The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is proud to be a partner organisation in the newly launched National Research Organisations (NRO) Group. A first of its kind collective for the UK, the ...

Commissioned in September 2025 and published today, the study examines the economic impact of UKCEH’s activities during 2024, ...

The UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crops map (LCM+) was validated using data collated by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and supplied under license for validation purposes. Crops collated by the RPA were ...

For quotes or information on chemical analysis please contact Dr M Gloria Pereira. Please note that we are unable to analyse samples which do not have an accompanying sample information sheet. Fields ...

In Summer 2025, the flood estimation team have released an update to the statistical flood frequency estimation methods (the FEH methods), including changes to QMED estimation, donor transfer, the ...

We are pleased to announce that, as of 1 December 2019, we are now an independent research institute. Following final approval in September, we have become autonomous from UK Research and Innovation ...

Against this alarming backdrop, a policy response to the UK biodiversity crisis is now taking shape. There is the post-Brexit agricultural subsidy regime that aims to reward land-owners for public ...

Linlithgow Loch is a shallow freshwater lake in West Lothian, Scotland. It has a mean depth of 2.3m and a maximum depth of 9.2m (SNH 2008). It was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest ...

It had wide ranging water resources and ecological impacts and is often remembered as a benchmark of droughts in the UK. Burrator Reservoir in Devon, July 1976 by Crispin Purdye and licensed under CC ...

Clatto Reservoir is a shallow reservoir (surface area 9ha, mean depth c. 2.7m, maximum depth 7m) in Camperdown Country Park, Dundee, Scotland. Although the site was previously used as a drinking water ...

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 river Thames is facing growing pressures as a result of rapid population growth, intensive agriculture, climate change and water resource challenges. The impact on water quality, chemistry and ...