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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

Research Seminar 2011


Looking Forward
The Seventh Malham Tarn Research Seminar
Friday 18th – Sunday 20th November 2011

In the last month Adrian Pickles has moved to the post of Head of Centre at Preston Montford Field Centre and I have moved into post here, coming from Juniper Hall Field Centre.  As a Yorkshireman, I am happy to have returned ‘home’.  I am pleased and excited that there are a number of promises of talks already and will be working on developing the programme further over the coming week.

The Malham Tarn Research Seminar is an important means of focusing ideas about the area around Malham Tarn and brings together the results of ongoing research and monitoring. This will enable participants to consider issues of landscape, ecology and heritage in the wider area and reflect on the opportunities for research and monitoring identified in the Malham Tarn National Nature Reserve Management Plan.

Two areas of special interest this year are the future hydrological management of the Tarn Moss peat cliff and identifying, recording, storing and using the potentially vast range of data about the area.

The exact programme will depend on the full range of speakers and presentations but the weekend will begin on Friday night with an informal get together over dinner, when the final programme will be available. Formal presentations would then start on Saturday morning running through the day. On Sunday there will be will the opportunity to make site visits and for a wider ranging discussion if this is needed, with departure after lunch.

Whether you are a new researcher or already established in the area it would be marvellous to see as many people as possible at the Seminar. 

If you are planning to come, please do give me a call on 01729-830331 or e-mail me on mike.mt@field-studies-council.org to discuss your presentation and the programme.   Please contact us if you need a registration form

If you have already responded please spread the word to anyone else who you think should be here. They, and you, can be sure of a warm welcome at Malham Tarn Field Centre for some or all of the proceedings.  If you are unable to attend but would like to contribute in some way or kept on the mailing list for future seminars please let me know.

Mike Cawthorn
Head of Centre

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