Conference Monday 25th March

Ecological Monitoring for Habitat Management

A reminder of the Masters conference on next Monday 25^th March. A really good programme in Ecology and Environmental Science.

All welcome but lunch provided only for Countryside Management MSc students.
Please register with Dr Francis Brearley  ( F.Q.Brearley@mmu.ac.uk )Venue: Sandra Burslem Building, Rooms 2.05 and 2.10. All Saints Campus 

Monday 25^th March 2013

09.45 Arrive and tea/coffee

10.10  Welcome and Chair

            Simon Caporn

 10.15 The Thinking Behind the Environmental Change Network (ECN): Measuring the

            Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change

            Don Monteith (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)

 10.45 Nitrogen Deposition Impacts on UK Plant Communities

            Richard Payne (University of Stirling)

11.15 The Acid Waters Monitoring Network

            Clair Gray (Queen Mary, University of London)

 11.45 What Can We Do With Long-Term Plant Data?

            Sarah Whild (Manchester Metropolitan University, Shrewsbury Office)

 12.15 General Discussion

 12.30  Lunch and MSc course poster viewing

 1.30    From Grey to Green - The Importance of Recording Wildlife

            Matt Holker (Greater Manchester Ecology Unit)

 2.00    Size Matters! Monitoring Change at the Landscape Scale - The SCaMP Experience

            Peter Worrall (Penny Anderson Associates)

 2.30    Monitoring and Evaluation of landscape Scale working – the challenge of the Nature Improvement Areas

            Amanda Wright (Natural England)

3.00    General Discussion

 3.15    End