Sesleria caerulea - Blue Moor-grassGRASSES and SEDGES Courses    2009            

Would you like to ..

  • Learn how to identify grasses and/or sedges?
  • Start to learn how to identify mosses and liverworts??
  • Meet new people?
  • Become a good plant surveyor?
  • Visit some wonderful habitats and scenery?
Then come on a day, weekend or weeklong course run by Dr Judith Allinson - Grasses, Sedges and Rushes Courses, as well as more general botany courses at several Centres:
  • Day courses are run by arrangement for interested organisations including IEEM (Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) . Individual tuition can also be arranged.

    Judith Allinson has carried out National Vegetation classification (NVC) work on grasslands for English Nature and taught at Malham Tarn Field Centre for several years.

    She co-authored the Aidgap publication: British Grasses: a punched-card key to grasses in the vegetative state Pankhurst R.J and Allinson J.M. 1985. (This has also been produced as an interactive computer key)

    Would you like to arrange a course for yourself or your sutdents?
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    Sesleria caerulea
    Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria caerulea) on hills above Settle



    Upcoming Courses run for the public by Judith Allinson in 2009

    24-26 April Grass Identification in Springtime
    (i.e mostly using vegetative characters)    		 Juniper Hall Field Centre, Surrey Fri evening-Sun afternoon.
    15 - 18 May Grass Identification in Springtime
    (i.e mostly using vegetative characters)    		 Juniper Hall Field Centre, Surrey Fri evening- Mon afternoon..
    Wed 20 May   Basic Introduction to Grasses Day-course Day Course at Settle for IEEM 10am to 5pm
    1-5 June Wild Flowers for Beginners Malham Tarn Field Centre, N Yorks
    7-9 June Identification of Sedges A two day (two night night) residential course at Malham Tarn Field Centre, Settle, N Yorks, for IEEM
    Tue 16 June Basic Introduction to Grasses Day-course Day Course at Settle for IEEM 10am to 5pm
    19-26 June Grasses Kindrogan Field Centre, Perthshire
    24-31 July Grasses, Sedges and Rushes
    		Malham Tarn Field Centre, N Yorks
    New course last year in May 2008 at Derrygonnelly:
         

     

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