26.08.2026

UKCEH staff will be attending next week’s (2-4 September) British Hydrological Society National Symposium, presenting on and talking about a range of subjects. Here’s what’s coming up and the lead presenter:

Session 1 Hydrometry, sensors & the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI):

  • Matt Fry: Enhancing Access to UK Hydrological Data: The FDRI Digital Platform 
  • Nick Everard: Measuring floodplain flows with consumer electronics and constellations of satellites! 
  • Adam Griffin: Quantifying and communicating hydrometric uncertainty

FDRI partner presentations in session 1:

  • Kieran Khamis, University of Birmingham: Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure: nationally representative observatories to better understand and manage risk from hydrological extremes
  • Luke Tumelty, Imperial College: (FDRI) Enabling Participatory Hydrology through Innovation and Capacity Building

Session 4: International & global hydrology

  • Jamie Hannaford: From source to sea, to the IPCC: the incredible journey of UK rivers in helping to understand global hydrological variability

Session 5: Machine learning & AI in hydrology

  • Srinidhi Jha: Towards an Improved Drought Status System in England: Integrating Human Expertise and Machine Learning  

Session 6: Flood estimation & frequency methods

  • Gianni Vesuviano: Using a peak-over-threshold model to improve FEH statistical flood frequency estimation  
  • Adam Griffin: Adding modelled data to observed data in flood frequency estimation 

Session 7: Rainfall-runoff modelling & model benchmarking

  • Rosanna Lane: The UK Hydro-MIP: A community model intercomparison project for streamflow simulation across GB 

Session 9 Climate change & hydrological extremes — floods

  • Alison Kay: Combining a national-scale grid-based hydrological model with an initial-condition climate ensemble and downscaled events for flood modelling
  • Rachael Armitage: ‘Weather whiplash’ past, present and future: Understanding the UK’s hydrological transitions 

Session 12 Early Career Hydrologist showcase: data-driven methods & tools for the next generation

  • Felipe Fileni: UK-Flow15v2: Next steps in developing sub-hourly river flow observations for the UK 
  • Eugene Magee: A collaborative approach towards the shared science of intermittent chalk streams
  • Emma Ford: What do machine learning models learn about floods?

We are also involved in the following presentations being led by other organisations:

  • Propagation and Attribution of Climate-Driven Uncertainty in Fluvial Flood Inundation Using Reduced-Order Surrogates
  • 1976 drought storylines for water resources planning
  • Hydrological model benchmarking- Results of the UKCP18 Intercomparison project

Posters

UKCEH led posters include: 

  • Trends in High and Low Flows Across the UK: Evidence from Long-Term Streamflow Reconstructions 
  • River flow changes from a large initial condition climate ensemble for the UK
  • The 1976 Drought Revisited: 50 years on, does it remain the benchmark? 
  • National River Flow Archive: The UK’s Focal Point for Hydrometric Data. 
  • Beyond UKCP18: River flow changes from a large initial-condition climate ensemble for the UK

FDRI UKCEH and partner posters include:

  • The Upper Severn sub-catchment of the floods and droughts observatory: science priorities and monitoring network design
  • The Upper Tweed sub-catchment of the Floods and Droughts Observatory: science priorities and monitoring network design
  • The Chess sub-catchment of the Floods and Droughts Observatory: science priorities and monitoring network design
  • Improving the Direct Measurement of Flood Flows

The full agenda is available on the BHS website.