Drone usage is revolutionising the monitoring of #curlew by our @GwctWales 'Curlew Connections' team.
Read more about how they are applying this technology and watch fascinating #aerial footage of nesting curlew.
📽️ https://t.co/ML3Jn30DAL
It is D-Vac'ing season at #GWCT!
Our #research teams are out across various #farmland study sites, collecting #insect samples for our long-term monitoring projects.
...and 2024 marks the 56th year of our Sussex Study!
Read about the study here➡️ https://t.co/Rp5LEzxUrq
A Hedgerow Carbon Code: investing in the future of butterflies and moths. @JoeWStanley, Head of Sustainable Farming & Knowledge Exchange at the @AllertonProject, shares his update from the project.
https://t.co/Pede8vIOoW
Changes in invertebrates on farmland over 50 years in Sussex. Shout out to co-authors @RyanABurrell, those not on X - Steve Moreby, Nicholas Aebischer and Chris Wheatley and especially in memory of Dick Potts - who started the Sussex Study many years ago.
OUR NEW PAPER - 50 yrs of monitoring cereal invertebrates in the Sussex Downs.
37% decline in overall invertebrate abundance but the situation is complex. Increases for 16% of non-overlapping taxa at the order or family level, and no change for 37%.
https://t.co/FgTPTNGfGb
Corinne Duggins has had many roles at #GWCT, spanning over an incredible 40 years!
As staff prepare to wish Corinne all the best in her retirement, we have the pleasure in sharing Corinne's last blog taking us through her time at the Trust.
➡️ https://t.co/tVz65DDtrM
With a career spanning over 40 years. Corinne is a true star of the GWCT ⭐️
You can read all about her journey from typewriters to desktops here: https://t.co/XTffKxbyVJ
We have a number of #job opportunities available within our research teams:
- Data Support Officer
- Senior Agroecologist/Soil Ecologist (Scotland)
Follow the link to find our more details about the positions ➡️ https://t.co/pJNqVI0k28
The work is never just “the work”. The actual “work” you have to do, is just a very small part of a whole invisible set of a project. There’s the world around the work, to get the work, before the work, between the work, beyond the work, outside the work, etc.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: @CanhamJasmine is an Environmental Conservation student from @BangorUni, and is currently on placement with the @GWCTScience Wildlife Recovery team.
She is an avid bird watcher and crocheter, and is also a Youth Rep for the @_BTO.
#TeamGWCT
The @PepsiCo FAB project aims high in first year 🏆
The GWCT-managed project, with generous support from @PepsiCo and key input from @NatureScot & Scottish Agronomy, aims to demonstrate how productive agriculture does not need to suffer whilst accommodating biodiversity.
Read all about blending productive farming with biodiversity stewardship through this fantastic project here 👇
https://t.co/IgYxCwupRb
GWCT speakers at Game 24 Conference
Dr Roger Draycott- Defra & General Licence 43
Fiona Torrence- Balgonie Grey Partridge Recovery
Dr Maureen Woodburn- Are gamebird releases fuelling foxes?
Marlies Nicolai- How we can evidence good-practice
Book Now➡️ https://t.co/9kRV5QQEq2
I'll shortly be on leave as I'm expecting a baby in May. Now recruiting for someone to fill my boots! Can't stress how much I love my job and it's a great opportunity to gain lots of new skills and work with some great people. Would be grateful if people could share this thanks.
There is now an opportunity to join the @Gameandwildlife#research team, which hosts around 70 scientists, PhD students and placement students.
We are looking for an Ecological Statistician/Biometrician.
Find out more about the role here: https://t.co/hfhqfghTRE
*GWCT Careers*
We have an exciting opportunity for an applied statistician and population modeller to become involved in a wide range of ecological projects.
Find out more about the role here 👇
https://t.co/FElT07kXjf
🚨NEW PAPER: Movement ecology and minimum density estimates of red #foxes in wet #grassland habitats used by breeding #wading birds.
Find the link to the #paper via our new blog by Mike Short, GWCT's Head of Predation Management Research: https://t.co/VffJmQa6sJ
#ornithology