Conferences

Past conferences

2023 - TWIC & BRISC Autumn Conference

• Held in Stirling High School, Stirling, and featuring a programme of talks, TWIC's and BRISC's AGMs and the presentation of the Bob Saville Award.

2023 - Spring Conference

• Held on Microsoft Teams, featuring:

  • Scott Shanks on biological recording and outreach at Yorkhill Green Spaces in Glasgow

  • Graeme Duncan discussing current work to create a new Marine Recorder

2023 - AGM and Bryophytes from the Borders and beyond

• Held on Zoom and preceded by a talk from David Long title Bryophytes from the Borders and beyond.

2022 - AGM and Spring Conference

• Held on Zoom, featuring:

  • A marine scientist's perspective on the use and value of data gathered from biological recording and collections by Dr Joanne Porter, Deputy Director/Director of Studies at the International Centre Island Technology, Orkney 

  • The Better Biodiversity Data Project by Lisa Chilton, CEO at the National Biodiversity Network

  • Land Mammal ID - Journey in an unfamiliar Land by Cathel Hutchison (2020 bursary recipient)

  • Bioblitzing in Trinidad & Tobago - From Tucker Valley to the Backyard by Mike Rutherford, Curator of Zoology & Anatomy at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

2021 - AGM and State of Dragonflies 2021

• Held on Zoom, preceded by a talk by David Smallshire of the British Dragonfly Society, Devon Group, entitled State of Dragonflies 2021.

2019 - Museums Collections & Biological Recording

• Held at City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, Edinburgh. Read the report in Recorder News No 113.

2018 - Recording Urban Wildlife

• Held at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow. Read the report in Recorder News No 110.

2017 - Marine Biological Recording

• Held at FSC Millport, Isle of Cumbrae. Read the report in Recorder News No 107.

2016 - Local Nature Conservation and Biological Recording

• Held at Linlithgow Burgh Halls. Read the report in Recorder News No 104.

2015 - Mind the Data Gaps - Are Regional Data Hubs the Way Forward?

• Held at The Grant Arms Hotel, Grantown-on-Spey. Read the report in Recorder News No 100.

2014 - Biological Recording in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park

• Hels at Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park HQ, Balloch.

2013 - New Technology for Biological Recording

• Held at Newbattle Abbey College, Dalkeith.

2012 - What is new in Scotland

• Held at The Crichton, Dumfries.

2011 - Citizen Science and Biological Recording

• Held at Stirling University.

2010 - Biodiversity – Then and Now

• Held at the George Hotel, Montrose.