NERC Freshwater Quality Programme
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have appointed Professor Joseph Holden and Professor Pippa Chapman as Freshwater Quality Champions and leaders of this new programme that will study water quality of UK rivers.
The four year NERC programme, titled ‘Understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters’, aims to:
- investigate how pollutants enter, leave and interact with rivers and supporting ecosystems
- determine how the movement of pollutants will be modified with changes in the water cycle
- create better tools to monitor and measure pollution.
The programme will oversee five different research projects, each focusing on a different aspect of water quality. Each project will be interdisciplinary and bring together a range of experts needed to deliver the integrated and cross sectional research required.
- Receive an invitation to the programme's webinar series and receive a newsletter by joining our mailing list.
- Follow the programme on Channel X.
Monthly Webinar Series
Join a monthly series of webinars on a range of related topics organised by the Champions Team, which are designed to help promote communications and interactions between researchers, the policy community, business and practitioners who can all shape future UK freshwater quality. See Events below for more information on the speakers.
Each webinar includes a 30 minute presentation with time for questions afterwards. The presentations are recorded - watch the up-to-date playlist here.
This short film provides an introduction to the aims of the programme:
Research Projects
Projects
Upcoming events
NERC Freshwater Quality Programme Webinar - QUANTUM project update
Professor Penny Johnes, University of Bristol presents an update from the QUANTUM project, which is one of the five UK...
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