OLD EVENTS

2013
January 1 - CNHS field study Great Kneighton
January 10 - CCF Annual Symposium
January 13 - Lichen group visit to Weston Colville and Lower Wood
January 14 - CNHS Council Meeting
January 19 - CBG excursion to  Stibbington Cancelled due to weather.  
January 22 - CUAS talk, Jonathan Shanklin on An astronomer in Antarctica.  
January 23 - CCF seminar, David Baulcombe on Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture
January 24 - HFFS talk, Jeff Harrison on Through the Year in a Nature Photographers Garden
January 26 - 27 - RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
January 26 - Wildlife event, Orchard Park Community Centre
January 30 - CWT talk, Jenny Mackay (Wildlife Trust) on the Wildlife of Cambourne and plans for Trumpington Meadows
February 3 - CBG excursion to  Fleam Dyke, Mutlow Hill and Fulbourn
February 5 - CUVZS talk, Thomas Hildebrandt on Conservation and Cloning
February 7 - CNHS talk, Oliver Rackham on Diseases of ash and other trees round the world
February 10 - Lichen group visit to Buff Wood
February 11 - CGC talk, Peter Wadhams on The Disappearing Ice in the Arctic Ocean
February 11 - IEEM talk, Ray Matthews on Paxton Pits: A Community Nature Reserve
February 12 - CUVZS talk, Richard Kock on Food and biodiversity - agriculture and its impacts on disease ecology
February 14 - CNHS talk, Hilary Conlan on Travels with research: baboons to earthquakes
February 16 - CBG excursion to Pynkney Estate
February 20 - RSPB talk, Richard Revels on Fantastic Falklands
February 21 - CNHS talk, Paul Furnborough on Cambridgeshire's herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) and its conservation
February 21 - HFFS talk, Peter Rowlings on European Butterflies
February 27 - CWT talk, Duncan Mackay, the voluntary warden, on Lower Wood
February 27 - CUVZS talk, David Williams on Is it ethical to keep exotics
March 3 - CBG excursion to  Wennington and Holland woods
March 6 - CCF seminar, David Coomes on From invasion to restoration: how enlightened are New Zealand's conservation policies
March 7 - CNHS talk, Andrew Balmford on Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty?
March 7 - HFFS talk, George Cottam on Hungary for Wildlife
March 10 - NBG excursion to Old Buckenham Cancelled due to weather.
March 11 - CGC talk, Laura Porro on Tetrapods Rising - Feeding at the water-land interface
March 13 - CCF seminar, Frans Vera on Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track
March 14 - CNHS talk, Guy Belcher on Cambridge's newest local nature reserve
March 16 - CPPF Orchard Tree and Hedge Planting at Coton
March 17 - CBG excursion to Madingley 800 Wood
March 17 - CPPF walk at Coton
March 20 - RSPB talk, Graham Goodall on USA: Arizona; Sky, Islands and Deserts
March 21 - CNHS visit to Cambridge University Herbarium (limited numbers, you must book in advance)
March 23 - HFFS AGM and talk, Henry Arnold on Bats and Batty Tales
March 11 - 24 - Cambridge Science Festival
March 24 - CNHS field study Great Kneighton - Cancelled due to snow
March 27 - CWT talk on the Flora and Fauna of New Zealand
April 3 - Natural History evening at Heffers
April 4 - CNHS talk, Tim Sparks on A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the Fauna Cantabrigensis  of the Revd Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)
April 4 - Cam Valley Forum AGM and talk, Trumpington Pavillion, 7:15pm
April 6 - CPPF Mammal Day at Wandlebury
April 7 - CBG excursion to Elmdon and Chrishall
April 8 - CGC talk, Sarah Finney on The challenges and results of fossil material collecting in Greenland 2012
April 10 - Orchard Park wildlife event
April 10 - Natural History evening at Heffers
April 11 - CNHS talk, Charles Turner on Orchids of Britain
April 13 - SCFG foray to Hauxton Pits
April 13 - 14 - Hyacinth collection open days, Waterbeach, Bottisham Lock, 11:00 - 17:00
April 15 - CNHS Council meeting
