His current project, PEDAL, has nothing to do with bikes, but involves developing new ways to predict algal blooms before they spread.

Our water resources in the UK, but worldwide in general, they depend a lot on water that we store in lakes, reservoirs.

But they have a problem.

There's still water, so they don't have much circulation.

They get a lot of sunlight.

Plus, we live in a country that has got a lot of farmland, so there's nutrients that get into the water.

And these are all good cyanobacteria.

I asked Diego what the water companies could then do with his algal bloom predictions, since once one of these blooms is fully established, it's extremely difficult to get rid of.