Meadow Lane, Oxford Tiny Forest Monitoring Day

Earthwatch invites you to attend your Tiny Forest’s first monitoring day this summer. This will be run by our Science Research team and there will be light refreshments.

It is family-friendly and a free event!

With the help of you - our citizen scientists - we are monitoring five key benefits across a handful of our 300+ Forests across the UK. Specifically looking at how the forests change over time and how they differ per location.

We are researching:

• Thermal comfort: the cooling benefits of the trees

• Flood management: the forest’s ability to store water

• Biodiversity: focussing on butterflies, pollinators and soil-dwelling organisms

• Carbon capture: how much carbon a Tiny Forest sequesters and stores

• Wellbeing: conducting social surveys with volunteers

So please come along for an hour, to collect data on the Tiny Forest and support our ongoing research.

Refreshments will not be provided on the day so please bring some water and anything else you may need. Outdoor shoes and clothing are advised. If you have gardening gloves please bring these with you too. Please also bring a phone or tablet along with you in order to use our online science surveys. We will have printed copies on the day too if that’s not possible.Find out more about this Tiny Forest on our website here.