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!

Beavers in Bamff, Perthshire in Scotland

Bamff is a private beaver collection in Perthshire, Scotland. Wood was on the menu but had the beavers slipped out the back door and eluded us?

Macrophytes of the Malltraeth marsh and a few starling too!

Bangor universities botanic garden at Treborth was the scene for a day of getting to grips with wetland biodiversity with a wetland plant ID course. A visit to Malltraeth marsh rounded off the evening!

Borth bog, a real hair raiser!

Borth Bog or Cors Fochno in Welsh is one if the most well preserved examples of a raised Bog in Wales!

Tale of the two peatlands! Cord Erddreiniog and Migneint

A return trip to Cors Erddreiniog, eastern Anglesey took us to look at the some of the important management processes in place. It also took us to the Migneint blanket bog, an area of peatland stretching over the counties of Gwynedd and Conwy in North West Wales.

Cors Geirch: Fen on the LLyn

The third and final day of the LIFE conference took us on a meandering bus trip to the sleepy Llyn peninsular fen site Cors Geirch! 

Cors Bodeilio on the fly!

Cors Bodeilio another of the internationally important valley mire fen in the Anglesey fen SAC  and Ramsar complex. The fen is famed for elusive and aptly named fly orchid. 

Horses for Corsydd at Cors Erddreiniog

The second day of the Anglesey and Llyn fens LIFE conference saw a visit to another internationally important fen in East Anglesey! The story of the fen is a quite a contrast to that of the fen in my last Blog!

A Fentastic day out!

The first day of the Anglesey and Llyn fens LIFE conference saw a group of newly acquainted Wetland Science MSc students visit Cors Goch on their inaugural field trip...before I begin, let me get you acquainted with some interesting Wetland facts!