Introduction to Phase 1 Habitat Surveys

Thank you for your interest in this course. There are places still available on the course but unfortunately the accommodation in the Centre is now fully booked. If you would consider attending as a non-resident, staying in a local B&B, please follow to this link for a list of local B&Bs in the Flatford area. If one of the providers has availability for you, please contact us to reserve your place on the course and then confirm with the B&B.

This course introduces and gives practical field experience in using Phase 1 Habitat Surveys, the standard method for assessing wildlife habitats and sites.

Anyone needing to carry out basic ecological surveys in relation to planning and development or site conservation and management will find this course covers the essential techniques.

The course fee includes a personal copy of latest JNCC Phase 1 Handbook and a set of colouring pencils.

The content is also appropriate for anyone wishing to contribute to their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.

See also 18 May-20 May for a complementary course ‘Wild Flower Identification for Biological Surveyors’.

Andrea Kiewitt is a qualified biologist, botanist and ecologist and works as a research scientist for the Forestry Commission where she has been carrying out vegetation assessments in woodlands for many years.

She is a keen naturalist and as an inquisitive and enthusiastic tutor she has taught courses overseas and in the UK, both at university degree level and as part of general environmental education activities in the North York Moors National Park.

This will be her fifth year as a regular Associate Tutor at Flatford Mill.

‘Tutor very informative, enthusiastic and approachable’. Course participant May 2011.

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