Open meeting in the Village Hall, Tuesday Jan 30th, 7pm. We have been lucky to get John Findlay, the Citizen Science Coordinator for East Anglia from the Environment Agency working with the Riverfly Organisation, to come and talk to us about how best to structure our efforts, and give an insight into how groups similar to the one we are proposing have approached surveying watercourses.
As well as producing valuable information on our local river ecology, it should also encourage healthy and social river-bank walking!
Importantly, you don’t need any specialist knowledge: this will be a ‘Citizen Scientist’ project, where training on sampling, identification and recording will be given.
Hope to see you there – and please pass this on to any friends who you think may be interested.
Wenhaston Village Hall January 30th 7pm
6.30 Doors open
7.00 Welcome & Aims of meeting Wil Harvey
7.05 Wilder Wenhaston – background Michael Gower
7.15 Wilder Wenhaston River Group – the story so far Wil Harvey
7.25 Chemical pollution in the Blyth Roger Claxton
7.35 Blyth Farm Cluster Richard Symes
7.45 Surveying the river: EA/Riverfly Citizen Science John Findlay
8.15 Q & A, Discussion, Refreshments and signing up to join in!