Composition analysis

Breaking an advert down into lines and shapes, based on what you see first and which way your eyes lead you around the page.

Garden Competition Entries

Having a look at the 3rd years submissions

Eco 2

Visited Camley Street nature park on my way down to greenhithe. It's a really lovely place, amazing that it's so central.

Panoramas

Went down to Greenhithe again today and bumped into Marie, which was great. Looked at the area around the pier and decided there was so much more potential than my original plan which focused on the river by a meadow.

Sticking with the concept of space.

Cramming

These conifers are pretty tricky. They all look the same and have stupid long names.

9th November - Concept Idea Sheets

Couldn't make it into class today, but here are my four idea sheets from last Friday's presentation. The aim was to link the four concepts Time, Memory, Space and Distance each to a location of our choice in Greenhithe. 

I decided to find a spot where four distinct environments met and branched off in different directions, as that is how I see the concepts interacting. 

Feedback was positive regarding the simplicity of the layout, but I need to add annotations, and make more of the words that I do have on them.

Ash tree app

Here is the "AshTag" for android phones.

Natural England

A few resources on Natural England (which replaced English Nature, which replaced the NCC who made the Phase 1 Habitat thing).

They have these guides to the areas of England, here is the one for the South East which can be downloaded here - http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/31044?category=118044

A nature map, which doesn't have much near Hadlow, but might be handy another time...

http://www.natureonthemap.naturalengland.org.uk/map.aspx?m=nreserves

...and some other stuff.

Hey Mitt

Ash Dieback Legal Action

• Government faces legal action over slow response

  Plant nursery sues government for failing to block ash tree imports despite being warned of disease as early as 2009
  
  
  Press Association
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 5 November 2012 08.33 GMT

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has reported 52 confirmed cases of ash dieback disease. Photograph: Woodland Trust/PA

A plant nursery forced to destroy 50,000 ash trees is suing the government for failing to block imports of the tree sooner.

Simon Ellis, managing director of Crowders Nurseries in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, said the Horticultural Trades Association wrote to ministers in 2009 warning of a new virulent strain of the ash dieback disease and calling on it to close UK borders.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has reported 52 confirmed cases of the disease.

Ellis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "They should have taken it seriously at the time. They chose not to and now we have this really dramatic situation and unfortunately, by the sound of it, the ash tree disease has spread throughout the UK."

He added: "Effectively our income stream starts now. This is the season, this is our harvest time so to cut off our income stream – what other course of action can we take?

"If they had listened to us in 2009 and acted in 2009 we wouldn't have this situation now."

The number of confirmed cases of ash dieback disease is expected to increase as the results come through from a mass survey of trees carried out over the weekend.

The fungal disease is threatening to wipe out the majority of Britain's ash trees. It has already killed up to 90% of ash trees in some areas of Denmark.

Plant health experts have been undertaking an urgent survey of 1,000 sites that have had saplings from nurseries where the disease has been found to be present.

The environment secretary, Owen Paterson, convened a Cobra crisis committee on Friday to examine the latest developments and co-ordinate action to halt the spread of the disease, which causes leaf loss and crown dieback.

Experts are also expected to gather for a summit in London on Wednesday.

The government banned imports of ash trees last Monday after a programme in which 100,000 specimens have been destroyed since the disease was discovered in March.

But the discovery of the disease in mature trees in East Anglia has raised fears it has blown into the UK as well as arriving on imports and will be hard to control.

Prof Michael Shaw, a plant disease expert from the University of Reading, said the impact could be "catastrophic" and warned it could wipe out 19 out of every 20 ash trees.

Project 3

A day down in Greenhithe linking sites up to the themes Time, Space, Distance and Memory.

Architect's Drawings

View Larger Map

Free exhibition of artwork will run for two weeks from the 1st-13th November at Somerset House and will be open to the public from 10am-6pm.

http://www.10x10london.com

NERC Soil Portal

Soil maps

You can visualise soil information of Great Britain from our large-scale datasets within the: 
Soil Portal map viewer

Find out more about the development of soil-related mapping within NERC from the surveying and modelling projects shown below. Click on the gallery links below to view maps of the information we hold.

We encourage non-commercial users to combine these research materials with their own maps and data.

Contact us if you create something new and innovative that could benefit others: BGS enquiries  or CEH enquiries.

Countryside Survey topsoil maps

Mapped soil variables based on top soil data to 15 cm depth from the Countryside Survey using kriging and habitat mapping to establish Great Britain-wide coverage. All soil data from the Countryside Survey for 2007. For further information see Emmett et. al. 2007 Soils Report .

View the Countryside Survey maps gallery 

or view within the Soil Portal map viewer

In the habitat mapping approach, mean estimates of soil variables across habitats were mapped onto Great Britain (GB) using Land Cover Map at 1 km² resolution. We spatially identify each habitat over GB and apply the corresponding estimated mean to this spatial layer. Land cover not sampled in the Countryside Survey has been left blank. See Countryside Survey UK report for a full list of habitats used.

For the kriged maps, data was interpolated onto a 1 km GB grid. The data were normal score transformed to convert the distribution to Gaussian, to which simple kriging was applied to interpolate from the Countryside Survey squares to the GB grid. Interpolated data was back-transformed to the original scale to produce the map.

Advanced soil geochemical atlas of England and Wales

These maps display interpolated geochemical data of the re-analysed National Soil Inventory (NSI) samples. In a joint project between the BGS and Rothamsted Research, some 5700 surface soil samples (0-15cm), collected across England and Wales, were reanalysed for 53 major and trace elements (e.g. Al, Ca, Rb, La, Se etc.). The atlas is now available online for viewing as an e-book and downloading as a pdf.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/GBASE/advSoilAtlasEW.html

View the National Soil Inventory (NSI) maps gallery

BGS Parent Material Model of Great Britain

The BGS Soil Parent Material Model looks at the upper 2–3 metres of the geology beneath our feet incorporating the weathered rocks or deposits from, and within which soil has formed. In the UK, these materials frequently provide the basic foundations of soil, influencing texture, structure, drainage and chemistry.

The map covers Great Britain and integrates geology and soil characteristics at a scale of 1:50 000.

Explore the parent materials of Britain in the Soil Portal map viewer and view a subset of the information available from the full Parent Material Map including lithology, European Soil Bureau parent material class, and generalised soil texture.

The full parent material dataset is available from the BGS and contains additional information including engineering and hydrogeological classifications, as well as further details of material properties such as texture, colour and structure.

View the Parent Material Model gallery

or view within the Soil Portal map viewer

Rural and urban soil maps

The principal means of presenting inorganic analytical data for rural soils are interpolated geochemical images published at various scales. Mapped information for a large range of elements in surface and profile soils across rural and urban UK can be downloaded from:

• G-BASE geochemical maps
• G-BASE downloads for urban reports

Environmental Geochemical Atlas of Central and Eastern England

Soil is one of three sample media published in this online geochemical atlas. It provides digital soil geochemical maps of ten environmentally sensitive elements, including Arsenic (As), Barium (Ba), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Lead (Pb), Manganese (Mn), Nickel (Ni), Selenium (Se), Uranium (U), Zinc (Zn) and acidity (pH).

Download Central and Eastern England Atlas 40MB pdf

Download the latest version of Adobe Reader

To view and find site locations of individual soil samples, urban or rural, visit BGS Geoindex

For publications and reports on soil geochemistry visit NORA

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/nercsoilportal/maps.html