. Data products were considered for first implementation steps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation of HydroSOS at the Rhine Basin Commission meeting |
| 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 | Presentation of HydroSOS at the CHR 93rd meeting, discussion on integration of Rhine Basin status and outlooks products into the HydroSOS intiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.chr-khr.org/en/event/93rd-meeting-chr |
| Description | Presentation on A global intercomparison and evaluation of flash drought indicators at XIIth Scientific Assembly of the IAHS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Ivan Noguera Corral presented on A global intercomparison and evaluation of flash drought indicators at XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) in October 05 - 10, 2025 at Roorkee, India |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation on Blending Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Hydrological Predictions from Multiple Forecasting Systems at the XIIth Scientific Assembly of IAHS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Burak Bulut presented on Blending Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Hydrological Predictions from Multiple Forecasting Systems at XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) on October 05 - 10, 2025 at Roorkee, India |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation on HydroSOS to the Director of the Meteorological Service of Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented HydroSOS intiiatrive, prpogress, capacity building activities and areas of collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada to the ssociate Deputy Director Meteorolgical Service of Canada and colleagues. This included areas for potential collaboration with their National Hydrological Service and their activities within WMO, in addition to potential collaborations with UKCEH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation on the C3S Water Service at the Copernicus Climate Change (C3S) General Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation of the C3S Water Service, highlighting the global HydroSOS use case of the C3S Water Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation to Angela McLean (Government Chief Scientific Officer) and the Government Office for Science (GOScience) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at in person meeting with GOScience on hydrological forecasting services and research through National Capability Funding programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to the British Expertise International Water Resilience Group on UKCEH work on UK and International drought resilience |
| 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 | This talk presented UKCEH services and research in drought resilience including UK and international work on: water situation monitoring, seasonal hydrological forecasting, climate change projections of low flows, long term trend analysis, drought impact forecasting, and international drought reporting standards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to the CEO of UKWIR (Steve Kaye) on water situation monitoring and forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at in person meeting with UKWIR on hydrological forecasting services and research through National Capability Funding programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to the Government Office for Science (GO Science) on UKCEH seasonal forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The UK Hydrological Outlook and HydroSOS were presented at a round-table meeting with GO Science at UKCEH |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to visiting Bangladeshi 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 | Presentation of HydroSOS to visiting Bangladeshi Partners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Project partner meeting with the Kenya Marine & Fisheries Research Institute, November 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with local project partners from KMFRI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Quantifying the effect of biomass burning on reactive nitrogen deposition in Southeast Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral Presentation at the International Seminar on Tropical Peatland Management, Palangka Raya, Indonesia Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr) deposition can have a detrimental effect on ecosystems. The Nr deposition is influenced by many processes including biomass burning. In this work we quantify the contribution of biomass burning to the Nr deposition in Southeast Asia. We use an open-source atmospheric chemistry transport model (EMEP MSC-W version rv4.45) whose meteorological driver is the WRF model (EMEP-WRF). The EMEP-WRF domain uses a one-way nested approach with a latitude/longitude grid at a horizontal resolution of 1° × 1° and 0.1° × 0.1° for the outer global domain and the inner Southeast Asia domain, respectively. The inner domain extends from Myanmar in the northwest to Papua New Guinea in the southeast and the modelled year is 2019. We include both the reduced and oxidised nitrogen dry and wet deposition in our modelling. We simulate two scenarios - with fire emissions from the FINN1.5 inventory included in the emission input (BASE scenario), and with those emissions excluded (NOFIRE scenario). We observe a decrease in total Nr deposited across all countries in the Southeast Asia domain in the NOFIRE scenario compared to the BASE scenario. The magnitude of the reduction ranges from 8% in Singapore to approximately 26% for the Philippines and Lao PDR. We show here that a decrease in biomass burning would lead to a substantial reduction in total Nr deposited in the Southeast Asia region. Raising awareness of the impact of forest fires and their associated reactive nitrogen deposition on peatland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Quantifying the effect of biomass burning on surface ozone concentrations in Southeast Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation at the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, USA Tropospheric ozone has a detrimental effect on natural environments and human health. The surface concentrations of ozone are influenced by many processes including biomass burning. In this work we quantify the effect of biomass burning on surface ozone concentrations in Southeast Asia using an open-source atmospheric chemistry transport model EMEP version rv4.45 whose meteorological driver is the WRF model (EMEP-WRF). The EMEP-WRF domain uses a one-way nested approach with a latitude/longitude grid at a horizontal resolution of 1° × 1° and 0.1° × 0.1° for the outer global domain and the inner Southeast Asia domain, respectively. The inner domain extends from Myanmar in the northwest to Papua New Guinea in the southeast. The modelled year is 2019. We simulate two scenarios - with fire emissions from the FINN1.5 inventory included in the emission input (BASE scenario), and with those emissions excluded (NOFIRE scenario). We observe decreases in surface ozone annual mean concentrations across the Southeast Asia domain of up to 12.5 ppb (25%) in the NOFIRE scenario compared to the BASE scenario. We demonstrate that a reduction in biomass burning would lead to a reduction in surface ozone concentrations and consequently in improvement in public health in the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | RA VI Task Team on the Hydrological Status and Outlook System Kick off Meeting |
| 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 | Kick off meeting for the RA VI Task team for HydroSOS. Discussion on agenda for in person meeting in November. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://community.wmo.int/en/governance/regional-association/ra-vi-coordination-panel-hydrology/ra-v... |
