During July Alice Helyar gave birth to a baby daughter Chloe, Alice is due to return to work in summer 2011.

Kerry Rhodes joins us from AECOM to take up the position of Senior Ecologist. Kerry has about 8 years experience and has been involved in large infrastructure projects. She holds protected species licenses (bats, great crested newts) and has a particularly strong background in mammal ecology.

Freddie Talbot worked with us during the summer, he has now departed to take up a place on a degree course in Criminology and Psychology at Hull University.

Elodie Russier returned to France to complete her MSc following a two month placement during spring and early summer. Elodie’s internship involved studies of the effectiveness of amphibian mitigation and compared hands on data collected from an ongoing pipeline mitigation scheme with data collected on previous mitigation schemes.

After a three year association with us, we were sad to see Lucy Blades depart to Edinburgh where she took up a post with ESS Ecology.