Happy away day!

Untitled, a photo by Soil & Water Science on Flickr.

On Wednesday we all popped up to the Eden Valley to do some soils sampling and some general CSWM team bonding and soil sampling. here's a snap of some of the happy samplers!

Chris Turner on the Environmental Virtual Observatory

Untitled a video by Soil & Water Science on Flickr.

Last week we did a demonstration of the EVO portal to farmers and other stakeholders in the EdenDTC centre at Newton Rigg.  Chris Turner, our local expert (Natural England Catchment Sensitive Farming Officer) gave us some helpful feedback in this short film on how it is looking......

Prize winners

BSSS_2012_P2, a photo by Soil & Water Science on Flickr.

Congratulations to Kirsty Ross and Micheal Knott pictured here either side of me, receiving their prizes from the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) for the best undergraduate Soil Science Performances at the Environment Centre, Lancaster University. Thee photo was taken at the National Space Centre, at the dinner of the BSSS annual meeting. Thanks to Karl Ritz for taking and supplying the photo.