Josh Ahmed

🌍Environmental scientist. Geomorphologist. 👨‍💻 Rivers, Rubbish, Seds, Soils, Mars, EO. DJ & Hip-Hopper 😎
PDRA in Pollution & Coastal Risk @QMULGeography

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

https://t.co/sdQUDPFGGZ

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

🚨🚨LAST CHANCE🚨🚨 to join us at #AGU25 for our session on Chemicals and Climate Change

We want to bring academics, policymakers & practitioners together to advance our knowledge of contaminant dispersal & concentration via hydrological processes

Deadline: 31 July 0359 UTC

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

Well, that's a wrap. After a brilliant 6.5 years at @EEIatHull @UniOfHull, it's time for the next challenge. Learnt so much during my time here and can't thank everyone I worked with enough for the opportunity and experience I gained. Made some true friends for life here ✌️

[Prof. Dan Parsons @LboroUniversity 🌏💧🛰🌊⚽️🏏⛳🏈 @bedform]

A sad outcome. Hopefully @sedimentology leadership will reconsider its proposals and our flagship journal can continue to be for the sedimentology community and by its members for its members.

[Curiosity @CuriosityHull]

How Much Rainwater Gets Stored In Lagoons To Stop Hull Flooding?

There’s been a lot of weather lately, so we sent our lagoons correspondent @angus_young61 to report on how our city avoids (another) disaster.

https://t.co/jm4w5Wqdrn

@hull_libraries
@EnvAgency

[BSG Geomorphology @BSG_Geomorph]

📸BSG ART COMPETITION 2024🎨
🚨FIVE days🚨

Scroll through your field photos or get out your paint brush #geomorphology

Prizes:
£100 🥇
£50 🥈🥉
Deadline: 10th Jan
T&Cs: https://t.co/gqrkFkdTpW
Make sure you tag us, #BSGAC24 and add a caption!

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

I demonstrate that over interannual timescales, oxbow lakes can grow and shrink by >100%! Lakes formed by chute cutoff are more suceptible to larger water surface area changes and tie channels (narrow channels linking lakes to the river ; see pic) are crucial for this #TeamOxbow

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

Happy to share that my paper on the hydrological dynamism of oxbow lakes is now out to read - part one of a project that started during lockdown 1.0 and came to fruition through my @LeverhulmeTrust ECR fellowship 😁

https://t.co/WLbfkuilPK

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

Come and join us in Vienna and share your fluvial research on the grandest stage of them all #EGU25

[László Bertalan @GeoLBertalan]

‼️Call for abstracts at @EuroGeosciences #EGU25 ‼️
Deadline for abstract submission: 15th January 2025
--- Details: https://t.co/mJCrdDzFYe
@EliisaSelina @GeomorphicJosh @SDEarthsci

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

@EEIatHull @VAS1111111 @gregvasilop @DrChrisHackney @bedform @peatbloke @NinaDethlefs @UniOfHull @NCL_Geography @UniofNewcastle @lborouniversity @HullGGEPGR Great job, @VAS1111111! Very well deserved!

[Energy and Environment Institute @EEIatHull]

Congrats to Dr Vasudha Darbari on your #PhD viva in Remote Sensing & Machine Learning to monitor changes in Cambodian wetlands linked to urban expansion & sand mining @VAS1111111
Thank you @gregvasilop @DrChrisHackney @bedform and panel @GeomorphicJosh @peatbloke @NinaDethlefs

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

Great opportunity to join the EA here ⬇️

[EA Geomorphology @EAGeomorphology]

📢 Geomorphology #job alert!

We're seeking a Geomorphology Technical Officer to join our North East Area team @Fish_Ecol_NE_EA based in Newcastle but utilising hybrid working.

https://t.co/ybJSYOIiz0

A brief 🧵 on the role...

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

Really good turn out for the @EEIatHull led Coast-R Network kick off meeting at @UniOfHull. Good to hear from key stakeholders and see some familiar faces across the room

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help...

1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change what most pay each year. For most, they're paid for you by the student loans company and you repay afterwards only if you earn over the threshold. The amount you repay each year (9% over the threshold) solely depends on what you earn not on what you borrow.

2. Increasing tuition fees will only see those who clear the loan in full over the 40yrs pay more. That is generally mid-high to higher earning university leavers only, so the cost of increasing them will generally be born by the more affluent. Most lower and middle earning university leavers will simply pay 9% extra tax above the threshold for 40yrs (and higher tuition fees won't change that)

3. The rise is tuition fees is likely to be trivial compared to the changes the last govt made for 2023 starters. 2023 starters had their repayment thresholds dropped to £25,000 (from £27,295/yr) and had the time they had to keep repaying for (unless cleared) extended to 40years from 30years.

So these higher annual repayments for longer, increased by over 50% the amount many graduates will eventually have to pay back for going to university. Yet they were almost stealth changes because people can't intuitively feel the seismic impact.

Changing tuition fees is a more obvious rise, but in reality has far less of an impact on the amount most will repay (though combined with the 2023 changes it does certainly up the cost).

4. The biggest practical problem for students isnt tution fees (even if raised) its the fact maintenace loans aren't big enough. English maintenance loans have not kept pace with inflation. I'd urge the govt to couple the tuition fee loans with bigger living loans - if not it is a real risk to social mobility, with those from the poorest backgrounds likely to be worse affected.

I could write more, but will stop here, hopefully this gives an idea the issues are less straightforward than many feel.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Some Russell Group academics “treat administrators like scum”: researcher describes “fraught” tensions between working-class professional service employees and academics at leading UK universities
https://t.co/oyyQDXxigF

[Josh Ahmed @GeomorphicJosh]

Great morning out with the catchment partnership visiting High Eske Nature Reserve to check out the levee repair works. Really cool site for nature and flood water attenuation (and maybe more...👀)

[S4C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @S4C]

58 mlynedd yn ddiweddarach, rydym yn parhau i gofio am Aberfan a phawb gafodd eu heffeithio gan y drychineb.

Cofio #Aberfan ❤️

On this day in 1966, 144 people were killed at Ysgol Pantglas. Today, we remember Aberfan.

[Met Office @metoffice]

#StormAshley, the first named storm of the year.

Expect conditions to turn wet and windy on Sunday as this 'explosively' deepening area of low pressure approaches.

Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25 years https://t.co/ktpKTWnHeF