Shropshire Lichen Group: Church in North Shropshire

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Local Meetings
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Shropshire Lichen Group meeting

Date: 16th February 2024

Location: a church in North Shropshire, site not decided as yet

Time: 10 am

For more information contact mary.steer1@btopenworld.com

More information about this local group can be found here: https://britishlichensociety.org.uk/local-groups/shropshire

Improvers microscopy Zoom group

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Training events
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Improvers microscopy Zoom group

 

First date: 9th October

 

Time: 7pm for approximately 1.5 hours

 

Subsequent monthly dates: 6th November and 4th December

 

Leader: Di Napier 

 

Location: Zoom call

 

The sessions aim to build confidence with microscopy so that you can continue to develop your skills more independently.  The groups offer informal opportunities to share learning with others rather than being a formal course.

 

Email zoom-microscopy@britishlichensociety.org.uk if you are interested in joining this group, or for more information.  Group size will be a maximum of six people, so that everyone has time to contribute to each session. There is also a Basics Microscopy Group that will begin 25th September.

 

For the group, you will need to already have both a dissecting microscope and a high-powered compound microscope with magnification to at least x400, and to know how to view specimens (for example a single leaf from a moss, or scales from a moth’s wing), and some experience at cutting sections of apothecia.  This course will focus on cutting and interpreting more awkward fruiting bodies, such as lirellae, or crustose apothecial sections - optionally embedding in PVA or Gum Arabic – for example Opegrapha species, Lecidella scabra, Lecidella stigmatea.  

 

Details available on the attached PDF file

Attached File
Details of Microscopy Zoom Groups for Autumn 2023

Basics microscopy Zoom group

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Training events
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Basics microscopy Zoom group

 

THIS GROUP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED

 

First date: 25th September

 

Time: 7pm for approximately 1.5 hours

 

Subsequent monthly dates: 23rd October, 20th November, and 18th December

 

Leader: Di Napier 

 

Location: Zoom call

 

The sessions aim to build confidence with microscopy so that you can continue to develop your skills more independently.  The groups offer informal opportunities to share learning with others rather than being a formal course.

 

Email zoom-microscopy@britishlichensociety.org.uk if you are interested in joining this group, or for more information.  Group size will be a maximum of six people, so that everyone has time to contribute to each session. There is also an Improvers Microscopy Group that will begin 9th October.

 

For the Basics group, you will need to already have both a dissecting microscope and a high-powered compound microscope with magnification to at least x400, and to know how to view specimens (for example a single leaf from a moss, or scales from a moth’s wing), and ideally you will already have had a go at cutting sections, even if with only limited success.  The sessions will be primarily aimed at learning how to cut thinner sections and how to interpret them, rather than on how to use the microscopes, or species identification.  

 

Details available on the attached PDF file

 

 

Attached File
Details of Microscopy Zoom Groups for Autumn 2023

South-East Scotland (LISS group): Dawyck Gardens, Stobo, Peeblesshire CANCELLED

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Local Meetings
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CANCELLED

Meeting of LISS (Lichens in South East Scotland)

Date: Tuesday October 24th

Time: starting at 10 am

Location: Dawyck Gardens, Stobo

For more information, contact details and where to meet see https://britishlichensociety.org.uk/local-groups/south-east-scotland

Cumbria: Advanced course on aquatic lichens, Tower Wood, Windermere

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Training events
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Advanced course on aquatic lichens

Date: 27 May 2024 to 1 June 2024

Location: Tower Wood, Windermere, Cumbria

Tutors: John Douglass plus one other

Local Organiser: Pete Martin

The aim of the course is to offer progression for advanced and intermediate-advanced lichenologists in this specialist field and will develop lichen surveying skills. 

The main focus will be on identification, however there will be some field work which could involve working on riverbanks and at lake edges. Attendees will also be expected to bring specimens and microscopes.

By the end of the course attendees should:

  1. Be able to Identify a wide range of aquatic lichens in the field and using microscopy, including the River Jelly Lichen and other Red listed species

  2. Have increased the range of aquatic lichens they can identify 

  3. Know how to record and survey freshwater habitats and develop their skills in this area

  4. Be aware of the clientele for freshwater surveys e.g. hydroelectric schemes

  5. Be aware of the impacts of altering watercourses on lichens and associated habitats

  6. Feel confident to pass on their knowledge

Verrucaria hydrophila

Cost: The BLS will be covering the course costs but attendees are asked to pay for their accommodation (at full board) and for their own transport, with an additional £50 contribution towards the teaching costs.

Once your application is confirmed please send a £50 course fee to the BLS Treasurer.

The cost of accommodation, including food (breakfast, lunch and evening meal) is approx. £330 for 5 nights (arriving the evening of Monday 27th May and leaving the morning of Saturday 1st June). This will be payable by the end of March 2024.

Accommodation is in twin rooms.

For information on financial support please refer to the grants section of the BLS website.

To apply for the course, please contact sueknight10@btinternet.com  by 30th September 2023. If it is over subscribed, there will be an application process.

More detailed information on the programme will be sent out closer to the event as some aspects will be weather-dependent.

UK Fungus Day: Open door event at Exeter University, including a talk by Nathan Chrismas

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Talks and exhibitions
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UK Fungus Day Open door event, including a discussion of his work by Nathan Chrismas on lichenised fungi

Date: 7 October 2023

Location: Exeter University

To celebrate UK Fungus Day, lichenologist Nathan Chrismas will be discussing his research alongside other fungal researchers, the Devon Fungus group, and local artists at an open door event at Exeter University.

Further details are available on the UK Fungus Day website https://www.ukfungusday.co.uk/scientificresearch

or contact Nathan Chrismas on cragology@gmail.com

 

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