River Communities Group @ QMUL
@RiverComms
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Understanding and protecting freshwater ecosystems through scientific research and collaboration 👩🔬👨🔬
The River Lab, Dorset
Joined September 2021
For updates on what the River Communities Group is up to go to
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Well done Dr Marchant!
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!
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 🔽 https://t.co/kkDNldKTdG
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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
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@RiverComms are very grateful to Peter Haase and Ellen Welti (@Senckenberg) for their hard work in bringing this Europe-wide collaboration together. https://t.co/8naXe2mlBm
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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 (👎). https://t.co/8naXe2mlBm
@QM_SBBS @QMUL
nature.com
Nature - Improvements in European freshwater biodiversity occurred mainly before 2010 but have since plateaued, and communities downstream of dams, urban areas and cropland were less likely to...
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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! https://t.co/9Ar0bRHEhh
https://t.co/XElZ5Gn7Pt
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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
https://t.co/P19g1HWlay
@ep_wales @ames_e_p @Daniel_Read
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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
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... >> https://t.co/dlrhIMm8QB
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📚The Biology and Ecology of Streams and Rivers by Alan Hildrew and Paul Giller is an excellent read for anyone interested in river ecosystems 👏 🔗 https://t.co/4qm1xscLCL Save 30% on the cover price with code: ASPROMP8 #RunningWaters #EcologyMatters
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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: https://t.co/21fJKu2hiO
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Our team have been working to #BeatPlasticPollution for the past three years as lead partner in the Preventing Plastic Pollution Project 💪 Discover our work 👉 https://t.co/g71on4SbKV
#WorldEnvironmentDay #PreventingPlasticPollution
@Channel_Manche
@QM_SBBS
storymaps.arcgis.com
Between January 2020 and March 2023, the River Communities group at Queen Mary University of London led the Preventing Plastic Pollution (PPP) project, bringing together 18 organisations - including...
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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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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: https://t.co/6lxZceElRy
bbc.co.uk
Every year, tonnes of waste are dumped in landfills, but how safe are they?
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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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🚨New paper alert🚨 What do macroinvertebrate indices measure? How do multiple stressors confound their interpretation? 🔗 https://t.co/TyT53Z1aPY
@Rothamsted @pj13302 @DefraGovUK
#FreshwaterBiology #WaterHealth #PollutionEffects
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Monitoring programmes worldwide use biota to assess the “health” of water bodies. Indices based on biota are used to describe the change in status of sites over time, to identify progress against ...
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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
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate
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🚨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
https://t.co/WV29g7oKCf
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Click on the article title to read more.
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Congratulations @daniellejadem @AnaMrtnzRdrgz and @PascaFrance wonderful to see your collective hard work come to fruition 👏👏
🚨🔔 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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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 !
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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