Sherkin Island Marine Station was founded in 1975 by Matt Murphy and his late wife, Eileen and was run by Matt and his family until 2015, when project work ceased. Now Matt is retired and, with the help of his family, including his daughter Susan Murphy Wickens, is working towards an archive of data collected. read more

The Annual Reports for the All-Ireland Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme and the Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme have been published. Both monitoring schemes are citizen science schemes that track population and phenology (flight) trends in Irish bumblebees and butterflies, detecting the impacts of factors such as land use and climate change on populations. For butterflies, it involves read more

A major milestone was passed earlier this week when the number of records available to view on Biodiversity Maps breached the 6 million mark. Biodiversity Maps now maps 6,000,031 records of 17,398 different species from 172 different datasets. Biodiversity Maps is the national data and mapping portal that promotes the open sharing of data on read more