April 17 - RSPB talk, Rolf Williams on Crossing Boundaries, a story of Birds & People on the high seas of Iraq
April 18 - CNHS AGM followed by the Presidential Address on Beaches: multi-extreme environments
April 24 - CWT talk on Plantlife: the Brecklands project
April 25 - Natural History evening at Heffers
April 27 - CFG meeting, Burwell
April 28 - CNHS field study Great Kneighton
May 2 - CNHS local excursion Histon Road Cemetery
May 4 - CPPF dawn chorus walk at Coton
May 8 - Community Orchard Conference, Gt Shelford
May 8 - FRRFD AGM and talk, Six Bells, Fulbourn, 7:30pm
May 10 - CBC talk, Tom Hart on New generation techniques for Penguin conservation
May 11 - CPPF tree festival at Wandlebury
May 12 - Milton Country Park AGM and talk from Brian Eversham "Climate change and local wildlife", 14:30
May 12 - OPAL Orchard event, Shenley Park, Hertfordshire
May 13 - CGC talk, Nial Peters 78°N to 77°S: Ice caves of the Arctic and Antarctic
May 15 - RSPB AGM and talk, Jeff Harrison on Through the year in a nature photographers garden
May 16 - CPPF walk with the farmer at Coton
May 16 - CNHS field study Great Kneighton
May 18 - Festival of Plants at CU Botanic Garden
May 18 - SCFG foray to Brampton Wood
May 25 - CFG meeting, Whittlesford
May 26 - CNHS excursion, West Runton, Norfolk
May 27 - CSAR talk, Mike Brown on Plan Bee - the future of polination
May 29 - CWT walk for calcareous flora on the Roman Road, 7pm
May 30 - CNHS visit to North West Cambridge Site, 6pm
June 2 - CNHS excursion, Soham Meadow
June 2 - Cambridgeshire County Show at Wimpole Hall
June 5 - CPPF Amphibians and Reptiles evening at Wandlebury
June 10 - CGC talk, Andrew Howard on The National Geological Model - a new beginning for the geological map
June 13 - Cam Valley Forum visit to Trumpington Farm wetland, 6pm
June 14 - 15 - CNHS Conversazione
June 15 - CPPF Children's wildlife safari at Coton
June 20 - CNHS field study Great Kneighton
June 21 - 22 - CPPF Bioblitz at Wandlebury
June 22 - CFG meeting, Gamlingay
June 23 - CPPF walk at Coton
June 26 - CCF Summer Symposium "Conservation and Sustainability"
June 26 - CWT visit to East Pit for chalk grassland flora, 7:30pm
June 27 - CNHS excursion, Chesterton churchyard
June 29 - 30 - Chesterton Festival
June 29 - CNHS excursion, Stallode Wash (Lakenheath)
June 29 - CWT walk Flowers and butterflies on the Roman Road, 2pm
June 30 - CNHS excursion, Logan's Meadow
July 6 - CPPF plantlore walk at Coton
July 11 - CNHS local excursion Clare Wood
July 12 - 13 - Bioblitz at Wicken Fen
July 13 - CFG meeting, Elford Closes
July 16 - CPPF wildlife walk at Coton
July 25 - CNHS field study Great Kneighton
July 31 - CWT visit to East Pit for a glow worm walk, 10:15pm
July 20 - August 11 - 2013 Big Butterfly Count
August 11 - CFG meeting, Hayley Wood
August 25 - CNHS  field study Great Kneighton
August 28 - CWT visit to Paradise and Sheeps Green LNR for a bat walk, 8:30pm
August 31 - CFG meeting, Moreton's Leam
September 8 - WT talk, Yiannis Christofides on the Flora of Cyprus, Camborne, 7pm
September 9 - CGC talk, Simon Kelly on Geology of Upware and viewing of specimens
September 14 - CNHS excursion,  Bedford Purlieus
September 15 - CPPF autumn walk at Coton
September 17 - CNHS Council meeting
September 18 - RSPB talk, Tim Loseby on The Silk Road Odyssey
September 21 - CFG meeting, Parson Drove and Thorney
September 21 - CPPF Tree identification at Wandlebury
September 22 - CNHS field study (lichens) Great Kneighton
September 25 - CWT talk, Peter Brown on Invasive animals
October 3 - CNHS talk, Brian Eversham on Overlooked wildlife
October 10 - CNHS talk, Kevin Hand on Saving Asia's vultures
October 13 - CNHS excursion, Woodwalton Fen (fungi)
October 13 - National Fungus Day
October 13 - BMS fungus event at the Botanic Garden
October 14 - CGC talk, Stephanie Bricker on East Anglia's buried channels
October 16 - RSPB talk, Sam Lee on Welney Winter wetlands birds
