In the latest episode, Sue and Alice dive into the factors affecting the ecological health of our rivers. Alice goes wading ...

We are a major custodian of environmental datasets. The long-term environmental data hosted by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) make a difference, informing research, policy-making, ...

Here you can explore the kind of roles we recruit for, search our latest vacancies, learn more about what it's like to work at UKCEH, and find out about the many benefits of joining our team. Every ...

The maps, representing UK land cover for the years 2022 and 2023, are the latest products in our time series, which goes back more than 30 years. Each comprises a suite of data products in vector and ...

The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) and the earlier Flood Studies Report (FSR) are a set of methods and associated data to enable recognised standard national methods for rainfall and flood estimation ...

The UKCEH Land Cover Maps (LCMs) map UK land cover. They do this by describing the physical material on the surface of the United Kingdom providing an uninterrupted national dataset of land cover ...

In our monthly podcast, Counting the Earth, award-winning science journalist Sue Nelson and UKCEH’s Alice Hope explore the numbers behind nature, picking apart the statistics surrounding climate and ...

Loch Leven is the largest shallow eutrophic lake in lowland Scotland (surface area 13.7km 2, mean depth 3.9m). It is an excellent example of a lake that supplies a wide range of ecosystem services and ...

Microbes are central to all life on Earth due to their huge diversity in form and function. In soils, one teaspoon of topsoil contains around 1 billion individual microscopic cells and around 10,000 ...

UKCEH’s Land Cover Plus: Hedgerows describes the extent and height of woody linear features, including hedgerows, tree lines and semi-natural thickets of shrubs and trees, on field boundaries in ...

A new 5-year capital investment by the UK Government enabling essential science and innovation to improve the country’s resilience to hydrological extremes. In June 2022, the UK Research and ...