UCL's Environmental Change Research Centre

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The Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), directed by Jonathan Holmes, is one of UCL's many inter-disciplinary research centres.

Our work is concerned primarily with climatic and environmental change on a range of time scales, past, present and future.

RAPID Special issue of Global & Planetary Change edited by Jonathan Holmes, John Lowe and Eric Wolff

Mon, 11/28/2011   in

A special issue of the journal Global and Planetary Change, dedicated to the palaeoclimatic results of the NERC RAPID Climate Change Programme, has been published.

Journal of Paleolimnology special issue on Reference states and lake restoration

Wed, 10/05/2011   in

A special issue of Journal of Paleolimnology on "Reference states and lake restoration: the role of palaeolimnology" has been published in volume 45 (No 4) - April 2011, guest edited by Helen Bennion and Rick Battarbee of the ECRC.

Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems

Mon, 09/27/2010   in

Martin Kernan, Rick Battarbee (ECRC) and Brian Moss (University of Liverpool) are co-editors of the book 'Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems' based on work undertaken in the EU FP6 project Euro-limpacs.

UK upland waters recovering from acid rain

Mon, 08/23/2010   in

Upland waters damaged by acid rain are beginning to recover according to ECRC-led research.

Academics from the UCL Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC) and its partners undertook the study for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

RGS Victoria Medal awarded to Professor Rick Battarbee

Fri, 08/20/2010   in

The Royal Geographical Society has awarded Rick Battarbee with the Victoria Medal for 'research in environmental change'.

Presentation of the Royal Medals and other Awards of the Society took place during the Society's AGM on 7 June 2010, at the Society in central London. They are presented annually in recognition of those who have made outstanding achievements.

The address made by the President of the IBG-RGS (Michael Palin CBE) and acceptance speech by Prof Rick Battarbee and other award winners can be found in: