📢Today we launch the EMPOWER Rivers Community Grant to support citizen scientists, community groups and small charities to take action for their local rivers. 💦Are you concerned about the health of your local waterway?
Find out more here: thames21.org.uk/empower-rivers…

What ecological questions would you want to ask of collections of wildlife images? Maybe which birds 🦢 are found in cities 🌃, are badgers 🦡 ever found with cows 🐄 ? Please help our new project to develop open source new search tools forms.gle/CmRf826AkJPkvh…

Gaddesden Meadows, Herts.
Mare's-tail (Hippuris vulgaris) sends shoots skywards. An emerging algal bloom is found to be Spirogyra with its helical chain of chloroplasts throwing out bubbles of oxygen.
The mythical-looking Greater Tussock-sedge (C. paniculata) was flowering.

Nice video on the origins of my CS journey for Earthwatch Europe and Izzy Bishop 🏳️‍🌈
from a few years ago with Enda Fields
and Leo THE WATER BOYS OF EMY LOUGH. CS still has an integral part in our future! Nice to see my lost mascot Pal and my beloved Hector too :) 👨‍🌾🧪

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🎉This #CitizenScienceMonth , we’re thrilled to announce that our #FreshWaterWatch community groups have collected over 40,000 data sets across the globe!🌍

💧🧪Data is a vital tool in the fight against #WaterPollution .

Discover more and join us 👉 pulse.ly/ronellgicr

This #PoetryDayIRL I share a poem on #rivers of home and my little stream of home. These special places we treasure and must conserve. 🌊🏞🏡

I co-authored a paper with Anson Mackay on LQBTQI+ experiences in field work and it’s one of the #TopCited ! Whoop!

Come and join our team!

🐝🐦🌎 Join Our Team at UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research 🌎 🐦🐝
So excited to announce an opportunity for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Ecology to join our wonderful community in the People and Nature Lab UCL East campus UCL Faculty of Life Sciences
Deadline for applications 16th May 2024
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHE990/lec…

We REALLY need to separate out the social justice and environmental action elements of sewage campaigning.
Yes it’s unjust for water companies to profit from bad practice, and maybe the responsible execs/shareholders do need locking up.

But that alone WONT FIX OUR RIVERS🧵
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Excited to watch Izzy Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 seeding our UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research People and Nature Lab pond with a donation from Prof Carl Sayer NorfolkPondsProject - can’t wait to see what comes back to life Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park UCL East campus

Calling London-based teachers and educators working with young people 12-18! We still have a few spots left on our FULLY-FUNDED teacher residential training on 17-18 May 2024 in Oxfordshire's beautiful Wytham Woods!🌲
Earthwatch Europe

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Question from a citizen scientist: What’s this orange runoff?

My initial thoughts are iron leaching. The area has known coal and iron deposits, which have been quarried for centuries.

Question: If I’m right, is this leaching natural or anthropogenic (exacerbated by quarrying)?

In 2020 I got to assist Manaswi Raghurama on his PhD field work on #InvasiveSpecies in the montane shola-grasslands of Tamil Nadu. Today he successfully defended his PhD & lead an incredible policy report on ecological restoration in India. Mahesh Sankaran National Centre for Biological Sciences

Excited to share a new paper: design, construction, and testing of an #Arduino -based, in situ water depth sensor, following a low-cost, #opensource approach. A collaborative effort between Michael Chadwick Dr Kris Chan Prof Carl Sayer, Bruce Main, and Ian Patmore tinyurl.com/yrj4k89k

April’s aquatic invert survey was a revelation. Yes, it’s great to find a caseless cadis but who knew fishes had a larval stage? Luckily we have a marine biologist amongst us who informed on this little speck of life in pic 2.
#rewildlondon
Thanks LDNMayor Environment Lewis