BRC national recording schemes meeting 2020

The 2020 BRC recording schemes meeting took place on 7 March at a new location and indeed a new country for this meeting! We are most grateful to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh for hosting us, and in particular to Ashleigh Whiffin and her colleagues for providing lots of support to set up the event and help ensure that it ran smoothly on the day.

Around 100 people attended, representing recording schemes, wildlife groups, government agencies and research organisations to discuss areas of common interest. A theme of the meeting was how biological recording can help assess the condition of sites and habitats.

Demonstrations and posters were available during the breaks, covering topics such as the use of biological records for understanding our changing environment, tools for supporting recording schemes and how recording schemes can initiate and adapt to innovations.

Where available, presentations from the day can be downloaded using the links below.

Katty Baird demonstrating moth specimens from the museum (photo by Ashleigh Whiffin)

Katty Baird demonstrating moth specimens from the museum (photo by Ashleigh Whiffin)

The following projects and organisations were represented during the poster/demo sessions.

 

April Windle making links between lichen recording and habitat assessment (photo by Ashleigh Whiffin)

April Windle making links between lichen recording and habitat assessment (photo by Ashleigh Whiffin)

This article was published in the BRC Newsletter June 2020.