Nature Data

Things I think may interest others working with biological records, both biological recorders and those working in biodiversity data management and analysis.

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Nature conservationists should care about nature data. And when it is ignored.

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One of the last things I remember the sadly-missed John Sawyer talking about, in the week before he died, was how during the NBN Strategy r...

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Friday, 28 August 2015

How Dreadfully Common

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A 1980s Coventry bus. (c) Clive A Brown CC BY-NC 2.0 "Don't say that, it's dreadfully common!" - or words to that eff...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

A 2013 tale: One Family's One Hundred Bird Race

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#18 Smew - Talkin Tarn, Cumbria It might just be an impression from higher visibility thanks to social media, but there does seem to h...

Monday, 20 August 2012

Curves are In this Season - part one

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In software such as Recorder 6, you can plot seasonal patterns in records of a species. But what if you want more flexibility over what reco...

Thursday, 9 August 2012

QGIS: Free Dots on Maps

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This is a quick rough and ready tutorial aimed at giving a recorder with little or no GIS experience a simple method for creating a basic sp...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Blurring and plotting OS Grid References

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This is a post about a quick and easy method for turning a list of GB Ordnance Survey grid references into "eastings & northings...

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Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Making a county base map

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Cumbria Relief Map Since starting work at CBDC I have found one of the most useful layers is a simple raster layer - a relief map of the...

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Teresa Frost: Thetford, Norfolk, United Kingdom; You can find me on Twitter @zarfrost. I am a data person with an interest in nature. I work at the BTO as Wetland Bird Survey National Organiser. Previously I have worked at Kent and Medway Biological Records Centre and Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre which promote and supports wildlife recording in the counties of Kent and Cumbria. *Any views expressed in my blogs are my own and do not represent any organisation.*

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