| Description | ROBIN - A Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection - presentation at EGU 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Overview presentation on ROBIN presented at EGU in Vienna |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ROBIN - A Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection - presentation at global FRIEND symposium Dakar 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Overview presentation on ROBIN presented at the Global FRIEND conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ROBIN - A Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection. Oral presentation at IAHS 2022 Scientific Assembly, Montpellier, France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Overview presentation on ROBIN presented at the IAHS Assembly |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ROBIN - EURO-FRIEND Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinar to the EURO FRIEND Community introducing the ROBIN Network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTI_tlIFtU |
| Description | ROBIN Network - International Analysis Drop In |
| 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 | Gathering of ROBIN partners to dicuss the future analysis of the dataset |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ROBIN Network - International Data Drop In |
| 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 | Gathering of ROBIN partners to discuss data submission |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ROBIN Network - international Analysis 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 | Gathering of ROBIN partners to discuss initial data analysis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ROBIN Network - international Data Workshop |
| 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 | Gathering of ROBIN partners to discuss criteria for inclusion in the ROBIN Network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ROBIN Phase 2 |
| 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 | ROBIN Network meeting on Phase 2 of ROBIN dataset (Sayali led, online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | ROBIN Presentation at UNESCO Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Live presentation on ROBIN to the UNESCO Climate Risk, Vulnerability and Resiilience Conference, Paris, April 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/international-conference-climate-risk-vulnerability-and-resilienc... |
| Description | ROBIN and FCDO |
| 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 | ROBIN global outreach activity FCDO event in London (Jamie) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | ROBIN and GRDC |
| 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 | Meeting with GRDC in Germany, Koblenz - discussing how to integrate ROBIN into GRDC, and other common threads. Attended by Jamie Hannaford, Steve Turner, Sayali Pawar and Wilson Chan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | ROBIN at UNESCO |
| 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 | Presentation on ROBIN data at UNESCO 50th Anniversary of IHP event in Paris |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | ROBIN general presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | ROBIN Presentation for visitors from Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIES) and Unilever SERS (Steve and Sayali) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | ROBIN in Latin America |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ROBIN update and outreach to the visiting delegation from Latin America on One Health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Represented UKCEH at the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 16) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 2-13 December 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UKCEH sent a delegation composed by Lucy Barker and Srinidhi Jha building on our experience developing the Good Practice Guidance to monitor progress toward the UNCCD's Strategic Objective 3 where Lucy was the lead author. Our delegation is funded by the NC-International Programme and the UK Foreign Office (FCDO). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://cehacuk.sharepoint.com/sites/Hub-Internationaloffice/SitePages/UKCEH-at-COP-16-in-Riyadh.asp... |
| Description | Research sharing and exchange with HII (Hydraulics Informatics Institute) modelling team, Thailand |
| 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 met the head of the Hydro-Informatics unit, model developers, and researchers in flood forecasting and modelling. Learned about current hydraulic/modelling practices in Thailand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Research sharing and exchange with Royal Irrigation Department (RID), Thailand |
| 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 | Research sharing and exchange with hydrologists and irrigation engineers at Royal Irrigation Department (RID), Thailand. Learned about current hydrological modelling and river gauging practices in Thailand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Research sharing at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| 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 | Research sharing and exchange with staff, young researchers and graduate students at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Explored future joint opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Reservoir Storage Prediction using Random Forest Models: A UK Case Study. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented online by Rishma Chengot at the 5th IAHR Young Professionals Congress, Online. 27-29 Nov 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Response of South Asia PM2.5 pollution to ammonia emission changes and associated impacts on human health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at the 18th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conference, Kuala Lumpur by Yuanlin Wang Countries in South Asia are suffering severe PM2.5 pollution with rapid economic development, impacting human health and the environment. Whilst much attention has been given to understanding the contribution of primary emissions, the contribution of agriculture to PM2.5 concentrations, including from agricultural ammonia emissions and crop residue burning, remains less explored. Using an advanced regional atmospheric chemistry model (WRF-EMEP) with updated anthropogenic emission inputs, we estimate the influence of agricultural emission reductions on surface PM2.5 in South Asia, and evaluate implications for health impacts and economic losses attributable to PM2.5 in 2018. Results show that WRF-EMEP can reproduce magnitudes and variations of PM2.5 well, with a high annual mean PM2.5 concentration that exceeds 120 µg/m2 and mainly appeared in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. We estimate 1,555,000 (95% Confidence Interval: 1,261,000-1,878,000) premature deaths and 413,000 (95% CI: 336,000-499,000) million US$ in economic losses are attributable to total ambient PM2.5¬ under the current emissions. We calculate that NH3 emissions are associated with 11% of the annual average PM2.5 concentrations across South Asia. Changes in PM2.5 concentrations follow a non-linear response to NH3 emission reductions, highlighting increased efficiency with 70%-100% reductions in NH3 emission reductions. We estimate that 171,000 (139,000-207,000) premature deaths and 45,000 (37,000-55,000) million US$ economic losses through this pathway are associated with NH3 emissions. These findings confirm that in the current NH3-rich chemical climate of South Asia, the efficiency of PM2.5 reduction is only moderately sensitive to the reduction in intensity of NH3 emissions until emissions are cut very severely. Thus, SO2, NOx and NH3 emissions controls need to be considered jointly for greater mitigation of ambient secondary PM2.5 in South Asia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Reuters article |
| 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 | Mark Sutton provided several quotes for an article by Reuters, published on October 24th 2024. The article is titled: 'Fertile ground: why reducing emissions from fertiliser production and use is ripe for innovation' and is by Angeli Mehta. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/fertile-ground-why-reducing-emissions-f... |
