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Malham Tarn Field Centre, situated near Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. Follow this blog to keep up to date with current goings on at the Tarn.
The centre is run by the Field Studies Council and is popular with both geography and biology students, as well as the wider public. Opened in 1947, the Centre celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007.Within walking distance of the Centre are famous limestone features including Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and spectacular karst landscapes. The route of the Pennine Way footpath runs very close to the buildings. Nearby habitats include limestone pavement, grazed and ungrazed grassland, woodland and species-rich fen, acid peat pools and stony hill streams. Malham Tarn itself is one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe.

For more information please go to
http://www.field-studies-council.org/malhamtarn/index.aspx




Thursday 27 October 2011

Good Luck to Adrian Pickles!!!

After 10 years at Malham Tarn Field Centre, Adrian Pickles our Head of Centre has left to a new position within the FSC. Adrian has taken the position as the new Head of Centre at the Preston Montford Field centre in Shropshire.

Adrian had first come to the Centre in the 1980s as part of a team researching groundwater and erosion rates and then later went on to work  as a Centre Assistant for 6 months.  For the seven years before joining the FSC he worked as Head of Science at Blessed Robert Johnson Catholic College in Telford. 

After a decade managing Malham Tarn Field Centre, Adrian has seen the centre through difficult times, during the outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in 2001.  After this time, Adrian was key in developing operational systems for the centre to work more effectively. He has been a key part in developing relations with Universities and individuals to conduct vital and interesting research into the area. In this time the Centre has been awarded a Gold Safety Shield Award and been accredited with the Learning Outside the Classroom Badge. This has all been achieved with running a centre with a great atmosphere, as one of the large centres in the FSC portfolio.

We would like to wish Adrian all the best at his new centre and hope he comes back soon to visit! 



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