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British Ecological Centenary 2013

The British Ecological Society will be celebrating its centenary in 2013. There will be lots of ways to get involved, below are some of the activities we have already developed together with a hint of what's to come! Please check back as the plans develop.

Coming up

1. A range of new cross disciplinary meetings on a range of ecological topics to be held across the UK during Spring 2013;
2. Educational wall charts and associated competitions;
3. A number of scientific policy initiatives
4. A major project celebrating 100 years of scientific publishing focussing on the Society's journals.
   

INTECOL 2013

From 18-23 August 2013, the 11th INTECOL Congress, Ecology: Into the next 100 years will be held in London as part of the centenary celebrations of the British Ecological Society. The theme of the Congress is advancing ecology and making it count, and will present world class ecological science that will truly move the science forward. For further information or to register your interest please visit the INTECOL 2013 website.

We are currently inviting applications for workshops

Deadline - 26 July 2012

Festival of Ecology

From 15 June - 4 August 2013 we are organising a nationwide public festival celebrating the science of ecology. Below are the current partners we are working with, full details of the activities will be available at the end of the year.

But we're not stopping there! We're also producing an on line virtual festival featuring the sights and sounds of walks through different habitats, ecologist video diaries, videos, podcasts, activities to try, experiments and much more.

1. A Rocha UK, London
2. Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History, St Andrews
3. Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust
4. BTCV, Norfolk
5. BTCV Buckinghamshire
6. BTCV Scotland
7. Buglife - the Invertebrate Conservation Trust, Peterborough
8. Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre
9. Chelsea Physic Garden, London
10. Cheshire Wildlife Trust
11. Community of Arran Seabed Trust
12. Dales Countryside Museum
13. Devon County Council
14. Devon Wildlife Trust
15. Dumfries and Galloway Council
16. Epping Forest Countrycare
17. Gallery Oldham
18. Glasgow Natural History Society
19. Gwent Wildlife Trust
20. Halesworth Green Millennium Trust, Suffolk
21. Horniman Museum and Gardens, London
22. Hunterian Museum, London
23. Kelvingrove, Glasgow
24. Kent High Wield Partnership
25. Landlife National Wildflower Centre, Liverpool
26. Manx Wildlife Trust
27. Martello Museum, Seaford, East Sussex
28. Medway Valley Countryside Partnership
29. North East Scotland Local Biodiversity Action Plan, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen
30. Newton Abbey Borough Council
31. Peak District National Park Authority
32. Plantlife, Salisbury
33. Red House Museum and Gardens, Christchurch, Dorset
34. Red Rose Forest, Salford
35. Redbridge Museum, Ilford, Essex
36. Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts
37. RSPB Conwy Nature Reserve
38. RSPB Northern England
39. Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
40. Sutton Ecology Centre, Surrey
41. Techniquest, Cardiff
42. The Environmental Record Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
43. The John Moore Museum, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
44. The Marine Biological Association, Plymouth
45. Trees for Life, Forres, Moray
46. University of Leicester Botanical Garden
47. University of Glasgow
48. University of Oxford
49. Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight
50. Whitby Naturalists Club
51. Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, London
52. Worcestershire Biological Records Centre
53. Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
54. Yorkshire Naturalist Union
    

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