| Description | Root causes of East African drought |
| 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 | Seminar given by Callum Munday, University of Oxford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SC-HYD Working Group on HydroSOS |
| 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 | Formal meeting of the SC-HYD HydroSOS team to discuss progress on outlook methodologies, guidance and capacity bulding activities and the activities of the global HydroSOS portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Sam Robinson: Presentation title: Plant-soil-atmosphere interactions in human modified tropical forest landscapes. Panel discussion: Land and climate change. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Event: Brazil-UK Pre COP30 Dialogue: From Science to Policy. Hosted by University of São Paulo/British Embassy São Paulo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Savanna vegetation 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 | Participation in a workshop run by an existing NERC project ('How do global change and functional traits influence savanna woody plant encroachment?') to explore how the empirical data collected as part of the project could be integrated into land surface models to improve the representation of savanna regions. Knowledge exchange between modelers and empiricists. Building awareness of JULES and its capabilities. Networking with international scientists who are experts in savanna ecology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Science Media Centre briefing on the WMO Global State of Water Resources |
| 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 | SMC briefing organised by WMO for the launch of the 2024 Global State of Water Resources report which was launched on 18th September. Presented on the activities of the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme and Hydrological Outlook, the conditions of 2024 and the current drought conditions, in addition to UKCEH's leading role in HydroSOS and contributions to the report. Quote picked up in several national newspapers, including The Guardian and Independent |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Scoping future research priorities for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Global South |
| 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 | A workshop to scope future priority areas for research investment under the topic of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) was led by UK Research and Innovation's Natural Environment Research Council (UKRI-NERC) with support from the Economic and Social Research Council (UKRI-ESRC) on the 15th and 16th January 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting Workshop at UKCEH |
| 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 held at UKCEH to update seasonal forecasting user community on advances in the science, and hear perspectives on how forecasts are and can be used. Future developments were discussed and prioritised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Session convener/moderator Julia Drewer SESSION 7: Agroforestry; Intercropping |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session convener/moderator Julia Drewer SESSION 7: Agroforestry; Intercropping |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Sixth Meeting of the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen |
| 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 | The Sixth Meeting of the UNEP WGN was held online over two days, from 26th-27th June 2024. Mark Sutton provided three presentations to the meeting, including a joint update with Prof Dave Hooper (US) & Prof Kentaro Hayashi (Japan) on the International Nitrogen Assessment, a presentation on the draft INMS Guidance Document on Measures for Sustainable Nitrogen Management and finally, a presentation on the 'Needs for a Science Task Force to the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen'. Mark Sutton also contributed to the 'Draft Roadmap of the UNEP Working Group on nitrogen: towards 2030 on reducing nitrogen waste' which was presented by the WGN co-chairs at the meeting. High-level presentations to UNEP National Focal Points (NFPs) of Member States as well as contribution to the UNEP WGN's strategy and planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/working-group-meeting/sixth-meeting-unep-working-group-nitrogen#:~:text=... |
| Description | Soil erosion & changing inputs underpin patterns of nutrient imbalances in land & water across the Lake Victoria Basin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation delivered at the British Society of Soil Science meeting in Manchester, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://soils.org.uk/annualconference2025/ |
| Description | Soil erosion & changing inputs underpin patterns of nutrient imbalances in land & water across the Lake Victoria Basin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation delivered at the 8th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit in Accra, Ghana. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.upcyclelakes.org/sps8africa |
| Description | Stakeholder engagement meeting in Kisumu, Kenya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with local policymakers and third party organisations, such as fishing communities, to share the newly created Floating Weeds app and the updated Bloomin' Algae app and provide training in their use for monitoring and reporting water quality problems. Both apps were translated into the local language, Swahili, before being launched in Kenya to maximise use by the local community. Local policymakers and practitioners have now begun using the Bloomin' Algae and Floating Weeds apps to record the presence of algal blooms and floating nuisance weeds around the Kenyan part of Lake Victoria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Standing Committee on Earth Observing Systems and Monitoring Networks (SC-ON) |
| 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 | Formal discussion and linkages with Expert Team on Operational Hydrological Prediction Systems (ET-OHPS) and HydroSOS, including new guidelines on verification metrics and standardising global and nationally produced HydroSOS products |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | State of Global Water Report 2023 Planning Meeting |
| 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 Facer-Childs contributed to the State of Global Water Report planning meeting for the 2023 edition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://library.wmo.int/records/item/68473-state-of-global-water-resources-report-2022 |
| Description | State of Global Water Resources Report Technical Meeting 2025 |
| 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 | Representing HydroSOS and UK National interests at the State of Global Water Resources Report Technical Meeting 2025 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Supporting national reporting of drought hazard, exposure and vulnerability to track progress in drought adaptation, mitigation and management |
| 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 UNCCD Good Practice Guidance on drought hazard, exposure and vulnerability monitoring at EGU in Vienna. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Surface drivers of sub-seasonal predictability across Africa |
