Ben Surridge
@bensurridge
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Biogeochemist and senior lecturer in @LancsUniLEC, mostly tweeting here about the links between water, soil and human society.
Lancaster, England
Joined July 2012
With the pressures facing #Windermere in the news again this morning, a chance to support a community-based project run by @LancsUniLEC and @freshwaterbio which is working to understand and protect the lake ⬇️
#Windermere really is an iconic freshwater lake 📢📢 Could you/someone you know donate to, or share, the Crowdfunder launched by @freshwaterbio - supporting the future of the #BigWindermereSurvey and work to understand and protect the lake? See ⬇️ https://t.co/r2Jun5ashc
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How does #Windermere, England's largest lake, help us understand environmental change? All aboard the research vessel John Lund as we join @UKCEH_LakeEco scientists @DrEllie_Mackay & Heather Moorhouse to explore its deep waters & vibrant ecosystem🌊🐟 🎧 https://t.co/qFZTC5xRqq
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2 DAYS TO GO 🙏 Sarah Gerrish from Wonderful Wild Women shares the importance of the Big Windermere Survey. Without funding, the Big Windermere Survey unfortunately will not go ahead. Please share this post or if you can, donate to our Crowdfunder: https://t.co/IxEbDewoWf
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4 DAYS TO GO 🙏 Can your business or organisation help support the Big Windermere Survey? ✨ Help us continue this work by sharing this post OR if you can, please DONATE today via the Crowdfunder. https://t.co/IxEbDewoWf
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#Windermere really is an iconic freshwater lake 📢📢 Could you/someone you know donate to, or share, the Crowdfunder launched by @freshwaterbio - supporting the future of the #BigWindermereSurvey and work to understand and protect the lake? See ⬇️ https://t.co/r2Jun5ashc
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Great to get out with @KatWoodfield0 today - test of field experiment to examine impacts of organic #nitrogen and #phosphorus compounds on stream benthic algae, part of @ENVISIONDTP PhD research with @LancsUniLEC and @DrEllie_Mackay from @UKCEH_LakeEco
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We need your help to raise funds so the summer #BigWindermereSurvey can go ahead. Donate to our #Crowdfunder. Share this post. Spread the word. Let’s keep generating local evidence-based action to protect our iconic lake 🖤 https://t.co/HV0ahzPwG5 📷@jomoseley 📷@ged_escapes
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Or to the team from @UKCEH_LakeEco who, building on work from predecessor organisations, continue a programme to monitor and understand #windermere that started in the 1940s..........⬇️ https://t.co/MMfCI1KXtZ
ceh.ac.uk
Lake ecosystems are continually changing. Consistently collected, long-term data provides the evidence we need to detect and understand these changes. Lakes in the Windermere catchment have been...
@ghostinacastle_ @Feargal_Sharkey Perhaps @Feargal_Sharkey could have a chat with the guys at @freshwaterbio about The Big Windermere Survey?
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We need your help to continue the Big Windermere Survey, we need to raise £30,000 to fund our summer 2024 survey. FOLLOW THE LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS & share this post to support us! ⬇️ https://t.co/HV0ahzPwG5
#BigWindermereSurvey #Windermere
crowdfunder.co.uk
Windermere needs ongoing water quality research to generate local evidence-based action. Donate now to support the Big Windermere Survey.
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107 sites sampled for the Spring 2024 #BigWindermereSurvey and sent for bacterial and nutrient analysis. A huge thank you to our #CitizenScientists. But we need your help again! We need to raise £30,000 to fund the summer 2024 survey. Please visit/share: https://t.co/IHq5Gbj5C5
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#Windermere really is an iconic freshwater lake 📢📢 Could you/someone you know donate to, or share, the Crowdfunder launched by @freshwaterbio - supporting the future of the #BigWindermereSurvey and work to understand and protect the lake? See ⬇️ https://t.co/r2Jun5ashc
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2/2 For more information about the #BigWindermereSurvey, run by @LancsUniLEC and @freshwaterbio see ⬇️ https://t.co/82YRUWI32Q
fba.org.uk
The Big Windermere Survey recruits local volunteer citizen scientists to help assess the water quality and environmental health of Windermere. Get involved!
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1/2 Good to speak with @TVNaga01 as part of the @bbc5live piece on water quality in #Windermere today. Listen again to material on water quality, nutrients, bacteria and the #BigWindermereSurvey from 1 hour 5 minutes on BBC Sounds ⬇️ https://t.co/rToYFEJJvh
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However, on closer inspection many of these samples also look likely to include pollen ⬇️
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Lots of reports of similar accumulations from our #BigWindermereSurvey volunteers today @SteveThackeray
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Final part of today's #BigWindermereSurvey with @freshwaterbio just completed in the @LancsUniLEC laboratories - 107 sites around #Windermere + lakes and streams in the wider catchment sampled by our fantastic #citizenscience volunteers 👏🏼👏👏🏾 Analyses start first thing tomorrow!
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Science hubs now setup for the #BigWindermereSurvey tomorrow - ready to receive #water samples from over 100 sites around #Windermere and the wider catchment for nutrient and bacterial analysis
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Final preparations this morning for our next #BigWindermereSurvey Huge amount of effort behind the scenes from the @LancsUniLEC and @freshwaterbio team to organise and run these events. Look forward to meeting our #citizenscience volunteers around #Windermere tomorrow 💧📈🔬
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