Researcher Exchange Programme
The Researcher Exchange Programme offers opportunities to academics including PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, senior scientists as well as industry practitioners in conducting collaborative research or educational activities.
Background
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is an independent, not-for-profit research institute for terrestrial and freshwater science. UKCEH coordinates internationally leading research and expertise in environmental sciences providing infrastructure, training and leadership to the UK hydrological community. The Hydro-JULES programme has built a three-dimensional, open source, community model of the terrestrial water cycle to support and enable collaborative work across the research and academic communities in hydrology and land-surface science. The Hydro-JULES programme is continuing with a comprehensive programme of work aimed at building advanced modelling infrastructure to understand floods and water scarcity in the UK and overseas..
Supporting collaborations
The Researcher Exchange Programme will support collaborations that will share knowledge, advance existing research, stimulate new research areas, allow collective response to scientific initiatives, raise the international profile of UKCEH and enable new relationships to be built in the following environmental research fields:
- quantification of hydro-meteorological risks
- using high-resolution climate predictions for hydrological applications
- calculate the impacts of environmental change on evaporation, transpiration, and soil moisture
- modelling flood inundation over large areas
- representing anthropogenic interventions in the water cycle, and
- application of new techniques including Earth observation and data assimilation
The goals of the HJ REP program are to promote a cross-institutional exchange, identify future collaborators, welcome scientists into the broader hydrological network, learn new techniques, engage in collaborative discussion for innovative problem solving and face-to-face interaction between scientists.
If you have any questions about the Researcher Exchange Programme please contact hydrojules@ceh.ac.uk