PhD student researching water quality monitoring in UK rivers @CU_Earth. Previously @WWTworldwide and @Thames21. #wetlands #riverrestoration #waterpollution
Joined September 2020
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Elle von Benzon retweeted
📣JOB ALERT!
RWT are now recruiting for a Programme Manager to run our citizen science project for three days a week.
If you’re good at admin, a whizz with a spreadsheet, enthusiastic, innovative & passionate about water quality - APPLY!
charityjob.co.uk/jobs/radnor…
Last chance to tell us about your experience of being a citizen scientist in the Wye Catchment!
If you haven't already, please
complete this questionnaire by Monday:
forms.gle/GwqJ6676g7MiSP687
...or pass the message on to someone else! 💦
Shout out to all citizen scientists monitoring water quality across the Wye catchment📢📢
Please help us better understand your experience of using various test kits and volunteering your time as a citizen scientist by completing this online survey: forms.gle/GwqJ6676g7MiSP687
Great to see the role and value of #CitizenScience in helping to address water quality issues in UK rivers included in this report ⬇️
A ‘chemical cocktail’ of sewage, slurry and plastic polluting English rivers is putting public health and nature at risk.
📖Read our Water Quality in Rivers report, published today, at bit.ly/3fkCOJQ 🔍
#EACRivers #SaveOurRivers #CleanItUp #RiverPollution
For those who couldn't make it, here's a taste of what was discussed at the Wye Catchment Collaborative Monitoring Network Forum last month👇👇
Big thanks to @NERCscience, @CUWaterResearch and everyone else who attended and helped make the forum a success!
#CitizenScience
This year citizen scientists across the Wye catchment have tested >4000 water samples🧪💦🏞️
A dynamic network of change makers has established to share data, resources and learning...
Come find out more at our event on Dec 10th👇
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wye-catch…
☝️ Please share the tweet above across your networks ☝️ @CUWaterResearch @CU_EARTH @FriendsUpperWye @WyeCatchment @WyeSalmon @CPREHfdshire @CPRW_UK @rwtwales @WUFoundation @theriverstrust @EnvAgency @WaterNRW @SaveTheWye @wyebeauty @CatchmentWye @BreconBeaconsNP
Yesterday was the final (and biggest) Wye catchment mass sampling event of the year...
Water quality was assessed at over 170 sites across the catchment and 30 samples were collected for lab analysis, all by local citizen scientists.
Amazing effort from everyone involved!
Another very successful mass sampling event across the Wye catchment yesterday...
Water quality was assessed at over 150 sites by volunteers!
And these 20 samples made it safely to the lab for analysis.
#CitizenScience
@FriendsUpperWye @CPRW_UK @CPREHfdshire @WyeSalmon
An amazing effort from citizen scientists across the Wye catchment yesterday! Water quality tests were carried out at 126 sites on the first ever Wye Catchment-wide Mass Sampling Event. Great work everyone! @FriendsUpperWye @WUFoundation @WyeCatchment @CardiffColdClim
This.
This is massive, and horrific. @NFUtweets is secretly lobbying the government to allow #neonicotinoid pesticides to be reintroduced after Brexit.
It tells its members: "Please refrain from sharing this on social media."
On the contrary, please RT.
campaigns.nfuonline.com/page…
Elle von Benzon retweeted
“3.2million hectares of the UK is estimated to be covered by woodland & forests. So even at the stated plans for 30k hectares of tree planting a yr, that's only increasing our existing woodland by less than 1% a year" said Riverford co-owner Zac on the green industrial revolution
The government has released its new 10 point green plan, spending £12bn to catalyse a green industrial revolution. But does it go far enough? #wickedleeks
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/…
''DuPont executives should have no place in the Environmental Protection Agency.''
Not a good start for Biden's environmental legacy: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
''Frankly, this reversal of our philosophy to water management over the past centuries is a no-brainer''
Really nice blog from @theriverstrust summing up why #NatureBasedSolutions are critical to addressing freshwater pollution.
Great blog by @MarkLloydRT on why partnership and community working is the way forward when disconnecting rain water from our sewerage. theriverstrust.org/2020/11/1…
Elle von Benzon retweeted
Milk: officially now cheaper than water, if you buy it from @Tesco anyway. When you think about what has gone into producing milk - by the farmers, the cows, the land, the environment - it seems something close to criminal to sell it for less than spring water. – at Lambeth, London
Some great ideas coming from farmers to help tackle the issue of #plasticpollution in our rivers and the ocean.
Finding alternatives to the use of plastic in farming is key.
@theriverstrust @sascampaigns @CUWaterResearch
"If it’s in the soil, it'll end up in the river, if it ends up in the river it’s going to end up in the sea"
@BenCoodeAdams is 1 of 5 growers working with researchers to find viable alternatives to on-farm #plastic
Join the #farmerled research network👉innovativefarmers.org/regist…
Elle von Benzon retweeted
It's Time to #EndSewagePollution for good. Will you join us? RT this video and sign the petition 👉 buff.ly/3cdqwz1.
We'll be taking our collective demands to parliament in November, the more voices we have the louder the message 📢