We shouldn't say peatlands act as sponges...but they can slow flow and dampen droughts. Our new paper led by Kirsten Lees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Read our article published in Nature Water about what has made our Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social such a success. Free access here: rdcu.be/eHWAM @springernature.com @researchleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
Nature Water - A transferable and operational model involving cross-sector collaborations, transdisciplinary project co-design and translation of cutting-edge research, has unlocked integrated...
New fully-funded PhD project working on flooding, climate change, catastrophe modelling and the re-insurance industry: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/cli... Work with @floodre.bsky.social Erica Thompson and I.
Final paper out from Josiah Judson's PhD. Trees on shallow gradients or the riparian zone contribute to flood management without substantially impacting land available for productive agriculture. Free access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Joseph Holden
Joseph Holden
New funded PhD opportunity on large-scale export of aquatic carbon from peatlands: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/lar...
Join an amazing group of peatland researchers at the University of Leeds. Project supervised by me, Paul Morris, Jiren Xu (Glasgow), Taylor Maavara (Cary).
Deadline 7 January 2026
Third paper from Qiuyu Zhu's PhD now out. Qiuyu coupled Spatially Distributed TOPMODEL to a hydrodynamic model to see how different NFM techniques interact. This allows us to study flood effects at larger catchment scales. Free access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
