Matt Fry

@mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social

Informatics for environmental science @ukceh.bsky.social; digital infrastructures, data, data science and AI; #flood #drought #DataRescue

The EA have made some disastrous updates to its Water Quality Data Explorer and API which are a bit of a tragedy for #opendata. No bulk downloads, limits on data access, removed endpoints that are essential to actually use the data. environment.data.gov.uk/water-qualit...

API Documentation | Water Quality Explorer

Comprehensive documentation for accessing and integrating with the Water Quality Explorer API, including endpoints, parameters, and example usage.

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Great to see some thorough road testing of citizen science-friendly methods, and by citizen scientists! These techniques are already producing good quality data at scale.

Liz Bagshaw Glaciology @lizbagshaw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper! Dr VB and a crack team of citizen scientists across the #riverwye compared performance of methods to measure phosphate and nitrate: links.email.frontiersin.org/ls/click?upn... TL;DR: Hanna Checkers perform pretty well

Two exciting opportunities to help shape UK flood hydrology just opened: 1. Join the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) for the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap 2. Contribute to research ideas on the big questions for hydrology in a changing climate Find out more shorturl.at/7bO9w

BHS AGM TUESDAY 16th SEPT | VIRTUAL Time and registration details to follow. This year’s AGM programme brings exciting developments from: - the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap - the FUTURE-FLOOD project - to the Flood and Drought Research Infrastructure (FDRI) initiative BHS members needed for AGM!

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The UK Hydrological Summary confirms heightened risk of drought impacts this summer — especially in eastern Britain. June was the warmest on record for England and 2nd warmest for the UK overall. Rainfall showed stark regional contrasts, with some areas seeing less than half of average. 🧵🧪 1/

Map of UK showing river flows as percentage of average

New PhD - full funding for UK/Irish applicant - start Jan 26 - Design and evaluation of multi-functional Blue Green Infrastructure under climate change tinyurl.com/42s8rade: Clare Walsh, Vassilis Glenis & myself, Newcastle Uni. Part of Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water lnkd.in/e5g6nz6V

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | LinkedIn

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | 2,488 followers on LinkedIn. Solutions focused research into climate, biodiversity & water issues on the islands of Ireland & Great Britain | The...

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Next week! The Critical Zone Network of Networks webinar series continues on May 27. These online events are scheduled for the morning time in Europe. Up next: Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) in the UK. Presented by Alejandro Dussaillant and Gareth Old. 🌐🧪

Critical Zone Connections Webinar Series - Spring 2025

International Critical Zone Network of Networks CZ Connections Webinar Series 2025: Critical Zone Research Networks Driving Collaboration and Discovery April 15 - May 13, 9:00 AM Pacific Time (PT)...

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Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵

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Some great, and important, new outputs from the CS-N0W project. Projections of future water use and water availability in rivers in England. Explanatory info, with pointers to reports and data, and web tool for exploring and accessing summary info: environment.data.gov.uk/future-water/

Future water resources

A web tool to visualise water availability under future scenarios of artificial influences from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Seasonal changes in UK rainfall since 1836 The UK has become ~15% wetter in the last two centuries, mainly in the winter and autumn, even though the wettest year on record is 1872. Summers have become very slightly drier overall (mainly in the south), even though the driest year on record is 1855.

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