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 verifiable records in the field. These records are used by our scientists to further our…
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 on the total number of insects that visit a particular flower, ideally chosen from our…
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. Other examples of engagement activities can be found here. Made in collaboration with NERC
Researchers from the Colombia BioResilience project worked with an artist/animator to develop a short animation that communicates information about the physical and social science from the BioResilience project in Colombia. The animation is posted on YouTube and was presented at the Hay Festival on the…
The NERC project helped fund my time assisting with the TRiFOCAL Education Pack, specifically the Health and Sustainable Eating section and the Business Resources. Download the pack to see 10 ways you can integrate healthy, sustainable eating into your menu and business. To further explore…
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 out research in the Colombian Amazon basin on different factors that influence the adoption of…
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 and activities of people contribute to the water regulation and provision of the Páramo, a…
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 geography, anthropology, economics and design, working with an understanding of the social and ecological nature…
Following Tim Peake becoming the first British ESA astronaut to fly to the ISS in 2015, the UK Space Agency and European Space Agency put together a comprehensive education and outreach programme spanning a broad range of subjects and age ranges. It aimed to use the Principia mission…
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 teaching materials around the water and carbon cycles which are being embedded both the in…