Dan is a keen educator and Coleopterist. He has experience working within education as a teaching assistant and loves the opportunity to share his experiences and knowledge with a range of audiences. Dan’s interest in invertebrates started at a young age and as a teenager he was already rearing praying…
Vice-chair of British & Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) Terrestrial Invertebrate Working GroupInterim Secretary of BIAZA Native Species Working GroupBackground working in zoos, particularly in education and interpretation.
Retired GP with a lifelong interest in butterflies and moths. Co-author of Field Guide to the Caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland.
Bethany Holmes creates unique textured artwork inspired by the British landscape. With a passion for colour, her paintings blend a palette of emotive shades built up through layers. Bethany’s paintings are created through a process of building up and scraping back layers of paint and mixed media, exploring the balance…
Julian Cremona was Head of Centre at Dale Fort with interests in aquatic ecology, wildlife photography, travel and computing. He specialises in all aspects of digitised imagery, from the taking of photographs to manipulating them on the computer. His recent books include Digital Photography Made Easy (2005), Extreme Close-up Photography…
April is a plant ecology intern at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience working alongside Katharina. She has worked practically within the horticultural industry and is actively involved in nature conservation and botanical surveying.
Katharina is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience. She is a plant ecologist with a background in vegetation science and nature conservation. Her research projects focus on the prevention, management and impacts of biological invasions for nature conservation, horticulture and agriculture.
Sue Rees Evans is the Shropshire County recorder for Dragonflies and the Odonata Tsar for the Shropshire Ecological Data Network. Sue has also written and manages the Shropshire Dragonflies website which serves as an online atlas and hosts the Shropshire Dragonfly Watch flight season blog. With a real enthusiasm for…
Ben Rowson is Senior Curator of Mollusca at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. He co-wrote the 2014 guide to Slugs of Britain and Ireland: identification, understanding and control (Field Studies Council, 2014) by Rowson, Turner, Anderson and Symondson.
Paul Ashton is Reader in Botany and Head of Biology at Edge Hill University and a former Associate Tutor with the Open University, with many years experience teaching field courses.