The UKCEH Biological Records Centre organises an annual meeting aimed at national recording schemes, organisations who work with the schemes, and others with an interest in biological recording. In 2026 the meeting is being held online.
Anyone with an interest in biological recording and the national species monitoring and recording schemes is welcome to join us. There is no cost, but booking is required. Please register via these links:
Part 1: Tuesday 17 March, 2–4:15pm
Part 2: Thursday 19 March, 6.15–8.30pm
The programme for the two parts expected to be as follows.
Part 1
- Introduction and BRC news (David Roy, UKCEH)
- Red Lists – current work and future plans (Gary Powney, UKCEH)
- A new vascular plant Red List for GB (Pete Stroh, BSBI)
- Capturing biological survey data context with the Humboldt extension to Darwin Core (Kate Ingenloff, GBIF, and Diana Bowler, UKCEH)
- Linking recording and monitoring with policy (Emma Wright, JNCC)
- Recent updates to the NBN Atlas (Will Millard, NBN Trust)
Part 2
- Introduction and BRC news
- 50 years of the Hoverfly Recording Scheme (Stuart Ball, Hoverfly Recording Scheme)
- New developments for the Spider Recording Scheme (Helen Smith and Richard Gallon, British Arachnological Society)
- Supporting verification using new technologies (Abigail Lowe, UKCEH)
- iNaturalist data flow (Joss Carr, Biological Recording Company)
- Encounter Nature: recording to aid nature connection (Melissa Harrison, Encounter Nature)
- Mobilizing recording scheme data for decision making (Chloë Smith, Butterfly Conservation)
Where possible, the talks will be recorded and made available for subsequent viewing via YouTube.
Thanks to everyone who has agreed to speak. The BRC National Recording Schemes Meeting is supported by JNCC and UKCEH via the BReVI project; UKCEH is a not-for-profit research institute which receives support from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) National Capability funding.
