National Environment Monitoring Conference
Your guide on what there is, how to find it and where next?
10 December 2024, ACC Liverpool
Do you need a better understanding of the breadth and availability of environmental monitoring activities operating across the UK? Could you benefit more from the evidence they produce with respect to informing current environmental policy, helping set targets for conservation and landscape management projects, or simply improving your scientific understanding of the natural world?
As a researcher and/or practitioner, it’s likely you struggle to determine what evidence is already available and how to find it.
This one-day conference, taking place the day before the BES Annual Meeting, will bring together those who either deliver, use or could benefit from information provided from a wide range of national monitoring activities across the four nations. The aim is to increase the visibility of what is already available, explain how best to access it and to identify critical gaps in the current evidence portfolio, and explore opportunities for the community to develop a more cohesive approach to developing the UK’s environmental evidence system.
The focus will be on evidence collected at national scale using a variety of approaches from citizen science to structured schemes which target air quality, climate and greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and habitat condition, soil health, fresh and coastal water quality and their integration. Whilst providing evidence for national and international reporting requirements, these schemes also provide data at more local and regional scape which can be used to provide benchmarks for individual projects.
This Conference is organised by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the UK Environmental Observation Framework, with support from the British Ecological Society. The organisers will invite speakers from a diversity of UK organisations to share information about monitoring projects and, importantly, where to access the data. They will also be considering whether there are opportunities for integrating with other data for a more cohesive approach.
All delegates will receive a comprehensive list of the monitoring projects represented, with relevant links.
Who should attend
Academic researchers
Industry including green finance
Agencies and policy makers
Sensor and other technology specialists
Practitioners
Cost
There is a flat rate of £150 which includes lunch and coffee break.
If you are planning on attending the BES Annual Meeting in Liverpool, register for the Annual Meeting and add the Monitoring Conference to your booking on the second page under “Additional Activities”. Find more information about registration for the Annual Meeting – https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/events/bes-annual-meeting-2024/registration/
Alternatively, you can book for the Monitoring Conference separately.
Financial Support
Financial support is available for up to 30 Early Career Researchers (ECRs) based in the UK and Ireland to broaden their professional development and maximise their potential. Applications will be on a first-come-first-served basis and applications will close on 13 October 2024. https://hydro-jules.org/national-environment-monitoring-conference
This is a joint event organised by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the UK Environmental Observation Framework, and the British Ecological Society.
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