Cambridge Natural History Society.
Diary 2015
January 1 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen
January 1 - CPPF Guided walk at Coton
January 8 - CCF Annual Symposium
January 10 - CLG meeting at Monks Wood
January 13 - CNHS Council meeting
January 18 - CBG excursion to Gayton Hall, Norfolk
January 24 - 25 - RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
January 25 - Seedy Sunday at Trumpington
January 26 - Friends of Wandlebury meeting at Stapleford
January 28 - CCF Seminar Robyn Veal on Where did plant diversity and sustainability begin?
Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world
January 28 - CWT talk, Brian Eversham on Plants and insects
January 31 - CBG excursion to Barnwell and Barnwell Wold, Northants
February 4 - CCF Seminar, Zoe Davies on Biodiversity and the Feel Good Factor
February 5 - CNHS talk, Owen Mountford on Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map
February 7 - CLG meeting at Madingley
February 12 - CNHS talk Pepe Clark on Communities, conservation and climate change in the
Pacific Islands
February 13 - CBC talk, Chris Hewson on Tales of the unexpected - new insights from
tracking our Afro-Palaearctic migrants
February 15 - CBG excursion to Newmarket area
February 16 - ARUWS talk, Peter Brown on Alien invasive animals
February 19 - CNHS talk, Chiyedza Heri on African natural products
February 19 - Project Wild Thing film screening at Orchard Community Centre
February 22 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen monads
February 25 - CWT talk, Matt Wilkinson on Spiders
February 28 - CBG excursion to Orwell & clunch pit
March 3 - Memorial service for Oliver Rackham
March 5 - CNHS talk, Peter Grubb on Scrub clearance and grassland restoration
March 13 - CBC AGM & talk, Chris Collins on Guyana - South America's hidden gem
March 13 - Play at Stapleford Granary
John Muir: Rhapsody in Green
March 15 - CBG excursion to Perry West and Ash woods
March 19 - CNHS talk, Peter Payne on The flora (& the lizards) of the Canary
Islands, the Galapagos of the Atlantic Ocean
March 9 - 22 -
Cambridge
Science Festival.
March 20 - Partial solar eclipse
March 21 - 22 - CPPF Science days at Wandlebury
March 25 - CWT talk, Richard Preece on Snails and slugs
March 24 - 26 - Student Conference on conservation science
March 26 - Cam Valley Forum AGM, Trumpington
March 28 - CBG excursion to Devils Ditch
March 29 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen
April 9 - CNHS talk, Nicola Williamson on 44 million of our birds are missing
April 11 - CCF Garden Wildlife Day at Wandlebury
April 16 - CNHS AGM and Presidential Address on Garden Ecology
April 17 - CCF walk round Hayley Wood in memory of Oliver Rackham
April 21 - CNHS Council meeting
April 22 -
FRRFD AGM, Fulbourn
April 26 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen
April 29 - CWT talk Jamie Gundry on Wildlife Photography
April 30 - CFG meeting, Kingston Wood
May 2 - Histon Road cemetery walks 10am (birds), 11am (bugs), 12am (plants)
May 9 - CWT walk at Over Railway Cutting
May 9 - Milton Country Park AGM and talk on Orchards by Joanna Crosby
May 9 - 10 - Cathy Parker exhibiting at Tuddenham St Mary
May 14 - CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood - ARU campus
May 19 - CNHS Council meeting
May 21 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen
May 23 - CPPF Bioblitz at Wandlebury
May 27 - CWT evening walk to find bats at Byron's Pool
May 27 - CPPF Spring walk at Coton
May 28 - CFG meeting near Isleham
May 29 - St Benets nature walk
May 1 - 31 - The Great British Bee Count
June 7 - CPPF Wildflowers at Wandlebury
June 12 - 13 - CNHS Conversazione
June 12 - 13 - Bioblitz in the Botanic Garden
June 13 - CWT walk in Cambourne Country Park
June 14 - Morning nature walks in Histon Road cemetery
June 15 - FoCHB AGM
June 18 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen
June 21 - CFG meeting at Ashwell
June 21 - CPPF Midsummer walk at Coton
May 7 - June 24 - Wildflower painting exhibition at Clare Hall
June 24 - CWT evening walk to look at chalk grassland flowers in East Pit
June 25 - CNHS visit to Wandlebury
June 28 - SCFG visit to Waresley Wood
July 2 - CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood - Riverside
July 3 - 4 - Wild Weekend in Nightingale Road recreation ground
July 3 - 4 - Ely Wildspace Bioblitz
July 8 - Cam Valley Forum walk along Cherry Hinton Brook
July 11 - CWT walk to Fordham Woods
July 14 - CPPF Summer walk at Coton
