River Communities Group @ QMUL

Understanding and protecting freshwater ecosystems through scientific research and collaboration 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

For updates on what the River Communities Group is up to go to https://t.co/wa0vuMSuiM

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

Well done Dr Marchant!

[Danielle Woodford @daniellejadem]

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! 👩🏼‍🔬♻️🌱

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

This useful and free guide also includes information on how to recognise and create living space for aquatic insects!

[Royal Entomological Society @RoyEntSoc]

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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

@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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

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

[Litter Free Dorset - Land, Coast & Sea @LitterFreeDrst]

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

[UKCEH @UK_CEH]

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

[Kate L Spencer @DrKateSpencer]

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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

📚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

[Interreg FCE @Channel_Manche]

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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

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

[QMUL School of Geography @QMULGeography]

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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

🚨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

[KratinaLab @KratinaLab]

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

[Ana Martínez @AnaMrtnzRdrgz]

🚨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

[River Communities Group @ QMUL @RiverComms]

Congratulations @daniellejadem @AnaMrtnzRdrgz and @PascaFrance wonderful to see your collective hard work come to fruition 👏👏

[Danielle Woodford @daniellejadem]

🚨🔔 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🦐♻️

[Prof. Richard C Thompson OBE FRS @ProfRThompson]

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 !