The National Environmental Monitoring Conference (NEMC) 2025 is a one-day event on Monday 15 December 2025 bringing together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how environmental monitoring can drive real-world impact. This year’s theme, From Insight to Impact: Building the UK Environmental Monitoring Community, aims to move beyond knowledge-sharing of exemplars toward fostering collective momentum for a shared UK environmental monitoring vision and supporting its practical delivery.
Morning Session – Closing the Gaps
- Monitoring Habitat Type and Condition at Scale – Current Challenges and Opportunities
- Innovation in Monitoring: Mycorrhizas for Ecosystem Assessment
- Considering Seldom Heard Voices in Monitoring Socio-Economic Benefits of the Environment
- Aquatic Greenhouse Gas Fluxes - Success Stories and Future Challenges for Monitoring
Afternoon Session – Vision to Value:
- Embedding New Technologies into National Biodiversity Monitoring Programmes: Collaborative Efforts for Best Practice
- Improving the Environment – How Can We Tell Within Politically-Relevant Timeframes?
- The Evolution and Integration of Monitoring Networks for Quantifying Hydrological Variability - A Foundation for Fostering Resilience to Climate Change
- A proposed national "Soil Health Alert Indicator" for agricultural landscapes
- The System Level Indicator – A Visualisation Tool for Chemical Pollution in the UK
- Innovative and Integrative Digital Research Infrastructure for Environmental Monitoring
- Drone/Camera Remote Sensing for Habitat Monitoring: Are We Nearly There Yet?
- Building a Common Evidence Base to Restore Nature: Co-Developing Scalable Monitoring Approaches Across the UK
- Evaluation & EEDI
- Towards a unified UK Environmental Monitoring Framework
Speakers include Bangor University, Defra, Forest Research, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Met Office, Mozaic Earth, National Trust, Natural England, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, University of Bristol, Welsh Government and more.
It is chaired by leading voices:
Andy Nisbet - Natural England, Ann Humble - Welsh Government, Bridget Emmett - UKCEH and BES, Ben Ditchbur - UKEOF, Defra and NCEA, Martin Parr - CABI, Mark Nason – CIEEM, Mat Williams – University of Edinburgh.
This event is organised by the British Ecological Society (BES), UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and the UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF).
Registration is now closed.