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UK Biodiversity Training Courses

Find out more about training offered in UK Natural History through the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum www.nhm.ac.uk/idtrainers

The Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity

The Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity aims to support natural historians at any skill level. From our Identification and Advisory Service, to our facilities and collections, our citizen science work, and support services for amateur natural history groups, you can find out more here: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ukbiodiversity

Post Graduate Courses at the NHM

Undertake professional and postgraduate training including PhD, MSc and MRes courses in our areas of expertise.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/courses-and-students.html

Welcome to the Natural History Museum's online training platform. Here you can find out more about the training courses offered by the Museum and if you are registered onto one of our courses, access online content and tasks for your course.

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Available courses

Grassland Heroes (Brilliant Butterflies)

Introduction to UK Natural History

Introduction to UK Natural History is a five week online course which will introduce some of the fundamental principals and practices of modern amateur natural history.

The four weeks have been divided thematically as follows:

Week 1: Introduction to Natural History

Week 2: Introduction to Botany

Week 3: Introduction to Entomology

Week 4: Introduction to Geology and Palaeontology

Week 5: Developing skills in Natural History.

For the duration of the course you are required to keep a Naturalists Journal, a copy of which should be submitted electronically at the end of the course, along with details of biological records submitted to an appropriate national or local recording scheme.

Big Seaweed Search Training Programme

Big Seaweed Search training

London DTP Skills Fridays

Induction day

British Amphibians: Identification and Survey for WLG Volunteers

A short training course on the identification of the UK's amphibians and suitable survey techniques.

Please note, this course is not associated with training towards a Great Crested Newt Licence (GCN-EPSL), and no status as such should be inferred from attendance, however advice on training towards this can be requested.

Please do not share course materials outside of the course, these have been developed specifically for the Wildlife Garden volunteers and trainees and are the property of the Natural History Museum, London.

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