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36 - From Rum to Recording Forest Soils via the Soil Survey of Scotland: a Life of Fieldwork

from Part II - Essays: Inspiring Fieldwork

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2020

Tim Burt
Affiliation:
Durham University
Des Thompson
Affiliation:
Scottish Natural Heritage
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My time at the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research began in 1979 following an application to join the Soil Survey of Scotland as a soil surveyor. I was advised by the then Secretary not to get married, as this wouldn’t be at all compatible with survey life! Previously, I had spent the summer of 1977 camping on the Island of Rum, carrying out geological mapping and plant ecology studies as an undergraduate, so had some insights into a fieldwork career. This was in the days prior to the new pier (opened in 2004; before then passengers and goods used to be transferred from the ferry to a flit boat, the Rhouma, before landing at an older jetty in Loch Scresort).

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Curious about Nature
A Passion for Fieldwork
, pp. 284 - 289
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Nolan, A. J. and Robertson, J. S. (1987). Regional trends in dry and moist Scottish moorland vegetation in relation to climate, soils and other ecological factors. Journal of Ecology 75, 11451157.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Nolan, A. J., Rayner, B., Kennedy, A., et al. (2014). Sustainable forestry: the imperative of soil mapping in forest resource inventory, modelling and management in Scotland, UK. Presented at the 20th World Congress of Soil Science, Soils Embrace Life and Universe, Jeju, South Korea, 8–13 June.Google Scholar

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