July 16 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen
July 18 - CFG meeting, Wisbech
July 18 - CPPF Open Day at Wandlebury
July - Weekends - Cambridge Open Studios
July 29 - CWT East Pit glow-worm survey
July 17 - August 9 - Big Butterfly Count
August 6 - CNHS visit to Wandlebury
August 8 - CWT walk to Fulbourn Fen and Fleam Dyke
August 9 - CFG meeting, Borley Wood
August 20 - CNHS field study - Coe Fen
August 26 - CWT evening bat walk at Paradise LNR
August 29 - WT bat walk at Cambourne
September 8 - CNHS Council meeting
September 12 - CCF camera trapping at Wandlebury
September 17 - CFG meeting near Littleport
September 21 - CCF Autumn Symposium on People and Nature
September 27 - CNHS field study (lichens) - Coe Fen
September 28 - Total lunar eclipse
September 30 - CWT talk, Malcolm Ausden on Helping wildlife cope with climate change
October 3 - CFG meeting, Soham Mere
October 8 - CNHS talk, Richard Dowsett on The history and management of Hayley Wood
October 9 - CBC talk, The Lady of the Reeds
October 11 - National Fungus Day at the Botanic Garden
October 15 - CNHS talk, Jonathan Shanklin on a talk selected by the audience
October 17 - CBG excursion to Kingfisher's Bridge
October 17 - CPPF Fungal Foray at Wandlebury
October 17 - Big Biology Day
October 21 - CCF seminar, Tony Martin on Invasive alien species on islands:
problems and solutions.
October 22 - CNHS talk, Helen Roy on Non-native species: the good, the bad and the ugly
October 24 - CNHS Fungal Foray to Botanic Garden
October 24 - CPPF Autumn walk at Coton
October 25 - CNHS field study (fungi) - Coe Fen
October 26 - CPS talk, Nick Butterfield on The origin of animals, and the invention of the
modern biosphere
October 28 - CWT talk, Ed Turner on Conserving rainforest biodiversity
November 1 - CBG excursion to Little Bendysh Woods
November 4 - BioSoc talk,
Ottline Leyser on Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of
plant form
November 4 - CUWCS debate on This house believes that some species should be allowed to go
extinct
November 4 - British insects identification workshop at ARU
November 5 - CNHS talk, Robin Pellew on Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage
November 9 - CGC talk, Simon Kelly on The Geology of Greenland
November 9 - CCF gig
November 10 - BSA SciBar talks on Nature Reserves and Volcanoes
November 11 - BioSoc talk, John Hutchinson on The
evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravity
November 12 - CNHS talk, Bob Jarman on Agricultural trials and wildlife
November 13 - CBC talk, Nick Davies on Cuckoo -
cheating by nature
November 14 - CBG excursion to Little Paxton Pits
November 14 - CCF work party in Hayley Wood
November 19 - CNHS talk, Bill Amos on The pleasures of fungal forays
November 22 - CNHS field study (bryophytes) - Coe Fen
November 22 - CLG excursion to Monk's Wood
November 23 -
showing of Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything' film at the Cambridge
Picturehouse.
November 24 -
a repeat insect identification workshop at
ARU.
November 25 -
BioSoc talk, Tim Lenton on Revolutions that made the Earth
November 25 - CWT talk, Gabrielle Davidson on The wild world of corvids: understanding
behaviour and cognition
November 29 - CBG excursion to Cambourne
December 2 - BioSoc talk, Ross Piper
on animal diversity and modern-day exploration
December 3 - CNHS workshop, Mark Hill (and others) on The Natural History of Cambridge
December 5 - CPPF Winter tree identification at Wandlebury
December 10 - CNHS seasonal social at The Hopbine
December 12 - CBG excursion to Whittlesey Mere
December 12 - CLG excursion to Steeple Morden
December 27 - CBG excursion to Thorney - Postponed
Abbreviations:
ARUWS - Anglia Ruskin University Wildlife Society
BEE - Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Seminars, 4pm Zoology part II lecture
theatre.
BioSoc - CU Biological Society
BSA - British Science Association, Cambridgeshire
CBG -
Cambridge Bryological Group
CBC - Cambridgeshire Bird Club
CCF - Cambridge Conservation Forum
CFG - Cambridgeshire Flora Group. Meetings mostly start at 10am
CGC - Cambridgeshire Geology Club
CLG - Cambridge Lichen Group - contact Louise Bacon.
CPERC - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Environmental Records Centre
CPPF - Cambridge Past, Present & Future
Booking is usually required
CPS - Cambridge Philosophical Society
CUMS - CU Mycological Society
CUNS - CU Nature Society
CUWCS - CU Wildlife Conservation 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
OLD EVENTS
2004