Ben
(he/him)Naturalist in Lancashire
Senior Ecologist - Biological Heritage Sites Partnership at Lancashire County Council
Highlights
Full profile
Career: 11
Ecologist for the Biological Heritage Sites (BHS) partnership and supporting the Lancashire Environmental Records Network (LERN). Maintains an interest in Natural History, particularly Bryophytes and Soil Mesofauna, Biological Recording and data and technology related to improving our understanding off the natural environment. Partticularly data capture, community science and spatial/data analysis and visualisation.
Merseyside BioBank Manager
Field Studies Council
Adapted and delivered QGIS courses remotely during COVID.
Ecology Services UK
Occasional assistant bat worker and gcn surveys with phase 1.
Support Services Assistant
Bolton Council
Marks and Spencer
Overnight retail stocking.
Cafe Worker
ABode Hotels
Assistant Manager
Pitcher & Piano
Bartender
Joop
Shift Supervisor
Subway UK & Ireland
Bartender
The Neptune
Projects: 6
Natural England funded project to collate and generate grassland fungi data for Lancashire. Improve protections through the BHS system and develop spatial models and other tools to spatially identify potential locations for good grassland fungi sites in Lancashire. Links to the community science project on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lancashire-waxcaps
Providing a supporting role in the development of Lancashire's LNRS. Focused on aspects of ecology, data and data methods.
Undertaking Natural England funded project to test and compare methods for modelling connectivity of grassland habitat for different species in the context of Lancashire.
Developing a database of species from multiple taxonomic groups to investigate a multi-taxa approach to habitat/environmental association on large scale. A desk review collating existing available information. Draft and ongoing.
Supporting the development of a State of Nature Report for the Liverpool City Region with a focus on using statistical analysis of species data to derive temporal trends while also working with experts and specialists within the local naturalist and biological recording community to check outputs or provide their own trends and analysis.
A collaboration between Greater Manchester, Lancashire and North Merseyside to work with wildlife recorders to improve information on the abundance and distribution of Brown Hare's in those areas and create resources for ongoing monitoring.
Skills: 77
Technical
Business
Interpersonal
Community
Other
Credentials: 8
University of Leeds
University of Bergen (UiB)
Programming for Everybody: Getting Started with Python
University of Michigan
Citizen Science Projects: How to make a Difference
University of Dundee
Transforming Digital Learning: Learning Design Meets Service Design
Deakin University
Environmental Challenges: Human Impact in the Natural Environment
University of Leeds
Using Open Data for Digital Business
Royal Holloway, University of London
Big Data: From Data to Decisions
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Education: 2
Manchester Metropolitan University
Master of Science - MSc, Biological Recording
Bangor University
Bachelor of Science with honours - BSc (hons), Environmental Conservation
Involvement: 4
Volunteering
Committee Member
Supporting the group with web resources, membership and treasury.
Volunteer
In various capacities taking part in practical conservation on mosslands and ecological surveys for projects.
NARRS Surveyor
Undertaking GCN and general amphibian surveys for ARC and ARGSL.
Monitoring Volunteer
Monitoring of sea turtle nesting beaches on the remote island of Kefalonia through summer.
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