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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland Irish BSBI Newsletter No. 8, December 2017 Hello Irish BSBI vice-county recorders (VCRs) and members, As I think more people are reading and enjoying this little newsletter than just the VCR network, I’ve renamed it the ‘Irish BSBI Newsletter’. I will still compile it with VCRs chiefly in mind, and I hope it continues to be a helpful mix of news and tips and updates. Please let me know if you find it useful, and what you’d like to see more or less of – I would really value the feedback. VCRs will still receive this by post, and the email/web version will have colour photos and hyperlinks. And I must apologise for the lack of a summer issue in 2017 – circumstances conspired against it! Maria RECORDER NETWORK NEWS Sad news in the Irish VCR network this year, which you will all have heard, was the death of Michael Archer, VCR for Leitrim. Mike was much loved, and touched everyone he met with his warmth, his sense of humour, his sincerity and with his passion for life. A good BSBI contingent attended what was a lovely and fitting funeral service for Mike, and Don Cotton gave a lovely contribution to the ceremony. Don is also writing on obituary. Mike will be missed and the contribution he made to BSBI over the years is greatly valued. I am delighted to welcome on board three new people who will hopefully be joining the Irish BSBI vice-county recorder (VCR) network in 2018. For the moment, all three are coming on board ‘unofficially’ (so you won’t see their names listed in the Yearbook that you’ll receive early next year, for example). They are going to see how they like the role and how it all works, and CFI (Committee for Ireland) is happy for both sides to have the opportunity of a trial period. For now, I’m calling them ‘VCRs in training’! The newbies are: - Aoife Delaney, joint Leitrim - Eamon Gaughan, joint Leitrim - Eamonn Delaney, joint east Mayo A big hearty welcome on board guys, and do just call on your neighbours and other VCRs for help and advice - they are a great bunch. And I’m always at the other end of email and phone, so get in touch any time. Vacancies/Retirements H24 – Longford – vacant. Great thanks are due to Sylvia and Julian Reynolds, however, for recording in Longford in recent years and achieving good coverage through strategic planning and hard work in the field. H29 – Leitrim – see both paragraphs above H31 – Louth – vacant. Melinda Lyons retired from her position as VCR for Louth earlier this year. Thanks to Melinda for recording in spite of a busy schedule at times. BSBI Irish VCR Newsletter #8 December 2017 Page 1 “Could you be a referee?”… …So asked Jeremy Ison, the BSBI person who co-ordinates the referee network, in a poster presented at the recent AEM (Annual Exhibition Meeting) in November. Jeremy posed the questions: - do you have a special interest in a particular group of plants? - do you have, or are you prepared to develop, expertise in your chosen group? - do you want to share your enthusiasm and knowledge with others? Some current vacancies in the referee network include: hawkweeds (Hieracium), sea-lavenders (Limonium), glassworts (Salicornia), evening-primroses (Oenothera), bedstraws (Galium), mulleins (Verbascum) and hogweeds (Heracleum). So have a think…. could you be a referee? Get in touch with Jeremy ([email protected]) if you want to know more. IRISH OFFICER NEWS Volunteers Shane Brien, recent MSc graduate from UCC, has continued to be a trusty and hard-working volunteer throughout 2017. He has now digitised over 20,000 records – many of these are pre- 2000 records from Co. Westmeath, and so necessitated some detective work (e.g. tying down locations, updating names, deciphering recorder initials, etc.). He has also been on-hand to digitise other blocks of records as they came in – e.g. from recording events. A huge thanks to you Shane! There are a number of others who volunteer their time (aside of the VCRs – who are the core BSBI volunteers of course!), and they all deserve thanks for that. Phoebe O’Brien, Cathal O’Brien and Richard McMullen all contributed much in 2017, and there were others too – thanks to you all. The BSBI is powered by and driven by volunteer effort, and it is all both greatly appreciated and hugely necessary. Social media Social media has proven itself to be indispensable in how information is shared nowadays. We have been quite resourceful as well as successful here in Ireland in having our own Facebook and Twitter accounts (i.e. in addition to the main accounts on both platforms, which are run by Louise Marsh, BSBI’s Communications Officer). We now have