Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Thames Initiative provides weekly water quality and ecology data for the river Thames and its main tributaries, including chlorophyll cell counts, alkalinity and suspended sediment measurements. This video is a guide on what data are available, how they are collected and how to access them.
At UKCEH, we are dedicated stewards of environmental data. The data, tools and models we host are essential to preserving our environment. We are committed to managing these datasets for the long term, so they can easily be accessed by all and used to inform environmental research, policy, innovation and conservation efforts around the world.
The Thames Initiative provides weekly water quality and ecology data for the river Thames and its main tributaries, including chlorophyll cell counts, alkalinity and suspended sediment measurements. This video is a guide on what data are available, how they are collected and how to access them.
At UKCEH, we are dedicated stewards of environmental data. The data, tools and models we host are essential to preserving our environment. We are committed to managing these datasets for the long term, so they can easily be accessed by all and used to inform environmental research, policy, innovation and conservation efforts around the world.










