Workshops

2009 Workshop Programme

The 2009 workshop programme has been published and a copy of the programme and booking form can be downloaded here. Some workshops which have been added at a later date will not be in the PDF but details can be found below.

Costs for courses are:

£60.00 (or €90.00 for Irish courses) for IEEM members per day; and
£120.00 (or €180.00 for Irish courses) for non members per day.

Some longer courses include accommodation, others do not. Please click on the course below to find out more details.

Click here for a downloadable booking form

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If there are not sufficient bookings four weeks in advance of a workshop, the tutor may decide to cancel it. Some tutors run workshops with lower numbers, but this is at their discretion. Availability can be checked by phone or on the website, but a place cannot be guarunteed until your booking form is received. If a workshop is cancelled by a tutor then a full refund is made to the participant.

Date	Course Title Please click on the name of the course for further information	IEEM Geographic Section	Places Available?
JANUARY 2009
19 - 20 January	Bryophyte (Moss and Liverwort) Identification	South West England	YES
FEBRUARY 2009
10 February	Making the most of BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
19 February	Making the most of BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
25 February	Native Tree Species in Winter	Scotland	YES
25 February	Surveying for Bats and Development: The Consultant's Approach	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
MARCH 2009
2 - 3 March	Lichen Identification	South West England	YES
7 March	Mosses and Liverworts of Heathland and Mires: Field Workshop	West Midlands	YES
9 March	Water Vole Ecology	South West England	FULLY BOOKED
10 - 11 March	Water Vole Conservation and Development	South West England	FULLY BOOKED
12 - 13 March	Water Vole Conservation and Development	South West England	FULLY BOOKED
14 - 15 March	Outdoor First Aid and Incident Management	North West England	YES
25 March	Field Signs and Habitat Management for Water Voles	Scotland	YES
APRIL 2009
April tbc (CANCELLED)	Badgers: Survey, Exclusions and Mitigation	Scotland	CANCELLED
2 April	How to Complete a Farm Environment Plan and Higher Level Stewardship Scheme Application: 1 of 4	South West England	YES
2 - 3 April	Introduction to Phase I Habitat Survey	North East England	FULLY BOOKED
4 April	Great Crested Newt Survey and Evaluation	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
4 April	Mosses and Liverworts of Woodland: Field Workshop	South East England	CANCELLED
6 - 7 April	Introduction to Phase I Habitat Survey	North East England	YES
7 April	Great Crested Newt Survey and Evaluation	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
8 April	Great Crested Newt Survey and Evaluation	South East England	YES
8 - 9 April	Reptile Survey (Best Practice)	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
15 April	Freshwater Invertebrate Identification and Survey Skills	North West England	FULLY BOOKED
15 - 16 April	Reptile Mitigation (Best Practice)	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
15 - 16 April	Introduction to Bryophytes and the new British Bryological Society Field Key	North East England	YES
21 - 22 April	Survey Techniques and Habitat Management for Amphibians, with a focus on Great Crested Newts	Scotland	YES
23 April	How to Complete a Farm Environment Plan and Higher Level Stewardship Scheme Application: 2 of 4	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
23 April	Bird Surveys for Beginners	South East England	YES
27 - 28 April	Grass, Sedge and Rush Identification for Phase I Habitat Survey	North East England	FULLY BOOKED
MAY 2009
1 May	Woodland Management and Wildlife	East Midlands	FULLY BOOKED
6 - 7 May	Reptile Survey (Best Practice)	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
7 May	Dragonfly and Damselfly Identification	Scotland	YES
9 May	Mosses and Liverworts of Grassland: Field Workshop	South West England	CANCELLED
11 May	Identifying Hedgerow Plants and Trees and carrying out Hedgerow Assessments	South West England	YES
12 May	Woodland NVC for Beginners	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
13 May	Woodland NVC Survey for Practitioners	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
13 May	Survey and Identification of Woodland Flora & Vegetation Communities	North West England	YES
13 - 14 May	An Introduction to Phase I Habitat Survey	Scotland	FULLY BOOKED
13 - 14 May	Reptile Mitigation (Best Practice)	South East England	YES
14 May	How to Complete a Farm Environment Plan and Higher Level Stewardship Scheme Application: 3 of 4	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
14 - 15 May	Introduction to Plant Identification and Phase I Habitat Survey	East Midlands	FULLY BOOKED
19 May	Field Ornithology: Improving Your Skills	South East England	YES
