REFRESH brings together rivers, lakes and wetlands scientists with expertise in hydrology, hydrochemistry and ecology, aquatic modelling and social science. Many of these have worked together previously on EU funded projects under FP5 and FP6. Of the 25 partners in REFRESH, 17 were involved in the FP6 Project Euro-limpacs which brought together these scientific communities in an Integrated Project for the first time.
Partner name |
Abbreviation |
Country |
Homepage |
Lead scientist |
University College London (Co-ordinator) | UCL | UK | http://www.ecrc.ucl.ac.uk | Martin Kernan |
Aarhus Universitet- National Environmental Research Institute | AU | Denmark | http://www.dmu.dk/international | Erik Jeppesen |
The University of Reading | UREAD | UK | http://www.reading.ac.uk/shes/research/shes_ESSRG.aspx | Andrew Wade |
Finnish Environment Institute | SYKE | Finland | http://www.environment.fi/syke | Ahti Lepisto |
Universitaet Duisburg-Essen | UDE | Germany | http://www.uni-due.de/hydrobiology | Daniel Hering |
Alterra | ALTERRA | Netherlands | http://www.alterra.wur.nl/UK/1 | Piet Verdonschot |
Natural Environment Research Council | NERC | UK | http://www.nerc.ac.uk/ | Mike Acreman |
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | SLU | Sweden | http://www.slu.se/ | Richard Johnson |
The James Hutton Institute |
MLURI | UK | Rachel Helliwell | |
Utrecht University | UU-BIO | Netherlands | http://www.bio.uu.nl/alt_index.php | Merel Soons |
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¡ficas | CSIC | Spain | http://www.csic.es/ | Eugenia Marti |
Middle East Technical University | METU | Turkey | http://www.metu.edu.tr/ | Meryem Bekliogu |
Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V | FVB | Germany | http://www.igb-berlin.de/ | Klement Tockner |
Commission of the European Communities - Directorate General Joint Research Centre | EC-JRC | EU | http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ | Ana Cristina Cardoso |
Stichting Deltares | DELTARES | Netherlands | http://www.deltares.nl/ | Harm Duel |
Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien | BOKU | Austria | http://www.boku.ac.at/ | Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber |
Biology Centre AS CR Institute of Hydrobiology | BCAS | Czech Rep | http://www.bc.cas.cz/en/institute-of-hydrobiology-research.html | Josef Hejzlar |
Eesti Maaülikool (Estonian University of Life Sciences) | EMU | Estonia | http://www.emu.ee/ | Peeter Noges |
Universitat de Barcelona | UB | Spain | http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/universitat/coneix_la_ub/departaments/e/depecology.html | Francesc Sabater |
University of Patras | UPAT | Greece | http://www.upatras.gr/index/index/lang/en | Eva Papastergiadou |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Universite Paul Sabatier | CNRS-EDB | France | http://www.edb.ups-tlse.fr/ | Gael Grenouillet |
Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research | BIOFORSK | Norway | http://www.bioforsk.no/ikbViewer/page/forside | Eva Skarbøvik |
Norwegian Institute for Water Research | NIVA | Norway | http://www.niva.no/ | Dick Wright |
Trent University | TRENT | Canada | http://www.trentu.ca/academic/biogeochemistry/ | Peter Dillon |
Griffith University | GU | Australia | http://www.griffith.edu.au/environment-planning-architecture/australian-rivers-institute | Stuart Bunn |