This week's #throwbackthursday chronicles the final part of field work on the NERC BESS earthworm project in 2013 - hard to believe two years have past since we finished! With the soil analysis laboratory in York shortly closing for Christmas the race was on to complete enough samples in each field and county for the …
Continue reading Throwback Thursday – Earthworms – the final chapter! (December 2013)
Two years ago I was volunteering on yet another week of earthworm sampling on the NERC BESS project, this time in Leicestershire and Dorset. This week features farty mustard solution and an exciting day in an active quarry! Another county, another field… Last Monday and Tuesday I was again away with the Natural History Museum Soil …
Continue reading Throwback Thursday – More earthworm sampling (December 2013)
Last week I was pleased to have another day of fieldwork, this time in the New Forest National Park in south England. The New Forest includes one of the largest areas of pasture, heathland and forest in south east England and the site we visited is Whitley Wood, a oak-beech wood pasture woodland with grazing deer …
Victoria J. Burton 