Welcome to our exciting morning of Citizen Science on Saturday 27th March from 10am - 12pm. This is an exciting way for you to contribute to conservation in the UK from the comfort of your home.
If you get hooked, there are a whole range of opportunities out there, including other iRecord activities.
A long-term iRecord study looking at wildlife living on Cambridge University grounds has just been launched (Share your wildlife sightings to support local biodiversity | Sustainability (cam.ac.uk)) . This will feed into the University’s Biodiversity Action Plan (uoc_biodiversityactionplan.pdf (cam.ac.uk)) and you can help monitor species to protect the biodiversity of the Greater Cambridge Area.
Before the Event
From the 22nd – 26th March we would love for you to share your wildlife observations using iRecord. Once you’re logged in you can add your own images for others to see, as well as look at what other people have recorded. We’ll send you the details on how to use iRecord once you have registered for the event.
On the Day
On Saturday 27th March join us for the online event between 10am-12pm when we will show you how to use iRecord in a little more detail and look at some of the species you have uploaded.
We will be joined by wildlife experts David Coomes (Director of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute), Bill Sutherland (Department of Zoology), Brian Eversham (CEO Wildlife BCN), Andrew Bladon (Department of Zoology), Gwen Hitchcock (Wildlife BCN), Matthew Hayes (Department of Zoology) and Chantal Helm, (Cambridge University Botanic Garden)
Agenda
- 10:00 – 10:15: Introduction to Citizen Science
- 10:15 – 10:30 and 11:00 - 11:15: Learn how to use iRecord
- 10:15 - 12:00: Live online Q&A with Experts. Ask them anything you have ever wanted to know about the wildlife around you!
