Robert Ian Collier

PhD researcher in Freshwater Ecology @NottmTrentUni

[Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) @freshwaterbio]

Save The Date! The FBA Annual Scientific Meeting 25 June 2025 — Key note speakers including ⁦@SteveOrmerod⁩ ⁦@MichCJackson⁩ and Dave Tickner Head of Rivers & Water ⁦@WWF⁩ More details to follow soon! https://t.co/ke5etvOgEa

[James White @JWhite211]

PLS SHARE - Want to study for a @CENTA_NERC PhD on #macrophytes and #river #temperature that informs #riparianplanting #management actions? Join us at @GeogBham (@freshwaterflows), teaming up with @EnvAgency (@Judy_E12) and @UK_CEH. Email with any qu's- https://t.co/3zMfidJlBc.

[Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington]

Billy Kane's🤘↙ last day. Thanks Billy, George Amisi & other @NTUBIOSCIENCES @CIEEMnet-accredited BSc Environmental Biology students & graduates who contributed to our research over summer. Time to release these skilled early-career freshwater ecologists 🔬🐛💧into the wild!💪

[Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington]

The Small Streams Network dry-phase plant survey fieldwork is done! Despite following England’s wettest 18 months on record 🌧, we found 36 dry sites 😎. Huge respect @OliverLongstaf1 @GeorgeA245774 Simon & Billy. @NTUBIOSCIENCES @NTUSciTech @EnvAgency collaborative research 🌿

[Romain Sarremejane @r_sarremejane]

How does human activity interact with drought in chalk streams? New paper by me, @rstubbington, @Judy_E12 et al. out in @JAppliedEcology ➡️ Poorer water quality and abstraction exacerbate drought impacts on invertebrate communities 🐌🪳🪱

[Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington]

SAVE THE DATE: The 10th (yes, 10th!) Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting #TStreamsNTU is in person @NTUSciTech + on Teams on 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟰 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
2 stellar keynotes: @tdatry & Prof. Angela Gurnell
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 event! 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 science! 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 lunch!
https://t.co/UhA3pPJIPe

[Alisha Steward @DryRiverbedGirl]

Incredibly happy and proud to have been involved in this global collaboration of around a hundred dry river researchers!

Unravelling large-scale patterns and drivers of biodiversity in dry rivers

Check it out!

https://t.co/qlBZGFGmpr

[Chilterns National Landscape @ChilternsNL]

Amazing news!🥳

We've secured £350k from @HeritageFundUK to develop Not Bourne Yesterday; a project that will restore Chilterns chalk streams & connect with communities through art, archaeology, citizen science & habitat restoration.🫶

https://t.co/oC8oj5zc6J

#NationalLottery

[Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington]

Very happy to contribute to @RobertIanColli2 @RiversandPeople research documenting aquatic and terrestrial invertebrate community responses to this wonderful example of winterbourne restoration @The_RRC. Nice work @ARKennet!

[Molly Bridger @MABridger]

#SFS2024 Explore the world of UK rivers in my presentation 'Characterising UK-wide Ecological Responses to River Restoration' at 11:15am, Independence Ballroom C. #rivers #restoration #ecology #monitoring

[UKCEH @UK_CEH]

@DrEllie_Mackay @ARKennet @Riverflies #Podcast: We promised a photo of a cased caddisfly from the river Kennet. This larva has used little bits of gravel to make its case.

There are ~200 species of cased caddis. If water quality goes down, numbers of caddis and other riverflies will plummet.

@Riverflies @ARKennet

[Action for the River Kennet (ARK) @ARKennet]

0ur River Og river and floodplain restoration project.
We were recently joined by Tim Sykes, a winterbourne expert from the Environment Agency & Rob Collier (Nottingham University), who is collecting samples as part of his PhD study on winterbourne restoration & invertebrates.

[James White @JWhite211]

@freshwaterflows @KieranKhamis @stefankrauseh2o @IainAMalcolm @Faye_L_Jackson Our study was picked up widely in the media too 🙂some examples

https://t.co/DwsmPsrBA5

https://t.co/aY6lDrQN41

https://t.co/gwkPP63VRN

[Action for the River Kennet (ARK) @ARKennet]

Our Project Manager Rupert recently led a cold but enthusiastic group visit to our River Og realignment project.
#meanders #chalkstream

[Chilterns National Landscape @ChilternsNL]

For the first time in 140 years, the Hamble Brook has a new wetland thanks to @Chilternstreams. 

“We hope this will pave the way for similar restoration projects throughout the wider Chilterns landscape,” said @DrElaineKing.

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/OEeuyMJRBM

📸 @thorneh

[Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington]

@GBEcoScience @RiversandPeople ventured deep into nooks and crannies across the South Downs to bother aquatic invertebrates lurking in our hidden headwaters, then @jamalk_wildlife @KieranGething found the story in the data: specialist species galore! Great to see this out 🙌🍻

[Nottingham Trent University @NottmTrentUni]

🚨 This is not a drill! The first peregrine falcon egg has arrived in the nest on our Newton building 🦅🥚

Do you think we’ll see another egg soon? 👀

You can watch the live camera here 👉 https://t.co/hgh4yivysr 👈 @Nottswildlife

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Record sewage spills into England rivers and seas in 2023 https://t.co/yYKEpms8jc

[Thibault Datry @tdatry.bsky.social @tdatry]

Fantastic work @Silverthorn_T : another excellent piece from her #Phd @INRAE_Lyon_Gre @EcoFlowS, demonstrating how #DryingRiverNetworks contribute to C cycling and CO2 evasion. Nice collaboration with colleagues from @DRYvER_H2020. Stay tuned for her upcoming PhD defence!