| 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 international conference. Land surface characteristics are a key source of sub-seasonal predictability as they vary more slowly than atmospheric conditions but quicker than oceanic states. However, an understanding of the dynamical atmospheric response to sub-seasonal surface variability remains limited across Africa. Using earth observations and reanalysis data, in this presentation we will show how sub-seasonal precipitation variability across West and East Africa promotes a surface response which feeds back onto regional atmospheric conditions. Surface soil moisture decreases across semi-arid regions during intraseasonal dry spells. This increases surface sensible heat fluxes and elevates land surface temperatures. During the West African monsoon for example, surface drying during an intraseasonal dry spell increases surface temperatures by approximately 1.5°C across the Sahel. This large-scale surface warming increases the depth of the planetary boundary layer, shifts low-level monsoon winds southwards by 1.5° latitude, and intensifies the African easterly jet. Across East Africa meanwhile, we conclude that surface-driven pressure fluctuations over the course of a single day are responsible for approximately 11% of the anomalous Turkana jet speed during a dry intraseasonal spell. Surface-induced jet variations impact the moisture budget across East Africa. To fully exploit predictability from sub-seasonal rainfall variability, forecast models must correctly represent surface processes and land-atmosphere feedbacks. Future work evaluating sub-seasonal forecast models and improving the representation of land-atmosphere interactions will enhance forecast skill across Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Surface-driven sub-seasonal predictability across Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at WCRP Open Science Conference, Rwanda |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk given at the "Seasonal Forecasting Workshop at UKCEH Wallingford" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Burak Bulut on "Bias correction, data assimilation and multi-model blending in seasonal forecasting". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen |
| 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 | Partial contribution to the work of Prof. Mark Sutton as founding co-chair of the UNECE Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen. The TFRN is established in 2008 to report to the Working Group on Strategies and Review (WGSR) under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution. During 2024 the work has focused on supporting Parties to the convention with technical outputs to inform review of the Gothenburg Protocol, and to start the revision process. Several key outputs were produced, reported separately. Agreement for the Air Convention to revise the Gothenburg Protocol, with a clear understanding to put priority on ammonia mitigation with knowledge of the available technical measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.clrtap-tfrn.org/ |
| Description | Technical Meeting of the WMO Annual State of Global Water Resources Report Development Team |
| 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 | Technical meeting to discuss the 2024 Global State of Water Resources Report at WMO with the global hydrological modelling community, global data centres, earth observation organisations and WMO and UKCEH to decide on the methods and approaches to be used in the 2024 report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | The Hydrological Forecasting Highway - presentation at the American Geophysical Union |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation of HydroSOS, along with other UKCEH research advances in seasonal forecasting at the AGU in San Francisco |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The Socioecological Benefits and Consequences of Oil Palm Cultivation in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation of The socioecological benefits and consequences of oil palm cultivation in its native range: The Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | The UK's leading role in biodiversity monitoring and modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A pair of panel debates: "Mind the Gap: Are national plans ambitious enough to bend the curve of biodiversity?" "What is the role of AI in addressing the biodiversity crisis?" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | The XXII International N Workshop |
| 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 | As part of the XXII International N Workshop held in Aarhus, Denmark and online, from 17th-21st June 2024, Mark Sutton co-organized a special setting on the revision of the UNECE Guidance Document: Options for Ammonia Mitigation: Guidance from the UNECE Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen. Topics of the meeting included a framing of the revision process from a UNECE Working Group on Strategies & Review (WGSR) perspective, discussion on the technicalities of the revision process and detailed focus group split across the revision of chapters sitting under specific themes. As well as co-organizing the session, Mark Sutton also contributed to several abstracts that were presented in the oral sessions including: 1) Nitrogen options in Europe and Southern Asia by Skiba et al. 2) Challenges and Way Forward to Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency by Rahman et al. 3) Nitrogen application and N harvest in major cereal crops in South Asia by Adhya et al. 4) Understanding the fate of N species in the agricultural systems by Jiang et al. 5) Lessons from cost-benefit analyses of the nitrogen cascade for policy support from national, to European and global scale by van Grinsven et al. 6) Village Level Fertilizer Management for Increasing Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Rice Yield and Household Income by Al-Amin et al. 7) Policy intervention to manage synthetic N fertilizer use in India by Adhya et al. 8) Nitrogen loss mitigation strategies under rice-maize-mung bean cropping system in Nepal by Ghimire et al. Progress made on the revision of a key UNECE Guidance Document, which is housed under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution's Working Group on Strategies & Review and knowledge-sharing/further mobilization of the nitrogen community through the presentation of several abstracts, showcasing international science collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://conferences.au.dk/nworkshop |
| Description | The global challenge to produce more food and energy with less pollution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited keynote address to the Third Indian Rice Congress, Cuttack India. Mobilizing engagement with India on improved nutrient management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://icar-nrri.in/3rd-indian-rice-congress-inaugurated-at-icar-national-rice-research-institute-n... |
| Description | The impact of explicitly-representing convection on malaria predictions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AGU Chapman conference on health and climate in Africa gave me an opportunity to present our recent work operationalising early warnings of meningitis (Dione et al., 2022) and the impact of explicitly-representing convection on malaria predictions (Talib et al., In Review). The conference was attended by approximately 100 delegates and my first experience in attending a conference by myself, i.e., with no support from anyone at UKCEH or my collaborative networks. The conference included a mix of climate scientists, health practitioners and social scientists from across the U.S. and Africa. The conference gave me good oversight in the current dialogues between climate and health sciences. It became clear that links between climate and health sit within three topics: (1) health impacts of extreme heat; (2) health implications due to extreme precipitation; and (3) links between climate and disease prevalence. My oral presentation on early warnings for meningitis got an engaging response as it is a clear example of using sub-seasonal atmospheric to predict disease prevalence. Our collaboration with climate and health African partners, i.e. ACMAD and WHO, supported the co-production of early warnings. Collaborative relationships which I may strengthen in the future include The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM, particularly Dr Sari Kovats), the Malaria Atlas Project and extreme heat forecasts from the Senegalese Met. Service, ANACIM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The importance of measuring trace gas fluxes to understand future emissions under climate change and land use change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk at International Seminar on Tropical Peatland Management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Towards actionable information to foster drought resilience - lessons from across scales |
