Online conference
About the Scottish Botanists' Meeting
We are delighted to announce that the programme includes talks on the plants of two of the most important and iconic National Nature Reserves in Scotland! On Beinn Eighe – the UK’s first National Nature Reserve currently celebrating its 70th anniversary – by Ian Sargent, NatureScot Nature Reserves Manager, and on 40 years of rare plant monitoring on Ben Lawers, by Sarah Watts. We will also have an interesting variety of botanical short talks and two training workshops.
Here are full details:
10.00 Welcome to the Scottish Botanists’ Conference – Julia Hanmer, Chief Executive, BSBI
10.10 Welcome from Botanical Society of Scotland – Jill Thompson, President, BSS
10.15 Beinn Eighe NNR – the UK’s first National Nature Reserve celebrating 70 years – Ian Sargent, Nature Reserves Manager, NatureScot
10.50 Phytophthora in UK juniper populations – Flora Donald, UKCEH
11.10 Break
11.20 For a Plant-rich World: Plantlife Scotland update and plans – Alistair Whyte, Head of Plantlife Scotland
11.40 The BSBI Scottish Year – Jim McIntosh, BSBI Scottish Officer
12.00 Project Seagrass – Richard Lilley, Director of Project Seagrass
12.20 Break
12.30 BSBI Scottish AGM – Lindsay Mackinlay, Chair BSBI Committee for Scotland
13.00 Break for Lunch
13.30 40 years of rare plant monitoring on Ben Lawers NNR – Sarah Watts, University of Stirling
14.10 Expedition to West Affric in search of rare alpines – Jeff Waddell, Senior Natural Heritage Advisor NTS
14.30 The Urban Flora Project – John Grace, BSS
14.50 Results of the BSBI Photographic Competition – Natalie Harmsworth
14.55 Break / Close for those not attending workshops
Workshops
15.05 Polypody Ferns in the British Isles; origins, ecology, distribution and identification – Rob Cooke, BSBI Referee & British Pteridological Society
16.05 Larches in the British Isles – history, ecology & identification – Matt Parratt, Forest Research
17.00 Thank you & Close
Book here to attend this free event.
The exhibits and talks from last year’s event are still available to view online.