October 17 - CNHS talk, Vince Lea on Hardwick Wood, past and present
October 19 - CNHS fungal foray to the Botanic Gardens
October 19 - CPPF Autumn guided walk at Wandlebury
October 19 - CPPF conservation work at Coton
October 20 - CNHS field study (fungi) Great Kneighton
October 23 - BioSoc talk, Julia Gog on Some challenges in modelling influenza
October 24 - CNHS talk, Bob Jarman on The House Sparrow Survey of Cambridge
October 24 - Fulbourn Forum talk on The Roman Road and Fleam Dyke
October 26 - CPPF autumn walk at Coton
October 27 - CBG excursion to Brampton fishing lakes
October 28 - CPS talk, Jonathan Shanklin on Antarctica, ozone and change: some links between environmental concerns
October 30 - CWT talk, Kevin Hand on The wildlife of Ethiopia - Wolves on top of the world
November 2 - CLG meeting, Orwell church
November 7 - CNHS talk, Alastair Burn on Pollution and wildlife - practical problems for nature conservation in England
November 9 - CBG excursion to Potton Wood
November 9 - Plant Heritage Max Walters lecture on Gardens, gardening and plant conservation by Fiona Reynolds
November 11 - CGC talk, Gareth Jenkins on Geology as a control on landslides on the Isle of Wight
November 13 - BioSoc talk, David Spiegelhalter on Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty
November 14 - CNHS talk, Ruth Hawksley on Chalk streams and their management
November 15 - CLG visit to Sawston church, 10am
November 16 - CPPF two day course on hedge laying
November 18 - Roots & Shoots talk, Ben Phalan on Biofuels and Biodiversity
November 19 - SciSoc talk, Aubrey Manning on Life and the Earth: Interlocking Histories
November 20 - RSPB talk, Steve Magennis on Exploring Iceland
November 21 - CNHS talk, Paul Brakefield on Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings
November 22 - Mountaineering in a changing climate, Lady Mitchell Hall, 17:30
November 24 - CNHS/CBG field study (bryophytes) Great Kneighton
November 27 - CWT talk, Rob Mungovan on the Fulbourn Swift project
November 27 - BioSoc talk, Andrew Tanentzap on Fat fish are a forest product
November 30 - CPPF conservation work at Coton
December 1 - CLG meeting, Grafham
December 3 - SciSoc talk, Martin Siegert on Subglacial Lake Elsworth
December 5 - CNHS talk, Cass Bromley on Native Oysters: conserving a commercially fished species
December 7 - CBG excursion to Stibbington
December 7 - Essex Field Club annual exhibition
December 9 - CGC talk, Jonathan Larwood on Through the eyes of the Geologists' Association
December 11 - 12 - CU Botanic Gardens on Film at the Arts
December 12 - CNHS Seasonal Social
December 22 - CBG excursion to Knapwell
December 28 - CWT Winter walk in Cambourne, 2pm

Abbreviations: 
BEE - Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Seminars, 4pm Zoology part II lecture theatre.
BioSoc  - CU Biological Society
CBG -  Cambridge Bryological Group
CBC - Cambridgeshire Bird Club
CCF - Cambridge Conservation Forum
CFG - Cambridgeshire Flora Group.  Meetings start at 10am
CGC - Cambridgeshire Geology Club
CLG - Cambridge Lichen Group - contact Louise Bacon at CPERC.
CPERC - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Environmental Records Centre
CPPF - Cambridge Past, Present & Future (Cambridge Preservation Society) - Contact Caroline Grohler for details.  Booking is usually required
CUMS - CU Mycological Society
CUPS - CU Physics Society  
CUSS - Cambridge University Scientific Society
CUVZS - CU Veterinary  Zoological  Society.
CWT - Cambridge city group of the Wildlife Trust
FRRFD - Friends of the Roman Road and Fleam Dyke
FoCB - Friends of Cherry Hinton Brook
FoSC - Friends of Stourbridge Common
HFFS - Hunts Flora and Fauna Society
LNR - Local Nature Reserve.  These events may require booking..
SCFG - South Cambs Fungus Group
RSPB - Cambridge RSPB local group
SHNH - Society for the History of Natural History
SS - Cambridge Sustainable City events
WT - other Wildlife Trust events