| 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 session at the Drought Resilience +10 High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy hosted by WMO and UNCCD on assessing drought risk and different scales - bringing together work done by UKCEH with UNCCD at the global scale, in Africa by colleagues from IHE Delft and at the national scale in Switzerland. Identified synergies in approaches and common challenges in providing actionable information that can be used to mitiagte the impacts of drought. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Towards effective governance of phosphorus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to participants of the 8th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit in Accra, Ghana, on the sustainable management of phosphorus to reduce adverse impacts on water quality. An agreement to create a sustaniable phosphorus platform for Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.upcyclelakes.org/sps8africa |
| Description | 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). Raising awareness of impacts of land-use change to oil palm plantations beyond impacts on biodiversity & wildlife. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Tracking drought resilience at the global scale: UNCCD Strategic Objective 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in session 'Towards actionable information to foster drought resilience - lessons from across scales' (covened by UKCEH) on the UNCCD Good Practice Guidance for Strategic Objective 3 and the work done since developing the guidance to develop and improve the capabilites for monitoring meteorological drought through the use of the Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index and new methods to assess ecosystem resilience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Two Loss & Damage workshops (with BASE) with indigenous firefighters in Brazil |
| 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 | Built capacity among civil society actors to use fire attribution evidence in climate justice and adaptation financing contexts. Directly informed subsequent policy briefs on wildfire attribution in Loss and Damage processes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | UK Hydrological Status and Outlook Products: methods and production processes |
| 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 UK hydrological status and outlook methods and processes at the WMO RAIII HydroSOS Implementation workshop (online) in for the South American region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UKCEH Expert Engagement: Air Pollution |
| 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 engagement workshop between Massimo Vieno and Tomas Liska (UKCEH) and stakeholders in Malaysia with expertise and interest around air pollution to exchange knowledge and build capacities across the two countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UKCEH Press Release |
| 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 | On 25th September 2024, UKCEH released a press release entitled 'Scientists' win-win solutions to global nitrogen crisis are good for the pocket and planet'. This press release covered the launch of a new international guidance document, 'Nitrogen mitigation: INMS guidance document on measures for sustainable nitrogen management', as well as the complementary online toolkit, the 'Nitrogen Measures Database', which is designed to be used alongside the guidance document and provides further detail on each measure including 'how to implement' and the cost, benefits and risks of implementing each measure. Mark Sutton is a Series Editor of the Guidance Document, and provided several quotes for the press release. The article was then subsequently picked up by news outlets like Phys.org in their article 'Scientists' win-win solutions to global nitrogen crisis are good for the pocket and planet': https://phys.org/news/2024-09-scientists-solutions-global-nitrogen-crisis.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/press/scientists-win-win-solutions-global-nitrogen-crisis-are-good-pocket-and-... |
| Description | UKCEH West Africa Hydrological Forecasting Training Workshop 2026 |
| 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 was a three-day training workshop designed to build end-to-end capability in hydrological forecasting, guiding participants from data access and exploratory analysis through to modelling and operational forecast applications. Participants learnt how to access and process hydroclimate datasets using Python, apply both machine-learning and conceptual hydrological models, and generate and interpret sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts, including ensemble streamflow prediction. The workshop combined presentations with hands-on exercises, enabling attendees to develop practical skills in modelling, evaluation, visualisation, and communication of forecast products to support real-world decision-making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | UKCEH booth at UNCCD COP16 hosted by British Embassy |
| 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 | Lucy Barker and Srinidhi Jha manned a booth in the UK Pavilion in the Green Zone of UNCCD COP16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They engaged with attendees on the activities undertaken in NC International (e.g. HydroSOS, drought monitoring, impact forecasting, ROBIN) as well as more generally at UKCEH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UNCCD COP15 Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, CRIC and CST panel |
| 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 | Invited to participate in UNCCD COP15 panels for the CRIC and CST sessions, to answer questions from UNCCD country representatives and focal points on the drought risk monitoring guidance we prepared. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UNCOP27 Side Event: "Wildfire increase, a challenge for Earth system and societies" |
| 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 | Climate and land use changes affect frequency, distribution and intensity of wildfires, which impact ecosystems, societies, weather and climate. Wildfires also provide ecosystem services and nutrients to marine biota. A side event was held at the UNFCCC COP27 to discuss fire risk from a natural and social science view. Speakers: CSU: P.Backlund, H.Mahmoud, C.Shultz ; SOLAS: D.Hamilton; iLEAPS: S.V.Shamsudheen; PAGES: B.Vannière, BRIDGES: S.Hartman, I.Oosterbeek, I.Camara; FireMIP: S.Hantson. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKfYR2eNo4&list=PLBcZ22cUY9RJc1scZLmb8SdZezq3IM00i?dex=179 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://futureearth.org/2022/10/31/future-earth-at%20-cop27-highlighting-climate-science-in-negotiat... |
| Description | UNEA-6: Making nitrogen visible through the Sustainable Development Goals |
