On the 28th and 29th November I attended the British Ecological Society Moving on to a PhD and Mastering Ecology Symposium, for advice on PhDs and the opportunity to present my Masters research. This was the first Symposium I have presented at and although I had to give a presentation of my work during …
More earthworm bothering
For eight days in November I returned for more earthworm survey work with the Natural History Museum Soil Biodiversity Group, this time in Somerset and Berkshire. A small team of volunteers this time, just myself and long-time SBG volunteer Irfaan, travelled first to the Somerset site to continue work started the previous week. We had …
Fungi in Shropshire
This weekend saw a return visit to FSC Preston Montford for my final course in the University Certificate in Biological Recording and Species Identification - Identification of Macrofungi tutored by Irene Ridge. An interest in fungi (or mycology) was one of my earliest, after attending a fungi foray at Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Hampshire, with …
Victoria J. Burton 