Wetlands PM Steffi Carter presents at the Environmental Business Symposium on the Science behind Carbon Offsetting in a Falkland Islands context
The Falkland Islands Community School (FICS) has invited SAERI to prepare a session for Careers Days, through which the students can get a better understanding what work as a scientist involves.
The Wetlands project tasks the students to investigate samples from three local ponds by measuring pH and conductivity and identifying freshwater invertebrates
Katy starts her gas flux measurements!!
The projects Wetlands Symposium takes place, which includes presentations from all project partners and a discussion workshop around wetlands issues in the Falkland Islands. You can read the full report here
Wetlands Fieldwork around North Camp
Another field trip with FICS’s new year 7 takes us back to Surf Bay to investigate rocky shores and sandy shores for the students to gain their CREST Bronze Award.
Project Manager Steffi Carter presents data from greenhouse gas flux measurements at Wireless Ridge at the second Peaty Pals meeting
The Wetlands Project receives confirmation for funding from the John Cheek Trust for the eDNA element of the project
The Wetlands Project’s eDNA fieldwork takes place. Please view the fieldwork report here.
Project Manager Steffi Carter presents the project to members of the RBA and encourages a discussion around ‘ditching’.
The Wetlands Project joins the SAERI stall at the Farmer’s Week expo and highlights the diversity of freshwater invertebrates in Yorke Bay Pond on Stanley Common.
Our last logger station is deployed!
The Wetlands PM takes part in the AEOA Science Symposium and discusses the Soil Mapping Project.
The Wetlands PM takes part in SAERI’s school outreach to explore the life on rocky shores and sandy shores (Ramsar Wetlands categories) for Year 7 students to gain their CREST Bronze Award.
The Wetlands PM visits the MOD’s Mount Pleasant Complex for a family field event to explore life in Sand Pond; which was followed four days later by an evening talk about both the Soil Mapping project and the Wetlands Project.
The Wetlands Project hosts year 10 work experience student Gerryn and takes him out into the field and into the lab.
The main fieldwork season is completed with a trip to Weddell and Bleaker Island and the long-term monitoring aspect of the projects starts with the deployment of loggers on Weddell and on Bleaker.
The Wetlands Project is discussed in the Falkland Islands Government’s Environment Committee, which is highlighted in the ‘Inside Gilbert House’ update in Penguin News.
Wetlands Project Manager talks to FITV about the project and invertebrate life in Yorke Bay Pond.
The Wetlands Project publishes an article in the Penguin News to address recent concerns regarding the drying out of waterbodies and to ensure that the local general public is aware of the project.
The Wetlands Project starts fieldwork with a trip to the West
The Wetlands Project celebrates ‘World Wetlands Day’
The Wetlands Project holds its third project management group meeting (minutes).
The Wetlands Project receives confirmation for funding from the Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust for the eDNA element of the project.
Project Manager Steffi Carter joins the Wetlands Project and holds the second project management group meeting (minutes).
The Wetlands Project holds its first project management group meeting (minutes).