| 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 | Making nitrogen visible through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)' took place in Nairobi, Kenya on 26th February 2024 as an official side-event of the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6). The event was formally organized by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Co-ordination, Government of Pakistan in collaboration with Compassion in World Farming, with support from INMS, UNEP and University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. While Resolutions 4/14 and 5/2, adopted at UNEA-4 and UNEA-5.2 respectively, established sustainable nitrogen management as a new area of global intergovernmental cooperation, this side-event highlighted the need to go further in "making nitrogen visible" in future multilateral agendas that tackle the triple planetary crisis and focus on delivering the relevant targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. During the event, reflections were also made on both the tripling of fertilizer prices in 2022, leading to a major risk to food security, and the economic opportunities that are made possible from reducing wasted nitrogen resources. Accelerating action to reduce nitrogen waste would mean that more resources would be available for food production, with the added benefit of reducing multiple forms of pollution across the environment. Financially, an ambition to halve nitrogen waste would save US$100-300 billion globally (2019-2022 prices). Speakers at the event included representation from the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Co-ordination, Government of Pakistan, the Minister of Climate Change, Government of the Republic of Maldives, the Minister of Environment, Government of Japan, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS), the UKRI GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Compassion in World Farming, the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen (UNEP WGN) and the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. A high-level official side event of UNEA-6 for knowledge exchange and mobilization on nitrogen. The event included ministerial representation from Japan and Maldives and allowed for direct cooperation and coorganization with the Government of Pakistan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY87wfvZlss&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | UNECE Air Convention, Heads of Delegation Meeting for negotiation of the Gothenburg Protocol. |
| 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 | Background document and series of presentations to Parties of the convention, leading the expert delegation. Our policy paper, "Ammonia mitigation for economic and environmental benefits" was formally used to inform the EU negotiating position and welcomed by the EU as "providing compelling evidence" for the economic and environmental case to mitigate ammonia emissions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://eng.mst.dk/industry/air/intersessional-hod-meeting |
| Description | UNECE Ammonia Workshop, Brussels |
| 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 | Workshop jointly organized between UKCEH and the European Commission. (Prof. Mark Sutton was the workshop lead organizer and chair). The workshop focused on revision of the UNECE Ammonia Guidance Document, as a key resource also of benefit globally through the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen. The workshop a) prepared way for revision of the UN guidance document and b) commissioned a small group of experts to prepare a policy note to inform negotiations by the European Union as well as other Parties to the convention. That Policy note was used as input to the Helsingor meeting (Oct 2025). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.clrtap-tfrn.org/unece-expert-workshop-on-ammonia |
| Description | UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen |
| 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 | Discussions are ongoing with the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen (WGN) co-chairs to decide the Terms of Reference for the Science Task Force to the WGN, with the Secretariat to be housed at UKCEH. This will be discussed further at the next WGN meeting in Thailand in March 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/nitrogen-management-WG |
| Description | UNESCO IHP 50th Anniversary Events |
| 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 | Amplified visibility of UK expertise in water science and practice, contributed UK perspectives on global discussions on water-related challenges and research priorates, supported new relationships and strengthened existing partnerships, expanded international reach, facilitated science-policy dialogue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | UNESCO IHP Finance Committee |
| 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 | Chair of UNESCO IHP Finance Committee, providing strategic oversight and guidance to the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme of UNESCO. 1.) Contributed to mid-term evaluation of IHP-IX, ensuring the Committees perspectives were reflected in assessing the Programme's performance and shaping future priorities. 2.) Strengthened UK influence in IHP governance through active engagement the with the Finance Committee and IHP Governing bodies, including: i.) Participation in the Structured Financing Dialogue (4th June 2024), held as part of the 26th Session of the IHP Council. and ii.) Submission and presentation of the Finance Committee report to the 64th Session of the IHP Bureau (29 April 2025). 3.) Reinforced the UK's commitment, role and credibility in multilateral water science through effective chairing and active engagement with Member States and the UNESCO IHP Secretariat. Primary audience engaged with is UNESCO Secretariat staff, Member State representatives, national delegations and senior officials involved in programme governance. Number of people reached includes approximation of participants engaged across Bureau, Committee, Structured Finance Dialogue and mid-term evaluation reference group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UNFCCC COP30 Belem: Contribution to side events on nitrogen |
| 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 | Presentations and videos were given by Prof Mark Sutton to high level events, before and at COP30. * September 2025: Global Fertiliser Transition event at the Royal Society, London. Speaker. * During COP30, engagement side events led by Brazil, UK and Pakistan. Strengthened engagement with Brazil, Pakistan and industry partners (Fertilizer industry) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Understanding and Mitigating Future Flood Risk: UK and 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 | Technical Talks: (1) Background to the FIAS UK - Malaysia Collaboration (Dr Balqis Mohamed Rehan) (2) The impact of projected climate change on river flows: UK and Malaysia (Dr Vicky Bell) (3) Assessing flood risk management in UK and Malaysia (Dr Paul Sayers) (4) Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation. UK experiences (Dr Ponnambalam Rameshwaran) (5) Ways forward for catchment-scale hydrological modelling in Malaysia (Dr Zed Diyana Zulkafli) Knowledge sharing (organised by the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) and Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives. |
| 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 | Engagement with lead partner countries in relation to funding of nitrogen work at UNEP and on future of a UNEA Resolution on nitrogen. Presentations to 3 side events on sustainable nitrogen and wider nutrient management, and contribution to parallel iN-Net workshop. Strengthened partnership with lead countries engaging on sustainable nitrogen management. Sharing of progress on the International Nitrogen Assessment Mobilization of action towards the 2030 sustainable development goals, and the Global Biodiversity Framework |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/environmentassembly/unea7 |
| Description | University of Liberia and Golden Veroleum Liberia visit |
| 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 | Liberia visit (Julia Drewer) to develop oil palm research links with University of Liberia and Golden Veroleum Liberia (Oil Palm developer). Training arranged with Liberian students to help with future oil palm work in Liberia. Collabration and talks with plantation owners in the region and academics. Very positive interactions and meetings will lead to further collaboration in the region |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Unlocking opportunities for SE Asia - UK scientific collaboration |
