Elizabeth Cooper

Scientists up in arms as flying lab has its wings clipped Faam, the airborne laboratory deployed after the eruption of an Icelandic volcano shut airspace in 2010, will be grounded after government funding was cut

The decision by @ukri.org to scrap the UK's flying atmospheric laboratory (FAAM) after spending >£40M on an upgrade & with zero consultation, is short sighted. FAAM has saved the UK economy more than it costs through responding to disasters.

400 scientists respond: www.thetimes.com/article/406e...

Upcoming webinar series: Exploring the UK’s hydrological data archives and tools | National River Flow Archive The Surface and Groundwater Archives (SAGA) Committee is pleased to announce a two-part webinar series  designed to showcase the UK’s most important hydrological data archives, monitoring programmes, and forecasting tools. Together, these sessions will offer valuable insight into the data systems...

💦 Sign up for the National River Flow Archive's 2-part webinar series: Exploring the UK’s hydrological data archives and tools

Learn about the data systems that underpin research, water resource management & environmental decision‑making across the country

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Great opportunity for students and professionals looking to strengthen their skills in hydroclimate data and science via hands-on training 👇

Applications are now open for the free online UKCEH Summer School (13–16 July 2026): hydro-jules.org/data-driven-...

#Hydroclimate #DataScience #SummerSchool

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

👇🏻What the far right say about Muslims, immigrants and asylum seekers, they said 100 years ago about my grandparents.

I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it

NEW: A key finding about how intense thunderstorms develop could help improve the certainty about the location of upcoming storms on hot days 🌩️

#EarlyWarnings

See our news: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/thunde...

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My poster is now up and will be there until Friday! I’ll be presenting Thursday 4-6pm, come and hear about how we can use seasonal forecasts to diagnose coupled climate model errors #OSM26

Rainfall graph imposed over raindrops plus text Online summer school Data-driven approaches to hydrological science

📢 Applications open soon for a FREE online course on Data-driven Approaches to Hydrological Science.

Running in July, this is for postgrad students, ECRs and professionals in consultancies, monitoring agencies & related industries seeking to strengthen skills.

🧪 hydro-jules.org/data-driven-...

Group of seven stand in front of meteorological station at UKCEH Wallingford, plus text detailing 2026 summer student internship information

📣 2026 Student Summer Internships are OPEN for applications!

We’re recruiting SEVEN interns across our National Capability programmes at our Bangor, Lancaster & Wallingford sites.

Superb opportunity for hands-on experience in environmental science & applied research.

Details ⬇️

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🌍 @ukceh.bsky.social Summer Internships 2026 🌍

Fully funded six‑week internships running 22Jun – 31Jul.

Learn more and apply:
#NC-UK: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
#Hydro-JULES: hydro-jules.org/hydro-jules-...

Applications close 25 Mar 2026.

#Internship #ECR #STEMCareers #EnvironmentalResearch

Towards resilient renewable energy deployment in Africa through a weather-aware optimization framework - npj Clean Energy npj Clean Energy - Towards resilient renewable energy deployment in Africa through a weather-aware optimization framework

Well done Rajeev on your first PhD paper!
A breakdown of the key points below:

🧶 Extending a model supply region methodology to incorporate a climate variability criterion

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I don’t dress for men; I dress so I can twirl and say to other women “it has POCKETS”

Is anyone aware of any papers, blogs, reports, etc, arguing against age-based awards, lecture competitions, etc? Thanks!

New paper out in JAMES (Jan 2026): “ClimaLand: A Land Surface Model Designed to Enable Data-Driven Parameterizations” (Deck, Braghiere et al.). I’m excited to be a co-lead on this CliMA land-model milestone. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Doctoral Training Programme: What's Not There? Absences in Collections | Museums and Collections Explore techniques to research 'against the grain' and uncover marginalised stories.

Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research?

Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

📢 Working on land atmosphere-interactions and their role in shaping climate extremes?

🌍 Consider submitting an abstract to our European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) 2026 session:

Land-atmosphere interactions and climate extremes (CL4.4): www.egu26.eu/session/56763

“Huge if true.”
- me to my bathroom scales, 27 December.

Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.

The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Reposting this thread for anyone still in search of Christmas gifts (last orders on Sunday for those in the UK)

New in AGU Advances: a community vision for a sustained, actionable greenhouse gas observing system. We highlight how tighter integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches can sharpen attribution and bring carbon information closer to management scales.

doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#GHG #Carbon

THANK YOU, I had never understood this!!

Excellent summary of the work I contributed to in @esm2025.bsky.social, an EU-funded project that ends this year. Here are my key take-aways in a 🧵 , but I recommend reading this Research Highlight if you want to know more!
Several papers are in preparation from this work, so stay tuned.

Land-use strategies must account not only for C storage potential, but also for wider impacts on food systems, water resources & ecosystems:🔎bit.ly/4qMYPEy

@docaharper.bsky.social @universityofga.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk G.A. @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @rosieafisher.bsky.social @cicero.oslo.no

Interested in river flow modelling? This EGU session will be great - abstract submissions are open now!

Invitation to join a session at EGU26 on learning from model differences in hydrology, focusing on intercomparison, benchmarking, and multi-model approaches. Abstract submissions open.

💧 📢Calling all river flow modellers heading to #EGU26

The UK Hydro-MIP team are inviting submissions for their session on Learning from model differences: model intercomparison, benchmarking and multi-model approaches in hydrology (HS2.2.8)

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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At #COP30 today - Wildfires: Science, Stories, and Strategies for Resilience in Amazonia

UKCEH with Fundacion Avina, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and University of East Anglia

UK Pavilion or livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/VNg-QCfYbvQ

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning Data assimilation (DA) has been shown to be a powerful tool for reducing land surface model (LSM) parametric uncertainty Machine learning can facilitate parameter estimation by enhancing computat...

Out today in JAMES!! Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning doi.org/10.1029/2024... led by Nina Raoult, Natalie Douglas, @janasknits.bsky.social, @tquaife.bsky.social, me, and an awesome team of folks in the community 1/2

Farming Futures: comparing regenerative and conventional practices on soil, chemical use, and ecosystems in a changing climate at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Lancaster on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Farming Futures: comparing regenerative and conventional practices on soil, chemical use, and ecosystems in a changing climate at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Lancaster, listed ...

📢 PhD opportunity! 📢

Are you interested in studying how different farming practices influence soils, including chemical levels and bioavailability, functional soil outcomes and other ecosystem endpoints? Check out this ECOSOLUTIONS PhD!

@ukceh.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...