An ongoing, long-term project working with the scientific research being undertaken by ecologists from Royal Holloway University of London and University of Leeds into the impact of environmental change on peatland environments and the role of wet woodlands (carr) in climate change mitigation. The research is based at the independent Ted Ellis Trust nature reserve at Wheatfen, Surlingham, Norfolk. My work seeks to enfold the research into the lived experiences and historied landscape of the reserve.

My research-led work here will seek to balance the wild ecology of the site, the peopled landscape of Wheatfen and it surroundings, and the scientific research … considering these three aspects as part of a whole but also using elements of each to create conversations across time, space and understanding. Although my work will have limits at the boundaries of the reserve, in reality the influence of the place and the influences upon the place have no such artificial constraints, and global dynamics will rub against local concerns.

Ted Ellis (aka The People's Naturalist), along with his wife Phyllis, established Wheatfen as a focus for ecological research from the 1930s through to the 1980s. Following his death in 1987 the Trust was established to manage and protect the Wheatfen habitats and maintain the spirit of ecological discovery … inspired by Ted's "rich adventures" discovering the natural world.

I will update this page as my work progresses.