Sesleria caerulea - Blue Moor-grassGRASSES and SEDGES Courses                

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?
Dr Judith Allinson runs weekend and weeklong Grasses, Sedges and Rushes Courses, as well as more general botany courses
at several Centres:
  • Kindrogan Field Centre (near Pitlochry, Perthshire)
  • Blencathra Field Centre (Cumbria)
  • Nettlecombe Court Field Centre (Somerset)
  • She runs day courses 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 Dr Allinson to run a course for you or your students?

    email with your enquiry


    Sesleria caerulea
    Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria caerulea) on hills above Settle



    Upcoming Courses run for the public by Judith Allinson in 2008

    16 - 18 May Grass Identification in Springtime
    (i.e mostly using vegetative characters)
    Juniper Hall Field Centre, Surrey
    21 May   Basic Introduction to Grasses Day-course Day Course at Settle for IEEM
    22 May   Basic Introduction to Grasses Day-course Day Course at Settle for IEEM
    26-30 May Wild Flowers for Beginners Malham Tarn Field Centre, N Yorks
    2-6 June Limestone Flora Weekend
    Malham Tarn Field Centre, N Yorks
    10 June Basic Introduction to Grasses Day-course Day Course at Settle for IEEM
    19-20 June Identification of Sedges A two day (one night) residential course at Malham Tarn Field Centre, Settle, N Yorks, for IEEM
    23-28 June Grasses Kindrogan Field Centre, Perthshire
    1-8 August Grasses, Sedges and Rushes
    Malham Tarn Field Centre, N Yorks
    Mon 11 -Fri 15 Aug Grasses
    Nettlecombe Court Field Centre, Somerset
    New course in May 2008 at Derrygonnelly:
        Examining Floating sweet-grass        Floating sweet-grass and Rushes    Limestone grasses on Knock More

     


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