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Freshwater Phytoplankton ID July 2025

Monday 7 July 2025, 12:30pm - Friday 11 July 2025, 1:00pm
at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford
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Freshwater phytoplankton identification

Wallingford 7-11 July 2025

This four-day course over 5 days will cover the following activities:

Day 1 Introduction to freshwater phytoplankton groups, theoretical concepts about photosynthetic pigments and analytical methods
Day 2 Exploration of phytoplankton groups and analytical methods from UKCEH pond samples
Day 3 Field trip to a lake, sampling and microscopy
Day 4 Field trip to the River Thames, sampling and microscopy
Day 5 Comparative analysis of the phytoplankton communities of pond, lake and river habitats.
You will spend the majority of the time in the lab, looking through the microscope and identifying freshwater phytoplankton.


The partner CDT/ DTP rate is only available for students registered with the following CDT/DTP: STARS, FRESH, QMEE, QUADRAT, GW4+, ARIES, IAPETUS, CENTA2, ACCE, ENVISION, SSCP, E4, SCENARIO, EcoRisk, GALLANT - otherwise please use the student rate!

Full course description https://www.ceh.ac.uk/training/freshwater-phytoplankton-identification

Upon sign-up, you will receive an immediate email notification from  Mitingu support@mitingu.com (on behalf of UKCEHtraining@ceh.ac.uk; please check the Spam/Junk folder). Please consider this your invoice for finance/expenses purposes. 

Please express your interest in future courses here so we can fix more venues and dates.

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Booking Options

Name Price Quantity
Student (early bird; £799)

Save £100! Please use your uni email address

£799.00
Professional (early bird; £899)

Save £100!

£899.00
Internal/group booking

Please only use this, if asked by UKCEH to do so

Free
Student (£899)

Please use your uni email address.

£899.00
Professional (£999)

£999.00
CDT/DTP partner rate (£849)

eligible CDT/DTP: STARS, FRESH, QMEE, QUADRAT, GW4+, ARIES, IAPETUS, CENTA2, ACCE, ENVISION, SSCP, E4, SCENARIO, Eco-Risk & GALLANT

£849.00

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford

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