Any #UK tooters with an interest in #environment and particularly #ChalkStream and river #habitat studies might like to check out this opportunity for a funded #phdPosition at ARU in #Cambridge. I love all my local #rivers and streams so I'm particularly keen to see someone awesome take this up!

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/conservation-and-restoration-strategies-for-chalk-streams-in-cambridgeshire/?p175262

Government chalk stream plan scrapping 'disappointing' | Hampshire Chronicle
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24847595.government-chalk-stream-plan-scrapping-disappointing/

#Sewage
#ChalkStream
#RiverTest
#Water

Little shire riverside tranquility for you.
#Itchen #chalkstream

Conservationists act to protect globally rare #chalkstream habitat from #drought

"England’s chalk streams are internationally important habitats, but like many nature-rich places they are facing a host of pressures including more extreme weather such as drought."

#England

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/hertfordshire-wildlife-trusts-sarah-perry-amazon-b2595955.html

A beautiful morning in Hughenden Park. I was painting the stream on very boggy ground, my wellies were caked in mud. Oil on primed panel, 28 x 36 cm.
#hughenden #hughendenpark #chalkstream #landscapeoilpainting #landscapepainting #oilpainting #oilpaintingonpanel #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #pleinair #artist #artwork

Just back from a biting cold dusk wander along the Itchen where I saw a flash of bright blue and then the flashing glittering flutter of the kingfisher it turned out to be as he struggled to breach out the water with a fish so big it shouldn't be possible.
Someone isnt going to nest tonight with an empty belly!
#birds #nature #chalkstream

I was painting in Hambleden today, and it was really cold. The breeze made it so much colder even with 5 layers on. I was wearing fingerless gloves, so my fingers were numb by the end of it. Oil on primed panel, 28 x 36 cm.
#hambleden #chilternsaonb #chalkstream #winter #oilpaint #oilpainting #oilpaintingonpanel #landscapeoilpainting #landscapepaintings #pleinairpainter #pleinair #pleinairpainting #buckinghamshire

This is all I've got for now. Happy Thursday folks. Have a good evening. X

Scents: fresh wild mint, cut meadowgrass, deep savoury notes of rich fertile riverside earth.

Out losing myself and I can actually hear the earth drinking.

Scents: wet tansy like sweetened milk. Soft tobacco taste of wet fertile soil. The fresh bite of uncut nettles.
#Winchester #chalkstream #nature #PhonePhotography

Good morning beautiful people x
Have a little bit of the Itchen

Brambridge: sewage flows into iconic Hampshire chalk stream | Hampshire Chronicle
#Sewage
#RiverItchen
#ChalkStream
#Brambridge
#EnviromentalDisaster

SEWAGE that is currently flowing into the River Itchen is an "environmental disaster", a resident has said.

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23222171.brambridge-sewage-flows-iconic-hampshire-chalk-stream/

#Chalkstream happiness - longer days are coming! Happy #wintersolstice

Beautiful frosty morning down at my local river Ver. #frost #cold #Chalkstream #river