• Alan Stewart

    Alan Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the University of Sussex and has been running the national recording scheme for leafhoppers and related groups since 1987.

  • Chris Metherell

    Chris Metherell is the BSBI (Botanical Society of the British Isles) County Recorder for Northumberland and an experienced botanist. He regularly leads field trips for the Wild Flower Society and other interested groups.

  • Dominic McCafferty

    Dr Dominic McCafferty joined the University of Glasgow in 1999 and since then has undertaken a range of studies on vertebrates with a particular interest in physiological ecology. His current research deals with cold adaptation, behavioural thermoregulation and stress-related temperature responses of birds and mammals. Dominic is Editor in Chief…

  • Anna McGregor

    Dr Anna McGregor, a lecturer at Glasgow University, with a research background focussed on the use of sound in marine mammals and the potential for anthropogenic noise to cause physiologically relevant disturbance. More recently, Anna’s work has included studying the effects of noise on other animals as well as those…

  • John Biglin

    John Biglin has had a passion for the natural world since an early age and has been involved with land management and wildlife for most of his career. During that career he has had jobs which spanned work as diverse as museum curator, habitat surveyor, urban wildlife project manager and…

  • Peter Scholes

    Peter Scholes is a GAIA trained instructor and ADB coach and has been fly fishing for over 30 years. He also runs training courses for the Salmon and Trout Association and is the fly secretary for the Bradford City Angling Association. Peter has also had various articles in fly fishing…

  • Sarah Watson-Jones

    Sarah Watson-Jones is trained in field biology and habitat management and has a PhD in Biosciences from the University of Birmingham (plant population genetics). She has several years’ experience working in the environmental sector and as a casual tutor for both the FSC and Aberystwyth University. She currently works at…

  • Paula Lightfoot

    Paula Lightfoot is passionate about recording marine wildlife and habitats, from rockpools to shipwrecks. Paula is a tutor and regional coordinator for the national recording scheme Seasearch in north east England and is currently undertaking PhD research at Newcastle University in predictive seabed habitat mapping. As a Trustee of the…

  • Eileen Cox

    Eileen Cox is Head of Post Graduate Studies at the Natural History Museum, London, with an extensive research background and a particular interest in the taxonomy and ecology of diatoms. She has published over 100 scientific papers and completed a key to the identification of live diatoms. She has run…

  • Elliot Shubert

    Elliot Shubert is Editor-in-Chief of Systematics and Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. His research interests are phenotypic plasticity, gene expression and cell wall chemistry in the freshwater green alga, Desmodesmus. Previously, he was Professor of Biology at the University of North Dakota USA for 21 years where he…