BSBI Scottish Spring Conference

After Atlas 2020 and a year spent largely in lockdown, we are all looking forward to getting out into the field again. And with spring around the corner, this is a great time to meet up! 

We have put together an exciting programme of short talks for the botanical recording community in Scotland and everyone - BSBI members and non-members alike - is very welcome. 

Provisional Programme

10:00  Welcome

10:05  20 years of conservation at Carrifran Wildwood – Stuart Adair, Borders Forest Trust

10.45  My Lockdown Year - Brian Ballinger, BSBI Recorder East Ross

10.55  Mountain Flowers - Alan Walker, BSBI 

11.15  Break for tea & coffee

11:35  Scottish Hectad Rare Plant Project - Jim McIntosh, BSBI Scottish Officer

11.50  Urban Flora Project - John Grace, Botanical Society of Scotland

12.05  Local Groups - Michael Philip, BSBI Recorder for Lanarkshire

12:30  BSBI News - Jim McIntosh, BSBI Scottish Officer

12:45  General Q&A - ask any botanical or BSBI question you like (but we can't promise to have all the answers!)

13:00  Thanks & Conference close

Registration

Registration is essential - so we can email the Zoom link - but there is no fee. However we would be delighted if you would make a small donation to help cover our organisation and admin costs. The Zoom link will be emailed out on Wednesday 17th. 

Starting Time

Although the nominal starting time is 10am (don't be late!), you can join up anytime after 0945, so you have a little time to sort things out if there any problems.  If you are unable to join using Zoom we will also be live-streaming using YouTube, and will include a link to that in our email. Everyone is free to leave and rejoin the programme at any time and as many times as you like.

Questions

We would love to hear your questions. And all speakers have allowed a few minutes for questions.  But with so many people participating we will use Zoom in webinar mode which means that while you can see the speakers, they won't be able to see you! So, if you'd like to ask a question, please type it into Zoom's Q&A feature and the chair will relay it to the speaker.

Recording

The talks will be recorded and we will upload them to the BSBI YouTube channel a week or two after the event - watch out for the links on the BSBI Scottish Conferences page. 

Photo Credit

Many thanks to Mike Beard for his splendid spring photo of Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) against a blue sky, an entry to the BSBI Photographic Competition in 2015.