If you are stuck in London:
Birkbeck university in conjunction with their Ecology and Conservation Studies Society is delivering weekly lectures on the issues of the freshwater habitat in the UK under the title "Water! From source to the Sea" starting on Friday 13th Febuary 2009 6.30 pm at Birbeck Uni London.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/environment/...ty/index.shtml

All lectures are from 6.30pm to 8.30 pm on the following Fridays. Doors open at 6.00pm.

13 February
‘The state of river ecosystems: a degraded past, an uncertain future?’
Professor Steve Ormerod, Professor of Ecology, Cardiff School of Biosciences

20 February
‘Water management for nature conservation: conflicts and synergies’
Professor David Gowing, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University

27 February
‘Getting on with the job: taking practical action for freshwater ecology and conservation’
Dr Raul Raven, Head of Conservation and Ecology, Environment Agency, Bristol

6 March
‘Freshwater nature conservation and pollution: how important is it, and what can we do about it?’
Dr Alastair Burn, Principal Specialist, Freshwater and Pollution, Natural England

13 March
‘Does Climate Change pose a Threat to our Freshwater Ecosystems?’
Professor Rick Battarbee, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Change, University College London

20 March
‘The Future of Freshwaters: lessons from the Merchant of Venice. Have we backed the wrong horses in our conventional approaches to conservation and in the very nature of our society?’
Professor Brian Moss, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool

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