📢Due to some last-minute tweaks to the logistics of this year's course, we are now able to offer a further FOUR places on this previously fully booked course! Don't miss out and grab your place today! 👇
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📢Last few places remaining! Don't miss your chance to join in this fantastic course and get hands-on with collection and identification of #stoneflies , #mayflies & #caddisflies in #Cumbria #LakeDistrict 💙 Book here 👇
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With the pressures facing #Windermere in the news again this morning, a chance to support a community-based project run by Lancaster Environment Centre and Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) which is working to understand and protect the lake ⬇️

#Windermere really is an iconic freshwater lake

📢📢 Could you/someone you know donate to, or share, the Crowdfunder launched by Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) - supporting the future of the #BigWindermereSurvey and work to understand and protect the lake?

See ⬇️

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Good to speak with Naga Munchetty as part of the BBC Radio 5 Live piece on water quality in #Windermere today.

Listen again to material on water quality, nutrients, bacteria and the #BigWindermereSurvey
from 1 hour 5 minutes on BBC Sounds ⬇️

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Final part of today's #BigWindermereSurvey with Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) just completed in the Lancaster Environment Centre laboratories - 107 sites around #Windermere + lakes and streams in the wider catchment sampled by our fantastic #citizenscience volunteers 👏🏼👏👏🏾 Analyses start first thing tomorrow!

Thank you Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) for allowing me to join the #BigWindermereSurvey today! 🧪

A new experience & honoured to learn so much.

As #paddleboarders it’s important we give back to the places we love🩵

#SUPTheLakeDistrict VertebratePublishing #Windermere #LakeDistrict Lancaster University

Our volunteer #citizenscientists bringing their sampling kits back to our science hubs #BigWindermereSurvey - lots of engagement and learning today about our vital #freshwaters

The 8th #BigWindermereSurvey is in full swing!

The 8th seasonal #BigWindermereSurvey is go! Good luck all - you are part of something amazing! #CitizenScience #freshwater

Good morning #CitizenScientists Ace day for the #BigWindermereSurvey

Ben Surridge Lancaster Environment Centre Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) Must remember freezer packs, must remember freezer packs, must remember freezer packs!

Final preparations this morning for our next #BigWindermereSurvey Huge amount of effort behind the scenes from the Lancaster Environment Centre and Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) team to organise and run these events. Look forward to meeting our #citizenscience volunteers around #Windermere tomorrow 💧📈🔬

Science hubs now setup for the #BigWindermereSurvey tomorrow - ready to receive #water samples from over 100 sites around #Windermere and the wider catchment for nutrient and bacterial analysis

Saturday Set Up for the #BigWindermereSurvey #CitizenScience

Only 3 days until the next #BigWindermereSurvey (12th May). We have over 100 sites and #CitizenScientists ready. Thank you to everyone who has confirmed their site with us. You can pick up your kit 9-10th May (9-5pm), 11th May (2-5pm). For any queries, email [email protected]

Looking forward to the River Restoration in Practice field course on 21st /22nd May. We visit some amazing projects that are underpinned by ethos of restoring natural processes. Still a couple of places left but be quick! fba.org.uk/shop/p/river-r…

We’ve been bringing together an alliance of organisations & academics that want to support an innovative project to assess the status of Arctic Charr in Windermere. The project starts this Autumn & will use latest sonar +eDNA techniques. More to follow soon. #ActionFocusedScience

The #BigRiverWatch is back! Don't forget to get involved this weekend at your local river!