Understanding and protecting freshwater ecosystems through scientific research and collaboration 👩🔬👨🔬
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22 Jan 2025
For updates on what the River Communities Group is up to go to qmulrivercomms.bsky.social
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Well done Dr Marchant!
4 Mar 2024
Last week I passed my viva! Huge thank you to my examiners @DrKateSpencer and @AliceAHorton , and to all of my supervisors for some fun science these past 4 years! 👩🏼🔬♻️🌱
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This useful and free guide also includes information on how to recognise and create living space for aquatic insects!
9 Oct 2023
Our new guide gives you an overview of the different types of insects, with advice on how you might create a place for them to live in a green space near you.
This digital booklet can be downloaded for free 🔽
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ALT Insects in green spaces booklet - Free to download
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25 Sep 2023
Our team has returned after a tough week of surveying Scottish lochs for the Upland Waters Monitoring Network @UKUplandWaters Zooplankton, eDNA, aquatic plants, temperature & O2 profiles, sediment all done.
@QM_SBBS @UK_CEH
ALT Surveying aquatic plants along the shore of Lochnagar
ALT Collecting eDNA & zooplankton samples from Loch Tinker
ALT Newt basking on the shore of Loch Coire Fionnaraich
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10 Aug 2023
@RiverComms are very grateful to Peter Haase and Ellen Welti (@Senckenberg) for their hard work in bringing this Europe-wide collaboration together.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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10 Aug 2023
Our just-published paper in @Nature finds that river invertebrate diversity across Europe has generally increased over the past 6 decades (👍) but that the recovery has slowed to halt of late (👎). nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @QM_SBBS @QMUL
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Who's excited for our next Sustainable Business Network event?!🥳
We're delighted to invite you to the LUSH Green Hub in Poole on 13th July - it's going to be a fantastic evening so make sure you get your tickets today!
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This week's Better Water Quality for Wales conference features talks by several UKCEH scientists incl. Mike Bowes on algal blooms in rivers, Bridget Emmett discussing @ERAMMPCymru and a trio from @FreshwaterQual1 epwales.org.uk/events/better… @ep_wales @ames_e_p @Daniel_Read
ALT Better Water Quality for Wales conference
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26 Jun 2023
Only 3 days to go - this is going to be such a rubbish night out! Come and listen to @olifranklin talk about wasteland - an eye opening read that’ll make you question the contents of your bin and charity bag. I might say a bit about #historiclandfill @QMULGeography @QMUL_HSS
25 Jun 2023
Join @olifranklin in conversation with @DrKateSpencer at 7:30pm on 29th June at @TheWansteadtap as they discuss his shocking yet hopeful new book #Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where it Goes, and Why It Matters... >>
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wasteland…
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27 Jun 2023
📚The Biology and Ecology of Streams and Rivers by Alan Hildrew and Paul Giller is an excellent read for anyone interested in river ecosystems 👏
🔗bit.ly/3CTgin2
Save 30% on the cover price with code: ASPROMP8
#RunningWaters #EcologyMatters
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8 Jun 2023
To mark #WorldOceanDay2023 🌊, we're promoting FCE project Preventing Plastic Pollution @Plastic_EU's guidance pack detailing some of the findings and results from its three-years of work tackling #PlasticPollution from source to sea:
preventingplasticpollution.c…
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5 Jun 2023
Our team have been working to #BeatPlasticPollution for the past three years as lead partner in the Preventing Plastic Pollution Project 💪
Discover our work 👉 bit.ly/ppp_rivcomms
#WorldEnvironmentDay #PreventingPlasticPollution
@Channel_Manche
@QM_SBBS
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25 May 2023
Thrilled that Preventing Plastic Pollution has won "Excellent interdisciplinary research project" at the @QMUL Research and and Innovation Award 2023 🏆
Thanks to all the partners and collaborators who have contributed over the past 3 years, also project funder @ChannelManche
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22 May 2023
Prof Kate Spencer (@DrKateSpencer) is on @BBCPanorama today at 8pm. Kate discusses her research on the toxic legacies of historic coastal landfill sites. You might catch @GIStuart @shudan_xue and @Thomas_Kelly1 too.
Watch live or on-demand via iPlayer:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m88…
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18 May 2023
🚨New paper alert🚨
What do macroinvertebrate indices measure? How do multiple stressors confound their interpretation?
🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@Rothamsted @pj13302 @DefraGovUK
#FreshwaterBiology #WaterHealth #PollutionEffects
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18 May 2023
Key findings:
💧Multiple independent lines of evidence are required to diagnose the cause of pollution in rivers
💧Among different sources of pollution, recent low oxygen events have the strongest effect on river macroinvertebrates
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8 May 2023
Have you ever wondered how freshwater insect emergence 🦟changes across latitude and what is the role of climate☀️🌧️? Check out this new global meta-analysis by brilliant @LNMNash, with @pabloantiqueira, @tigerfoodman, @gqromero, Lucas Zorzetti. Thanks to @royalsociety; @QM_SBBS
6 May 2023
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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25 Apr 2023
🚨Paper alert!🚨 Check out our new paper lead by @yizhu_zhu on the deviation of Conrad’s idealised 1:1 ratio in #anoxic sediments and the implication on rising temperatures on #methane production. #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10327
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29 Mar 2023
Congratulations @daniellejadem @AnaMrtnzRdrgz and @PascaFrance wonderful to see your collective hard work come to fruition 👏👏
28 Mar 2023
🚨🔔 Here she is!!! Our #mesocosm study looking at the effects of #microplastics and #nutrients on #freshwater communities and ecosystem functioning now on 9 pages of ✨open access✨ A4🦐♻️
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16 Mar 2023
Well the votes are in from the audience here on what is the main cause of marine litter @Channel_Manche I am not sure I agree entirely, but the key point is we all have a role and by working together that we can fix this global environmental challenge !
16 Mar 2023
Fantastic to see so many @PlymUni projects presenting at the @Channel_Manche Annual Event @EdenProject today. A real testament to the research achievements that have been made working with our partners in Europe
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