Mel Marchbank

  Our programme of damming moorland grips on blanket mire has continued through January on our damming trial site in Lanarkshire. The project is well under way with many of the trial areas now dammed using our new faster method. This project has recently been featured on the IUCN UK Peatland Programme website.

Just back from taking down all our experimental equipment from the trial site we helped established in the Monadhliath mountains, before the snow comes. An interesting project, which to date has yielded some really fascinating insights into the hydrology and surface processes at work on a high altitude eroding peat flat. Lots of things going on equipment-wise, including use of a solar powered weather station and groundwater loggers alongside flow…