+++ As usual, a group of us will be going after the meeting to have a drink and a meal at Ognisko, a restaurant just up the road from the NHM. Any member is very welcome to join us - if you want to come, please e-mail or 'phone Bas to tell him by Wednesday, so that he can make sure that we have booked a large enough table ... +++
Speaker: The President: Before and after the Medmerry breach: the story so far ….
14:00 – 17:30: Angela Marmont Centre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd., London SW7 5BD.
Medmerry lies on the Manhood Peninsula between Selsey and Bracklesham in West Sussex; the largest, managed, open-coastal realignment in Europe. Here, extensive new flood embankments started in 2011, enclose a huge area of former farmland. Following work completion in 2013, a breach was opened in the gravel beach allowing the sea to enter. A brief summary of Medmerry’s recent history will describe and discuss the molluscan and other key biological changes that have occurred there since the sea broke through. It will also make predictions for the future colonisation of this fascinating and dynamically changing area. An on-going role for the Conchological Society is proposed to study future molluscan changes.
(Council members please note that there will be a Council meeting before this meeting.)
Bas Payne (01647 24515; bas.payne@gmail.com)