UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact.
About us - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Excellent environmental science with impact. The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is a leading independent research institute dedicated to understanding and transforming how we interact with the natural world. With over 600 researchers, we tackle the urgent environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, pollution, and ...
Our science - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Recognising that environmental challenges cannot be addressed in isolation, we work across disciplines, considering economic, social and environmental factors in the solutions we develop. At the heart of UKCEH’s research and innovation are our large research infrastructures and our capabilities in monitoring, modelling and data science.
Improving UK’s resilience to floods and droughts
Aug 31, 2024 · The first UK-wide floods and droughts research infrastructure, jointly led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, will significantly improve our understanding of how, when and where floods and droughts occur in different parts of the country. This will inform action to improve our resilience to the increasing impacts of climate change on people, the economy and nature.
Science departments | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Science Departments. We organise our research across six science departments. Click to read more about each area including details of key projects, data, groups and facilities.
UKCEH Annual Review 2021 | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
You can read more about how scientists across our four sites in Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster and Wallingford helped to tackle key science challenges in our Annual Review 2021 at ceh.ac.uk/reviews-and-reports. The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has published its Annual Review 2021, highlighting some of the important work that the not-for ...
Our history | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology was formed in 2000 through a merger of four Natural Environment Research Council terrestrial and freshwater research institutes: The Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology. Scientists from these institutes have monitored and modelled environmental change for over 60 years, carrying out discovery ...
Biodiversity | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
We work in partnership to design and run a number of national citizen science schemes to monitor biodiversity, including the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, the National Plant Monitoring Scheme and the Biological Records Centre (BRC).. BRC has provided a focus for the collation, management, dissemination and interpretation of species observations (biological records) since 1964 and provides ...
Sustainability | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice. UKCEH has been involved in the co-development of a voluntary environmental sustainability Concordat with the UK research and innovation sector. The Concordat represents a shared ambition for the UK to continue delivering cutting-edge research, in a more ...
UKCEH Digital Strategy 2024-2030 - UK Centre for Ecology
Realising the power of environmental data and digital technologies. The UKCEH Digital Strategy sets out our ambition to realise the power of environmental data and digital technologies to inform and accelerate solutions to the major environmental challenges of our time. We will take a leading role in building capacity and skills across the ...