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✨ Meet our researchers: Dr James Carruthers A @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @climatecocentre.bsky.social Research Associate studying how climate change is reshaping rainfall and extreme weather in the UK and Ireland. Get to know James 👇 climatecocentre.org/people/james...

Dr Chloe Brown, is leaving for a lectureship post in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with The University of Salford. Huge congratulations, Chloe! We extend our sincere thanks to you for your valuable contributions to Climate + and wish you every success in your new role.

Our Climate + Co-Centre Manager, Alex McMeekin, is moving to a new role in Research & Enterprise at Queen's University Belfast. We extend our sincere thanks to Alex for her valuable contributions to Climate + and wish her every success in her new role.

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! 🌍 To mark the day, we're spotlighting our Storylines project — exploring plausible worst-case climate futures for the UK and Ireland, and what they could mean for ecosystems, carbon cycling and biodiversity. Check it out 👇 buff.ly/sqUCRMk

🌍 Turn your climate data into a working solution in 3 days. Our AI + climate sandbox is back. You bring the data, we bring the experts. 📅 November 2026 ⏳ Apply by September 🥇 First 3 companies guaranteed a spot Apply here --> climatecocentre.org/contact/ 📹️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdjZ...

Join us for 4 free climate workshops in Newcastle, 18-26 June. Researchers and residents exploring sea level rise through collage, zines and storytelling. 📍 Shieldfield Art Works ⏰ 6:15-9:15pm each evening 📆 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th June Register here 👉️ buff.ly/SdvnEZA

Prof Yvonne Buckley (@tcddublin.bsky.social) took the Climate+ Co-Centre to Wuhan this month, giving a keynote at the International Symposium on Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World. It sparked a new collaboration with Profs Yan Sun & Heinz Müller-Schärer (Huazhong Agricultural University)

We're hiring a Co-Centre Manager at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Operational lead for the Climate + Co-Centre—a trijurisdictional research programme on climate, biodiversity & water (NI, GB, RoI). Funded by @researchireland.ie, @ukri.org, @daera-ni.gov.uk More information here buff.ly/QmV9vGW

📢 We're hiring! 2-year Postdoc at @dublincityuni.bsky.social Business School with Dr Aideen O'Dochartaigh, working on our project mapping climate & biodiversity risks across agrifood, energy, construction & finance value chains. 💶 €46,805 📅 Closes 29 May 📁 Research Job Ref 003364 🔗 buff.ly/ZCToR1f

For every £1 directed toward protecting nature in 2023, £33 went toward destroying it. A landmark new @ipbes.net report sets out what businesses need to do, and the tools already exist to do it. We've written a short explainer on what it means in practice. buff.ly/nXdzzW7

How do you connect the dots between climate, biodiversity, and water data when the datasets don't fit together neatly? That's the challenge our 'Using AI to Integrate Environmental Data' project is tackling. 🔗Learn more here:https://buff.ly/dTpORu6

Co-Centre Principal Investigator Prof @peterthorne.bsky.social (Maynooth University) will continue to bring his climate science expertise to Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC), having been reappointed for a second term. 🔗 buff.ly/TeYcwFv Learn more about his work: buff.ly/RoDsfeX

Today is #WorldMeteorologicalDay 🌍 Hayley Fowler and the team across @newcastleuni.bsky.social, @maynoothuniversity.ie and @uniofreading.bsky.social are building detailed regional climate projections for the UK and Ireland at different warming levels. Find out more: buff.ly/EwdwtgD

Today is #WorldWaterDay💧 Led by Mary Kelly-Quinn across @ulsteruni.bsky.social, @ucddublin.bsky.social and @unioflimerick.bsky.social, our river restoration research is developing new ways to measure whether restoration is actually working. Explore the project: buff.ly/vBj5vQL

🌍 Yesterday you met Dr Cat Jones — now meet the project. Taking Stock of Nature's Carbon, Water and Wildlife uses #AI to synthesise evidence on how peatlands, forests and saltmarshes store carbon and support biodiversity. 🔗 buff.ly/tyOxOZS

🔬Meet Our Researchers | Dr Cat Jones Cat is a freshwater ecologist, exploring how AI can help make sense of environmental data. Recent work includes an AI-powered evidence synthesis project and a Valentine's Day "Data Blitz" rescuing lost biodiversity records 💚 Learn more: buff.ly/Pio5puM

It's #BritishScienceWeek🔬so today we're shining a light on our GB researchers. Teams at @uniofreading.bsky.social, @newcastleuni.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social are tackling climate projections, flood risk and carbon storage across the British and Irish Isles. Explore the research: buff.ly/v7vruqI

🌍NEW: Peatlands Geoportal - a new online hub for exploring data our peatland landscapes. It lets you explore, filter, layer and download peatland data in one place, whether you're researching, advising policy, or managing land. 👉 peatlands-geoportal-queensub.hub.arcgis.com

This International Women's Day, we want to recognise every woman in our network contributing to climate, biodiversity, and water research. Your work matters — and so does the environment you do it in. 🌊🌿 #IWD2026

develop better predictive tools to inform conservation and land management policy. Full project details 👉 climatecocentre.org/project/vegetation-change/ #Biodiversity #EcologyResearch

This #WorldWildlifeDay, our researchers are investigating how climate change and land use change are driving biodiversity shifts across the UK and Ireland. By focusing on species traits (growth rates, life cycles, ecological roles) the project aims to identify future "winners and losers" and

Gallagher Re to strengthen how flood and wind risks are assessed and managed. Read more: climatecocentre.org/project/unde... @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social | #ClimateRisk #Flooding #Resilience (2/2)

Check out some of the zines and collages made during our Climate Creations workshop, run for @niscifest.bsky.social As one participant put it: 💬 “It was a really lovely opportunity to take a breath and think about climate change in a different way.” @dcuclimate.bsky.social

🗺️ Learn to map peatlands with open data Join us at NI Science Fest for an introductory workshop. You’ll learn how to bring open spatial data on peatlands into QGIS, style maps, digitise features and create simple, useful visualisations. 👉 Sign up here: buff.ly/tzmUTKk #NIScienceFest

🎨 Climate Creations! Facts and figures can be overwhelming, so join us at NI Science Fest for this creative workshop to explore a different way in. ⏰ 1:30-3:30 pm 🗓️ 18 February 🏢 Crescent Arts Centre 👉 Sign up here: nisciencefestival.com/event/climat... #ClimateArt #ClimateScience

🌿 Does nature have rights? Join us for #RightsOfNature – Perspectives within Northern Ireland, an interactive event with the Climate + Co-Centre as part of #NIScienceFest & #GenerationHope. 👉 Sign up here: shorturl.at/fkbmL

💘Who needs dinner dates when you’ve got datasets? This Valentine’s Day, skip the roses and fall in love with data for good at our #DataBlitz at the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water, part of the NI Science Fest! 👉 Sign up here: shorturl.at/ILFWS

Help shape Northern Ireland’s Nature Recovery Strategy 🌱 The Strategy sets out how NI plans to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It will shape future policy direction and funding priorities. ⏰ Deadline: 18 Mar 2026 🔗 buff.ly/RVF9TwO #NatureRecovery #Biodiversity

🌿 We brought together a cross-departmental group for a workshop focused on the evidence base underpinning Ireland’s #NatureRestoration Plan. Climate + is providing technical support to the NPWS on the the plan and contributing to Ireland’s submission to the European Commission.