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Dundee Hydrology
Monthly reports
The table below provides links to monthly reports from our monitoring catchments around Scotland. Reporting is led by student volunteers, with monitoring in the catchments supported by our sponsors and collaborators: Wildland Limited, the Eddleston Water Project, the National Trust…
A glossary of hydrological and related terms
There are quite a few good glossaries of hydrological terms already ‘out there’ and ready for you to use. The NIWA one is nicely written but doesn’t cover many terms. Two USGS ones (a, b) look very comprehensive, but don’t…
Natural flood management, lag time and catchment scale: Results from our Eddleston Water empirical nested catchment study
Delighted to see our first Eddleston Water surface water empirical results paper published today in the Journal of Flood Risk Management. To avoid dependency on uncertain flow calibrations in high flow conditions, our paper focuses on hydrological lag as a…
Employment opportunities for graduating geographers and environmental scientists
It being the end of the academic year, I’ve pulled together this list of jobs and careers sites to help people looking for employment. Inevitably, this cannot be exhaustive; nor does it attempt to be. Please regard this as a…
Space and sanity around Glen Feshie
How to respond to the terrible news of the atrocities in Sri Lanka and its connection to Glenfeshie? Today I want to share a few photos from my time in Feshie, as some sort of a response to those acts…
How do we Measure That…
It was 9:55am and, scrolling through my emails, one particular message from Dr Andrew Black caught my attention: ‘Fieldwork Help Required Today’. It didn’t take me long to hit reply… Two hours later Finlay and I were driving north on…
Communicating risk in uncertain predictions: focusing on the individual
We’re often surrounded by risks in our daily lives: Is it safe for me to cross the road now? Is the food at this burger van safe to eat? Is this web site safe to use? The risk of flooding…
Time to take down the rain-out shelters
We’re going to be taking down the rain-out shelters in the Eden catchment in reading week, w/c 15 October 2018. Student volunteers sought to lend a hand, do something different and see some new places on the Lomond ridge above…
Rapid rise on the Feshie
We’re monitoring water levels on the upper River Feshie, and at two other sites lower downstream (and on some of the headwater tributaries too)! This is all nested within the catchment of SEPA’s gauge at Feshie Bridge, and will help…
End of semester field visit – the re-watered River Garry (Perthshire)
The exams are all finished now, so what better than a field visit to revisit some of the key themes of the semester just passed? More so when there’s the offer of a guided tour from Scottish & Southern Energy’s…
Remembering the Great Tay Flood of January 1993
25 years ago, on 17 January 1993, a peak river flow of 2268 m3/s was recorded at Ballathie gauging station on the River Tay – the highest rate ever recorded in the UK. At the time, I had only just…
Reaching out in NE Fife – drought risk, climate change, agriculture and YOU!
Drought Risk and You – talking about drought, climate change and farming in Freuchie, Saturday 20th January 2018. Registration link here. Programme available here: Jan 2018 Eden DRY event v4 Scotland is considered by many as a wet country but…
Sometimes, environmental monitoring just has to be a team effort
Upgrading of the power supply required a field visit last Friday, in the interests of maintaining data completeness. Fortunately, Wildland as site owners have the logistical capabilities to deliver results. Visiting during wintry conditions allows processes to be observed at…
Chilly for flow gauging
It was minus 10 C when our Eddleston field hydrometrist Boyd set off for his work this morning – but the work must go on! Indeed some flow meters might not cope with such temperatures, but our Flow Tracker –…
Storm Caroline brings in the changes to Glen Feshie
Maximum wind speeds at the Wildland Mountain Observatory reached 70.5 mph this morning (31.49 m/s) as Storm Caroline brought high winds and property damage to many parts of northern Britain. Temperatures at 900 m OD fell from a balmy 7.0…
Uncovering the secrets of the environmental past – you can help!
Weather Rescue project is seeking volunteer citizen scientists to bring historic weather observations into the reach of digital science. Millions of meteorological observations are waiting for volunteers to enter them into digital format, and so make then accessible for climate…
Latest data
Latest data from our telemetry sites: Gateway Eddleston latest data Feshie latest data And from our collaborators: Disdrometer data from Druim nam Bo (900 m, east of Glen Feshie): assesses precipitation type Internet of Things data from Southampton University (Moine Mhor, various…
Papers
Research papers from our catchment research: Meltwater flow through a rapidly deglaciating glacier and foreland catchment system: Virkisjökull, SE Iceland Flett, V., Maurice, L., Finlayson, A., Black, A., MacDonald, A., Everest, J. & Kirkbride, M. 17 Feb 2017 In :…
Talla
The Talla Water drains the western slopes of Broad Law, the highest peak in Scotland’s Southern Uplands. Having been harnessed for Edinburgh’s public water supply since 1905, it is easy to understand this is one of the wettest river catchments…
Monitoring mountain precipitation – difficulties in practice
Power availability is the big challenge at 900 m elevation. The Wildland mountain observatory on Druim nam Bo benefits from a 60 W solar panel and a wind turbine generator, with 220 Ah of battery capacity. Ben Pickering’s disdrometer, pictured…
Big thaw at the weekend
After 10 days of continually freezing conditions at the Wildland mountain observatory on Druim nam Bo, warm air on Saturday brought a thaw to high altitudes – and significant melt. Some 41.2 mm of snowmelt was recorded through the rain gauge. …
Current projects – Feshie
Fluvial carbon fluxes on the Moine Mhor – Emma Bryder (University of Dundee) – SNH/SEPA PhD studentship Assessing peat and hydrological characteristics of the Moine Mhor peatland: spatially investigating peat depth, water table and temperature characteristics and the hydrology of the catchments…
Feshie
On the north-west margin of Scotland’s Cairngorm Mountains lies Glen Feshie – since 2006 the scene of an ambitious landscape-scale programme of nature conservation. The large population of red deer is now being actively managed to support rejuvenation of native…
Eddleston
The Eddleston Project has been monitoring water levels and flows since early 2011. As measures are introduced across the catchment to improve hydro-morphology and slow down runoff response, we want to see how they affect the hydrology: will the response to…