Great to see Anne, who has a NPMS square in Jersey, featured in the citizen science section of the latest Planet Earth magazine. Follow the link below to have a browse. A big thank you to Anne for taking part and sharing her experiences.
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/latest/publications/planetearth/archive/planet-earth-sprsum17/
Tom.bio has been working with Plantlife and ecologist Nick Law to produce a series of video guides to habitats classified by the National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS). These films are designed to help NPMS volunteers decide which habitat type their survey plots are in. We have deliberately focussed on those habitats which can be difficult to distinguish from each other, such as dry heath and dry acid grassland.
We recommend you watch each pair of films together as they complement each other and will help you decide between the two similar habitats.
Winter has most definitely reached Salisbury now. If your thoughts are already turning to warm weather, next year’s wildflowers, and improving those ID skills, then why not take a look at the Identiplant course.
Thank you to everyone who entered their NPMS data online by the 2nd November. The reporting will begin this week but the website will still be available for entering your data until the end of December 2015.
If you haven’t already got in touch to let us know if you are starting your survey next year, or no longer wish to take part, then please email support@npms.org.uk to keep us up-to-date.
We are pleased to announce that we have four free NPMS data entry workshops lined up for October:
· Saturday 10th October 1-4pm – FSC Margam Discovery Centre, Port Talbot
· Friday 16th October 1-4pm – FSC Nettlecombe Court, Taunton
· Monday 26th October 1-4pm – FSC Juniper Hall, Dorking
Feedback questionnaire
As we are coming towards the end of the survey season we thought it would be a great opportunity to ask for your feedback on your experiences with the NPMS so far. The link below will take you to a 5 minute questionnaire where you can let us know how you are getting on with the survey and give feedback on the resources, training and support that has been available this year as well as make suggestions for next year.
The new National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS), launching in spring 2015, will for the first time enable scientists to take an annual stock take of the UK’s wild plants and their habitats, but to do this we need the public’s help. We are looking for volunteers to carry out surveys of wildflowers and their habitats that will provide robust evidence of which widespread plants are increasing or declining, as well as indicating the changing state of our most valued habitats such as grassland, fenland and even road verges.