about 1,600 followers on both platforms for the Irish accounts, and not only that, at least three of the Irish local groups have their own Facebook pages/groups (Ulster BSBI Botany Group; BSBI Plant Atlas Recorders Cork; BSBI Kerry). There are also countless individual BSBI members and enthusiasts with their own Twitter and Facebook accounts who interact on a daily basis, making the botanical social media community a vibrant, interesting and informative one. Thanks to you all! To follow us on Facebook you must have a Facebook account, then search for @IrishSectionBSBI (or @BSBI2011 for the ‘main’ BSBI Facebook page). To keep in touch via Twitter, follow me, @murlong77, and/or the central BSBI account, @BSBIbotany. Irish BSBI Conference The annual Irish BSBI Conference was again a great success in 2017, with good attendance numbers and a great line-up of talks. Visit the conference webpage to download or view the contributions, including the workshops and ID key to Veronica by Paul Green. The 2018 conference will take place on Sat 24th March in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, so put the date in the diary and don’t miss it! Further details coming soon. BSBI Irish VCR Newsletter #8 December 2017 Page 2 Links to the conference webpage, as well as two blog posts relating to the 2017 event, are available on the Irish webpage: http://bsbi.org/ireland I encourage you to have a look at the second blog post in particular, where Louise pulls together some of the feedback from attendees – it’s great to hear that people enjoyed it so much! (And thanks to Louise for the conference webpage and the blog posts – great work and support as usual.) BSBI member numbers in Ireland I haven’t had a chance to have a detailed look at BSBI membership figures (e.g numbers for NI and RoI separately, numbers of new members, etc.), but what I have done is quickly plotted the current number (206) alongside the numbers from some previous years. The line shown is a linear trendline. It is nice to see that the graph is continuing to move upwards. As I stressed at my recent talk at the BSBI AEM, our botanical network in Ireland is ‘tiny but mighty’! BSBI Annual Exhibition Meeting (AEM) The BSBI AEM took place this year on Saturday 25th November in the Natural History Museum. It was a great round up of exhibits, quizzes, talks, suppliers and of course, the AGM. Talks and exhibits can be found on the AEM webpage, and I highly recommend that you have a look. I gave a talk entitled ‘Building and supporting Ireland’s botanical network’ in which I gave a run through all that’s happening in Ireland, and how much progress we are making, both in terms of recruiting new botanists and also improving coverage for Atlas 2020. People were very impressed with what we achieve with so few botanists! Funding Some of you will have heard that Phoebe O’Brien and BSBI applied for Heritage Council funding to run a botanical event for members of the public in Galway city this year. Congratulations to Phoebe for writing a good proposal, winning the funding and running a great botanical walk. Thanks too to Ciarán Bruton and Eugene Lambe for ably supporting BSBI Irish VCR Newsletter #8 December 2017 Page 3 Phoebe on the day. Phoebe wrote a blog post about the event which you can read here and she also produced a leaflet based on the urban plants seen during the walk for dissemination in Galway, and indeed further afield. You can download the leaflet from the Irish webpage. We were delighted to once again be successful in 2017 in winning funding from the Environmental Recorder’s Group (ERG) in Northern Ireland, which is administered by CEDaR. This money will be used to support recording in NI, with a particular focus on events, supplies and support for the Ulster BSBI Botany Group in early 2018. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) continues to support the BSBI in Ireland by funding the equivalent of over one day a week of Irish Officer time. For this we are very grateful, and it makes a big difference to the amount of events and actions that can be supported to take place in the Irish BSBI network. While not yet fully signed and sealed, it is highly likely that NPWS will also fund an education-focused project on Charophytes with BSBI in 2018. There are two two-day workshops scheduled in May (see field meetings schedule on BSBI website), both being taught jointly by two of the main Irish and British experts, Cilian Roden and Nick Stewart. Tuition will therefore be second-to-none! Bookings are not yet open, but VCRs wil be notified immediately once details are available to allow first choice on booking places.
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