In July, I travelled to Japan courtesy of the British Council. I had been asked to talk about the Jurassic Coast Earth Festival to a group of specially selected promising graduates. The 47 delegates from 22 countries across Europe and Asia were all people who had been part of the Asia Europe Foundation summer University The alumni…
The start of September saw the launch of Stony Bones, an exciting new community education project in Swanage led by local artists Antonia Phillips and Annie Campbell. The aim is to work with teachers and schoolchildren over the coming year to learn about the Jurassic Coast through a range of visits, creative workshops and classroom…
The Coastal Change Pathfinder project team are now in the process or organising and running various meetings with the six communities along the Jurassic Coast. These meetings will focus around a written ‘scenario’. These scenarios are mock newspaper articles set to a date in the future (between the next 20 – 50 years) and…
The Jurassic Coast was pleased (and relieved!) to hand over the second Annual World Heritage Education conference to New Lanark World Heritage Site which was held 29 – 30 October this year. New Lanark is a spectacular 18th century industrial mill site set on the banks of the River Clyde where Robert Owen (the…
Throughout Dorset abandoned quarries, cuttings and rock faces offer valued glimpses of our rich geological heritage. Many of them are given conservation status and include National Nature Reserves, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and Regionally Important Geological Sites. Geologists from the Dorset Important Geological Sites group (DIGS) work to conserve and protect the geological heritage of…
The Rock Around the Coast series of guided walks has had another successful year in 2010. For the first time, we had someone who came on every single walk and over fourteen weeks we walked 95 miles from one end of the Jurassic coast to the other. A big thank you to Dr John Larkin from…
My name is Betti, I am 28 and a Master student of sustainable tourism management from Berlin, Germany. In order to get some work experience I spent altogether 6 weeks working in Dorchester. The Jurassic Coast is a wonderful place to spend some time at. During my summer internship with the Jurassic Coast Team I…
Nominations for the new Jurassic Coast award must be made by 29th October – so hurry up and nominate someone who has made a special contribution to the Jurassic Coast! We have developed this new award to give due praise and acknowledgement to those individuals who have contributed greatly to the continued conservation and enhancement of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, whether…
The Bridport Arts Centre is hosting a free exhibition, ‘Exploratory Laboratory’ between 18th September – 23rd October 2010. It will highlight some of the new techniques and technologies being used by earth scientists to map and monitor the coast and explores how artists are also working with scientists, interpreting and visualising data, presenting research and adopting new technologies…