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NBN Conference 2020 – Presentations
Thank you to everyone who joined us on 18 November for our first ever online Conference. We hope you enjoyed the event and the format and found it to be an interesting and inspiring day of talks.
We are delighted to report that 199 delegates joined us across the course of the day, which is the highest ever number of attendees for an NBN Conference! Even though we missed seeing you all face to face, we thank you very much for the support.
You can read a brief overview of the day and some of the Tweets made by delegates on the overview and social media page
Links to all of the presentations and the recordings from the event can be found below.
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- Keynote address – Dr Cecilia Medupin, The University of Manchester, Lecturer at the School of Natural Sciences, Convener Women in Environmental Sciences: “Changing Times: Biodiversity, freshwater quality & protection”
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- Richard Ostler – Rothamsted Research: “Adopting FAIR principles for Rothamsted’s long-term agricultural experiments”.
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- Tom Thomson – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust (Buglife): “Important Invertebrate Areas – Harnessing Data and Building the Network”.
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- Keiron Derek Brown – Field Studies Council: “FSC Eco Skills Framework”.
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- Aletta Bonn – Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv): “Biodiversity Networks are People Networks”.
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- Mark Elliott – Devon Wildlife Trust: “The reintroduction of Eurasian beavers into England”.
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- Sir John Burnett Memorial Lecture 2020 – Sir Charles Burrell, Knepp Castle Estate: “New Habitats for a connected naturescape”
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- Clare Blencowe – Association of Local Environmental Record Centres CIC / Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre: “Local Environmental Record Centres in Changing Times”
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- George Garnett – University of Edinburgh / Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: ‘”Island botany”
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- Gina Burlinson – University of Portsmouth/University Centre Sparsholt – “Jack in the Box: use of existing data and the NBN Atlas in a student jack snipe project”
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- James Cranston – University of Exeter: “Wildlife recorders show positive attitudes towards range-shifting species”.
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- Janice Ansine and Dr Mike Dodd – The Open University / iSpot: “Update on features, projects and future plans”
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- Jo Judge – NBN Trust, Chief Executive Officer: “NBN Trust Strategy 2021-2025”.
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