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...
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Geckoella has been working with Dunster Beach Huts and graphic design company Paperpixels.ink to create an attractive and detailed information board about the beach and the surrounding West Somerset Coast and Bristol Channel. Look out for it on display in Spring...
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Geckoella has been helping communities manage coastal changes. For example the big news for Watchet this year was the closure of the B3191 as ever increasing coastal erosion threatens the integraty of the road. Geckoella’s geologists continue to monitor the...
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Invertebrates are important to conserve and Geckoella has undertaken a range of valuable work in 2023. Senior Ecologist Joshua Butterworth surveyed for pollinators across several sites with invertebrate specialist Dave Boyce, including a new community orchard in...
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
This year Geckoella has been lucky enough to survey pristine habitats within ancient woodlands in the Mendips. Amongst the trees surveyors found a plethora of interesting and rare woodland flowers including Toothwort which is a parasitic plant often found on Hazel....
by Alison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
With a name like Geckoella, we always have a fondness for reptile surveys. Our new recruit this year Sophie Pearce has taken part in several this year, and has demostrated a keen eye for spotting Slow Worms in amongst the dry grass under survey mats…not always...
by Alison | Dec 18, 2023 | Blog
It’s a Happy Christmas for Geckoella’s surveyors as they all received some lovely Christmas cards from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland! Every ecologist in Geckoella is now accredited at FISC 3 or above – which means they are...
by Alison | Dec 13, 2023 | Blog
Geckoella Ecologist Dela Collins has had a year of ‘mucking about in the water’! Certainly not a deskbound surveyor Dela has been out and about collecting data about water voles and otters on the Somerset Levels.
