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We need your help to continue the Big Windermere Survey, we need to raise £30,000 to fund our summer 2024 survey.
FOLLOW THE LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS & share this post to support us! ⬇️
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#BigWindermereSurvey #Windermere
Great to see our Dr Philip Donkersley The Guilty Anthropomorphologist Lancaster Environment Centre in The Conversation explaining why we should keep patches of lawn permanently wild 👇🌺
Second PhD paper out today in Biology Letters
Royal Society Publishing. Individual behavioural variation creates 'landscape of fear' between competitors in coral reef fish. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… with Gareth J Williams Sal Keith Dan Exton Dr Lisa Boström-Einarsson
Nice #podcast from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology #CountingTheEarth series. This covers the changing water quality and ecology of our rivers, how we gather evidence, and the role citizen scientists can play: open.spotify.com/episode/5Tlcz3…
Congratulations to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Pete Atkinson on his receipt of the Cuthbert Peek Award from the Royal Geography Society.
Professor Atkinson is being recognised for his work on geostatistics, machine learning and remote sensing.
Forbes has shared the story and research of our own Camilla Labonte (Camilla Labonte), who is from the Seychelles and studies Marine Ecology. Find out about her coral reef research, as well as her hopes to inspire others
Forbes | Lancaster Environment Centre
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Well done Env Agency Midlands for putting these videos together. Great to see Dr Shane Rothwell Lancaster University discussing the pressures that intensive animal rearing puts on farmers to dispose of manure on land with poor resilience to deal with it. 1/4
Winter 2024 Survey results released for our #BigWindermereSurvey #CitizenScience project in collaboration with Lancaster Environment Centre. Here are our key findings. The full report can be found at:
fba.org.uk/fba-voice/big-…
#FreshwaterScience
Lancaster University are proud to be a supporter of the Earthshot prize, with Centre for Global Eco-Innovation acting as a prize nominator for the past few years.
Click below to read about the impact the Earthshot prize has had.
David Jacoby, Lecturer in Zoology at Lancaster Environment Centre , is quoted today in the Guardian as part of an article reporting on a new study showing a huge global decline in migratory fish since the 1970s David Jacoby theguardian.com/environment/ar…
The full text of Caroline Lucas's Lancaster Environment Lecture (@Litfest & Lancaster University) in which she asks, given our love of nature 'why is it that we have become one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world?' is now available: litfest.org/projects/envir…
Mixed management boosts #reef #shark abundance.
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News&Views piece out today with Springer Nature in NatureEcoEvo detailing the latest key findings to come out of the Global FinPrint
Original study by Jordan Goetze et al. here:
nature.com/articles/s4155…
Dr Ben Surridge Lancaster Environment Centre is quoted by The Times today explaining the scientific context of water quality in Windermere thetimes.co.uk/article/swimme…
With the pressures facing #Windermere in the news again this morning, a chance to support a community-based project run by Lancaster Environment Centre and Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) which is working to understand and protect the lake ⬇️
Taster for the next few #podcasts ! The 🌞 was shining when Jan, Nigel Thompson and Paul Turner visited #Cumbria to talk to Lake District Farmers + the farmers + scientists at Lancaster University that they work with. Lancaster University Management School Lancaster Environment Centre
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107 sites sampled for the Spring 2024 #BigWindermereSurvey and sent for bacterial and nutrient analysis. A huge thank you to our #CitizenScientists . But we need your help again! We need to raise £30,000 to fund the summer 2024 survey. Please visit/share: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-big-wind…