Spring has finally made it to Northern Ireland, this means that I’ve been busy, busy, busy! I’m just finishing my second stint with the NIEA and we’ve been out sampling invertebrates, alkalinity and diatoms throughout ...
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A Woolly Winter Update
It's been a while since my last post - sorry! - as I've been in a special kind of ecologist's hibernation through the winter. However, spring is now well underway and I've pulled myself away from the microscopes and put the ...
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Flow Country Research Conference: Looking Forward
March has been an exciting month in Thurso, Caithness. Scientists, practitioners and students from all over the UK came together for the second Flow Country Research Conference organised by North Highland College UHI's ...
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NFM foragers forest
Last week 105 Wild Harvest Trees through the Woodland Trusts Free Trees Scheme arrived in the Allan Water Catchment. Although consisting of varieties that would whet the palate of any wild forager, these fruit/berry/nut trees ...
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Ballinderry times
Hi all,
I’m writing to you from the Ballinderry Rivers Trust where I’ve been working for the last five weeks collecting and processing kick samples from around the Ballinderry and Salterstown catchments. In my time here ...
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