Lecturer in Earth Sciences @ES_UCL | he/him | 🌍 🌱 🏔 🧗‍♂️ 🏕 🏃‍♂️ | Find me on Bluesky where I am more active (handle = @alexlipp.github.io)

Oxford, England
Joined April 2015
My collaborators and I recently published two new papers where we develop and apply a new "inverse" approach to identifying pollutants in river networks. I've written a plain language explainer here: alexlipp.github.io/posts/202… 1/
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Great to see @Channel4News & @ecomaeve put together such an awesome explainer about Sewagemap, in the wider context of river pollution in the UK! Nice cameo from @ashsmith43 at the end too!
What’s the most polluted place to swim in the UK? A new map shows which rivers and seas contain the most sewage around the country. The map was created by scientists at UCL - and it’s live - so you can check when the most recent sewage spill happened in your local area. Last year activists wanted an ‘environmental emergency' to be declared - after research showed three quarters of all UK rivers pose a serious risk to human health. Now, the government wants water companies to pay for the damage they caused, but there's a catch - the money is going to come from our water bills going up. Founder of Windrush Against Sewage, Ash Smith, tells us the "privatised water industry is milking the bill-payer".
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Still fancy a cold-water swim this morning? 🤢😡 sewagemap.co.uk now has national coverage, with data from all water-companies! 📈 Check out their map to help keep you informed of #sewagepollution at your local swim spot. #SewageScandal #EndSewagePollution
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Happy to share that sewagemap.co.uk now has national coverage! Whole country looking quite poop-y today... 1/3 #rivers #sewage #pollution
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…but as ever Jonny and I have been stymied by most water companies limiting the data they release! 🙄🙄 2/3
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All the source-code, and the live polluted river reach data is #opensource and #opendata at github.com/AlexLipp/sew... Suggestions, ideas and contributions very welcome!
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It's available to pre-order, so it's real: my first book, Convention and the Individual in Medieval English Romance, will be out later this year! With thanks to @CanaryCaroline and @boydellbrewer for help at every stage — and for the beautiful cover! boydellandbrewer.com/9781843…
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'We need to rebuild public trust in our river – and sewer – networks.' A new UK law is forcing water companies to make pollution data readily accessible to the general public - but it doesn’t go far enough, writes @AlexGLipp ⬇️ theconversation.com/water-co…
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We welcome more transparency, but there is a lot more to it as explained in this piece by @conversationuk . pulse.ly/0fh94tdz4u
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Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here's why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers theconversation.com/water-co… by @AlexGLipp Storm Overflows Data streamwaterdata.co.uk/pages/… (England) #StormOverflows #SewageScandal #opendata (CC BY)
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Fred Vine FRS, a key player in the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s, passed away on 24/6/2024. Fred’s passing is a sad event, but also a chance to reflect on just how recently dramatic leaps forward in our understanding of the Earth took place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freder…
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🚨 3 year postdoctoral fellowship available at Univeristy of Oxford!🚨 Details can be found here: seh.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/early… Please pass on to anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out to me to discuss further! @StEdmundHall @OxUniEarthSci
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