Our national role
As a strategic delivery partner for the Natural Environment Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, UKCEH delivers impartial environmental science to benefit the UK research community, governments, businesses, and society. We play a foundational role in UK environmental science, pushing the frontiers, setting the agenda, and forging partnerships for greater collective impact.
Our research infrastructures
At the heart of UKCEH’s research and innovation are our large research infrastructures and our capabilities in monitoring, modelling and data science. These enable researchers to observe, experiment, measure, understand and predict environmental processes, inter-connection, status and change.
UKCEH science infrastructures and national capability programmes provide un-matched capability to generate independent, robust, high-quality scientific evidence that informs policy and innovative solutions.
Many UKCEH science infrastructures have a combination of characteristics that make them unique in the UK, and often globally. For example, they generate some of the longest, largest and most comprehensive environmental records anywhere in the world, providing critical evidence and leadership for science, policy and environmental standards.
The Environmental Information Data Centre
The Environmental Information Data Centre is one of the NERC's network of environmental data centres. Delivered by UKCEH, it is a focal point for the terrestrial and freshwater sciences community, enabling the UK's researchers to make their data available and safeguard it for future application.
