Aquatic Plant ID Online

This online course will run over roughly 30 of the most common aquatic plants encountered in lowland Britain. It will focus on straightforward features that can be spotted in the field.

Streams, rivers, ditches, ponds and lakes support a huge amount of the UK's plant diversty, and in turn host a huge range of other wildlife. Accurate assessment of this vegetation can be crucial to ecological surveys of these habitats, and in turn provide a wealth of information on the health and conservation value of them.

Aquatic surveys can be challenging, and often require the ability to recognise species from a distance, rather than 'in the hand'. In addition many of the reed-like and floating species can look rather similar at a distance.

The course comprises a pre-recorded tutorial interspersed with short self-tests, which can be paused, rewound or skipped at any point during the 24 hours, giving you the chance to have a break when you want, and go back over any species you are less familiar with (or sections where you feel you’ve let yourself down on the test). There is a full test at the end which will be available online in perpetuity for you to come back and test your memory of the species in the future.

There is also a ‘bespoke’ ticket option, for which we will set you up with the tutorial on any date of your choosing.

All proceeds from the course will go to supporting our endangered species conservation work.

Schedule

The tutorial lasts 2 hours and 30 minutes and will be available to attendees for a 24 hour period (from 5pm the night before).

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About the tutor

Dominic Price is a highly regarded botanical tutor and has been running courses for all levels of ecologists since 2007. He is director of The Species Recovery Trust and specialises in the conservation of endangered species. He is the author of A Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes, and co-author of A Field Guide to Bryophytes and The Photographic Guide to Winter Trees and Shrubs.

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Course certificate

This course can be used as part of your Continuing Professional Development (CPD). We invite attendees to download their own certificate and complete the numbers of hours spent on the course, as we are aware some attendees spend more time reading up about courses before the day, and writing their notes up and re-sitting the course tests afterwards. The hours on your certificate should accurately reflect this time.