Jo Corke's Page

Thanks for the welcome Jo. The park really is a God send.

Hi Jo,

Sorry for the delay in replying to your response to my email. I'd be happy to volunteer for whatever work in the park. I have a pair of waders and very used to being in water, so can help with reducing the vegetation in the pond. I'd also like to contribute to any FOSAP fund to replace the fallen trees, especially the flowering cherries. I had a to add that I work from home some of the times and out of London at others, so not always available.

Hi Jo.

Ning introduced a problem when they upgraded their software. It has now been fixed.

Thanks

Simn

 Hi Jo

I don't think I can make the meeting unfortunately but I am most concerned about the large amount of lovely mature trees in the park that have been removed over the last few  years! I've seen them go one by one - probably 10 or more have been removed and not replaced in the last few years.

Who decides which trees to cut down I wonder and can we have any say in it?

Some of them have had very small areas of disease and would probably thrive for years despite modern health and safety rules.  

From Stella Perrett

Independent candidate for Redland

I'm not an actual member of the WIldlife Group but I have started going on the Bird walks, and really enjoyed the one last Sunday. Des who runs them is a work colleague of mine.

I have taken the liberty of recommending to some universities doing Climate Change Studies that they look at the archived data that you have all put up on this website over the years, of flora and fauna in the park. From the bird walks and your other wildlife walks. Especially regarding what species are seen at different times of year, how plants are reacting to the wierd weather etc.

I have had this positive reply from Oxford Univerisitys Post Graduate course co-ordinator.

I hope there is no one on the site who is so anti-climate change that they object to me drawing these universities attention to your website, after all it is in the public domain. and your data could be of real help to climate change students.

22/1/14

ECI Reception ecireception@eci.ox.ac.uk

Dear Stella and the Friends of St Andrew’s Park,

Many thanks indeed for thinking to offer such information to us. I will circulate your note to the department so that any interested groups can respond.

Thank you again,

 Joan Arthur

Office Co-ordinatorEnvironmental Change Institute | University of Oxford | www.eci.ox.ac.uk

Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK

That's really interesting, Jo, to see the difference that drying out makes to the lichens.  It can't make identification any easier.