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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




Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Research Seminar 2011 Review

Once again the Research seminar held every two years at Malham Tarn Field Centre has been a very successful event. Fifteen individual talks were held over the three day event. With many talks specifically focused on research that is happening in and around Malham Tarn Estate and also research from further a field.

Over 40 people attended the event over the three days including students from the local A level colleges of Giggleswick School and Settle College. The intent for the future is for more local students to be able to join in and listen to the different talks.

Below is a complete list of all the talks given over the weekend. 




  • Insights into global climate change as recorded in Early Carboniferous sediments on the southern part of the Askrigg Block, By Marion Dunn

  •  Mapping the spread of the Dark Green Fritilary Butterfly in the Yorkshire Dales. By Terry Whitaker

  • Wildlife in and around Dry Rigg Quarry and adjacent Swarth Moor SSSI. By Alistair Headley

  • Malham Tarn a marl lake recovering or degrading? By Emma Wiik

  • Dissolved Orthophosphate contribution of the mountain Limestone in Malham tarn catchment. By Allan Pentecost
  •    The Ecology of Shallow Lakes of the British Isles. By Carl Sayer

  • Long Term Monitoring of Malham Tarn: Cycles and Serendipity. By George Hinton

  • Linking research and education – pipe dream or in the pipeline? by Rob Lucas CEO of the FSC
  • Palaeoecology and landscape history in upper Ribblesdale - an ongoing project. By Helen Shaw
  • Limestone Pavements: a refuge in a world of climate change.  By Peter York
  • Limestone pavement microclimate and / classification By Cynthia Burek
  • Testing the response of peatlands to rapid climate change. By Graeme Swindles & Andrew Baird

  • Holocene perspective on the ecology of Moorland Burning in the Yorkshire Dales. By Sarah Edwards
  • National Trust: Management Plan and Peat Cliffs update. By Martin Davies
  • What has happened to the Fountains Fell Cetralias? By Allan Pentecost   


 


 Graeme Swindles and Alistair Headley Peat Coring on Tarn Moss


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