| 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 | This online workshop was conducted as part of Task 3 of the NC-International sub-project, 'Climate Change Adaptation for Southeast Asia (3B),' with a focus on leading and connecting to international alliances. The aim of this workshop was to explore and exchange experiences regarding international scientific collaborations between Southeast Asia (specifically Malaysia and Thailand) and the UK. Our objective was to highlight the benefits, address challenges (scientific, cultural, and political), and develop practical recommendations within the framework of the UKCEH NC-International SE Asia project Task 3b3. The workshop was organised into five focused discussion areas. We utilised the Miro board (also attached in the Appendix below) and open dialogue to facilitate the exchange of ideas, experiences, and success stories. Below, we present a synthesis of the key insights derived from these discussions. A synthesis report was produced and shared with all participants. Main impact is networking to harness opportunities to collaborate via further workshops, bids and papers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Visit of Dr. Supattra Visessri, |
| 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 | Hosted Dr. Supattra Visessri, Assistant Dean for Research Affairs and Lecturer in Water Resources Engineering at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, at UKCEH. The visit focused on using satellite derived precipitable water vapor for drought monitoring in Thailand, included knowledge exchange and presentations, and explored opportunities to enhance collaboration, advance drought risk assessment, and strengthen regional data and knowledge sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Visit of Malaysian delegation to UKCEH |
| 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 | Ms Poorani Krishnan Science and Innovation Advisor British High Commission Kuala Lumpur Poorani.Krishnan@fcdo.gov.uk Professor Joy Jacqueline Pereira, FIGM, PGeol. Professor and Principal Research Fellow SEADPRI-Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Professor Co-Chair, IPCC WG III on Climate Change Mitigation Joy Pereira pereirajoy@yahoo.com ; joy@ukm.edu.my |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Visitor Anastasiya Shyrokaya from Uppsala University (Sweden) to UKCEH Wallingford |
| 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 | Research collaboration on modelling droughts indicators to impacts methods and application. Anastasiya gave a seminar on "How good is my drought index? Evaluating predictability and ability to estimate impacts across Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | WCRP Open Science 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 | Eleanor Blyth convened a session on Atmosphere-Land interactions at the WCRP Open Science Conference in Rwanda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WCRP Open Science 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 | Eleanor Blyth convened a session on Atmosphere-Land interactions at the WCRP Open Science Conference in Rwanda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WMO Expert Team on Drought |
| 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 | Lucy Barker made an associate member of the WMO Expert Team on Drought in December 2022. The objectives of the group are to develop: -A framework and standards for a Global Drought Indicator, to be included in GMAS ( Resolution 17 ( Cg-18) - Ensuring Integration of Drought Risk Management in WMO Activities); -Report on the status of drought-monitoring systems, outlooks, impacts, assessment of agricultural yield losses due to drought and preparedness in the WMO Regions; -Guidance on how to clearly communicate the existing definitions of drought, drought triggers, and the various components of the lifecycle of drought, in cooperation with SC-HYD and the IDMP; -Updated Handbook of Drought Indicators and Indices (WMO-No. 1173) in conjunction with the IDMP and in cooperation with SC-CLI, SC-HYD, and SC-DRR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://community.wmo.int/en/activity-areas/agmp/SC-AGR/ET-DRG |
| Description | WMO Expert Team on Drought |
| 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 | WMO expert team on drought provides recommendations to WMO members on drought monitoring, early warning, risk assessment and policy. Lucy Barker is an associate member of the ET and provides key insghts and deliverables from NC International including work on HydroSOS, collaborations with UNCCD and global drought analysis and data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | WMO Expert Team on Operational Hydrological Prediction Systems (ET-OHPS) |
| 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 | Several engagement activities (3rd Oct, 20th Nov, 28th Nov, 5th Mar) were conducted with the ET-OHPS group to discuss contributions to HydroSOS on a global scale. The group are committed to assisting the HydroSOS initiative with data products, research investment and expert guidance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WMO HydroSOS technical team |
| 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 | UKCEH is coordinating the meetings and activities with WMO for the HydroSOS technical team. Impacts: Draft standards and methods for HydroSOS products. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | WMO Hydrological Coordination Panel (HCP6) Meeting |
| 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 | HydroSOS was discussed at the Hydrological Coordination Panel. WMO groups that should contribute to HydroSOS were agreed and commitments made to support the initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WMO RA III (South America) HydroSOS Discussion |
| 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 meeting brought together some of the discussions in the Caribbean region with the wider South American group to discuss HydroSOS implementation. Existing products were showcased and next steps agreed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WMO Standing Committee on Hydrology (SC-HYD) |
| 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 | Katie Facer-Childs presented HydroSOS and expectations of support needed from SC-HYD for the operationalisation of the initiative |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WMO WHOS discussion |
| 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 | Engagement with WMO staff about the application of the World Hydrological Observing System within HydroSOS for the transfer of data and hosting of tools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Water Resources in South East Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Remote presentation given to academics and water sector practitioners in Malaysia, hosted at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). This presentation was given as part of an in person visit by UKCEH staff, namely Vicky Bell and Ponnambalam Rameshwaran. The presentation outlined the planned work in NC International 3AT1, and established links with interested parties. Connections made with basin stakeholders, leading to further communications and knowledge exchange, and initial establishment of workflow in SEA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Water resources and improving the representation of sectoral water demands in Peninsular Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Science And Technology Applications in Climate Change (STACLIM) conference in Malaysia to an International audience, including project stakeholders. Further collaborations for our work in NC International were identified and have since been followed up on and involved in discussions around our hydrological modelling, scenarios etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | What is air pollution and how can we predict it? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Massimo participated in the Australian Environmental Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Community of Practice (CoP) Workshop on 8 December 2025 in Adelaide. He gave a presentation on air pollution and how to forecast it which was followed by a discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Wild Asia visit to UKCEH Lancaster |
