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Mel Marchbank

Facts & Figures

Historic rates of peatland erosion & recovery

One of the projects we are currently working on involves assessing historic rates of peatland erosion and recovery.  One of the techniques we use to look at this is comparing contemporary and historic imagery.   The older imagery comes from RCAHMS in Edinburgh, and goes as far back as the 1940’s – the RAF were heavily involved in gathering air photos for a number of decades after the war ended.  Over…
April 5, 2014
Weekly News

Fallow deer in lowland woodland

We are part way through a major project in the south of Scotland, assessing the abundance and distribution of Fallow deer Dama Dama. Much of our work involves surveying upland sites, and most of these sites have Roe, Sika or Red deer present – working with Fallow deer again in Lowland woodland has been really interesting, having worked often with them in the past and having spent a lot of…
February 23, 2014
About Us

Welcome to new team members

As another new year starts, we would like to welcome several new staff members to our team.  Our recruitment process, which started in October was very successful, we had a fantastic response with a high number of well qualified applicants.  As it was, we invited the 12 applicants with the most relevant experience to take part in a group interview.  During the day long event, the recruits had the chance…
February 1, 2014