The annual Slapton Ley Field Centre & National Nature Reserve Research Seminar takes place on Saturday, November 14 from 10am to 4pm at Slapton Village Hall with the Marketplace of Ideas in Slapton Field Centre.

It is a great opportunity for people to find out about the fascinating projects carried out and research conducted in South Devon and interact with organisations, charities and individuals.

The event will include a morning of talks and a panel discussion, followed by a more ‘meet-and-greet’ style afternoon session - the Marketplace of Ideas - where people can network, share ideas and learn more about wider projects taking place.

The topics are: Post- Last Glacial Maximum sea level rise in the English Channel area and implications for present-day marine biodiversity with Malcom Hart from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth.

Sea levels 22,000 to 18,000 years ago were 120 to 130m below those of today and the English Channel along with its estuaries were dry and probably subject to permafrost.

Hidden in plain sight: the importance of wet woodlands in the UK by Emma Dudley, PhD Researcher at the University of Plymouth.

Building a clearer picture of carbon dynamics in wet woodlands.

Maize runoff and the risk of muddy flooding in South West England by John Boardman, Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

The growing of maize has greatly increased and this increases the risk of runoff and erosion.

Start Bay in Motion: Storms, beach rotation and a changing coastline by Tim Scott of the School of Biological and Marine Science at the University of Plymouth.

Rally for Nature by Louisa Dean, the Director of Sustainable South Hams

Slapton Ley NNR by Ranger Kieren Shaw-Flach and his team.

There is then a Panel Discussion chaired by Field Studies Council President Tim Burt.

For information about this free event contact: [email protected]