New article: Collaging to find river connections and stimulate new meanings

The FIRE lab team and an ensemble of artists/poets/scientists both within and beyond the academy have a new article published in the peer-reviewed journal, Cultural Geographies. The article contributes to work in creative geographies and is focused on river spaces and a multimodal practice (meaning that we used visual, aural, and linguistic forms of communication) […]

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Fish passes can reconnect species with habitats blocked by dams – here’s how they work

New article in The Conversation about fish passes by Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley, Swansea University and Virgilio Hermoso, Universidad de Sevilla Over one million dams and culverts (tunnels that encircle rivers passing under roads) block the movements of fish and other wildlife in Europe. Scientists estimate that less than 1% of catchments in the UK are free […]

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New! Reflections on the co-creation of Shout Trout Workout published in People and Nature

Reflections from the Team: Co-creating visual media about ecological processes for young people has just been published in a special issue of People and Nature. It is the result of a team effort by FIRE Lab, comics creator Ethan Kocak and media production company TankThink to create a comic and music video to engage 8-14 […]

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New research: Structured elicitation to estimate instream infrastructure passability for European eels (Anguilla anguilla)

At the height of the first Covid19 lockdown in the UK, nine experts generously gave their time and expertise to help us improve estimates of the passability of different infrastructures for European eels (Anguilla anguilla). We are pleased to announce that the fruits of their labours have just been published here in Conservation Science and […]

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