Earthworm Sampling Day at Colin Glen
The specimens collected will help us to build up an earthworm species list for the Colin Glen site and all records will be added to CEDaR and the National Earthworm Recording Scheme database. Our survey methods include exploring different microhabitats and hand-sorting soil samples to gather specimens, which will later be identified by trained earthworm recorders.
Emma Sherlock from the Natural History Museum of London will be leading the day.
Please note that this event will involve individuals collecting, preserving and killing earthworm specimens for identification purposes.
- Suitable for ages 18 years+
- Please note this event takes place at Colin Glen
- Attendees to meet at 10am at the Lower Colin Glen River car park
- Fieldwork experience in undertaking soil pit sampling surveys to assess soil-dwelling earthworm species
- Hands-on experience of undertaking microhabitat searches to find above-ground earthworm species
- Practical experience in collecting and preserving earthworm specimens
- Recording environmental and ecological data required for the generation of earthworm species occurrence data
- Please bring a packed lunch
Emma is the Senior Curator of Free-living Worms at the Natural History Museum, London. Although she curates numerous phyla of worms at the museum, her main research area is earthworms. She has published over 20 scientific papers and is the author of the FSC AIDGAP Key to the Earthworms of the UK & Ireland. She has currently described 8 new earthworm species to science (from Nicaragua, Belize and Cameroon) and participates in fieldwork both throughout the UK and abroad (Nicaragua, Vietnam, Hungary, Romania and France). Emma was one of the founders of the Earthworm Society of Britain back in 2009 and is currently the Chair of the Society.
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The specimens collected will help us to build up an earthworm species list for the Colin Glen site and all records will be added to CEDaR and the National Earthworm Recording Scheme database. Our survey methods include exploring different microhabitats and hand-sorting soil samples to gather specimens, which will later be identified by trained earthworm recorders.
Emma Sherlock from the Natural History Museum of London will be leading the day.
Please note that this event will involve individuals collecting, preserving and killing earthworm specimens for identification purposes.
- Suitable for ages 18 years+
- Please note this event takes place at Colin Glen
- Attendees to meet at 10am at the Lower Colin Glen River car park
- Fieldwork experience in undertaking soil pit sampling surveys to assess soil-dwelling earthworm species
- Hands-on experience of undertaking microhabitat searches to find above-ground earthworm species
- Practical experience in collecting and preserving earthworm specimens
- Recording environmental and ecological data required for the generation of earthworm species occurrence data
- Please bring a packed lunch
Emma is the Senior Curator of Free-living Worms at the Natural History Museum, London. Although she curates numerous phyla of worms at the museum, her main research area is earthworms. She has published over 20 scientific papers and is the author of the FSC AIDGAP Key to the Earthworms of the UK & Ireland. She has currently described 8 new earthworm species to science (from Nicaragua, Belize and Cameroon) and participates in fieldwork both throughout the UK and abroad (Nicaragua, Vietnam, Hungary, Romania and France). Emma was one of the founders of the Earthworm Society of Britain back in 2009 and is currently the Chair of the Society.
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