by Alison | May 22, 2024 | Blog
It is the time of year Environmental Consultancies get busy but this week Geckoella have gone into overdrive! As well as all the usual ecological support for planning applications, our team have been flying drones for limestone pavement geological SSSI monitoring in...
by Alison | Apr 24, 2024 | Blog
Geckoella are very excited to be shortlisted as Finalist for the “Small Consultancy’ category of the CIEEM 2024 awards. CIEEM is the The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and is the leading professional membership body representing and...
by Alison | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog
Identifying and matching the best stones to help repair and conserve important heritage buildings is a job that Geckoella specialises in, and this skill and knowledge base would be much poorer without the work of respected geologists like Dr Eric Robinson who turned...
by Alison | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog
Geckoella is delighted that Somerset Council has announced the reopening of the section of the B3191 road on Cleeve Hill for pedestrian access and, over the coming weeks, also for use by cyclists. Over the past 12 months, Geckoella has undertaken a series of detailed...
by Alison | Feb 21, 2024 | Blog
The team at Geckoella are no strangers to working in the Nature Recovery Sector. Their rigorous, scientific approach to landscape-scale habitat classification and evaluation for conservation applications is at the cutting edge in this field. Their approach to...
by Alison | Dec 28, 2023 | Blog
Fossil Collectors have been illegally removing fossils using power tools on local beaches in Somerset this year. This shocking news was featured on the BBC this week and Geckoella’s Dr Andy King was asked for his response to this worrying activity, Read more...
by Alison | Dec 22, 2023 | Blog
Geckoella has had an amazing 12 months and would like to thanks its hard working staff and wonderful clients for an eventful and productive 2023. Here is our festive celebration based on the 12 days of Christmas, we hope you enjoy it..you all know the tune! Click on...
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Geckoella helps conserve some of the best historic and vernacular buildings in the UK. Our geologists advise on the most suitable and durable building stones for maintenance and restoration. Our ecologists advise on how to undertake works in a way that conserves and...
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Somerset Sea Watch celebrated 10 years of surveying for marine mammals in December 2023 with a survey from Watchet harbour wall and presentation on the remarkable long-term dataset, recording porpoises, dolphins, seals and even sunfish along the Somerset coast. This...
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Andy King, one of Geckoella’s Directors and Principal Geologist heads up the Fossil Walks team. Walks are generally run through the school holidays and are great family fun. Advertised on our website, social media and via Watchet visitor centre these walks are proving...