20 May	Introduction to Grasses	Yorkshire and the Humber	FULLY BOOKED
27 - 28 May	Beginning Professional Bat Work	North West England	FULLY BOOKED
28 - 29 May	Dragonfly and Damselfly Larval Identification	South West England	YES
JUNE 2009
2 June	Using a Vegetative Key	South East England	YES
2 - 3 June	Reptile Survey (Best Practice)	South East England	YES
7 - 9 June	Introduction to Sedges	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
9 - 10 June	Otter Survey and Mitigation	Scotland	FULLY BOOKED
9 - 10 June	Reptile Mitigation (Best Practice)	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
10 - 11 June	Flowering Plant Identification	South East England	CANCELLED
11 June	How to Complete a Farm Environment Plan and Higher Level Stewardship Scheme Application: 4 of 4	South East England	FULLY BOOKED
11 June	Coastal Vegetated Shingle: Nature Conservation Value, Management and Mitigation for Developments	South East England	YES
16 June	Introduction to Grasses	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
17 June	Freshwater Pearl Mussels: Ecology and Survey Techniques	Scotland	FULLY BOOKED
17 June	Identification of Common Plant Species	Scotland	YES
17 - 18 June	Grassland Management, Creation and Translocation	East Midlands	CANCELLED
20 - 21 June	Invertebrate Survey and Site Assessment	Yorkshire and the Humber	FULLY BOOKED
22 June	Reptile Identification, Surveys and Handling	South West England	FULLY BOOKED
24 June	Using a key to Identify Flowering Plants	South East England	CANCELLED
24 June	Bumblebee Identification and Ecology	East of England	CANCELLED
24 June	Identification of Grasses	Scotland	YES
24 - 25 June	Field Craft for Bats	South West England	FULLY BOOKED
JULY 2009
1 July	Lake Survey Techniques	Scotland	CANCELLED
1 July	Native Tree Species, an Introduction	Scotland	CANCELLED
8 July	Invasive and Non Native Plants	Wales	YES
9 July	Rare Arable Flora - Their History, Reasons for Decline and how to Find and Conserve them within an Intensive Farming Regime	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
16 - 17 July	The History, Ecology and Management of the European Beaver	South West England	YES
17 - 19 July	Working with Crayfish - Stage I: Ecology, Survey and Conservation	Yorkshire and the Humber	FULLY BOOKED
20 - 22 July	Working with Crayfish - Stage II: Development Works, Crayfish Plague and Non-natives	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
AUGUST 2009
4 August	Sedges for NVC in the Field	North East England	YES
7 - 9 August	Working with Crayfish - Stage I: Ecology, Survey and Conservation	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
SEPTEMBER 2009
1 September	Using a Vegetative Key	South East England	YES
2 - 4 September	Working with Crayfish - Stage II: Development Works, Crayfish Plague and Non-natives	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
3 September	Freshwater Invertebrates Identification and Survey Skills	West Midlands	YES
8 September	Identifying Fungi	Scotland	YES
8 September	Farmland Birds: Can Modern Intensive Farming and Farmland Birds Co-exist?	East of England	YES
9 September	Practical Action for Water Voles	East of England	YES
10 September	Survey and Identification of Upland Heath and Blanket Mire Flora & Vegetation Communities	North West England	YES
14 September (and 2 November)	Macro-fungi Identification	South West England	YES
15 September	Hazel Dormouse Ecology and Conservation	South West England	YES
15 September	Are you Compliant with the NERC Biodiversity Duty?	East Midlands	YES
16 September	Phase I Habitat Survey	East of England	YES
17 September	Pipelines and Ecological Issues	Yorkshire and the Humber	YES
22 September	Identifying Fungi	Scotland	YES
22 - 23 September	Otter Survey and Mitigation	East of England	FULLY BOOKED
28 September	An Introduction to Bat Survey, Impacts and Mitigation	Scotland	YES
OCTOBER 2009
7 October	Field Signs and Habitat Management for Water Voles	Scotland	YES
7 October	Tree Identification	South East England	CANCELLED
9 October	Introduction to the National Vegetation Classification	South East England	YES
12 October	Water Vole Ecology	South West England	YES
13 - 14 October	Water Vole Conservation and Development	South West England	YES
15 - 16 October	Water Vole Conservation and Development	South West England	YES
NOVEMBER 2009
4 November	Surveying for Bats and Development - The Consultant's Approach	South East England	YES
4 November	The Role of BAPs in Local Development Frameworks and Site Specific Development Proposals	East Midlands	YES
10 November	Survey and Identification of Conifers - An Introduction	North West England	YES
11 November	Survey and Identification of Conifers	North West England	YES
18 November	Badgers: Survey, Exclusions and Mitigation	Scotland	YES
19 - 20 November	Outdoor First Aid and Incident Management	South East England	YES
25 November	Winning Approaches - What do you need to do to Convince a Planning Inspector?	South East England	YES

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