| 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 | We hosted Dr Reza Azmi, Executive Director & Founder of the non profit organisation Wild Asia at UKCEH Lancaster for a two day meeting on oil palm sustainability (soil health, yield, GHG mitigation, economic well-being of smallholder farmers). The meeting reviewed past collaboration and planned future activities with respect to oil palm and sustainability in Malaysia. The main outcome of the work was agreement to establish new fertiliser and biochar trials in Malaysia in 10 oil palm plantations. This work is now ongoing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://oilpalm.wildasia.org/ |
| Description | Workshop at UKCEH for South and Southeast Asian Early Career Researchers (ECR) and Project Partners |
| 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 workshop was conducted for two weeks between 30th September 2024 and 11th October 2024 with eight participants including one under NC-International Visiting Scientist Scheme (VSS) from four different countries: Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The purpose of the visit was: • Meet and explore opportunities to collaborate with UKCEH scientists, particularly those working on the International Science for Net Zero Plus project. • Contribute to the Southeast Asian Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) review paper. • Visit UKCEH NBS field monitoring sites and Met. Site. • Learn about our observation networks (e.g., Cosmic-ray soil moisture monitoring network (COSMOS-UK), UK Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Flux Network). • Share their experience with other workshop participants. Capacity building and strengthening the current collaboration and data sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop on Resilient Coasts, Kerala, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Asian Development Bank (ADB) Workshop (invited speaker). "Reducing nitrogen pollution from source to sea". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://events.development.asia/learning-events/resilient-coasts-thriving-communities-sea-solutions |
| Description | Workshop on Sustainable Oil Palm Cultivation in West Africa: Current Research and Future Priorities in a Smallholder Context |
| 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 | The two-day scientific workshop on Sustainable Oil Palm Cultivation in West Africa convened 20 experts from Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and the UK at the UKCEH West Africa Office, Accra, on 27-28 October 2025. The workshop focused on the dual challenges of environmental sustainability and smallholder livelihoods within the region's rapidly evolving oil palm sector. Participants included representatives from national research institutes, universities, government agencies, NGOs, and industry. The workshop aimed to: • Identify key research gaps and future priorities for sustainable oil palm development. • Assess capacity-building needs across the research and production value chain. • Facilitate regional collaboration for climate-resilient and low-emission palm oil production. Participants identified urgent research needs, capacity-building priorities, and funding mechanisms for regional collaboration. Major themes included climate adaptation, circular waste management, soil fertility, greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring, and socio-economic integration of smallholders. The workshop concluded with consensus on the need for "model villages" and pilot schemes to demonstrate viable action that would enable sustainable smallholder-inclusive oil palm systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/blogs/building-sustainable-future-oil-palm-west-africa-reflecti... |
| Description | Workshop on climate adaptation for resilience and sustainability in Thailand |
| 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 | Climate change poses significant challenges globally, impacting ecosystems, economies, and societies. Southeast Asia, including Thailand, faces numerous climate-related risks, such as droughts, sea level rise, flooding, wildfires etc. One of the major themes and focus areas under UKCEH's International Science for Net Zero Plus pro-gram is to support climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia. The workshop was funded under (Theme 3B, Task 2) "Climate Adaptation for Resilience and Sustainability in Thailand" and was jointly organized by UKCEH, KMUT, and CU on June 5-6, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop aimed to bring together experts from policymaking, academic institutions, research organizations, and governmental agencies from the United Kingdom and Thailand to discuss strategies for climate adaptation and resilience within the Thai context. The workshop has strong participation, with approximately 30 attendees from 10 different organizations. It was highly productive, resulting in concrete next steps to advance the overall project agenda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop on how to process PeatCam data |
| 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 on how to use a custom-written software to process data from the peat cameras. Attendees were Adi Jaya, director of CIMTROP, Ibu Lola Cassiophea (Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering and Head of the Civil Engineering Study Program) and Ibu Lisna Yulianti Master student and Head section of the National Park Sebangau. Workshop done in two different days. One of the attendees is currently using the software to process the data for her master thesis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | World Meteorological Organizations Standing Committee on Hydrology meeting (SC-HYD) |
| 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 | Presentation and discussion about HydroSOS at the SC-HYD quarterly meeting, determining the priorities for SC-HYD in supporting the HydroSOS initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | World Meteorological Organizations Standing Committee on Hydrology meeting (SC-HYD) |
| 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 | Second discussion about HydroSOS at the SC-HYD quarterly meeting, determining the priorities for SC-HYD in supporting the HydroSOS initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | World Meteorological Organsization Congress meeting Cg-19 HydroSOS presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of HydroSOS progress and plans at the WMO Congress meeting in Geneva. HydroSOS Regional implementation plans were endorsed by WMO. Support for HydroSOS was incorporated into WMO policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://community.wmo.int/en/activity-areas/global-hydrological-status-and-outlook-system-hydrosos/I... |
| Description | iLEAPS Open Science 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 | iLEAPS held its sixth open science conference, jointly with OzFluz (the regional FluxNET network for Australia and New Zealand) on "Biosphere-Atmosphere interactions and Global Change from microbial to planetary scales". The conference was held at the Auckland University of Technology, with ~90 in person delegates and a further 30 attendees participating on line. Sessions were held on topics related to (a) Terrestrial emissions to the Atmosphere; (b) Land-atmosphere interactions; (c) Impacts of Global Change drivers on ecosystems; (d) Scientific advances from long-term flux monitoring and networks; (e) Remote sensing; and (f) Land-use change and Net zero - Science to support the Paris agreement. New contacts were made and new collaboration opportunities were identified. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ileaps-ozflux2021.org/ |
| Description | iLEAPS Open Science 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 | iLEAPS Open Science Conference, held jointly with the OzFlux network, at the Auckland University of Technology from 31st January to 4th February 2023. Raised profile Presentations from conference written up for publication in a Special Issue of Biogeosciences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ileaps.org/training/ileaps-ozflux-joint-2023-conference |