🗺️ In our latest geovisualisation, Josep Serra Gallego, a Spatial Data Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (@UK_CEH), shares how he and his fellow researchers produced the most comprehensive map of hedgerows across England.
Read more 👉 rgs.org/about-us/what-is-geo…
A big thank you to everyone who connected with us at #Groundswell2024!
Whether we discussed our free e-tools for environmental decisions, the AMI system for biodiversity monitoring, #AgZeroPlus, or pollinator surveys for @PoMScheme, we appreciate your interest!🌱🦋🚜
ALT Leaflet describing the automated monitoring instrument AMI system
ALT Professor Richard Pywell in conversation
ALT Dr Claire Carvell holding a POMS leaflet
ALT Dr John Redhead discusses digital tools with a visitor to a stand
Looking forward to this! I'll be talking about e-planner on our stand at 1500 on Wednesday , alongside other @UK_CEH colleagues presenting yet more of our free data and tools!
We’re going to #Groundswell2024 this week!
Drop by our stand to discover how our science & tools are helping farmers yield benefits for biodiversity, climate, soil health & crop production 🪲🌽🌱🚜
Visit us on Stand DFB31 @Groundswellaguk
➡️ groundswellag.com/
ALT Sign at the Groundswell event saying Groundswell with tents and flags in the background
We’re going to #Groundswell2024 this week!
Drop by our stand to discover how our science & tools are helping farmers yield benefits for biodiversity, climate, soil health & crop production 🪲🌽🌱🚜
Visit us on Stand DFB31 @Groundswellaguk
➡️ groundswellag.com/
ALT Sign at the Groundswell event saying Groundswell with tents and flags in the background
🎙️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘇𝘇: 𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬 🐝🪰🦋🪲
It’s not just bees. Flies and moths are key pollinators too.
Discover what the number means in our new podcast episode, out tomorrow!✨
Search for Counting the Earth 📲
@ScienceNelson@RHSWisley@PoMScheme
UPDATE: The UKCEH Land Cover Maps for 2022 and 2023 have been released. These additions to our LCM series describe the physical material on the surface of the country, using high-resolution satellite imagery.
Discover the collection: catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/document…#LandCover#GIS
ALT Land Cover Map 2023 with key indicating broad habitat classifications
The tick season is lengthening in the UK, raising concerns for human health & livestock on farms.
@bethan_purse spoke to BBC #Countryfile about OPTICK project research to understand tick-borne disease on UK farms now & in future.
Catch up on iPlayer:
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
Our new Land Cover plus: Hedgerows data are now available to view via e-planner. The Inventory tab will now let you explore estimated hedgerow heights and lengths for your farm! e-planner.ceh.ac.uk/
We are excited to announce our upcoming webinar, "The Land Cover Map Family", on the 6th February at 13:00 GMT, presented by Dr Clare Rowland (Earth Observation Scientist) and Emily Upcott (Spatial Ecologist). Register: ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reg…#Webinar#EnvironmentCollection
Want to find out more about our new hedgerows dataset, alongside other @UK_CEH data products in the Land Cover Map family? There's an @EDINA_Digimap webinar coming up, featuring @emily_upcott and @ClareRowland_UK!
We are excited to announce our upcoming webinar, "The Land Cover Map Family", on the 6th February at 13:00 GMT, presented by Dr Clare Rowland (Earth Observation Scientist) and Emily Upcott (Spatial Ecologist). Register: ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reg…#Webinar#EnvironmentCollection
Job Alert 🚨
Not the usual kind of job I promote: we are looking for an Events Coordinator 👩🏻🚀 to help with a wide range of events we run through the year to engage people with our science 🌍🦋🌧️🎙️ g.co/kgs/1jwuq6g
Calcareous grasslands are increasingly threatened by the dominance of tor grass – 📢our new paper examines methods for its control including the use of 1) herbicides & seeding and 2) cutting & grazing doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2024.1…
🌍 Join us to explore the numbers behind nature in our new #CountingTheEarth podcast series!
🌱Journalist Sue Nelson and UKCEH’s Alice Hope unpack the stats surrounding climate and biodiversity, and tally up the contributions nature makes to our lives ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/cou…
ALT New podcast Counting the Earth and image of abacus with green beads
🍁New podcast alert! 🍃If you’re interested in nature and the environment listen to Counting the Earth from @UK_CEH & produced by @RachMBuch for @boffin_media (team photo below). Our first subject is hedgerows and we have a big starting number…🙂 audioboom.com/channels/51223…
NEW! We've created the most comprehensive map of England's #hedgerows to date!
💡 390,000km of hedgerow on field boundaries
📏 Depicts hedgerow length & height (for 1st time!)
🔎 Reveals areas with highest & lowest hedgerow densities
Read more: ceh.ac.uk/press/high-tech-ae… 1/🧵
ALT Data sample from Land Cover Plus Hedgerows showing woody boundaries of land parcels/fields colour-coded by height class (blue or green for shorter hedges and red for taller tree lines)
ALT An English hedge in Autumn
ALT A hedge in autumn
ALT Hedgerow map overlaid on Google Earth to show hedge height