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  • Okay, my degree in Hydrology comes from Backyard U. via Home Depot and Do It Yourself Sprinklers.

    Lake Level 11-29-04 2004

  • These great migrations were revealed by a survey run by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, asking the public to record sightings of all 27 native species of grasshoppers and crickets.

    Weatherwatch: how to use a cricket as a thermometer 2011

  • Marc Botham of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, which helps run the monitoring scheme, said: "Butterflies are highly sensitive to how our countryside is changing and the UKBMS data has revealed how butterflies are already being impacted by climate change as well as whether our conservation measures are working."

    Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity 2011

  • Helen Roy, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology CEH in Oxfordshire, and one of the authors of the Ladybird Atlas of Britain and Ireland, said: "What's quite striking is that in the same way as butterflies and moths have seen very common species going into decline, we're seeing the same happen with ladybirds."

    British ladybird species struggling to compete with alien invaders 2011

  • A study from 1960 to 1999, led by Dr. Lina Mercado from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, was published earlier this year in the Nature scientific journal reporting that plants stored 23.7 percent more CO2 — the leading greenhouse gas causing climate change — thanks to more efficient photosynthesis in plants shaded by smog.

    Lea Bogdan | Inhabitat 2010

  • The government's Centre for Hydrology and Ecology reported soils in many areas were at their driest for 50 years.

    Crisis meeting is called as drought leaves crops dying in the fields 2011

  • Sightings and alert emails are picked up by Dr Helen Roy, senior scientist at the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

    Invasive non-native species: attack of the aliens 2012

  • Helen Roy, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology CEH in Oxfordshire, and one of the authors of the Ladybird Atlas of Britain and Ireland, said: "What's quite striking is that in the same way as butterflies and moths have seen very common species going into decline, we're seeing the same happen with ladybirds."

    British ladybird species struggling to compete with alien invaders 2011

  • Along with Dr Michael Pocock of the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology he rolled out a project, Conker Tree Science, last year to use citizen science namely you, me and our mobile phones to begin cataloguing the spread of the horse chestnut leaf miner bug across the UK.

    Invasive non-native species: attack of the aliens 2012

  • "According to the Center for Ecology and Hydrology in the UK, three of the 25 British species of bumblebee are already extinct and half of the remainder have shown serious declines, often up to 70 percent, since around the 1970s," writes Sami Grover for Treehugger.

    Tara Lohan: Why You Should Really Be Concerned About the Global Wildlife Die-offs Tara Lohan 2011

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