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Environmental Change
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ECN Student Placement
Moor House - Upper
Teesdale
Each year the Centre
for Ecology & Hydrology has a one year vacancy for an
undergraduate student based at the
Lancaster Environment
Centre with the Environmental Change
Network (ECN). The student is trained in and undertakes
environmental monitoring at
Moor
House – Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve, including associated
laboratory and computer work. The student is expected to undertake a
short project of interest to themselves and relevant to ECN.
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The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) is the UK’s Centre of
Excellence for research in the terrestrial and freshwater environmental
sciences. Our parent organisation is the UK
Natural Environment Research
Council. Research is aimed at improving our understanding of both the
environment and the processes that underlie the Earth’s support systems.
The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) brings together environmental
researchers of international reputation from CEH and
Lancaster University to form one
of the largest groups of its kind in Europe. LEC is based in recently
completed buildings on the campus of Lancaster University. This lively
campus is 3 miles from the centre the City of Lancaster and convenient for
the Lancashire Coast, the Lake District National Park and Yorkshire Dales
National Park.
The Environmental Change Network (ECN) is the UK's long-term
environmental monitoring programme. It is designed to collect, store,
analyse and interpret long-term data based on a set of key physical,
chemical and biological variables which drive and respond to environmental
change at a range of terrestrial and freshwater sites across the UK.
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Moor House – Upper Teesdale is an upland National Nature Reserve in the northern
Pennines, which has been an ECN terrestrial monitoring site since 1992. Since 1997 ECN
freshwater monitoring has also been undertaken in the
Trout
Beck which lies within the site. ECN
data from the site is used in
a wide variety of research projects.
What does Moor House look like
this week?
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The student is trained in monitoring a range of organisms including
rabbits, spittle bugs, ground beetles, birds, bats, frogs, butterflies
and stream invertebrates. Experience is obtained in measuring a range
of physical variables including automatic and manual meteorology and
atmospheric pollutants. Fieldwork is undertaken throughout the
year and training is given in hill-walking skills. Computing skills are
also developed. The student is
expected to undertake a short project of interest to themselves and
relevant to ECN and it is possible to undertake work experience with
other CEH research groups.
Past Students
More details about the work, by a past
student
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