The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact.

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact. Our 600+ researchers deliver the data and insights that academics, governments and businesses need to …

UKCEH face-to-face and online training courses - also knowledge & skills sharing and capacity-building activities. Browse our courses from ammonia to water requirements.

We take a whole systems approach to understanding the environment, how it sustains life, and the human impact on it. Recognising that environmental challenges cannot be addressed in isolation, we work across disciplines, considering economic, social and environmental factors in the solutions we develop.

The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology was formed in 2000 through a merger of four Natural Environment Research Council terrestrial and freshwater research institutes: The Institute of Hydrology The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology The Institute …

Underpinning UKCEH's research and innovation are large research infrastructures and our capabilities in monitoring and measuring, experimentation, and data science. To ensure UKCEH continues to deliver world-class research and innovation, we will invest in and develop these capabilities. We provide ...

We lead or collaborate on scientific projects addressing the biggest environmental challenges. We can draw on decades of data and a range of field sites, as well as our world-leading expertise in diverse areas of environmental science. Examples include investigating water, air and soil quality, effects of radioactivity, pressures on biodiversity and impacts of agricultural practices.

National capability funding enables UK scientists to deliver world-leading environmental science, meet national strategic needs, and help the Government respond to emergencies. The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology plays a leading role in managing and delivering this capability for the UK.

Innovation involves the creation of something new: it's an activity, the bringing together of resources, findings, challenges and approaches etc, in new ways. From our unique position and science base the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has the ability to convene groups and networks to produce innovative products and services. At UKCEH we see innovation as …

We work in partnership to design and run a number of national citizen science schemes to monitor biodiversity, including the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, the National Plant Monitoring Scheme and the Biological Records Centre (BRC).. BRC has provided a focus for the collation, management, dissemination and interpretation of species observations (biological records) …