Congratulations to our newest Certificate in Ecological Consultancy Graduates! The exam and graduation day yesterday was a great event and everyone passed their exam! Certificates were handed out in the afternoon to cheers and whistles! Five students gained Distinction for their marked assignments and Edward Lim was awarded Student of the Year with the highest overall marks of all the students including 99% in the exam. Well done Ed!
After 8 months of assignments, field courses, self-study courses and the exam the Certificate in Ecological Consultancy 2019 is finally completed! It has been hard work for everyone but they have all gained a huge amount of new skills, knowledge and confidence. Well done everyone!
I can’t believe it’s over already! This week has flown by.
We have a super group of students. They all have skills to bring to the week
and it’s been great getting to know everyone. They are an inquisitive lot,
always asking questions, which is fantastic. That is what Core Week (and the
whole course) is about. Learning!
They’ve come a long way in 5 days. On Monday they learned what a Phase 1 habitat survey was, and this morning they have been out to a site to do a full Preliminary Ecological Appraisal, finding and correctly identifying a whole range of field signs and plant species.
As I write this, they are all back in the training room,
starting to put their survey findings into a report.
Over the week we have been out looking for dormice and reptiles. We’ve surveyed a main badger sett and left camera traps up for a couple of nights (no luck this time). Last night, after a meal at the pub, we sat in wait for bats to leave the roost. We saw five bats emerge and fly around the building. The detector we left out revealed 3 species were in the area overnight. On our field trips we have found a variety of bird pellets, lots of tracks and signs and had lots of fun sniffing poo!
Having fun during the Preliminary Ecological Appraisal!
I can say on behalf of all the staff and tutors that we have
really enjoyed this week, and we hope that all our 2019 students have too.
We are really excited to see how this group get on this
summer. I am sure they will go a long way!
Jess
You can see what our placement students get up to this
summer by checking reading their blog posts which we will post over the summer.
Hmm, what’s this?Just checking our maps are right!Found a juvenile slow worm!What made this nest?
Kathryn has just finished her 4 week Certificate course work placement in the Guildford office … as you will see, she had a very busy four weeks, but finished smiling, having confirmed that this is what she wants to do! Continue reading “Diary of a Guildford placement – Kathryn”→
