Training Events

Good training underpins good biological records. CBDC delivers Recording for Beginners training and encourages recorders to attend species identification training in the County.

Fellfoot Forward Site Seeing Project

Thursday 20th January 2022.  7:00pm – 8:30pm  ( Online)

The Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme (LPS), led by the North Pennines AONB Partnership and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will be looking at the County Wildlife Sites in the scheme area.  These sites will play an important role in the Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Network as set out in the recent Environment Bill.  Join us for an informal session to find out more about the Fellfoot Forward Site LPS Seeing Project, County Wildlife Sites and how you can get involved.

Volunteer Surveyors wanted

As part of the Fellfoot Forward LPS Site Seeing project we are looking for volunteers who are interested in surveying County Wildlife Sites in the Fellfoot Forward project area. You will require at least reasonable vascular plant identification skills, although good ID skills in other taxa will be considered.

If you wish to find out more about this project please book on and attend this online introductory session.

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    Training Services

    CBDC offers a variety of training services. For more information, please contact our Recording Officer, Stuart.

    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre

    The Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle keeps wildlife information for the county of Cumbria. Tullie House Museum, in its role as a local natural history museum, has collected and disseminated records of wildlife in Cumbria since its inception in 1893. From the early 1990s the Museum has developed a computerised database of species and habitat records in Cumbria and has taken the central role in providing a local biodiversity data service for the county. This role was restyled as Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre (CBDC) in 2010, a not-for-profit organisation hosted by Tullie House Museum and advised by local stakeholders.
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreFriday, November 22nd, 2024 at 2:34am
    Are you new to wildlife recording? Or would you like to find out how to make your wildlife observations REALLY useful to a range of different people and organisations?
    Join our first Winter Webinar on Tuesday 17th December, 6:30-7:30pm to find out more about recording the wildlife you see at home, work or when out & about. There will be time for questions too.
    The session is free and open to all but no apologies for the focus on Cumbrian flora and fauna!
    Find out more and book your free place via our website: https://www.cbdc.org.uk/get-involved/winter-webinars/
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreFriday, November 1st, 2024 at 5:19am
    Did you take part in Cumbria Wild Watch 2024? If so, we would love to find out what you thought of it and how we might improve in the future.
    If this is the first time you have heard of Cumbria Wild Watch, tell us too!
    Survey here: https://www.cbdc.org.uk/get-involved/cumbria-wild-watch/
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreWednesday, October 30th, 2024 at 1:19am
    Join us for two winter webinars to brighten the long, dark evenings: an Introduction to Biological Recording in December and Updating Cumbria's County Wildlife Sites in January.
    Find out more and book your places:
    https://www.cbdc.org.uk/get-involved/winter-webinars/

    Image: Beth Lightburn
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreMonday, October 28th, 2024 at 4:22am
    The Cumbria Recorders' Conference 2025 will take place @Tullie on 22 February 2025. For more information and to reserve your place, please visit the CBDC website: https://www.cbdc.org.uk/get-involved/recorders-conference/

    Image: Beth Lightburn
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreWednesday, October 23rd, 2024 at 4:06am
    Event addendum to the CBDC Newsletter from BSBI:

    Annual Scottish Meeting at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on Sat 02 Nov 2024. Small charge for registration.
    British & Irish Botanical Conference on Sat 23 Nov at Natural History Museum, London. Free!
    More details: https://bsbi.org/field-meetings-and-indoor-events
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
    Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreMonday, October 21st, 2024 at 3:27am
    Do you consider yourself a moth-trapper?

    If so, researchers at Natural History Museum and University College London would like you to take part in a short survey about moth trapping. To take part, click the link below:

    https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_4SbRHvviPE42jC6