How to conserve a fen!

The final field trip of the year saw the convoy of MSc students, along with the ever present Christian Dunn and NRW’s Justin Hanson and Peter Jones navigate the Cors Bodeilio lime-rich fen once more. 

Bridge cross the Mersey ( Saltmarsh)

The Mersey gateway project is a multi-million pound engineering project designing and constructing a six lane toll bridge across the Mersey estuary between Widnes and Runcorn!

Eco-Science Day 2014 (Bangor Science festival)

Bangor Science festival is a organised every year to remember Dr Tom Parry Jones, a former Bangor Uni students' contribution to society (the automatic breathalyser). The festival is part funded by the Dr Tom Parry Jones fund and Pontio (Bangor Uni).

Cefni reservoir and Cors Bodeilio treatment wetlands

Cefni reservoir and Cors Bodeilio provided good opportunity to asses the installation of constructed wetlands on Anglesey.

Pumlumon (Plymlimon) , the wettest place on Earth!

The earliest start to date for a field trip lived up to its expectations of a wild and wintery affair; in fact it was so wet I’m still wringing out my eyeballs. Fellow students relayed stories of only one prior trip in three years that topped this one in terms of rain.

Water pH experiment on the Migneint

The river Conwy catchment area is a unique study site as it is solely peatland influenced, there is no mineral soil and therefore any changes that are observed are cannot be caused mineral soil.  

Conservation of Aberffraw sand dunes

Aberffraw is located on the South-west coast of Anglesey, North Wales.  It is named after the village and consists of a dune slack system!