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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




Monday 30 January 2012

January 2012

With snow on the ground and the Tarn nearly all frozen over, it is still winter at the Tarn.

                                30th January 2012

The weather has been very mild this winter and we have seen very little of the snow which we normally receive a lot of. This has been great news for the couple of schools that have already visited this year. Ernulf Academy from Cambridgeshire and St Anne's from Stockport have visited as part of their A level and GCSE geography studies.

Staff are in the process of cleaning and painting centre for the arrival of more visitors this year. February is looking busy with many groups, mainly geography residential groups.

We would like to take the opportunity to welcome Luke Yates as a Centre Assistant to Malham Tarn.

Education staff have been undertaking FSC training at Preston Montford and also some have been undertaking Walking Group Leader training at our Rhyd-y-creuau centre in Snowdonia.
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