In January and February 2013 the CBESS Team spent two weeks in the Essex Marshes and Morecambe Bay, respectively (the first of two field campaigns). Rain, hail, ice, snow and wind were overcome in order to collect enough samples at four spatial scales to quantify the biodiversity and related ecosystem services in two very different bio-geographical regions.
Outreach
INTERCOL 2013
The Cambridge Coastal Research Unit (University of Cambridge) will be presenting preliminary findings of their measurements at the INTECOL 2013 conference in London on Wednesday 21st August in the session on Marine Ecology with an oral presentation on “Dynamics of the coastal protection service of salt marshes across a UK west coast – east coast gradient”.
Café Scientifique
On Wednesday 7th August, one of the CBESS researchers will be presenting at Café Scientifique in Lancaster. Join us at the The Robert Gillow Pub at 7:30pm.
CBESS: science site visit
Stakeholders (Natural England, RSPB and Environment Agency) will be attending a sampling open day in Morecambe Bay on Tuesday 6th August. They will meet the researchers that are collecting data on the salt marshes and mudflats.
Radio 4: shared planet
How much is a honey bee worth? Can you put a price tag on a mountain?
CBESS at the University of St Andrews was interviewed by Radio 4’s Shared Planet to provide an insight into how researchers in the UK are trying to understand the value of Britain’s mudflats and salt marshes.
Lab Rats: all at sea!
Today is the last day that the Lab Rats: All at Sea! will be at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
BESS Start-up Meeting
CBESS and the three other BESS consortia met up in London for two days of sharing ideas and best practice.
Press release: Morcambe and Wiser
Scientists are heading to the unlikely location of Morcambe to find out more about the effects of climate change.
A group led by the University of St Andrews will take to the northwest coastline of England this month to investigate the increasing demands placed upon nature by a growing population.
BBC News at Ten
If you missed it Dr Iris Moeller was on BBC News at Ten, talking about the importance of natural sea defences like salt marshes in light of the 60th anniversary of the great flood the devastated east and south-east coasts of England.
Radio 4: what’s so special about salt marshes?
Andrew Bomford of Radio 4 chats with the CBESS Team to find out why a team of scientists is out on the Essex Marshes.