The Climate Through Time
The Climate through time poster and online map illustrates the links between our planet’s changing climate and the different rocks that formed as environmental conditions varied through geological time. Earth’s climate…
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Citizen Science – Biodiversity
The free mobile apps listed below allow volunteers to quickly access information ‘on-the-go’. Using GPS and camera technology embedded in smart phones, these apps allow citizen scientist volunteers to collect…
FIT Count (Flower-Insect Timed Count)
FIT Counts: if you can spare ten minutes to sit and watch insects and flowers you can carry out a FIT Count (Flower-Insect Timed Count)! This simple survey collects data…
At the Top of the Mountains – Water and Paramo
BioResiliance in Columbia. This video highlights the importance of the water system, where water comes from and how the paramos are essential for producing drinking water for the local population….
Bio-Smart Amazonia – Livelihoods and Conservation, Deforestation, Biodiversity
Towards BIO-smart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscapes, silvo-pastoral systems and biodiversity The BioSmart project is an interdisciplinary, collaborative initiative with partners in the UK and Colombia. Together, we carry…
Paraguas – Livelihoods and Conservation, Climate Change and Water
How does the Páramo capture and store water? The role of plants and people. UK and Colombian scientists are collaborating on PARAGUAS, a project studying how the diversity of plants…
POR EL Páramo – Livelihoods and Conservation, Climate Change and Water
Towards environmental reconciliation in Páramo land in Boyacá: resolving ecosystem trade-offs in post-conflict spaces This project integrates a group of multi-disciplinary scholars from environmental and veterinary sciences, cultural and historical…
The Birmingham Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR)
BIFoR has catalysed some game-changing education initiatives at the University of Birmingham. In collaboration with the University of Birmingham’, Higher Education Futures Institute (HEFI) we have developed a number of…
The Wollaton Watch Programme
The Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity has created a series of online programmes, broadcast on Notts TV and Facebook Live, called Wollaton Watch. The Wollaton Watch programme brings different…
The Virtual Community Science Camp
The Virtual community Science Camp (now online due to the Coronavirus pandemic) comprises a series of events run from February to May 2021. The programme presents research learning opportunities for…