Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager and Chloë Smith, GiGL Partnership Manager What’s happening in your neighbourhood? How do you engage with nature and open spaces? Maybe you are a member of your local park’s Friends group, or an allotment society. Maybe you record...
Chloë Smith, GiGL Data Officer & Mandy Rudd, GiGL Chief Executive Citizen science is not new. The Guide to Citizen Science (2012), a joint publication between the Biological Records Centre (part of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and the Natural History...
Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager, on the benefits of our latest software upgrade. After considerable effort to install, accurately migrate data and develop the custom reporting we need for our day-to-day work, our Recorder 6 database is now up and running. Having...
Do you know your copyright from your elbow? Who owns the records in GiGL’s database? Oliver Grafton, of the National Biodiversity Network explains the ins and outs of data ownership, with GiGL examples from Mandy Rudd. As a GiGLer reader, you are probably already one...
Dr Judith John is a trained botanist, with a main interest in plant and animal interactions, ecology, habitats, and mammals. Judith worked for the London Borough of Bromley (LBB) promoting Local Nature Reserves, was a member of the World Heritage Site Bid team,...
